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A day after Arvind Kejriwal announced that hospitals run by the Delhi government and some private hospitals will be reserved for residents of the capital, the Lieutenant Governor has overruled the decision.

Has coronavirus reached the stage of community transmission in Delhi? A key meeting to figure this out will be held tomorrow, which will be attended by Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia in the absence of Arvind Kejriwal. Mr Kejriwal is unwell. He is running a temperature and is expected to take a coronavirus test tomorrow.

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Monday termed as "unfortunate" Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's announcement that hospitals run by the Delhi government and private entities will only treat Delhiites during the novel coronavirus crisis.

The Delhi High Court Monday asked the Delhi government and the ICMR to reply to two pleas challenging the Health department's decision to exclude "asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic patients" from COVID 19 testing.

A low-intensity earthquake of magnitude 2.1 struck near Delhi today as mild tremors were felt in the national capital. This is the ninth earthquake to hit the national capital in the last two months.

A day after the Delhi government announced that beds in state-run hospitals would be reserved for residents of the city, city Health Minister Satyendra Jain defended the decision, saying the capital had seen more than 1,000 new coronavirus cases daily in the past few days and would need up to 17,000 beds in the next 15 days amid a spike in infections.

A 10-month-old girl died on Sunday after a Mercedes Benz sports utility vehicle (SUV) ran over her while reversing in west Delhi's Tilak Nagar area. The driver of the car has been arrested, police said.

Senior IAS officer Vikram Dev Dutt has been appointed as the principal secretary, Health and Family Welfare department of the Delhi government, an official order said on Sunday.

Courts cannot ignore issuing notice to survivors in sexual assault cases while deciding bail pleas of offenders, the Delhi High Court has held, noting that survivors were not being informed in a majority of matters.

The number of coronavirus cases in the national capital rose to 28,936 with 1,282 fresh infections, while the death count climbed to 812 on Sunday, according to the health bulletin issued by the Delhi government.

With nearly 13 earthquakes jolting the Delhi-NCR region in two months, there have been apprehensions if it is a prelude to a big temblor, but experts say there is nothing unusual in this seismic activity.

More than two months after they were closed to check the spread of the coronavirus, most places of worship across Delhi are set to open tomorrow with COVID-19 safety measures in place.

Shopping malls in Delhi will reopen from tomorrow after over two months of the coronavirus lockdown, days after the centre allowed malls, restaurants and places of worship to open as part of what it called "Unlock 1".

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today announced the opening of Delhi's borders from Monday. He also said that restaurants, malls and places of worship will open, but hotels and banquet halls will remain closed in Delhi.

The Delhi Police has bid adieu to its former commissioner Ved Marwah, who died on Friday at the age of 87.

The quality of air in Delhi improved to the ''satisfactory'' category with the overall Air Quality Index (AQI) docking at 70 around 11 am on Saturday, said the System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research (SAFAR).

Delhi recorded 1,320 fresh coronavirus cases on Saturday, taking the COVID-19 tally in the city to over 27,500 while the deaths due to the disease mounted to 761, authorities said.

While the Delhi government maintains that there is no shortage of beds for coronavirus patients in the capital, a number of prominent hospitals in the city have told NDTV that they are running at full capacity amid growing concerns over a surge in COVID-19 cases.

A Delhi Police constable has tested positive for coronavirus after his death three days ago, official said on Saturday.

Delhi's health infrastructure should be reserved for residents during the coronavirus pandemic, an expert panel formed by the Arvind Kejriwal government has recommended amid a spurt of virus cases in the national capital, sources say.

The Delhi police on Thursday filed two chargesheets before a city court in connection with the alleged murder of two brothers during the violence in northeast Delhi in February.

Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia has written to Union Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokharyal "Nishank" supporting the ministry in its initiative to plan the reopening of schools with reasonable guidelines.

The Delhi government on Saturday filed a police case against the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in the city for violating rules for coronavirus tests amid a growing controversy surrounding COVID-19 hospitals in the capital.

Funeral pyres have been drafted in to burn the bodies of coronavirus victims in Delhi as crematorium furnaces struggle to keep up with the mounting death toll. Smoke from the open-air blazes stings the eyes of waiting mourners and workers at Nigambodh Ghat, Delhi's biggest and oldest crematorium.

Adesh Kumar Gupta took charge as the Delhi BJP president at the party office here on Friday in the presence of senior leaders, including Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, and his predecessor Manoj Tiwari.