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UP Cabinet approves setting up of Medical Supply Corporation

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Lucknow, Sep 12 (IANS) The Uttar Pradesh Cabinet on Tuesday approved a proposal for the setting up of a Medical Supply Corporation for purchase of all kinds of medicines in hospitals.

State Health Minister Siddharthanath Singh said that an IAS officer would be made the Managing Director of the UP Medical Supply Corporation and that all medical appliances and medicines would be purchased through this body only through the process of e-tendering.

In the budget for the present financial year, Rs 817 crore have been marked for medicine purchase and Rs 400 crore for equipments.

At the Cabinet meeting here, chaired by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, a proposal to set up an FM radio station at Sultanpur was also cleared.

The BJP government will provide one acre land on lease for the project, the Health Minister said. A land has been identified at Chavni Mirpur for the 10-KW FM radio station.

It was also decided that the additional Rs 791 crore burden owing to the contract of the 14th Finance Commission for 612 projects of the Prime Minister Agriculture Irrigation Scheme for watershed development will be borne by the state government.

The Cabinet also ratified a proposal to set up the Chief Minister Panchayat Protsahan Scheme 2017-18 for which Rs 15 crore has been set aside. Under this, every year three villages will be given prizes for good work.

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Covid toll in Karnataka is a worrying sign for state government

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Even though Karnataka recorded the lowest number of Covid deaths in April since the virus struck first in 2020, the state is recording a rise in the positivity rate (1.50 per cent). Five people died from the Covid infections in April as per the statistics released by the state health department. In March, the positivity rate stood around 0.53 per cent. In the first week of April it came down to 0.38 per cent, second week registered 0.56 per cent, third week it rose to 0.79 per cent and by end of April the Covid positivity rate touched 1.19 per cent.

on an average 500 persons used to succumb everyday in the peak of Covid infection, as per the data. Health experts said that the mutated Coronavirus is losing its fierce characteristics as vaccination, better treatment facilities and awareness among the people have contributed to the lesser number of Covid deaths.

During the 4th and 6th of April two deaths were reported in Bengaluru, one in Gadag district on April 8, two deaths were reported from Belagavi and Vijayapura on April 30. The first Covid case was reported in the state in March 2020 and three Covid deaths were recorded in the month. In the following month 21 people became victims to the deadly virus, and May 2020 recorded 22 deaths. The death toll recorded everyday after May crossed three digits. However, the third wave, which started in January 2

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