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    Health Minister Reviews Flood Preparedness; Exhorts States to Ensure Inter-Sectoral Coordination

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    Drug-Resistant Typhoid ‘Spreading Out of South Asia’

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    Relief: Monkeypox Not a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, Says WHO

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    Will Monkeypox be declared an Emergency of International Concern?

    A WHO meeting is due on 23 June to assess if the outbreak of Monkeypox is public health emergency of international concern. So far...
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    Monkeypox Risk Is ‘Real’, Says WHO. Reiterates COVID-19 Pandemic ‘Not Over’

    Over 1,000 cases of monkeypox infections have been reported from 29 countries so far, even as COVID-19 claimed over 7,000 lives last week, the...
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