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No link between 5G and spread of Covid 19, says DoT
The Department of Telecommunications has noted that 5G is in no way related to the spread of Covid 19, and the messages being circulated for the same are false and baseless.
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The department has urged the public to not be misguided by baseless and false messages.
The DoT also noted that mobile towers emit non-ionizing radio frequencies that have a very minuscule power and are incapable of causing any kind of damage.
Earlier this month, the DoT gave a go-ahead to telecom service providers to begin the trials for 5G in India.
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The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW) has been sitting on a recommendation from the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to classify telecom field engineers as front-line workers, a series of letters exchanged between the Cellular Operators Association of India and the government revealed. “Department of Telecommunications (DoT) endorses the request of COAI [regarding treating frontline telecom workers as telecom warriors so as to prioritize them for receiving Covid-19 vaccination,” the department’s secretary Anshu Prakash wrote in a letter to their counterpart Rajesh Bhushan at the Health Ministry on March 16.
Despite the endorsement, Indian states have since entered into different forms of lockdowns cause by the second wave of the pandemic. Yet, the government guidelines have not been updated to classify telecom workers and vaccinate them on a priority basis like their counterparts. In many states, telecom workers are largely exempted from restriction
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