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Delhi sees around 500% rise in Covid spread in last 15 days: Survey
The survey asked residents of Delhi, "How many individuals (including children) do you have in your close social network (family, friends, neighbours, colleagues) in Delhi-NCR that have had Covid in the last 15 days?" This question in the survey received 11,743 responses. In response, the majority, 70 per cent of Delhi residents said "No one in the last 15 days".
Citing WHO report, Rahul says govt hiding data on Covid deaths
He said that the Prime Minister should give Rs 4 lakhs to every family who died due to Covid. Meanwhile, India has shared its concerns with the methodology along with other member states through a series of formal communications, including six letters issued to the World Health Organisation, said the Union Health Ministry in response to New York Times article titled "India Is Stalling the WHO's Efforts to Make Global Covid Death Toll Public" dated April 16, 2022.
India stopping WHO to make global Covid deaths public, claims NYT
According to the New York Times, the Indian government said that the WHO's methodology to estimate the deaths caused by Covid-19 in India is flawed. "India feels that the process was neither collaborative nor adequately representative," the Indian government was quoted as saying in a statement to the United Nations Statistical Commission in February.
Ahead of PM's J&K visit, rise in targeted terror and glimmers of hope
The Prime Minister's visit to the UT is being seen as a message to showcase grassroots democracy in Jammu and Kashmir. Modi will address the rural local bodies across the country on April 24, which is being observed as the Panchayati Raj Diwas, from Palli village in district Samba of the Jammu region. The village will also be showcased as a carbon-free village.
UK PM Johnson to visit India on April 21 to strengthen ties
During the two-day meet, the British Prime Minister will first land in Ahmedabad on April 21 and then proceed to Delhi. The ministry statement said, "At the invitation of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, the Rt. Hon'ble Boris Johnson MP, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom will pay an official visit to India from 21-22 April 2022. This will be his maiden visit to India as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom."
'Mask up', say experts amid rising Covid cases in Delhi
Doctors also said that the sudden rise in Covid cases is not a situation to panic. Talking to IANS, Chacha Nehru Bal Chikitsalaya Medical Superintendent Mamta Jajoo said "we have not seen any children admission with Covid symptoms in the hospital yet". However, she said: "As the cases are again rising in the city, we need to be more alert and follow the proper Covid appropriate behaviour."
India's new Covid vax candidate can withstand 100 degrees C
The heat-tolerant Covid-19 vaccine candidate can be stored at 37 degrees Celsius for four weeks and at 100 degrees Celsius for up to 90 minutes. The vaccine candidate uses a part of the viral spike protein called the receptor-binding domain that allows the virus to connect with the host cell to infect it.
India's connectivity drive in neighbourhood benefits Nepal, Bangladesh
The meeting deliberated upon and took important decisions on various aspects of India's bilateral relationship with Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka in the areas of trade and investment, connectivity, border infrastructure, immigration, development cooperation, border security among others.
Modi, Vietnamese Gen Secy discuss Russia-Ukraine war, South China Sea
Modi made a phone call to Trong and held deliberations over a wide range of issues. The two leaders complimented each other on the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between India and Vietnam, which is being celebrated this year. They expressed satisfaction over the rapid pace of wide-ranging cooperation under the India-Vietnam Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, which was established during Modi's visit to Vietnam in 2016.
Focusing on filling up vacancies of judges, infrastructure: CJI
"The reason is access to justice is possible only when we provide sufficient number of courts as well as infrastructure so that litigant public can approach the institution for justice," he said at the inaugural session of two-day conference of judicial officers of Telangana here.
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