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#COVID19 #COVIDSecondWave

🦠 2,00,739 new cases
🚨 1,038 fatalities
😷 Active 14,71,877 cases

in the last 24 hours.
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#COVIDSecondWave | On a day CBSE cancelled the Class X boards and put off the exams for Class XII, several state boards took similar decisions amid the #COVID-19 surge. But some also decided to stick to their schedule.
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#COVIDSecondWave | Genome sequencing data have presented evidence of the 'double mutant' in 61% of samples in Maharashtra. But whether this new variant is driving India's ongoing #COVID19 surge can be said only after more data is available.
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#COVIDSecondWave | People will be queuing up to cast their votes in the Damoh Assembly bypoll in Madhya Pradesh in just a few days. Picking up the gauntlet to break the #COVID19 chain, this village decided to shut itself down.
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#COVIDSecondWave | Of the 6,740 prisoners at Tihar Jail who were released on parole last year in the wake of the #COVID19 pandemic, 3,468 have gone “missing”. Jail authorities have now approached the Delhi Police to help trace them.
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#COVIDSecondWave | Many of the visitors we spoke to said belief was more important than the #COVID19 pandemic. Kumbh happens once in 12 years and they can’t miss it, the devotees said.
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#COVIDSecondWave | Despite the Health Minister’s assurances, Bihar’s healthcare system faces serious challenges with the detection of over 21,000 #COVID19 cases in the last fortnight.
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#COVIDSecondWave | A day after announcing a financial package of Rs 5,476 crore for people of various sectors impacted by #COVID19 restrictions, CM Thackeray wrote to PM Modi requesting that the pandemic be treated as a natural calamity.
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#COVIDSecondWave | Underlining the fact that the #COVID19 situation in Telangana is getting worse with every passing day, the state Health Department has appealed to people to wear masks even while inside their homes.
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#COVIDSecondWave | As Delhi reported the highest single-day spike with 17,282 new #COVID19 cases and 104 deaths, amidst a shortage of beds, hotels and banquets set aside beds for Covid patients.
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#COVIDSecondWave | The Tamil Nadu Health Secretary said the next two weeks are going to be crucial, and that the state government has no plan for a complete lockdown as of now, even as #COVID19 cases go up.
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#COVIDSecondWave | After Rajasthan achieved its highest figures in terms of daily #COVID19 vaccine doses administered last week, the state is currently faced with a severe shortage of vaccines.
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#COVIDSecondWave | As the four-day Tika Utsav announced by PM Narendra Modi from April 11 to 14 concluded, data showed that Punjab failed to achieve its daily #COVID19 vaccination target of 2 lakh doses even on a single day of the special drive.
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