10.05 am: Chief Justice of India NV Ramana has criticised the attacks on doctors amid the coronavirus crisis, reports The Hindu . He also...
10.05 am: Chief Justice of India NV Ramana has criticised the attacks on doctors amid the coronavirus crisis, reports The Hindu. He also points out Indian Medical Association’s data that over 798 doctors have died during the second wave of the pandemic.
“Why is it that the medical professionals are at the receiving end for someone else’s failure?” he says. “Issues such as insufficient number of medical professionals, infrastructure, medicines, outdated technologies, and government not giving priory to medical sector are issues of immediate concern.”
10 am: The United Arab Emirates has banned its citizens from travelling to several countries, including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka, due to the coronavirus situation, reports ANI.
9.59 am: Opposition parties in Kerala are demanding that the state government review the death tally, reports The Indian Express.
State Health Minister Veena George, however, claims that the government has nothing to hide. “We have a decentralised Covid-19 death reporting system,” she adds.
9.55 am: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the coronavirus cases in the United States rose 10% this week because of the Delta variant, reports NBC News.
“I expect that we are going to see the number of cases around the country going up as the delta variant spreads,” says Richard Besser, president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and a...
