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THE TIMES OF INDIA | May 21, 2021, 23:14:09 IST
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Coronavirus live updates: Vaccine availability to see exponential rise in coming months, says Harsh Vardhan
The daily rise in coronavirus cases in India remained below 3 lakh for the fifth consecutive day with 2.59 lakh new cases recorded in a single day, according to health ministry's updated data on Friday. This as deaths remained over 4,000. The total cases have now climbed to 2,60,31,991. Stay here for all live updates on coronavirus from India and around the world
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18:26 (IST) May 20
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18:22 (IST) May 20
Specialised ward equipped with 150 ventilator beds operationalised at Indo Tibetan Border Police-run COVID care centre in south Delhi for patients requiring critical care: Officials
17:59 (IST) May 20
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17:32 (IST) May 20
We hope Centre will provide us sufficient number of injections(for Black fungus). We've made a team of doctors that'll give injections to affected patients as per SOP. Yesterday, they received 84 applications from different hospitals regarding injections
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal
17:06 (IST) May 20
Active case down in Uttar Pradesh by 62.5% since Apr 30: Official
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17:01 (IST) May 20
DRDO's 2 DG drug is a repurposed medicine, not a new medicine. It was earlier used for cancer treatment. Its trial results have been given to DCGI
Dr Balram Bhargava, DG, ICMR
16:49 (IST) May 20
HC asks Centre about steps taken to import medicine used for treating black fungus affecting Covid-19 recovered people
16:49 (IST) May 20
For home testing for Covid-19, one company has already made the application, and 3 are in the pipeline. Within a next week, we should have another 3 companies: Dr Balram Bhargava, DG, ICMR
16:37 (IST) May 20
More of Rapid Antigen Tests should be done because you can get results rapidly and then isolate the patient quickly
Dr Balram Bhargava, DG, ICMR
16:34 (IST) May 20
Target of 45 lakh test per day by end of June: Centre
16:31 (IST) May 20
All districts with over 10% positivity should have containment measures in place, govt says
16:29 (IST) May 20
A study has found a large section of people are averse to using mask, many also wear it improperly: Lav Agarwal
16:28 (IST) May 20
Health ministry insists on continuing with social distancing and use of masks to check spread of infection
16:26 (IST) May 20
Need for proper crowd management at vaccination centres to check spread: Lav Agarwal
16:22 (IST) May 20
Containment has resulted in checking rise in infections in Tier 2 & 3 towns: Lav Agarwal
16:16 (IST) May 20
194 districts are showing rise in cases, 121 districts are showing rise in positivity: Lav Agarwal
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