Health ministry has also received 450 ventilators and 1.35 lakh remdesivir vials. The distribution of supplies was done considering criteria including active cases, positivity rate.
Some states, hospitals say they received a part of the required supplies, while others are yet to receive anything. Centre assures all the foreign aid received will be distributed effectively.
Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla has written to state chief secretaries & UT administrators, given the recent fire incidents in hospitals & particularly in view of the summer season.
According to health ministry data, active Covid cases have touched 34,87,229 comprising 16.87% of the total infections, while the national recovery rate was recorded at 82.03%.
Delhi University has written to Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan, requesting him to convert a constituent college into a dedicated Covid care facility for faculty and staff.
At health ministry briefing on Covid-19, AIIMS director Dr Randeep Guleria warns against too much reliance on blood tests for biomarkers, noting it doesn't paint the true picture.
While Chandra Shekhar Azad is a streetfighter who has caught the fancy of Dalit youth, Anil Antony is the face of the BJP’s fresh social engineering attempt.
Air India’s new policy, effective from 2 May, introduces new weight limits for tickets in each of the different 'fare families' — Comfort, Comfort Plus, and Flex.
New Delhi has, in past, too, objected to Chinese construction activities in Shaksgam Valley. Work in this strategic region gathered pace after the 2017 Doklam stand-off.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
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