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Microsoft ties up with Apollo Hospitals for digital healthcare solutions

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  For a quick and easy health and wellness facility, the digital Arm of the  Apollo Hospitals Group  and  Microsoft India  have joined hands to launch enterprise solution within the Microsoft work suite. It has been tested in a pilot program for Microsoft India employees for a period of three months Due to the upcoming covid third wave, organizations have been looking for  digital healthcare  solutions to support their employees and families. Now with the integration of Apollo and Microsoft, employees can get various medical facilities such as medical  teleconsultation , vaccine booking, pharmacy, diagnostic tests, electronic health records, and wellness programs with just a click of the button. The enterprise solution enables a user to consult an Apollo Doctor within 15 minutes of requesting a consult; order medicines from the wide network of Apollo Pharmacies; and request for sample collection from home for prescribed diagnostic tests within Microsoft Teams itself.

China reports most COVID-19 cases since end-Jan, Nanjing starts 2nd mass testing China has taken a zero-tolerance approach to COVID cases, quickly tracing and testing wide swathes of its population to prevent the spread of the virus.

  BEIJING: China reported 76 new COVID-19 cases on July 25, the highest since the end of January amid a surge of local infections in the eastern city of Nanjing, as it starts a second round of mass testing to contain the outbreak. China has taken a zero-tolerance approach to COVID cases, quickly tracing and testing wide swathes of its population to prevent the spread of the virus. Local infections accounted for 40 of the new cases, compared with only five a day earlier, the  National Health Commission   said in a statement on Monday. ADVERTISEMENT Thirty-nine of the local cases were reported in the eastern province of Jiangsu, of which Nanjing is the capital, and one in the northeastern province of Liaoning, it said. The number of new asymptomatic cases - which China does not classify as confirmed cases - rose to 24 from 17 cases a day earlier. Among the symptomless cases, four were local infections - one in Jiangsu, one in Guangdong, one in Jiangsu's neighbouring province of Anhui