On Monday, Delhi recorded 12,651 new cases of Covid-19 and 319 deaths. The positivity rate was recorded at 19.10 per cent with 66,234 tests conducted during the day. At 19.10 per cent, the positivity rate is the lowest since April 16 when it stood at 19.7 per cent, according to the data shared by the Delhi government. However, Health Minister Satyendar Jain said that the city is facing an acute shortage of vaccine against Covid-19 and requested the Centre to replenish the stock at the earliest. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had written to Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan to direct Serum Institute of India and Bharat Biotech to increase monthly supplies of Covid-19 vaccines to Delhi to 60 lakh doses for the next three months.
"While we had placed orders with the manufacturers as per the new policy, we got a reply from the Centre. This means the centre is deciding which state will get how much," Delhi's Deputy CM Manish Sisodia said.
"We received a grant of Rs 65 crore from the Centre, and from the state, we got Rs 94 crore to commence operations," said Sandeep Rathod, managing director of the Maharashtra government-owned Haffkine Institute.
Dhankhar, while talking to reporters, also said that people are being made to pay with their lives for exercising their franchise.
Fondly addressed as Lala, Sambhajirao Kakade headed the state Janata Party unit in the 70s and was later with the Janata Dal formed under the leadership of V P Singh.
With this, 11 persons, including four revenue officials, have been booked in the case till date.
On the other hand, there is a decline in demand for isolation beds in city hospitals where the percentage of vacant beds has gone up in the past 10 days from 17 to 35 per cent.
In the letter, Santosh Gangwar, who is the Lok Sabha MP from Bareilly, said multipara monitor, bipap machine and ventilator were being black marketed and sold at 1.5 times their prices.
Harish, through his father Elangovan, sent Rs 1000 he saved to the Chief Minister’s relief fund with a handwritten note asking Chief Minister M K Stalin to help the people.
The Navy has agreed to extend technical assistance to the state government in maintaining oxygen plants. It has also agreed to transport 25 cryogenic oxygen cylinders, which are coming to the state from Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia.
The primary healthcare centre (PHC) representatives were seen standing in long queues awaiting their vaccine vials for the day.
Google COVID-19 India efforts: Google will be testing a new pilot feature on Maps that could let users know about beds and medical oxygen in select locations such as hospitals and medical oxygen suppliers.
The uninhabited island was witness to a rare natural occurrence -- the birth of Olive Ridley turtles without their mothers.
Disale joins actors Kutcher and Kunis as well as US women’s national soccer team player Julie Ertz and her husband, Philadelphia Eagles tight end Zach Ertz, as members of the Global Student Prize Academy.