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- Delhi on Thursday said that 16,699 new COVID-19 cases, 112 deaths and 13,014 recoveries were recorded in the last 24 hours.
- Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar urged farmers protesting against the Centre’s new farm laws to withdraw the protest on humanitarian grounds in the wake of the rising COVID-19 cases.
- The Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation has revised its COVID-19 guidelines as part of the “Break the Chain” initiative and has banned “outsiders” from entering the premises of cooperative housing societies.
- Uttar Pradesh on Thursday reported 22,439 new coronavirus cases, the state’s highest single-day rise since the outbreak of the pandemic.
- Ministry of Science and Technology granted approval to Mumbai-based Haffkine Institute to produce Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin, Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray tweeted.
- Railways has decided to run at least six more pairs of special trains from Mumbai and Pune to bring back people of Bihar stranded in Maharashtra amid a surge in COVID-19 cases.
- The Pune Police on Thursday arrested five more persons who were selling the vials of Remdesivir injections at nine to 16 times its maximum retail price.
- The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has allowed Mumbai’s two five-star hotels to be used by private hospitals to admit non-critical COVID-19 patients.
- Maha Nirvani Akhara head Kapil Dev, who was undergoing treatment after testing COVID-19 positive, died at a hospital in Dehradun .
- Amid rising COVID-19 cases, Uttarakhand Chief Secretary Om Prakash on Thursday said only 200 people will be allowed in religious and social gatherings in the state.
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