Here are top updates from Monday: The United States government has announced that it will lift coronavirus-related travel ban on all air...
Here are top updates from Monday:
- The United States government has announced that it will lift coronavirus-related travel ban on all air passengers from November, provided they are fully vaccinated, AFP reported. Jeffrey Zients, coronavirus response coordinator for President Joe Biden, said that travellers will have to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test result taken within three days.
- India on Monday recorded 30,256 new coronavirus cases, pushing the infection tally in the country to 3,34,78,419 since the pandemic broke out in January last year. With 295 deaths, the toll climbed to 4,45,133. The active cases have declined to 3,18,181 – the lowest in 183 days.
- Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Monday said that India will resume exporting surplus coronavirus vaccines from October. India had halted export of Covid-19 vaccines in April after the second wave of the pandemic started to peak.
- The Supreme Court on Monday refused to direct the central and state governments to expedite their decision on resuming physical classes in schools. The petition was filed by a school student who lives in Delhi.
- Congress leaders Shashi Tharoor and Jairam Ramesh on Monday criticised the United Kingdom government’s decision to consider people vaccinated in certain countries, including India, as unvaccinated. According to the UK government’s new travel rules, people vaccinated in Africa and South America,...
