The health minister said states have also been advised to increase the whole genome sequencing of all positive cases for timely detection of newer variants, if any.
"Modi ji should apologise. There is no question of our apologising," he added.
'Providing funds and autonomy to a few institutions that may not have the intent to excel must not become a case of trying to feed those who are not hungry and starving those who are famished,' says Jitendra Kumar Das, Director, FORE School of Management, New Delhi.
Scandal-plagued FIFA may have avoided its current problems if Russia and Qatar had not been chosen as hosts of the next two World Cups, President Sepp Blatter said on Friday.
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