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Coronavirus Live Updates: The safety and interest of Indians is the topmost priority, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said on Saturday after a memo from the agency triggered a backlash for setting August 15 as a target for developing a coronavirus vaccine, from both medical experts and the opposition.

Heavy rainfall, lightning and thunderstorm hit the national capital on the early hours of Sunday bringing some respite from sweltering weather.

A group of animal rescue workers have alleged they were attacked by residents of a neighbourhood in northwest Delhi on Friday, while they were trying to help stray dogs, prompting outrage on social media and calls for action. The police said they have filed a case against the residents and some were injured when the rescue workers tried to flee the area in their car.

Light rains and cloudy skies over the next three-four days are expected to keep the mercury in check in the national capital, Meteorological department officials said on Saturday.

Amid calls for action against widespread police brutality, a court in Delhi has ordered Delhi Police to lodge an FIR against its constable and others for allegedly throwing a man off the roof of a building and take action against those officials who tried to sabotage the investigation.

A 36-year-old woman was arrested for allegedly stealing a total of Rs 57 in two installments from the house of her friend's mother in Hauz Qazi area of Central Delhi, police said on Saturday.

Women who have either conceived or delivered babies in the past are not eligible to donate plasma as per the norms issued by authorities in Delhi, as a certain type of antibody, which may have developed during the pregnancy, might harm the recipient in rare cases, doctors have said.

Flights from six cities - Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur, Chennai and Ahmedabad - will not land in Kolkata for three weeks starting Monday, authorities said as the West Bengal government stepped up measures to contain the coronavirus.

An elderly woman in east Delhi has been badly injured after she was run over by a speeding car on Friday. The driver, who has been identified as a 56-year-old Delhi Police sub-inspector, has been arrested, the police said.

A 26-year-old man allegedly shot and killed his mother in north Delhi's Bawana area after she scolded him for consuming alcohol, the police said on Friday.

A 51-year-old assistant sub-inspector of the Delhi Police was killed on Friday when a speeding car hit him before crashing into a wall near the US Embassy in New Delhi, officials said.

Two women and a 26-year-old man have been arrested from east Delhi's Krishna Nagar area for allegedly honey-trapping a businessman to extort money from him, police said on Friday.

The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) on Friday said 47 of its personnel, who were cured of COVID-19, were ready to donate their blood plasma to patients suffering from the disease in Delhi and Mumbai.

Delhi recorded 2,520 fresh COVID-19 cases on Friday, taking the tally in the city to over the 94,000-mark, while the death count from the disease mounted to 2,923, authorities said.

The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has decided to name different wards of new Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel COVID-19 Hospital in Delhi after the Indian Army troops who lost their lives in the Galwan valley clash last month.

Three men were arrested for allegedly misbehaving and thrashing a Delhi Police constable after he stopped them for not wearing a mask and spitting at a public place, officials said on Thursday.

Delhi's total of coronavirus cases crossed the 90,000-mark on Thursday. The national capital, which had been reporting close to 4,000 daily cases last month, logged 2,373 new cases in 24 hours.

A 17-year-old girl and her younger sister were injured after they were shot at allegedly by two people in southwest Delhi's Kapashera area on Thursday evening, police said.

Policemen wearing coronavirus safety gear found it hard to control their emotions on Wednesday as they paid their last respects to their colleague, Delhi Police Inspector Sanjeev Yadav, a braveheart who died fighting COVID-19. While colleagues wrapped his body in the Indian flag, family members, also in personal protective equipment (PPE), stood in the corner, trying to come to terms with the grief.

Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Thursday said the projection of 5.5 lakh coronavirus cases in the capital by the end of July came from the central government and he shared it with the public to alert people. His clarification came after Union Minister Amit Shah said Mr Sisodia's statement had created fear among the people.

The Delhi High Court Thursday suggested that the AAP government set up a mechanism like a helpline on which healthcare workers can call anonymously to complain against private hospitals or nursing homes not providing N-95 masks and PPE kits.

A woman and her two daughters were found dead last night on train tracks in Delhi by some officers of the Railway Police Force (RPF), who were stunned to find a one-year-old alive near the chopped bodies. The infant escaped the accident that killed his mother and two sisters.

India's first plasma bank was inaugurated in Delhi this afternoon by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal as he appealed to all those who can donate plasma to come forward and help others.

A COVID-19 care centre with 600 beds has been set up at the Commonwealth Games stadium in Delhi amid a surge in coronavirus cases. The nation capital has logged more than 87,000 infections since the beginning of the pandemic, the highest in India after Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu.

The Delhi government will create a plasma bank to fight coronavirus, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said this afternoon, urging those who have recovered from the infection to donate plasma to help other patients.