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Sri Lanka receives 5 lakh doses of India’s COVID-19 vaccine for free

January 28, 2021, 8:25 PM

Karan Pareek | New Delhi

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaska, on Thursday, received five lakh doses of India’s COVID-19 vaccine for free. This was the first batch of Serum Institutes Covishield COVID-19 vaccine, which was given to Sri Lanka under India’s Neighbourhood First? policy.
India had promised 30 lakh doses and the remaining 25 lakh doses would be shipped soon. President Rajapaska was present at the airport of Colombo to receive India’s ?generous gift.
The Indian High Commission in Sri Lanka took to Twitter and wrote, The arrival of 5 lakh doses of COVIDSHIELD vaccines happens on blessed Poya Day, which marks first visit of Buddha to Lanka.
The High Commissioner offered prayers at the sacred Gangaramaya Temple for the health and well-being of the people of Lanka on auspicious Duruthu Poya Day, the tweet further read.
The package was shipped to Lanka after they approved the use of Covishield vaccine for emergency purpose. As per reports, a total of 250,000 health workers and frontline workers would be vaccinated in the first phase of COVID-19 vaccination drive in Lanka.

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Active COVID cases near 30,000 mark in Nagpur

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4 years ago

January 25, 2022

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur’s COVID-19 tally, on Tuesday, January 25, reached 5,43,064 (till 5 pm) as 4028 (972 from rural and 2956 from city) new cases were recorded in a single day.

Also, active COVID cases, as on Tuesday, could be seen inching closer to 30,000 mark in the district.

Six people lost their lives (one from rural and five from city) on Tuesday. Till now, 10,183 people have lost their lives due to COVID-19 in the district. Total tests taken were 11,377.

While patients who recovered on Tuesday were 2519, the total number of recovered patients stood at 503729.

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Nagpur reports 90 COVID cases in past 24 hours

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4 years ago

January 2, 2022

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur’s COVID-19 tally on Sunday, January 2 reached 4,94,193 (till 5 pm) as 90 (73 city, nine rural) more people tested positive for the virus.

Also, five patients recovered on Sunday taking the number of recoveries to 4,83,664.

Till now, 10123 people have lost their lives due to COVID in the district. As of now, there are 406 active COVID patients in the district.

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ALARMING! Nagpur reports 88 COVID cases in past 24 hours

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4 years ago

December 31, 2021

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur registered 88 (81 from city) new COVID-19 positive cases on Friday, December 31. Nagpur previously had recorded as minimum as six cases on December 24.