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Besides, six other patients are currently undergoing treatment for the disease, also known as black fungus, the official said.

The total recoveries in a span of 24 hours too outnumbered the daily new COVID-19 cases after 61 days.

The B1617 variant was, till now, deemed a 'variant of interest' by the WHO.

More than 90 lakh Covid vaccine doses (90,31,691) are still available with the States and UTs

Earlier on Friday, he took oath as Tamil Nadu Chief Minister at Raj Bhavan.

The encounter had broken out earlier in the day.

"BJP government spending a small amount of Rs 20,000 crore for the Central Vista including a modest new house for the PM. Criticism unjustified," he said

The National COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 82.75 per cent

She was a State Minister for 16 years in six cabinets of both the Communists and the Congress.

Some news channels claimed the number of bodies to be as high as 100

While the Modi govt was making diligent efforts to control Covid, opposition leaders were continuing with politics as usual, Shah tweeted.

Google is also testing a new feature using the Q&A function in Maps that enables people to ask about and share local information on availability of beds and medical oxygen in select locations.

Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot proposed that there should be no election currently in view of the COVID-19 situation and senior party leader Ghulam Nabi Azad seconded him.

"Party co-coordinator Edappadi K Palaniswami has been elected Leader of the Opposition in the Tamil Nadu Assembly," the AIADMK tweeted.

Gandhi said she intends to set up a small group to look at every aspect that caused such reverses and come back with its findings.

While three ministers Amit Mitra, Bratya Basu and Rathin Ghosh took their oath virtually. The rest -- 40 ministers were divided into three groups -- Cabinet, MOS (Independent Charge) and MoS and they took their oath together

"Thank Qatar Airways for facilitating this shipment from the UK," tweeted Arindam Bagchi, official spokesperson, Ministry of External Affairs.

The court granted interim bail to Narwal, a Pinjra Tod activist, for three weeks subject to her furnishing of a personal bond of Rs 50,000.

Hyderabad: The Railways has informed that all rail passengers travelling to Delhi from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana States are being sent to mandatory quarantine for 14 days. Any person who has been successfully vaccinated (two doses) and produces a certificate to the effect or having a negative RT-PCR report (not older than 72 hours prior […]

The Hyderabad-based firm has started supplying its COVID-19 treatment vaccine to the states based on the allocations received by the central government.

The state government has placed an order for over one crore doses of vaccine to accelerate the vaccination drive in the state.

Himanta Biswa selected for the role after a crucial meeting was chaired in Delhi by BJP chief JP Nadda on Sunday.

"Emirates has set up a humanitarian airbridge between Dubai and India to transport urgent medical and relief items, to support India in its fight to control the serious COVID-19 situation in the country,” the airline tweeted

To curb the surge of COVID-19 cases, the Karnataka government had on Friday imposed a complete lockdown for two weeks in the state from 6 am on May 10 to 6 am on May 24.