The Supreme Court on Saturday constituted a 12-member national task force for streamlining the allocation of oxygen across India.
The Defence Research and Development Organisation on Saturday said that India’s drug regulator has given permission for emergency use for the therapeutic application of drug 2-deoxy-D-glucose, also called 2-DG, as an adjunct therapy in moderate to severe COVID-19 patients.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal asked the Centre for more vaccine doses, adding that citizens from Uttar Pradesh, Delhi’s suburbs were also going to the Capital for Covid inoculation.
India on Saturday recorded 4,01,078 new coronavirus cases, taking the tally of infections in the country to 2,18,92,676 since the pandemic broke out. This is the fourth time after May 1, when the case count rose by more than 4 lakh. The toll climbed by 4,187 deaths to 2,38,270.
The coronavirus has now infected 15.64 crore people across the world and killed over 32.65 lakh since the pandemic broke…
