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- India’s Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has granted approval for the emergency use of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine in the country, said the Russian Direct Investment Fund.
- India has reported 1,61,736 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours on Tuesday, the seventh consecutive day when the country recorded more than one lakh new cases.
- Delhi HC ruled that the number of entries to Nizamuddin Markaz cannot be capped when no such norm is imposed at other religious places.
- Out of 8,986 random COVID-19 tests at Delhi’s IGI Airport, as many as 236 people have tested positive so far which is equivalent to a positivity rate of 2.6%.
- Amid the surge in COVID-19 cases, Maharashtra Tourism Minister Aaditya Thackeray virtually inaugurated two new COVID-19 centres with a collective capacity of 375 beds in Mumbai’s Worli.
- Noida administration has capped the price of the RT-PCR test at ₹700, while ₹900 has been set for home collection service.
- Uber announced free rides worth ₹1 crore to and from vaccination centres for residents of Bengaluru who are eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine.
- After vaccinations at 62 private hospitals in Mumbai resumed on Monday after two days, 39,300 people received COVID-19 shots in the last 24 hours, according to BMC data.
- Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath said that the state government would neither impose a lockdown nor let the people suffer.
- Karnataka Health Minister Dr K Sudhakar said that the state is not in a position to take the extreme step of imposing lockdown amid rising COVID-19 cases.
- The Uttarakhand government has capped marriage gatherings outside containment zones to 200 people amid rising COVID-19 cases in the state. Uttarakhand Chief Secretary Om Prakash said the guests will need to abide by COVID-19 appropriate behaviour.
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