Karnataka: Afghan returnees to be administered polio vaccines
Bengaluru, Aug 27: The National Health Mission has asked the Karnataka government to administer polio vaccines to all those arriving in the state from Afghanistan.
In a letter, state director of the National Health Mission Dr Arundhathi Chandrashekar asked the Deputy Commissioners of all the districts and the chief commissioner of the Bengaluru civic body to provide two drops of polio dose and 0.1 ml of intradermal or subcutaneous flPV vaccine to all those coming from Afghanistan, at the entry point.
As part of screening of children up to 15 years of age, their stool sample should be sent with the laboratory request form to the National Institute of Virology in Bengaluru, she added.
Many Afghan nationals have arrived in India following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan fearing for their lives and security.
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WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook Messenger down: Users complain on Twitter about web and apps
New Delhi, Oct 4: Millions of users worldwide, including in India, were left clueless on Monday night when Facebook and its family of apps including WhatsApp and photo-sharing platform Instagram entered a global outage.
People took to Twitter to share their experiences.
Independent tracking portal Downdetector showed a spike in the outage reported by users. There was no official word from the company on the reasons for the outage.
On Twitter, #facebookdown and #Facebook and Instagram were on the top trending topics.
Millions of users had problems sending photos, videos and voice messages and text messages on WhatApp in India.
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Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram stopped working
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