Case fatality rate in the country has declined from 1.45 per cent in January to 1.17 per cent in April
Modi asks migrants to stay where they are, tells states to instil confidence
Industries can wait for O2, patients can't, Delhi HC slams Centre
Limited supply of vaccines could scupper move to open up vaccination to 18-plus
States allowed to procure directly from manufacturers; open market supply permitted
Announcing lockdown in Delhi in a virtual address, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said: "If strict measures are not taken now, the health system in Delhi can collapse."
The government said that vaccination at the workplace would not only be convenient to the staff but it will also reduce the exposure to the virus by avoiding travel
While extending vaccination for all above 45 years of age, the health ministry had said that this age group accounted for 88 per cent of Covid-19 deaths in the country
"The measures to prevent and contain Covid-19 are not rocket science! We have adopted these measures all of last year and shown the world our success story," Vardhan said
New corporate insolvency being at halt reflected in the continuing drop in the number of ongoing corporate resolution cases in the October-December period
The detailed rules of the scheme specifying the minimum threshold of default will be notified soon
Ordinance is designed to ensure quicker, cost-effective and value maximising outcomes for all stakeholders in a manner that least disrupts their businesses and preserves jobs too
Its seven-day rolling average number of daily cases has risen 39.6 per cent over the last week
Modi: Central teams to be sent to Punjab, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh; follow 5-pronged strategy to fight pandemic
To push the vaccination drive, the government decided that both public and private sector centres would vaccinate on all days in April, including gazetted holidays
Civic corporations in Maharashtra are ramping up hospital beds even as health minister Rajesh Tope said there was no bed shortage
Health ministry asks 47 districts across country to increase RT-PCR testing for faster identification of affected cases and effective tracking and tracing
CCI said that with no fear of erosion of its userbase, Facebook-owned WhatsApp was in a position to compromise quality in terms of protection of individualised data
The health ministry has asked states like Punjab to ramp up vaccination facilities
The double mutant strain is a combination of two variants - E484Q and L452R - both of which have been present in India for the past few months separately