New Delhi: The COVID-19 positivity rate within the capital is falling rapidly and it should drop to below 5 per cent within the next few days, Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain said on Wednesday. Interacting with reporters, he also reiterated that if a vaccine is successfully made, the whole people of Delhi should catch on once it's received from the Centre.   He was responding to the Union Health Secretary's statement on Tuesday that the central government has never spoken about vaccinating the whole country.   Delhi recorded 3,944 fresh COVID-19 cases, ... Read More

If there is little to go through with recent estimates of daily new Covid-19 cases registered in the region, the third wave of Covid-19, the worst one ever, could well be heading for a downturn. Experts, however, assume that the number of fresh cases registered in the city would not drop significantly. The city has witnessed a decreasing pattern since November 11, the day which saw the biggest single day spike of about 8,500. Buoyed by the help of experts, the city's chief minister and health minister believed that the high was over. Delhi reported 4,006 cases on Tuesday, while ... Read More

Sunny Deol, a Bollywood actor and BJP Gurdaspur MP, tested positive for coronavirus, the health secretary of Himachal Pradesh reported on Tuesday.   State Health Secretary Amitabh Awasthi said that an actor-turned-politician has been living in Kullu district for several days.   The health secretary told PTI news agency that Sunny Deol and his friends intended to leave for Mumbai, according to details given by Kullu's chief medical officer, but the BJP MP tested positive for coronavirus on Tuesday.   The 64-year-old Bollywood actor underwent ... Read More

New Delhi: On Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair an all-party meeting to discuss the situation at COVID-19. The second all-party meeting, which comes in the middle of a sudden spurt in the COVID-19 cases, will take place virtually at about 10.30 a.m. The meeting assumes significance as it is being held after the  Prime Minister's visit to Zydus Cadila, Bharat Biotech, and the Serum Institute of India (SII) to personally evaluate the production of coronavirus vaccine work there.   The top brass of the government including Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Ho ... Read More

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi on Monday to launch the Varanasi-Prayagraj highway project and participate in Deepotsav celebrations at the Ganges ghats.   As the city prepared for the Prime Minister’s visit, security personnel, along side the dog squad, were seen checking boats at the ghats. They were thoroughly checking other locations near Rajghat also , consistent with press agency ANI.   Modi will inaugurate the six-lane widening project of the Handia (Prayagraj) - Rajatalab (Varanasi) section of National Highway 19 ... Read More

Vice president M Venkaiah Naidu will chair the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s (SCO) Council of heads of state summit on Monday, and both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Imran Khan won't join the virtual meeting.     The council of heads of state is that the second-highest body of SCO and is liable for handling the grouping’s trade and economic agenda and approving its annual budget. this is often the primary time India is hosting a gathering of the body since it had been admitted eight-member grouping in 2017.   ... Read More