Amidst a spiking COVID caseload, while prime minister Narendra Modi has advised to keep lockdowns as “last resort”, states do not have much choice. Many states have fallen back to weekend curfews and stringent lockdowns to curb the second wave of COVID, which has led to people scrambling for oxygen cylinders and beds in hospitals. …
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India saw 3,86,693 new infections and 3,502 Covid deaths on Thursday. This was the ninth consecutive day of 3 lakh plus cases and the third day in a row when deaths crossed the 3,000 mark. At 395 Delhi Reports Highest Ever Deaths Due To Covid On A Single Day Delhi on Thursday reported its highest ever fatalities on a single …
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Twitter didn’t attract as many users in the first quarter as Wall Street expected despite doubling down on combating misinformation and online abuse. The social network said the number of daily users who can see ads increased to 199 million, up 20% compared to the same period last year. Twitter also grew its daily users by 7 million from the …
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File Photo Amid a massive surge in the COVID-19 cases, the Uttarakhand government on Thursday suspended the Char Dham Yatra for this year. The yatra was scheduled to start from May 14. Read more Here’s more top news of the day: Jump To 1) Why Are Delhis COVID-19 Testing Numbers Falling? Heres The Impact It Will Have On The Crisis …
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Former prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh was on Thursday discharged from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi, where he was admitted after testing positive for COVID-19. According to reports, Singh was doing fine and returned home Thursday afternoon. File Photo The 88-year-old was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) trauma centre, a …
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The elections in various states, in which campaigns, irrespective of parties openly violated COVID-19 norms are said to be one of the reasons behind the deadly second wave that has gripped the country. Though the full extent of the COVID-19 spread due to the elections will only be revealed in the coming days, in Uttar Pradesh the teachers’ unions have …
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The Delhi High Court rejected the Centre’s submission that the current oxygen supply to the national capital was sufficient and asked it to respond on Delhi government’s allegation that other states were getting more oxygen or almost equivalent to what they had demanded. The existing oxygen demand of Delhi is 704 metric tonnes (MTs) as against the present allocation of …
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Touted to be a game-changer, single dose intranasal vaccine candidate by Bharat Biotech is in advanced stages of clinical trials, said Department of Biotechnology Secretary Renu Swarup on April 21. Efforts are being ramped up for massive production of vaccines and make them available in the shortest possible time, a top government official said on Wednesday, stressing that India currently …
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extended help to india in fight against second wave of covid-19 | Photo : Twitter/@temasek The first consignment of aid left the UK on Sunday and is due to arrive in India on Tuesday. Further shipments will take place later in the week. The aid includes 495 oxygen concentrators – which can extract oxygen from the air when hospitals have …
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While India is struggling to tackle the second COVID wave, with tumbling health infrastructure, Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government’s Central Vista project has been permitted to continue as an “essential service”, Scroll.in has reported. Delhi, which is in its second week of lockdown, reported 20,201 cases and 380 deaths on Tuesday. BCCL According to Scroll, the Central Public Works Department …
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