Delhi govt gets into action to prepare for Covid third wave
India | May 19, 2021 14:49 ISTChief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Wednesday that the Delhi government will form a special task force to protect children from the third wave of COVID-19.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Wednesday that the Delhi government will form a special task force to protect children from the third wave of COVID-19.
Gotam Lal Meena, BJP MLA from Dhariawad constituency in Rajasthan's Pratapgarh district, has died of COVID-19 at a hospital in Udaipur on Wednesday.
Kejriwal had on Tuesday called for cancelling all air services with Singapore with immediate effect, saying a strain of coronavirus found in that country could reach Delhi in the form of a third wave.
Buddhadeb Bhattacharya has tested positive for COVID-19 and doctors have advised him to be in home isolation.
Meanwhile, the Biden administration has started the process of appointing 20 American corporate leaders to the US section of the US-India CEO Forum.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday appealed to the Centre to immediately cancel all air services with Singapore amid reports that the new strain of coronavirus could invade India in the form of a third wave.
Average daily recovery of more than 3,55,944 cases has been recorded in the last 14 days, the ministry said. A total of 2,63,533 new cases were registered in a day.
Experts have also warned that the third wave of Covid-19 is due between October and December and it will hit children in a big way.
BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra said that the Congress toolkit highlights how the party wants to strengthen itself using the pandemic.
Padma Shri awardee and eminent cardiologist Dr KK Aggarwal has died of COVID-19. He was undergoing treatment at AIIMS in Delhi.
Nineteen oxygen generation plants, 11,321 oxygen concentrators, 15,801 oxygen cylinders and about 5.5 lakh Remdesivir vials received as global aid have been delivered or dispatched to various states and union territories from April 27 to May 16, the Centre said on Monday.
Virologist Shahid Jameel has resigned as the head of the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG).
Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Saturday said the number of vaccine doses administered in India will reach 51.6 crore by the end of July.
Shootings of TV serials, web series and films will come to a halt from May 16 in West Bengal as the state government imposed stricter lockdown norms to contain the spread of COVID-19.
The rising cases of Covid in India and previously in the western countries triggered a debate that six feet distance could not be adequate to break the transmission chain of virus.
India remains hugely concerning, with several states continuing to see a worrying number of cases, hospitalizations and deaths, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said.
India's COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16. It went past 60 lakh on September 28, 70 lakh on October 11, crossed 80 lakh on October 29, 90 lakh on November 20 and surpassed the one-crore mark on December 19.
Lalu Prasad alleged that the deceased did not get treatment when they were alive and are not even getting shrouds after their death.
The WHO has said that several religious and political mass gathering events in India led to the rise in Covid-19 transmission.
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