10.28 am: Hotels, gyms and public transport services resume in 17 districts of Karnataka from Monday, PTI reports. 10.25 am: Outdoor wed...
10.28 am: Hotels, gyms and public transport services resume in 17 districts of Karnataka from Monday, PTI reports.
10.25 am: Outdoor weddings will be allowed in England and Wales for the first time since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2019, the BBC reports.
10.23 am: Four weddings were held without permission at a temple in Karnataka’s Mangaluru city on Sunday, according to ANI. The police have filed a case against those who violated Covid-safety guidelines.
10.17 am: World Health Organization Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan says its too early to tell if booster shots of Covid-19 vaccine, targeted against emerging variants, will be needed, Bloomberg reports.
“We do not have the information that’s necessary to make the recommendation on whether or not a booster will be needed,” she says. “The science is still evolving.”
Swaminathan adds that calls for using booster shots are premature, since high-risk individuals in most countries haven’t even completed the first course of vaccination yet.
10.09 am: Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain says no one can misreport the number of deaths in India, including those due to Covid-19, since all fatalities are recorded properly, PTI reports.
“No one can increase or decrease the number of deaths in Delhi,” he says. “So far, around 24,900 people have died due to coronavirus in the city.”
His remark came...
