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US President Joe Biden, earlier this week, announced to provide vaccinations on a walk-in basis in tens of thousands of pharmacies and mobile clinics, the New York Times reported.

The chief minister said daily consumption of oxygen in her state has gone up to 470 MT in the last 24 hours and is expected to increase to 550 MT per day in about a week.

The fact is that oxygen concentrators/cylinders cannot reach every nook and corner of the country and hospitals with their own oxygen-generating infrastructure can only supply oxygen to critical patients in this dire situation.

Jharkhand on Thursday reported 5,770 new positive cases, pushing the tally to 2,63,115141.

It refused to accept the Centre's contention that if every high court starts passing orders for allocating oxygen, it would make the supply network of the country “unworkable”.

The cumulative number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in the country has crossed 16.49 crore.

The Modi government, she said, must urgently call an all-party meeting on the COVID-19 situation.

Justice Chandrachud said: "We want 700 MT to be supplied to Delhi and we mean business. it has to be supplied and we don't want to be coercive."

Born into a middle-class family in Srikakulam district in Andhra Pradesh, the playback singer started his career in film industry in Madras soon after the death of Ghantasala.

According to Deputy Commissioner Pallav Gopal Jha, the estate has been declared a containment zone.

Tokyo logged 591 new cases of coronavirus infection on Thursday, a slight dip from when the state of emergency began in the capital last month.

Religious places will remain closed, and people are requested to carry out religious activities at home during the lockdown.

The active cases have increased to 36,45,164 comprising 16.96 per cent of the total infections.

The US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 32,603,569 and 580,054, respectively, according to the CSSE.

Commissioner of Police (CP) Vishnu S Warrier further informed that the district level committee has been supplying medicines, dry fruits and monitoring the patient's health condition. T

Inspecting the fever survey in 28th ward in the town, Annapurnamma said the State government took up the fever survey as part of the measures to control spread of COVID-19.

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In a statement here, the Collector warned that criminal cases would be booked and stringent action would be taken against those resorting to black marketing of medicines.

On April 22, a positivity rate of 36.2 percent, the highest so far, was recorded.

The Press Council of India (PCI) reiterated its recommendation to the Centre and state/Union territory governments regarding insurance of journalists.