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- India has reported 3,52,991 COVID-19 cases and 2,812 deaths in the last 24 hours, which is the highest single-day rise in the number of daily cases as well as daily deaths since the pandemic began.
- AIIMS Director Dr Randeep Guleria, while speaking on the shortage of oxygen and medicines said, “Hoarding of injections like Remdesivir and oxygen in homes is creating a panic.
- Amazon has partnered with ACT Grants, Temasek Foundation, Pune Platform for COVID-19 Response (PPCR) and others to airlift over 8,000 oxygen concentrators and 500 BiPAP machines from Singapore to India.
- Former JNU student Umar Khalid, arrested last year in connection with a Delhi riots case, has tested positive for COVID-19 in Tihar Jail.
- Delhi government said the Centre is giving “outrightly false” statements to hide its abject “failure” in setting up Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) oxygen plants in Delhi.
- Jammu and Kashmir Tribal Affairs Department Administrative Secretary Shahid Choudhary on Sunday announced that four model residential schools would be established in tribal areas of the Union Territory.
- Maldives’ Ministry of Tourism has announced that tourists travelling from India to Maldives will be suspended from staying at tourist facilities in inhabited islands from tomorrow.
- Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik has announced free COVID-19 vaccination for all in the age group of 18 to 44 years. Patnaik said, “Around two crore people of this age group will benefit and state government will spend ₹2,000 crore for this purpose.”
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