9.29 am : India records 4,01,993 cases today, the highest ever since the pandemic began last year. With this, the country’s tally of infect...
9.29 am: India records 4,01,993 cases today, the highest ever since the pandemic began last year. With this, the country’s tally of infections rises to 1,91,64,969. The toll rises to 2,11,853 after 3,523 new deaths were registered in 24 hours.
8.43 am: The United States announces that it will begin restricting travel from India next week, in view of the worsening coronavirus situation and the emergence of potentially dangerous variants of the virus.
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8.42 am: Former Rashtriya Janata Dal MP Mohammad Shahabuddin dies of Covid-19, reports ANI.
8.38 am: Odisha government constitutes an expert committee to formulate strategies on the use of Tocilizumab and other drugs for treatment of Covid-19.
Odisha govt has constituted an Expert Committee for taking decision on the use of Tocilizumab and other new drugs for treatment of #COVID19 patients. The Committee will examine and assess the proposal of use of such drugs on case to case basis under the supervision Of DMET. pic.twitter.com/udhbjS7C70
— ANI (@ANI) May 1, 2021
8.35 am: India will begin vaccinating those aged between 18 and 45 against Covid-19 from today, as the country battles a ferocious second wave of infections, worsened by shortages of hospital beds and medical oxygen.
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