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  Covid-19: NCDC testing sewage samples in Delhi to check for virus amid fresh surge in global cases

  India | December 22, 2022 22:57 IST

  Covid-19: According to officials, the Omicron sub-variant BF.7 of the coronavirus has not been detected in the sewage surveillance reports for the last four consecutive weeks.

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  Monkeypox outbreak: Government asks NCDC, ICMR to submit samples to NIV Pune

  India | May 20, 2022 22:56 IST

  Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya also asked the health officials to keep a close watch on the sick passengers travelling from the affected countries 

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  Rare Nipah virus kills 6 in Kerala, Centre rushes NCDC team; health department on high alert

  India | May 21, 2018 18:04 IST

  "The mortality rate is reportedly 70 per cent. The spread of the disease needs to be contained," a senior official said.

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  NCDC Orders Superbug Probe In Drinking Water

  India | April 12, 2011 14:25 IST

  New Delhi, Apr 12:  After openly denying the “existence and public health importance” of the NDM-1 gene, India has finally decided to check the presence of superbugs in the capital and its water supply lines,