India

The consignment which includes masks worth Rs 45 lakh and advanced RT-PCR test kits worth Rs 15 lakh will arrive in Delhi on Saturday and will be sent to Mizoram at the earliest.

The death toll due to Covid-19 in the state rose to 451, with nine more people succumbing to the disease since Thursday evening.

The commission has issued notices to the Chairman, Municipal Corporation Balrampur and the Director General of Police, Uttar Pradesh calling for a detailed report in the matter in four weeks.

Apart from Kerala, Tamil Nadu demanded 10 Shramik Special trains, followed by Jammu and Kashmir (9), Karnataka (6), Andhra Pradesh (3), West Bengal (2) and Gujarat (1).

Antiviral drug remdesivir is the first treatment to show improvement in COVID-19 trials.

Chennai continued to lead in the number of people testing positive among districts by registering 1,477 more infections, totalling 28,924 so far, the bulletin said.

The fire continues to burn and the effect of vibrations at the surface has added to fears that people in Baghjan are still at risk.

The Ministry of Earth Sciences, using in-house expertise and in close coordination with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), has developed this system.

Lt Governor Anil Baijal stated that the objective is to break the chain of transmission and reduce the morbidity and mortality rate of COVID-19.

The court said it was not going to issue any notice and subsequently the petitioners withdrew their pleas.

The 6th International Day of Yoga will be commemorated virtually this year due to Covid-19 restrictions in place and requirements of social distancing.

The West Bengal Health Department and the city police said the video was 'fake' and that the bodies were unclaimed ones from a hospital morgue.

The video also showed protests by locals of Garia, a suburb in the southern fringes of the city where the incident had allegedly taken place, who claimed that the bodies were of coronavirus victims.

Examinations of students with more than two back papers in final semester or final year exams, were also cancelled, an official said.

An HC bench observed that "corona capital" was "an epithet the city can well do without" and said it was need of the hour that all private hospitals equipped with labs to test for COVID-19 be permitted to do so.

The high court, which has been hearing extremely urgent matters through video conferencing, has allowed the system to continue parallel to physical hearings through a notification issued on Wednesday.