It was also directed to indicate the degree of compliance with the recommendations of the Committee constituted by the Lieutenant Governor to monitor Delhi’s preparedness to deal with COVID-19.
Schools in Delhi will remain closed till July 31, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said after a meeting with education department officials today. The move is in line with safety precautions that need to be taken as coronavirus cases continue to rise in the national capital - Delhi has the second-highest number of COVID-19 cases in India.
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Coronavirus LIVE Updates: Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia today announced that schools in the National Capital will remain closed till July 31. Educational institutes around the country have remained shut since the lockdown started late in March.
In the United States, which has reported the most number of cases in the world, health officials estimate that 20 million people have had the coronavirus.
This will enable authorities to undertake a comprehensive analysis of coronavirus in the city and then a broad strategy can be prepared to combat the pandemic in the national capital, according to the Union Home Ministry
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today said his government will set up ICU beds on a large scale at three state-run hospitals in wake of the rising number of COVID-19 cases in the national capital.
Hetero Drug Limited, which is one of India’s leading pharmaceutical companies, has the approval to manufacture and market the generic version of the experimental COVID-19 drug Remdesivir. The company has sent 20,000 vials to five states which include Maharashtra and Delhi.Both Maharashtra and Delhi happen to be the worst affected states when it comes to the coronavirus. Gujarat and Tamil Nadu are the other two states that will receive the first batch of the drug. The drug Remdesivir is being marketed under the brand name COVIFOR in India.The capital of Hyderabad, Telangana, where the company is based, will also receive the first batch of the drug. The next batch of the drug is to be shipped to Kolkata, Indore, Bhopal, Lucknow, Patna, Bhubaneshwar, Ranchi, Vijayawada, Kochi, Trivandrum and Goa.According to the pharmaceutical company, a 100-milligram vial of the drug will cost ?5,400. The recommended dose for both adults and the paediatric patients are said to be 200 mg on day one followed by a maintenance dose of 100 mg for five days.At the moment, the drug is being manufactured at the company's formulation facility in Hyderabad. The active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) is being made in the firm's Visakhapatnam facility, as per reports by a news agency.The DCGI had earlier approved the generic versions made by Cipla and Hetero for emergency use in severe cases of coronavirus. The treatment was the first to show results in trials conducted on patients suffering from the disease. It has won approval for emergency use in patients from the US, South Korea and has further received full approval in Japan.Maharashtra, which is the worst affected state in the country because of the pandemic can, therefore, use this drug to treat critically ill patients. The state currently has 1,47,738 cases of coronavirus with 70,878 cases in Mumbai only.
Telecom companies also need money, the Court said in response to a PIL directing telecom companies to not block incoming services regardless of payment dues in view of the pandemic.
Both the recipient and the donor are recuperating at the Max Super Speciality Hospital after surgery on 20 May, doctors rule out possibility of future complications.
Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain, who had been undergoing treatment for COVID-19 in a private hospital for over a week, has been cured of the deadly infection and will be discharged today.
A low-intensity earthquake hit Delhi-NCR at 3:22 pm on Friday. According to the National Center for Seismology, the magnitude of the earthquake was 2.8, while the epicenter was near Haryana's Rohtak.
