HC directs state to provide employment on compassionate grounds to wife of frontline warrior who died during Covid-19 pandemic

HC directs state to provide employment on compassionate grounds to wife of frontline warrior who died during Covid-19 pandemic

Helping a woman whose husband, a health inspector, died during the Covid-19 pandemic, a Madras High Court bench has directed the state to consider her representation and provide her with compassionate employment. The court was hearing a petition filed in 2021 by M. Sharmila Banu of Dindigul. The petitioner’s husband, M. Nainar Mohamed, who served …

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Covid-19 treatment is set to hit the market with a high price tag

Covid-19 treatment is set to hit the market with a high price tag

WASHINGTON (AP) — Covid-19 drugs that millions of Americans received for free from the federal government will hit the private market next week at a hefty price tag. Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer sets a price per five-day treatment with Paxlovid for $1,390, but Americans still have free access to the pills – for now. The less …

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