Odisha News
➡️ Bhubaneswar reports 1034 COVID positive cases & 1019 recoveries in the last 24 hours including 880 local contact cases and 154 quarantine cases.
➡️ 7664 Covid-19 patients have recovered from the disease in Odisha in the last 24 hours. The total recovered cases of Odisha now stand at 439322.
➡️ Odisha Government to vaccinate people in the 18-44 age group in the municipal corporations of Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Rourkela, Sambalpur and Berhampur for the time being.
➡️ 1 Lakh doses of Covishield vaccine, purchased by Odisha Government reach Bhubaneswar.
➡️ Indian Institute of Management Sambalpur, Collector’s Office sign MoU To Tackle Crisis
➡️ 1.48 crore Olive Ridley Turtles born at Gahirmatha beach in Kendrapara district.
➡️ Veteran actor late Bijay Mohanty’s mother Santilata Mohanty passes away. She was 96.
➡️ Bhandaripokhari MLA Prafulla Samal tests positive for Covid 19.
India News
➡️ First-ever India+27 EU member states summit begins today under the Presidency of Portugal; PM Modi asks leaders to support vaccine patent waiver, EU extends solidarity.
➡️ Centre revises national policy for admission of COVID patients to various categories of COVID facilities; COVID positive report not mandatory for hospitalisation.
➡️ Supreme Court sets up 12-member task force for allocation of oxygen to all States and Union Territories.
➡️ 8 COVID survivors have lost vision in an eye due to mucormycosis, a fungal infection in Maharashtra.
➡️ 9 killed in blast at limestone mine in Andhra Pradesh.
➡️ DCGI gives emergency approval of DRDO-developed anti-Covid Oral Drug 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG).
➡️ NHAI exempts tankers carrying liquid medical #oxygen from toll fee across national highways.
➡️ Bharat Biotech’s (Made in India) Flag of India Covaxin Approved for Children above 12 years.
➡️ 12 States in India account for over 80% of active Coronavirus cases.
➡️ India’s daily domestic Oxygen production increased to 9,400 MT.
➡️ Maharashtra reports 53,605 new coronavirus cases, 864 deaths in the last 24 hours.
➡️ Kerala reports 41,971 new coronavirus cases, Tamil Nadu 27,397, Uttar Pradesh 26,847 and Andhra Pradesh reports 20,065 covid cases in the last 24 hours.
➡️ Former India hockey player and coach M K Kaushik dies of COVID-19
➡️ Ravinder Pal Singh, former India hockey player and a member of the 1980 Moscow Olympics-winning side dies of COVID-19. He was 65.
World News
➡️ 78 killed in Afghan flash floods.
➡️ Germany has sent an Oxygen Plant with a capacity of generating 4,00,000 litres of oxygen. The Plant will serve DRDO operated Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Covid Hospital.
➡️ At least 40 people killed and dozens others wounded in a blast near Kabul girls’ school.
➡️ EU seals deal for extra 1.8 Billion BioNTech-Pfizer Covid-19 Vaccine Doses.
➡️ UK finalises post-lockdown traffic light travel system; 12 countries on ‘green list’.