Coronavirus India Live Updates: As the states across India gradually open up after stringent lockdowns, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin Sunday announced more relaxations in 27 districts which includes allowing tea shops to reopen from June 14.
Easing Delhi’s Covid-19 lockdown even further, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced that from Monday at 5 AM all restaurants in the national capital will be allowed to open at 50% seating capacity.
“After 5 am tomorrow, all activities will be allowed except some activities that will be prohibited and some activities that will be done in a restricted manner.
India reported 80,834 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, its lowest rise in daily cases since April 1.
The representatives of the Pakistani refugees from the Hindu Sindhi community had recently requested the administration for anti- coronavirus inoculation, District Immunization Officer Dr Praveen Jadia told PTI.
“In order to ensure smooth functioning of government offices, all the employees of Government of Assam who have received both the doses of COVID-19 vaccine are hereby directed to attend office from 14/06/2021 regularly,” he added.
Recoveries outnumbered fresh cases with 809 people being discharged from hospitals, taking the active cases to 5,331.
Odisha on Sunday reported 4,469 new COVID-19 cases, taking the state’s tally to 8,51,782, a Health Department official said.
Of the new infections, 2,546 were reported from quarantine centres, while the rest 1,923 were local contact cases.
Early this month, construction activities and some factories were allowed to reopen, while markets, malls and the metro reopened partially on June 7.
In its latest order, the Delhi Disaster Management Authority observed that the number of Covid-19 patients and positivity rate has declined considerably and the overall situation has improved, “but due caution and care has to be maintained for consolidating the whole process of Covid-19 management”.
Every Wednesday, for the last three weeks, Ranjita Sabar, 26, a vaccination health worker, has been walking over 10 km to reach remote villages in Kurli gram panchayat, in Odisha’s Rayagada district.
Since then, there has been progress, even if slow — so far, 40.86 per cent of 1,160 people in the 45+ age group in Kurli have got their vaccines.
As per Delhi’s latest Covid lockdown guidelines, religious places will reopen across the National Capital, however, visitors will not be permitted.
All market complexes, malls in Delhi will now be allowed to open from 10 am to 8 pm.
The death of a parent strips away the child of not just the emotional blanket of comfort, but also in several cases takes away the financial support, leaving their futures in a lurch.
With the fresh cases, the country’s tally of cases has climbed to 2,94,39,989.
The active cases further declined to 10,26,159 comprising 3.49 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has improved to 95.26 per cent.
It’s an important day for Nisha Bhilarekar, the sarpanch of Diya in Dharni taluka of Amravati district.
The local Kokru music is playing on a loudspeaker, a pandal has been set up at the entrance of the village, and arrangements have been made for a feast .
In an effort to check the spread of Covid in far-flung areas, Kerala’s health department is taking vaccines to places like Attappadi, the state’s only tribal block.
A 60-year-old diabetic, a doctor, an Army official, and a government worker came together to accomplish the seemingly impossible — helping to vaccinate almost 95 per cent of a remote village called Ningchou.
Sources said this person, who was in Punjab during the Kumbh period, received an SMS that his sample had been collected for a Covid-19 test.
Delhi on Saturday recorded 213 new Covid-19 cases, the lowest in over three months, and 28 fresh fatalities on Saturday, while the positivity rate dipped to 0.30 per cent, according to the health department here.
India’s Covid-19 caseload climbed to 29,359,155 on Saturday after 84,332 new infections were logged in the last 24 hours, according to the Union ministry of health and family welfare.
The US’s Food and Drug Administration has rejected emergency use authorisation for Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin vaccine, instead recommending that the vaccine manufacturer’s US partner must apply for biologics licence application .