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99% fully vaccinated healthcare workers remained safe: Fortis study
Fortis said that after receiving both the doses, only 6 per cent staff got infected. Amon those who got infected, 92 percent were mildly infected, while 7 percent developed moderate illness requiring oxygen support and only 1 per cent developed severe illness requiring ICU. In the absence of an established cure for Covid-19, mass inoculation through safe and effective vaccines along with Covid appropriate behaviour are the best tools to control the pandemic.
Delhi now has adequate Covid vaccines for all categories: Atishi
Presenting the daily health bulletin, party lawmaker Atishi said: "Delhi has received 62,160 doses of Covaxin and 1,73,340 doses of Covishield yesterday (June 15). Adequate vaccine stock is available in Delhi even for the above 45 years age category." She said that Delhi has 2.55 lakh doses available for 18-44 age groups with 6 days stock of Covaxin and 11 days of Covishield.
Delhi reports 212 new Covid cases, 25 deaths
A total of 25 persons succumbed to Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, taking the national capital's overall death toll to 24,876. Continuing the trend, daily recoveries again outnumbered the tally of new cases by a fair margin, as 516 people recovered from the disease on Wednesday, taking the national capital's total number of recoveries to 14, 04,085.
'Infringement of liberty': SC shocked as bail plea not listed for over a year
In fact, the denial of hearing is an infringement of right and liberty assured to an accused." While observing that the top court normally does not interfere with an interim order passed by the High Court, the bench added: "We are shocked to see that the bail application under Section 439 CrPC is not being listed for hearing for more than one year."
Digital technology helped us cope, connect, comfort and console in Covid: PM
Addressing the 5th edition of VivaTech, one of the largest digital and start-up events in Europe, held in Paris every year since 2016, he said: "India's universal and unique bio-metric digital identity system - Aadhar - helped to provide timely financial support to the poor. "We could supply free food to 800 million people, and deliver cooking fuel subsidies to many households.
Terrorist killed in Kashmir encounter refused to surrender
The police said that on the intervening night of June 15-16, a joint cordon and search operation was launched by the Srinagar police, the army and the CRPF after receiving specific information about the presence of a terrorist in the Wagoora area.
'Social media narrative': Delhi Police moves SC against HC bail to riots accused
Questioning the approach adopted by High Court, the police said the three judgments granting bail to three students, Tanha, Kalita and Narwal were "without any foundation and appears to be based more on the social media narrative than the evidence gathered and elaborated in the charge sheet".
Sher ka bachcha, says Chirag as he readies for a long legal fight
Chirag, who is fighting for the survival of his party said that he is ready for a long legal fight against the rebel group, declaring that he was "the son of Ram Vilas Paswan, a sher ka bachcha" (son of a lion). He also defended his decision to contest last year's Bihar Assembly elections solo, which has been the major reason for his feud with uncle, saying he did not want to buckle down to Chief Minister and JD-U chief Nitish Kumar.
PM to launch crash course for Covid frontline workers on June 18
The programme aims to skill and upskill over one lakh Covid warriors across the country. The training will be imparted to Covid warriors in six customised job roles namely Home Care Support, Basic Care Support, Advanced Care Support, Emergency Care Support, Sample Collection Support, and Medical Equipment Support. Union Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship will also be present on the occasion.
6 Maoists gunned down in Andhra operation
Police are continuing search operations in the area where encounter took place. Six Maoists were gunned down by Andhra Pradesh Greyhounds police on Wednesday morning at Theegalametta forest area in Visakhapatnam district. "Today (Wednesday) in the morning hours, an exchange of fire took place between CPI (Maoist) and Greyhounds parties at Theegalametta forest areas (Koyyru surrounding areas)," said an official statement.
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