Odisha News
➡️ Eminent Odia litterateur and Padma Shri Manoj Das passes away. He was 87.
➡️ Bhubaneswar reports 773 Covid positive cases in last 24 hours including 140 Quarantine cases and 632 local contact cases.
➡️ 4089 Covid-19 patients have recovered from the disease in Odisha in the last 24 hours. The total recovered cases of Odisha now stand at 371200.
➡️ Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik stresses on timely supply of Oxygen.
➡️ Odisha Government issues SOP for rational use of oxygen. Patients whose oxygen saturation goes down below 92% should be provided with medical O2.
➡️ 15 places in Odisha record 40 Degree Celsius & above; Boudh emerges hottest place with a maximum temperature of 43.1 Degree Celsius.
➡️ Odisha Government deputes 12 OAS officers to COVID hit 5 Districts of Western Odisha to assist local admin in Covid management.
India News
➡️ Prime Minister Narendra Modi chairs a high-level meeting to review the Covid-19 related situation in the country.
➡️ Government of India has so far provided more than 15 crore vaccine to States/UTs Free of Cost
➡️ Supreme Court allows Vedanta to produce Oxygen at Sterlite Plant in Tamil Nadu.
➡️ Air India to airlift 10,636 oxygen concentrators from several countries in next 7 days: Civil Aviation Ministry.
➡️ Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s aunt Narmadaben Modi dies of Covid 19 in Ahmedabad.
➡️ Delhi High Court directs Kejriwal govt to file report on number of deaths due to shortage of oxygen; directs Delhi Govt to ramp up testing.
➡️ Delhi Government to set up 44 oxygen plants, import 18 oxygen tankers from Bangkok.
➡️ An earthquake of magnitude 3 on the Richter scale occurred at 1910 hours in Rohtak, Haryana today: National Center for Seismology.
➡️ Kerala reports 32,819 new COVID19 cases, Karnataka reports 31,830 fresh cases, Rajasthan 16,089, Gujarat 14,352 and Madhya Pradesh 13,417 new covid cases in the last 24 hours.
➡️ Government of India exempts Customs on Food, Medicines for Charitable Organisations.
World News
➡️ Former Australian cricketer Brett Lee donates 1 Bitcoin for oxygen supplies to aid India’s fight against COVID-19 pandemic.
➡️ Bangladesh gives nod to emergency use of Russian SputnikV.
➡️ Bhutan to supply liquid oxygen to India from a new plant being set up at the Motanga Industrial Estate, Samdrup Jongkhar.
➡️ COVID19 second wave: World joins hands to rescue India.