The cause for the surge in COVID cases is multifactorial. But 2 main causes are-when in Jan/Feb vaccination started&cases went down people stopped following COVID appropriate behaviour & at this time the virus mutated and it spread more rapidly: AIIMS Director Dr Randeep Guleria
We are seeing a huge strain in the healthcare system. We have to keep increasing our hospital beds/resources for the increasing number of cases. We also have to urgently bring down the number of COVID19 cases: AIIMS Director Dr Randeep Guleria
This a time when a lot of religious activities happen in our country& polls also underway. We must understand lives are also important. We can do this in a restricted manner so that religious sentiment is not hurt & COVID appropriate behaviour can be followed: Dr Randeep Guleria
We have to remember that no vaccine is 100% efficient. You may get the infection but the antibodies in our body will not allow the virus to multiply and you'll not have the severe disease: AIIMS Director Dr Randeep Guleria
We have now a larger spike in Delhi as compared to 6-7 months ago. In terms of health infrastructure and containment, what we were doing in the past we need to do that again: AIIMS Director Dr. Randeep Guleria
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It has been decided to impose a lockdown in Delhi, from 10 pm tonight to 6 am next Monday (26th April): Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal
Essential services, food services, medical services will continue. Weddings can be held with a gathering of only 50 people, passes will be issued separately for it. A detailed order will be issued shortly: Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal
Pvt medical personnel exempted on production of valid ID. Pregnant women/patients going for medical aid along with attendant,exempted on production of valid ID/doctor's prescription/medical papers. Those going for testing/vaccination exempted on production of valid ID: Delhi Govt
Acting on specific information about stocking of large quantity (60,000 vials) of Remdesevir, director of a pharmaceutical company was called by Bandra-Kurla complex police station for inquiry yesterday. A team from Food & Drugs Administration (FDA) was also there: Mumbai Police
At about 11.15 pm, Leader of Opposition Devendra Fadanvis, Praveen Darekar, MLA Parag Alavani visited BKC police station. Fadnavis enquired why the director of the pharmaceutical company was called to the police station: Mumbai Police
Fadnavis said permission was taken from Commissioner, FDA to donate the Remdesevir stock to Maharashtra Govt, as Remdesevir stocked for
export cannot be diverted to the domestic market without permission from DGCI or FDA: Mumbai Police
I held detailed discussion with CMs of States ruled by Congress &where Congress is in alliance govt, to take stock of situation there. What transpired was, gross unpreparedness & avoidable adhocism on part of Modi govt in foreseeing&managing COVID crisis: Sonia Gandhi during CWC
I've written to PM after meeting with them. Our CMs have spoken to PM & written to the concerned minister from time to time pleading for relief. Some of them were left with only a few days of vaccine, no oxygen or ventilators: Congress Interim President Sonia Gandhi during CWC
It is true that after months of denial, the Centre has now given emergency use authorization for vaccines developed elsewhere. Govt must also reconsider its priority for vaccine candidates by reducing immunization age to 25 years and above: Sonia Gandhi during CWC meeting
A significant number of workers at FedEx processing centre (near Indianapolis airport), where the shooting took place Thursday night are from Sikh community. They couldn't confirm why he opened fire on them. Shooter is a man in 20s: Indianapolis Police Chief Randal Taylor
One Indian-origin Harpreet Gill has been injured in the shooting. “He was the first to realize about the firing at FedEx. When he rushed outdoors, a bullet hit his skull. He is being operated as we speak," says his brother-in-law
We are deeply saddened by this latest killing in Indianapolis. It's unsettling to see a rise in violence & hate against Asian Americans. We request the Biden Administration to offer help to the victims: Dr Rajwant Singh, chairman of Sikh Council On Religion and Education (SCORE)
Election Commission (EC) curtails the timing of the campaign up to 7 PM. There shall not be any campaign between 7 PM and 10 AM on campaign day. Silence period extended from 48 hours to 72 hours in each of the remaining three phases in West Bengal: EC
Candidates & Political Parties shall ensure absolute, repeat absolute, adherence to Covid guidelines in letter and spirit. Violations, if any shall be sternly dealt with and action, including criminal action, taken as per extant legal framework: Election Commission
It shall be the responsibility of the organisers of public meetings, rallies, etc to provide masks and sanitisers to every person attending these meetings, rallies, etc at their cost which shall be added and counted within limits of prescribed expenditure: Election Commission
Department of Biotechnology is providing financial support as Grant to vaccine manufacturing facilities for enhanced production capacities. Current production capacity of indigenously developed Covaxin vaccine will be doubled by May-June 2021...:Ministry of Science and Technology
...And then increased nearly 6-7 fold by July - August 2021 i.e increasing the production from 1 crore vaccine doses in April, 2021 to 6-7 crore vaccine dose/month in July – August. It's expected to reach nearly 10 crore doses per month by Sep 2021: Ministry of Science&Technology
Few weeks back,Inter-ministerial teams visited sites of 2 main vaccine manufacturers in India to get their inputs on how production can be ramped up. In this period,there have been reviews& studies on plans being discussed with vaccine manufacturers:Ministry of Science&Technology