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07 Jun

Our country has fought on many fronts to tackle Covid: PM Modi

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is addressing the nation on the prevailing Covid-19 situation in the country. This comes on the heels of several states across the country including Maharashtra and Delhi beginning the process of ‘unlocking’ by gradually easing coronavirus-induced restrictions and curfews. His address comes on a day India reported 1,00,636 fresh COVID-19 cases, the lowest in 61 days. “This is the biggest pandemic in the last hundred years. The modern world had neither seen nor experienced such a pandemic. Our country has fought together on many fronts during such a big global pandemic—from making ventilators to preparing a…

07 Jun

Karnataka’s Covid recoveries cross 24-lakh mark

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Continuing its upward trend, recovery of patients from Covid crossed the 24-lakh mark in Karnataka, while 320 patients succumbed to the infection in the last 24 hours, said the state health bulletin on Sunday. “With 25,659 patients discharged during the day, 24,09,417 recovered so far, while 12,209 new cases were registered on Saturday, taking the state’s Covid tally to 26,95,523, including 2,54,505 active cases,” said the bulletin. As epicentre of the pandemic in the state, Bengaluru reported 2,944 fresh cases, taking its Covid tally to 11,83,126, including 1,17,340 active cases, while recoveries rose to 10,50,910, with 10,224 patients discharged during…

05 Jun

India orders 300 million doses of an unapproved coronavirus vaccine

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India has ordered 300 million doses of an unnamed amd unapproved vaccine from Indian firm Biological E. The coronavirus vaccine is is in Phase 3 trials, and had showed "promising results" in the first two phases, the federal government said in a statement. However, the $206m order has not received emergency approval. India has administered just over 220 million jabs so far, although much of its 1.4 billion population is now eligible for the vaccine. Less than 15% of the country has received at least one dose of the vaccination, largely because of a severe shortage of doses. India is…

04 Jun

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announces some relaxations to restrictions in West Bengal

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Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, announced some relaxations to the current restrictions in the state, while addressing a meeting at Nabanna today. Retail stores can now be kept open from 12 noon-4 pm, informed the CM. Hotels and restaurants can be kept open with a 50% workforce from 5 pm to 8 pm only if the workers are vaccinated and all safety measures must be followed. She annoumced free vaccines for the workers of rice mills and flour mills like ration shop workers. The CM further said that partial exemptions are also being considered in the case of shopping malls. There…

04 Jun

Rs 20K cr. Covid package for Kerala.

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Kerala Finance Minister K.N. Balagopal on Friday announced a Rs 20,000-crore-Covid package for the state that has seen nearly 26 lakh cases and over 9,200 deaths so far. He said vaccines to all above 18 years would be given free and for that Rs 1,000 crore have been set aside in the package. In his first budget speech, the 57-year-old Balagopal also said: “It would include Rs 2,800 crore for emergency Covid situation; Rs 8,900 crore for those who have had serious issues with their livelihoods; Rs 8,300 crore will be used for providing interest subsidies.”

04 Jun

Covid: Uttar Pradesh clocks all-time low positivity rate.

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Uttar Pradesh has clocked an all-time low case positivity rate of 0.3 per cent on Thursday. The positivity rate has been hovering around 0.5 per cent for the past few days. “UP has been on the forefront of Covid testing. Case positivity rate for past 24 hours was in fact 0.3 per cent which is an all-time low,” said a government spokesman.

04 Jun

India lodges 1.32 lakh COVID-19 cases, 2713 deaths.

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India on Friday 04/06/2021 reported 1,32,364 new COVID-19 cases as 2713 more patients succumbed to the coronavirus in the last 24 hours, Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry said. India’s overall tally of Covid-19 cases now stands at 2,85,74,350 with 16,35,993 active cases and 3,40,702 deaths. On May 25, India recorded less than 2 lakh cases of COVID-19, the first time since April 14.

04 Jun

India looks forward to WHO’s approval for Covaxin: Foreign Secretary

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India is looking forward to the WHO’s approval for its indigenous Covid-19 vaccine manufactured by Bharat Biotech and is in talks with major vaccine manufacturers like Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and Moderna about sourcing and possible local manufacture of their jabs in India, Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla said today. Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech has applied to the WTO for the Emergency Use Listing (EUL) of its vaccine candidate Covaxin. However, the WHO has sought “more information” from Bharat Biotech on its EUL application. Addressing the WHO’s “South-East Asia Regional Health Partners’ Forum on Covid-19”, Shringla also stated that India was…

03 Jun

Bihar launches ‘Vaccine Express’

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After the launch of "Vaccine Express" in the rural areas, the Bihar government rolled out similar vaccination vans for the urban areas with an aim to vaccinate maximum number of people at their doorsteps. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar took the initiative for 'Vaccine Express' in the presence of Deputy Chief ministers-Tarkishore Prasad and Renu Devi- along with the Health Minister Mangal Pandey . He admired the health department for this idea of plying vaccine vans in the cities to speed up inoculation of larger section of the population. Similar vans were run for the rural areas of the state in…

03 Jun

India marks1.34 lakh new Covid cases, 2,887 deaths in last 24 hours, lowest in 35 days

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India reported 1,34,154 fresh Covid-19 infections in 24 hours, taking the case to 28,440,988, as per Health Ministry data. Fresh COVID cases continued to fall as it has been seven days since cases have not reached the 200,000-mark. For the straight 44th consecutive day over 2,000 daily Covid deaths have been reported from the country. With 2,887 new records, the death record is now at 3,37,989, according to Health Ministry. It continues to stand in the second of worst hit nation. India's overall tally of Covid-19 cases presently stands at 2,84,41,986 with 17,13,413 active cases and 3,37,989 deaths. According to the Health Ministry, a…