COVID-19
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Monastery Area in MT Sealed As a Woman Tests COVID-19 Positive
In a discovery during delivery, an Indian woman tested positive for COVID-19 and her contact points to Majnu Ka Tilla or MT. The woman who was shifted to a near by hospital following complications during her delivery and she tested Coronavirus positive there. As a result, the parts of the Tibetan colony is now sealed…
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Dalai Lama Trust Donates PPE Kits to Local Hospital
The Dalai Lama Trust has donated Personal Protective Equipment Kits to the local hospital in Dharamshala. During the pandemic, hospitals have been facing shortage of critical equipments. With the vulnerability of catching coronavirus infection, medical staff across the world have been requesting for sufficient protective equipments.
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New Zealand Challenges Biggest Trading Partner China to Support Taiwan
In a rare political scenario, New Zealand has bravely challenged China to support Taiwan! Despite stern warnings from China, the land of Kiwis stood up to support Taiwan’s participation at the World Health Organisation (WHO). It has become one of the only nation to openly challenge China to support Taiwan, after the United States.
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COVID-19: US Based Monk Donates Rs.10 Lakhs for Needy Tibetans in India
As the lockdown due to COVID-19 not easing soon, a US based Tibetan monk has donated 10 lakhs rupees for needy Tibetans in India. The monk dispensed his contribution among the needy Tibetan refugees in South India. The official reports from Central Tibetan Administration informs of the news where 39 needy people have been provided…
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Tibet’s ‘Mother of 300 children’ succumbs to COVID-19 in Swiss
A Tibetan girl who lost her parents and brother while fleeing during the 1959 uprising, but later returned to establish the first private orphanage in Tibet has died in Switzerland from COVID-19. Over a period of 25 years, the mother of two birth sons provided care and protection for 300 youngsters in orphanages and centres…
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China’s COVID-19 Propaganda Targets Tibetans Refugees in India
The Chinese COVID-19 propaganda is targetting Tibetan refugees in India. Recently it was seen in the communist regime’s mouth pieces publications claiming that Tibetans in India wishes to return to Tibet amid the coronavirus pandemic. According to their invalid assumptions, the publications claim that India lack proper medical facilities to tackle the pandemic.
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Dalai Lama Calls for United World Response to COVID-19
The Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama has called for a united world response to COVID-19. In a letter to ‘The Call to Unite’ event, His Holiness has urged that in times of such serious health and economic crisis, world should unite for a coordinated global response to COVID-19.
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Faulty Results, India Cancels Chinese COVID-19 Test Kits Order
Growing concerns over faulty test results from Chinese Covid-19 test kits leads to India cancelling their order. After procuring more than five hundred thousand test kits, India has decided to cancel their orders to China. The central health body of India directed all states and other territories to refrain from using the Chinese test kits.
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Tibetan Refugees Contribute Generously for Covid-19 Relief Fund
The largest section of Tibetan refugees community reside in India and they have generously contributed to Covid-19 relief funds. Leading from the front, His Holiness the Dalai Lama and his office, spiritual heads, monasteries, institutions and the general Tibetan refugees alike has actively participated in contributing to the relief funds at the center and the…
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COVID-19: Global Threat and Lesson
COVID-19 isn’t the first pandemic that has challenged and threatened human’s existence. Throughout the course of history, many epidemics have occurred and brought upon difficult times, sometimes even signaling the end of civilization. If we recall some of the deadly outbreaks in history, the dead tolls and figures remind us how a small bacteria or…