With 1,45,384 new cases, lockdowns are increasingly becoming a possibility. India also witnessed 77,567 discharges in the past 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry said
"Timely delivery of safe and effective vaccines across all countries is critical to ending the pandemic, especially as new variants emerge. Developing countries need to strengthen their readiness for vaccination campaigns and develop coordinated strategies to reach vulnerable populations," a joint ministerial committee of the World Bank and the IMF said
"On April 10, vaccination will take place in government and civic centres between noon and 6am, and it will be between 9am and 5pm on April 11," the BMC said
According to the BMC, 5,099 patients got discharge from hospitals, which pushed the city's recovery count to 3,97,613
The positivity rate reduced slightly to 7.79 per cent on Friday from 8.1 per cent a day before, according to the health department. The national capital has seen a massive spike in cases in the last few weeks
Night curfew will remain in force from 8 am to 6 pm till April 30 in nine cities including Ajmer, Bhilwara, Jaipur and Jodhpur, and markets will be closed by 7 pm while in Udaipur, the curfew will start at 6 pm and markets will be closed by 5 pm
WHO Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety said in an interim statement the relationship between the vaccine and the occurrence of blood clots with low platelets is considered plausible, but is not confirmed
Maharashtra's Health Minister Rajesh Tope said in order to break the chain of coronavirus infection, the state government might have to impose a lockdown
The video of PM Modi's speech and the inattentive chief ministers reminded everyone of the good old first-benchers in school who always used to be a step ahead of the lessons being taught in class
Citing officials, Geo News reported that the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) has granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to another Chinese vaccine, CoronaVac