Coronavirus LIVE: Mumbai reports 529 cases in a day; 1,470 in Bengaluru

Coronavirus live updates: India records 70,421 new cases, 3,921 deaths in the last 24 hours. Delhi lifts lockdown, while Haryana and Uttarakhand extend it. Stay tuned for corona-related news

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Coronavirus LIVE: Karnataka sees 6,835 new cases

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Centre to provide over 96,490 Covid vaccine doses to states, UTs in next 3 days

More than 1.40 crore Covid-19 vaccine doses are still available with the states and Union Territories to be administered and over 96,490 vaccine doses are in the pipeline and will be received by them within the next three days, the Union Health Ministry said on Monday.

 

Over 26.68 crore (26,68,36,620) vaccine doses have been provided to states and Union Territories so far through the Government of India and direct state procurement category.

 

Of this, the total consumption, including wastage, is 25,27,66,396 doses, the ministry said. (PTI)

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Coronavirus LIVE: OJEE exam postponed; revised dates to be announced soon

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Tata-backed cult.fit rolls out vaccination drive for customers

In a first-of-its-kind effort, Tata Digital backed health and fitness platform cult.fit has rolled out a Covid-19 vaccination drive to inoculate their customers at cult centres across India.

 

The platform’s 200,000 offline fitness members will be eligible for this free vaccination drive being launched in partnership with digital healthcare platform MFine. It will also be extended to new members who will join the platform in the coming months as well as those who are awaiting their second dose of vaccination. Read here

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Coronavirus LIVE: Kerala sees 7,179 new cases

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Coronavirus LIVE: Lockdown strategy to be changed after June 16, says Kerala CM

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No door-to-door vaccination drive in national policy, Centre tells HC

The Union government on Monday told the Bombay High Court that its national guidelines do not at present allow a door-to-door drive to vaccinate people against Covid-19.

 

The Union government's counsel, Additional Solicitor General Anil Singh, said some state governments and municipal bodies had decided to ignore its advisory guidelines and were conducting door-to-door vaccination for special categories of citizens, but it was not possible yet to make such drives a part of the national policy.

 

ASG Singh was responding to a previous query posed by a bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice GS Kulkarni on what the Centre thought about the BMC's request seeking its permission to conduct door-to-door vaccination for the elderly, bedridden, or such category of citizens. (PTI)

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Delhi restaurants start operations after 2 months with 50% capacity

Installing protective screens, conducting temperature checks, contactless ordering, and visible cues to ensure physical distancing are among the various measures taken by restaurants in the national capital which reopened with 50 per cent capacity on Monday after nearly two months.

 

Dine-in facilities were barred in Delhi since April 17, when the first weekend lockdown was imposed in a bid to curb the spread of Covid-19 infection in the city.

 

According to the latest guidelines of the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA), restaurants can open with 50 per cent capacity but they cannot serve liquor to their guests as bars in such establishments will remained closed till further orders. (PTI)

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Covid pandemic: No new infection reported in Dharavi in last 24 hours

The slum colony of Dharavi in Mumbai did not report a single Covid-19 case in the past 24 hours, a clean slate feat in one of the world's densest urban settlements achieved for the first time since February 2, a civic official said on Monday.

 

Dharavi's infection tally stands unchanged at 6,861, while the active caseload is 13, comprising seven in hospitals and six in home isolation, he added.

 

The recovery count of the area, which reported its first case on April 1 last year, and a single-day high of 99 on April 8 this year during the second wave, is 6,489. Read here

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Coronavirus LIVE: Andhra Pradesh reports 4,549 new cases

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Delta Covid variant may soon become dominant strain in US: Former FDA chief

Covid-19 Delta variant is likely to become the dominant source of new infections in the US and could lead to new outbreaks by September, said Scott Gottlieb, the former commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration.

 

"Right now, in the United States, it's about 10 per cent of infections. It's doubling every two weeks," Gottlieb was quoted as saying on CBS' Face the Nation on Sunday. Read here

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Chhattisgarh govt to pay school fees of Covid orphaned children

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Monday announced that the children studying in private schools, who have lost parents/guardians to Covid-19, would be provided free education by the government.

 

Under Mahtari Dular Yojana, the Chhattisgarh government would bear the expenses of education of such children. "Such children will have the choice to either continue their education in the same private school they have been studying for past one year or they can go for Swami Atmanand English Medium School. State Government would bear their school fees,"said Baghel.

 

The state government has already launched Mahtari Dular Yojna to provide free education and monthly scholarship to the children studying in government schools, who have lost their parents/guardians to Covid-19. (IANS)

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Coronavirus LIVE: Market associations must ensure Covid-appropriate behaviour, says Delhi Police

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Coronavirus LIVE: Dept of Personnel asks govt servants at secretary level and above to start attending offices

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Black fungus: 106,300 vials of Amphotericin-B allocated to states, UTs

Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilisers DV Sadananda Gowda on Monday said that 1,06,300 vials of black fungus drugs Amphotericin B have been allocated to states, union territories and to the Central Institutions.

 

"Ensuring significant availability of Liposomal #Amphotericin B, additional 106300 vials of the drug have been allocated across all the States/UTs and Central Institutions today," Sadananda Gowda said in a tweet.

 

The Minister said that a total of 53,000 vials of Conventional Amphotericin B have also been allocated to all the states, UTs and Central Institutions today. Read here