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Coronavirus HIGHLIGHTS: BMC Revises Restrictions In Mumbai, Permits Non-Essential Shops To Operate Till 10 PM On All Days

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Coronavirus HIGHLIGHTS, Monday, August 2: Asserting its commitment to accelerating the pace and expanding the scope of Covid-19 vaccination throughout the country, the Centre on Sunday said that over 49.49 crore vaccine doses have been provided to states and Union Territories so far and a further 8,04,220 are in the pipeline.

"Of this, the total consumption including wastages is 46,70,26,662 doses (as per the data available at 8 a.m. on Sunday)," an official statement said.

It said that over 3 crore (3,00,58,190) unutilised Covid vaccine doses are still available with the states and Union Territories and private hospitals to be administered.

"The vaccination drive has been ramped up through availability of more vaccines, advance visibility of vaccine availability to states and UTs for enabling better planning by them, and streamlining the vaccine supply chain," it said.

Odisha's Bhubaneswar has achieved the milestone of becoming the first city in the country to achieve 100 per cent vaccination coverage against COVID-19, informed Anshuman Rath, Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Zonal Deputy Commissioner of South-East, Bhubaneswar. 

"We had set a target to complete vaccination in a specific timeline. BMC has a record of around nine lakh people who are above 18 years of age in the city. Which includes around 31 thousand healthcare workers, 33 thousand front-line workers. 5 lakh 17 thousand people are in the age group of 18 to 44 years. 3 lakh 25 thousand people are above 45 years of age. We had set a benchmark for these categories to complete their vaccination in the specific timeline by July 31." Anshuman Rath told news agency ANI.

23:30 PM (IST)  •  02 Aug 2021

BMC revises COVID restrictions in Mumbai, permits non-essential shops to operate till 10 pm on all days

Maharashtra: Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) issued revised guidelines for the city; permits non-essential shops to operate till 10 pm on all days

 

22:04 PM (IST)  •  02 Aug 2021

Madras HC orders Tamil Nadu govt to ensure all transgenders in state get vaccinated within 3 months

Madras High Court orders Tamil Nadu government to make sure that all transgenders in the state should be vaccinated within three months

22:02 PM (IST)  •  02 Aug 2021

COVID working group Chairperson on Zydus Cadila's COVID-19 vaccine

Around 47 crore vaccine doses were administered in July and second half of June. Vaccine availability will increase quite significantly in August & overall. Bharat Biotech is expected to provide 7-10 crore doses per month in the coming weeks: Dr NK Arora, Chairperson, COVID working group said.

Both Bharat Biotech and Serum Institute are our major vaccine suppliers and we hope that they will also be instrumental in completing the adult immunization drive in country by the end, he added.

Some more data have been asked by the expert group. All of us are very hopeful that this vaccine will be available: Dr NK Arora said on Zydus Cadila's COVID-19 vaccine.

19:07 PM (IST)  •  02 Aug 2021

Andhra Pradesh reports 1,546 fresh COVID cases

Andhra Pradesh reports 1,546 fresh COVID cases, 1,968 recoveries, and 15 deaths in the last 24 hours. 

Active cases: 20,582
Total recoveries: 19,36,016
Death toll: 13,410

18:12 PM (IST)  •  02 Aug 2021

Maharashtra: Restrictions Eased In districts with declining COVID cases

Shops will be permitted to remain open till 8 pm instead of 4 pm in the districts where COVID infections have reduced. Restrictions will continue in those districts where the infection is still on rise: Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray

18:11 PM (IST)  •  02 Aug 2021

Kerala reports 13,984 new COVID cases

Kerala reports 13,984 new COVID19 cases, 15,923 recoveries & 118 deaths today; positivity rate is at 10.93%

Active cases: 1,65,322
Total recoveries: 32,42,684
Death toll: 16,955

18:02 PM (IST)  •  02 Aug 2021

Decision On Reopening Delhi Schools To Be Taken Soon, Dy CM Sisodia Says 'Seems Many People Want It'

"We are reviewing the suggestions from public, some demanded reopening (of schools), some didn't. A decision is to be taken soon on the basis of all factors (vaccines for children) and feedback. Largely it seems that many people want it (schools' reopening)": Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia said as quoted by ANI.

17:57 PM (IST)  •  02 Aug 2021

Sputnik V In India

We've received 31.5 lakh doses of component 1 & 4.5 lakh doses of component 2 of Sputnik V vaccine in India. We are working closely with RDIF to ramp up supplies. We're also working closely with our partners in India for manufacturing readiness: Dr Reddy's Laboratories Spokesperson to ANI.

We expect that locally manufactured doses are likely to be available from the September-October period, the spokesperson told ANI.

14:29 PM (IST)  •  02 Aug 2021

UP CM gets second vaccine dose

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday received his second dose of COVID-19 vaccine here and appealed to all those eligible to get inoculated.
"Today I am happy to receive the second dose of the 'swadeshi' Covid vaccine. Under the guidance of the prime minister, this security cover of the corona vaccine is being administered free of cost. You all should get this 'teeka jeet ka' (vaccine to defeat Covid). Only then coronavirus will be defeated and the country will win," he said in a tweet in Hindi.

13:22 PM (IST)  •  02 Aug 2021

COVAXIN effective against Delta Plus: ICMR Study

COVAXIN effective against Delta Plus variant of COVID19, says Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) study
 
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