The government’s nodal agency for disease surveillance, the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), has collected water and entomological samples from hospitals and other sites in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan where several children have died of kidney failure after allegedly consuming contaminated cough syrup.

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Tests underway

Officials said the samples will be tested to rule out the possibility of any infectious disease, and the results will be shared with the respective state drug authorities once available.

At the same time, state drug authorities are carrying out their own tests on the cough syrup batches, the results of which are still awaited.

The recent deaths of children in Madhya Pradesh an

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