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Union Home Minister Amit Shah met Sunday with Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal to discuss the coronavirus situation and decided to hold more "robust" contact tracing and revamp the containment zone strategy

PPE suits, face masks and gloves, critical medical resources in the fight against the COVID-19 virus have been tossed aside as garbage inside Delhi's Lodhi Crematorium

The owner of a school, who was arrested in connection with the riots in northeast Delhi this February, has been granted bail by a Delhi court, which observed that despite police allegations, the chargesheet did not provide any evidence of terror funding or his alleged links with Pinjra Tod group, the Popular Front of India and Muslim clerics. The court also said the prima facie evidence suggested that he was not present at the spot at the time of incident.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today said the government will be providing Pulse Oxymeters -- a special machine to measure oxygen levels in blood -- at home, so patients can request hospitalization even before they have breathing difficulties.

Heavy rain accompanied by strong winds lashed parts of the national capital early morning on Monday.

In view of the monsoon approaching the city, the Delhi government's Public Works Department has directed that no field staff of its maintenance units will be allowed to take leave during this period without prior approval.

A group of residents of a coronavirus containment zone in Delhi attacked policemen and civil volunteers on Sunday following an argument over barricades.

A 62-year-old inmate lodged in Mandoli Jail in Delhi has died of coronavirus, a first COVID-19 casualty in Delhi's prison, prompting authorities to test 28 other inmates who were sharing the barrack with the man, officials said on Sunday.

The condition of Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain, who tested positive for coronavirus on Wednesday, has improved after he was given plasma therapy at a private hospital.

Private hospitals shall charge no more than Rs 18,000 per day for intensive care unit beds with ventilator support while treating COVID-19 patients, the Delhi government ordered on Saturday as it capped the rates of ICU and isolation beds

The Delhi government on Saturday authorised medical superintendents of state-run hospitals and the Directorate General of Health Services to carry out emergency procurement of medical equipment to effectively deal with the surge in coronavirus cases.

A 45-year-old woman was found dead inside her rented accommodation in Rajapur Village in Prashant Vihar area, police said on Saturday.

A media body on Saturday described as "an act of intimidation" the filing of an FIR in Uttar Pradesh against a journalist over a report on the impact of the lockdown on a village, saying it was part of an "established pattern" of harassment of independent scribes.

The Delhi High Court has directed the city government to investigate into the allegations against a private hospital of forcing to shift a physically disabled woman, suspected to be suffering from COVID-19, to another hospital over unavailability of beds.

The Delhi government has cancelled the leaves of all employees including doctors and support staff of hospitals under its health department as coronavirus cases in the national capital continue to rise. Delhi has the third highest number of COVID-19 cases after Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal this afternoon opposed Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal's order at a meeting, according to sources, which said that no coronavirus patient in the national capital must be allowed to undergo home isolation before a mandatory five-day institutional quarantine.

Delhi and its adjoining states such as Haryana and Rajasthan are likely to be battered by rains in the next two hours, predicted the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Saturday.

A fight over parking spot in Delhi's Ashok Vihar took a violent turn as five men attacked and stabbed to death a 56-year-old man on Thursday. The man's wife and son have sustained injuries in the fight and have been admitted to the hospital, police said.

Delhi on Friday reported its highest single-day coronavirus count of 3,137 new cases which took its grand total past the 50,000-mark.

The Delhi High Court has refused to stay the AAP government's decision to requisition a property of the luxurious Eros Grand Resorts and Hotels Pvt Ltd for converting it into an extended COVID-19 hospital, saying there has been extraordinary rise in coronavirus cases here and drastic measures required to control the situation.

The southwest monsoon is likely to arrive in Delhi ahead of schedule on June 25, the Indian weather monitoring agency said today as heatwave-like conditions kept day temperature above normal in the National Capital Region.

No COVID-19 patient must be allowed to undergo home isolation before mandatory five-day institutional quarantine, Delhi Lt Governor Anil Baijal said in an order, changing the isolation rules in the national capital which is already suffering from an acute shortage of hospitals beds.

A Delhi Police DCP tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday, officials said.The deputy commissioner of police is currently under home quarantine. His office is being sanitised and three members of his staff have been sent for home isolation, a senior police officer said.

The Crime Branch of Delhi Police on Friday filed a fresh charge sheet and 11 supplementary charge sheets against 46 foreign nationals in connection with the congregation at Markaz Tablighi Jamaat in Nizamuddin area of the national capital.