9.30 am: Chhattisgarh replaces the photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with that of its Chief Minister Bhupesh Bagel on the Covid-19 va...
9.30 am: Chhattisgarh replaces the photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with that of its Chief Minister Bhupesh Bagel on the Covid-19 vaccine certificates, reports The Times of India. Earlier, Jharkhand made a similar move.
“I don’t think there should be any issue on that,” Chhattisgarh Health Minister TS Singh Deo tells the newspaper. “When Government of India was providing the money and they had the Prime Minister’s photograph. If the state government is doing something, then we will use the chief minister’s photograph instead. When the Centre has left it on the states to bear the financial burden and the state governments are procuring their own vaccines, why should they not issue their own vaccine certificates? Why should the vaccine certificates carry the photo of PM Narendra Modi?”
9.22 am: India registers 2,57,299 new cases and 4,194 deaths in the last 24 hours. With this, the country’s tally rises to 2,62,89,290 while the toll climbs to 2,95,525 since the pandemic broke out in January 2020.
9.21 am: Dr Suresh Kumar, the medical director of Delhi’s LNJP Hospital, says white fungus is not as dangerous as the black one, reports ANI. He advises people to wash masks daily and avoid consuming eatables refrigerated for days. “Fungus grows in cramped and humid...
