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2:19 PM

No study has been conducted to assess impact of Covid on suicides: MHA

1:08 PM

Arunachal total cases rise to 48,565

As many as 305 more people tested positive for Covid-19 in Arunachal Pradesh, taking the state’s total to 48,565. Arunachal recorded three deaths from the disease in the last two days to take total fatalities to 234, PTI reported quoting the government officer.

12:39 PM

HC seeks response on door-to-door vaccination for Delhi's elderly

The Delhi High Court Tuesday sought the Centre and Delhi government's reply on a plea seeking direction to them to introduce a policy on urgent door-to-door COVID-19 vaccination for bed-ridden senior citizens in the city.

 

12:23 PM

More than 27 billion vaccines unutilised: Centre

More than 27 billion "balance and unutilised" Covid-19 vaccine doses are still available with the states, UTs and private hospitals to be administered, the Union Health Ministry said on Tuesday.

11:38 AM

Duterte retained US military deal as 'concession' for vaccines

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said US vaccine donations convinced him to keep a military deal between the two long-time allies that forms a key part of President Joe Biden’s efforts to counter Chinese influence in the region, Bloomberg reported.

 

10:43 AM

No deaths from Covid in Delhi on Sunday

Delhi reported 51 Covid-19 cases and no deaths from the disease on Sunday. The city conducted 53,728 tests for Covid that day. It has not released data for Monday yet.

10:34 AM

India's recovery rate at 97.38%

India number of active cases—infections under treatment—are at 404,958 and comprise 1.28 per cent of the total infections. The national recovery rate increased to 97.38 per cent, said the health ministry.

10:09 AM

India reports 24% dip in daily cases from Monday

India reported Tuesday 30,549 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours: a 24 per cent decrease from the figure (40,134 cases) on Monday. It is the first time in the past week that daily news cases were below 40,000.

9:16 AM

Bengaluru to seeks negative test report from visitors

Bengaluru has made institutional quarantine mandatory for those coming here from outside Karnataka to contain the spread of Covid- 19. "Those entering the city will have to bring a negative RT-PCR test report with them. If they don't, we will conduct the test. Till the time their test report arrives, they will be under institutional quarantine," said the chief Commissioner of Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike on Monday. More here

 

8:45 AM

US air travel hits new high

Air travel in the US is hitting new pandemic-era highs, and airlines are scrambling to keep up with the summer-vacation crowds, the AP reported. Despite rising numbers of coronavirus infections fuelled by the delta variant, the US set another recent high mark for air travel Sunday, with more than 2.2 million people going through airport checkpoints, according to the Transportation Security Administration.

7:44 AM

India’s economic indicators improve

India’s weekly indicators of economic activity showing signs of improvement. Power generation was above the 2019 levels but remained flat on a week-on-week basis. It was at par with the generation figures at this time of the year in 2020. More here

7:16 AM

70% US adults vaccinated

Seventy percent of US adults have received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, a key milestone in the fight against the pandemic that comes almost a month later than President Joe Biden’s original goal, Bloomberg reported.

 

7:12 AM

Cases jump in Africa's biggest City

A jump in Covid-19 deaths over the past week in Lagos, Africa’s biggest city, is a “worrying trend” and steps need to be taken to reverse rising infection rates, said Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the governor of Nigeria’s Lagos State. Bloomberg reported this