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Many countries are sending emergency use equipment to India to fight COVID-19
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Healthcare workers checking temperature and oxygen level at a special fever camp being conducted by Chennai Corporation at Kodambakkam in Chennai on Wednesday, April 28, 2021.
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Many countries are sending emergency use equipment to India to fight COVID-19
Around 15 countries including the US, Russia, France and the United Kingdom are rushing critical emergency use equipment to enable India counter the COVID-19’s deadly second wave. A compilation from the Ministry of External Affairs showed that countries are sending hundreds of oxygen concentrators, respirators and large quantities of liquid oxygen to help ease the difficult situation facing India.
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Maharashtra on Sunday declared six states, including the national capital and the NCR region, as the places of sensitive origin .
Passengers travelling to Maha from these six places will now need a RT-PCR negative test within 48 hrs oftheir train travel.
The move has been taken in order to contain spread of coronavirus.
New Delhi: On a day when Maharashtra recorded its highest single-day rise in coronavirus cases, it mandated a negative COVID-19 RT-PCR report for the train passengers travelling from Delhi-NCR and five states.
In order to break the transmission of coronavirus, Maharashtra on Sunday (April 18, 2021) declared Delhi-NCR, Kerala, Goa, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Uttarakhand as the places of sensitive origin that may lead to the higher potentiality of spreading COVID-19, ANI reported. As per the order by Maharashtra Chief Secretary Sitaram Kunte, passengers travelling to Maharashtra from the six places mentioned above will need a RT-PCR negative test wit