9.35 am: India’s Covid-19 case count breaches the 76-lakh mark to reach 76,51,107 after 54,044 new infections. The toll in the country goe...
9.35 am: India’s Covid-19 case count breaches the 76-lakh mark to reach 76,51,107 after 54,044 new infections. The toll in the country goes up by 717 to 1,15,914.
8.59 am: Odisha’s tally of coronavirus cases rose to 2,72,250 on Tuesday as 1,904 more people tested positive for the infection, while 16 fresh fatalities pushed the toll to 1,168, PTI reports.
8.57 am: One in six children, or 356 million globally were living in extreme poverty before the Covid-19 pandemic began, and this is set to worsen significantly, according to a new World Bank Group and UN Children’s Fund analysis, PTI reports.
The analysis shows that the number of children living in extreme poverty decreased moderately, by 29 million, between 2013 and 2017. However, UNICEF and the World Bank Group warn that any progress made in recent years, has been “slow-paced, unequally distributed, and at risk” due to the economic impact of the pandemic.
8.53 am: A court in Mumbai on Monday acquitted 20 foreign Tablighi Jamaat attendees, who had been charged for violating coronavirus-related lockdown orders. The court noted that there wasn’t an “iota of evidence” to show that the foreign nationals had flouted the orders.
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