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2020 Month : July Volume : 9 Issue : 27 Page : 1958-1963

Guidelines on Covid-19 for Blood Banks.

Paramjit Singh Dhot1, Pandeep Kaur Bhatia2, Tarundeep Dhot3, Trupti Barot4

1Department of Pathology, Saraswati Institute of Medical Sciences, Hapur, Uttar Pradesh, India. 2Department of Transfusion Medicine, AIIMS, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India. 3Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, IBM, Toronto, Canada. 4Department of Transfusion Medicine, Prathima Blood Bank, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.

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