8.44 am: The Heathrow Airport in London refuses to permit extra flights from India, Reuters reports. The United Kingdom had on Monday add...
8.44 am: The Heathrow Airport in London refuses to permit extra flights from India, Reuters reports. The United Kingdom had on Monday added India to its travel “red-list” amid concerns about a new variant of the coronavirus detected in the country. The restriction will come into effect from April 23.
8.28 am: Congress leader and former Delhi minister AK Walia dies due to the infection at the city’s Apollo Hospital, ANI reports.
8.16 am: Communist Party of India (Marxist) Secretary General Sitaram Yechury’s son dies due to the coronavirus.
It is with great sadness that I have to inform that I lost my elder son, Ashish Yechury to COVID-19 this morning. I want to thank all those who gave us hope and who treated him - doctors, nurses, frontline health workers, sanitation workers and innumerable others who stood by us.
— Sitaram Yechury (@SitaramYechury) April 22, 2021
8.13 am: Delhi registered 24,638 new coronavirus on Wednesday, taking its overall count since the beginning of the pandemic in January 2020 to 9,30,179. The Capital’s toll rose by 249 to 12,887. The city’s positivity rate stood at 31.28%.
8.09 am: Here are the top updates from Wednesday:
- The Delhi High Court pulled up the Centre for the acute shortage of oxygen in Delhi amid the surge in coronavirus cases. The...
