Odisha News
➡️ Odisha reports 2917 COVID-19 cases on Saturday including 1677 quarantine and 1240 local contact cases.
➡️ Khordha reports 549 fresh Covid cases followed by Cuttack (422) and Balasore (237).
➡️ 45 new COVID-19 deaths in the last 24 hours including 9 from Khordha, 5 each from Bargarh and Cuttack. With this, the Covid-19 death toll in Odisha has gone up to 4,154.
➡️ Biju Patnaik’s iconic Dakota aircraft to be brought back to Odisha soon.
➡️ Odisha launches training prog for doctors on paediatric care ahead of possible 3rd COVID wave.
➡️ NABARD sanctions Rs 388 crore for setting up of four mega piped drinking water supply projects; one each in Koraput & Balasore districts & two in Malkangiri district.
➡️ Koraput: Kakiriguma police arrests 5 people from Meraka village in connection with attack on a police team during a protest over the death of a person in road accident.
➡️ Weekend Shutdown in force across 10 Group B Odisha Districts.
➡️ Odisha builds 10,000 Rainwater Harvesting structures in 75 Days.
India News
➡️ India reports 44,111 new COVID 19 cases, 57,477 recoveries and 738 deaths in the last 24 hours.
➡️ Total case tally stands at 3,05,02,362 including 4,95,533 active cases, 2,96,05,779 cured cases & 4,01,050 deaths.
➡️ 41,64,16,463 samples tested for COVID19 up to 2nd July 2021. Of these, 18,76,036 samples were tested yesterday: ICMR.
➡️ India’s Recovery rate increases to 97.06%; Positivity rate rises to 1.62%.
➡️ India administers a total of 34,46,11,291 doses of COVID vaccines so far across the country.
➡️ Uttarakhand Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat resigned last night; handed over his resignation to Governor Baby Rani Maurya.
➡️ Bharat Biotech concludes Covaxin’s final analysis; claims 77.8% efficacy against symptomatic COVID-19 in phase-3 trial, 65.2% effective against Delta Variant.
➡️ BCCI to give Rs 100 crore infrastructure grant to Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) for the development of stadium in Jaipur.
World News
➡️ Global coronavirus cases stands at 183,015,891, death toll surged to 3,962,894.
➡️ US slaps fresh sanctions on 22 individuals connected to Myanmar’s military regime.
➡️ Spain beat Switzerland 3-1 on penalties to reach Euro 2020 semi-finals.
➡️ Florida condo collapse: Toll rises to 22.
➡️ WHO Chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus calls for Vaccinating 10% Population in every Nation by September.