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❇️ #LargestVaccineDrive

👉 Out of the total world’s vaccination drive 36% vaccination has been covered in India alone

👉 Over 3.7 crore vaccine doses administered, more than 20 lakh doses were administered in last 24 hours

👉 Cumulative national positivity rate stands at 4.98%.

❇️ #Unite2FightCorona

👉 Maharashtra today registered 23,179 #corona positive patients

👉 Maharashtra, Punjab, Karnataka, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu continue to report a surge in daily new cases

👉 35,871 new cases registered in the last 24 hours, 79.54% of them are from these five states.

❇️ "On one hand, the pandemic has shown us how impacts can quickly spread across the world. And on the other hand, it has shown how the world can come together to fight a common threat" : PM Narendra Modi

❇️ Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment) Bill 2021 Approved

👉 Rajya Sabha has approved the Bill to amend the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971 on 16th March 2021.

❇️ First Virtual Trade Fair by APEDA draws huge response from foreign participants and Indian exporters

❇️ #FAKENewsALERT :

Rumour: Emails allegedly from the Governor of RBI claim that the recipient has won monetary compensation, asking for personal details to redeem the prize.
FACT: No such emails have been sent.

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Covid -19 Bulletin:

❇️ #LargestVaccineDrive: Over 4 crore 84 lakh doses of #CovidVaccine administered to beneficiaries in the country so far

👉 32 lakh 53 thousand doses given to beneficiaries in last 24 hours.

👉 The 1st dose administration has crossed the 4 crore mark today (4,06,31,153).

❇️ #CoWIN : Anybody who is over 45 years of age will be eligible for #COVID19 vaccination even though he/she has no co-morbidities from April 1st 2021.

❇️ Maharashtra, Punjab, Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu report a rise in Daily New Cases; account for 80.90% of daily new cases.

❇️ #MadhyaPradesh to launch Sankalp Campaign today on Covid Appropriate Behaviour.

❇️ #Jharkhand Health Secretary instructs all Deputy Commissioners of districts to make Containment & -Micro containment zones to control the growing infection rate of #COVID19.

👉 Special campaigns for intensifying COVID testing at mass scale to start.

❇️ #Telangana reports 412 fresh #COVID19 cases during the past 24 hours.

❇️ #Karnataka Health minister rules out lockdown due to Covid surge.

❇️ #UP: All schools from class 1st-8th closed in UttarPradesh from 24th to 31st March.

❇️ #Bihar CM urges people of the state to remain alert and cautious in view of surge of #Covid19 cases

👉 Also asks people not to gather in large numbers to celebrate #Holi and maintain the social distancing norms.

❇️ #Gujarat records 1640 new cases of #Covid19 during the last 24 hours.

❇️ 'The world has seen potential of India during #Corona time. He also informs that during the last 21 years as a CM and then as PM, he has not taken a single day off' : PM Modi

Other Updates:

❇️ Over 23 lakh loans have been sanctioned to the beneficiaries under PM Street Vendors, Aatma Nirbhar Nidhi Scheme- PM SVANidhi: Govt

❇️ #FarmersFirst: Govt says over 1 crore paddy farmers benefited from current Kharif Marketing Season Procurement Operations with #MSP value of over Rs 1,29,000 cr.

❇️ Lok Sabha passed the Marine Aids to Navigation Bill, 2021, to replace an old lighthouses law.

👉 The Bill seeks to provide a framework for the development, maintenance and management of aids to navigation in the country.

❇️ Parliament passes Mines & Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill 2021 with Rajya Sabha giving its nod.

👉 The Bill allows captive mines to sell up to 50% of their annual mineral production other than atomic minerals in the open market after meeting their own needs.

❇️#CabinetDecisions :

👉 Approves signing of an MoU between Union Public Service Commission, India and Independent

👉Administrative Reforms and Civil Services Commission, Afghanistan

👉Approves Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) signed between India and Japan in the field of Water Resources

Good 🌞 have a nice day!

*Useful Updates*

❇️ Total Vaccine doses given 17.01 Cr+
🔸Last 24 Hr 6.89 L

❇️ Vaccine to age group 18-44 :20 L
🔸Last 24 Hr 2.43 L

❇️ Total samples tested 30,37,50,077

❇️ Centre issues advisory on management of fungal infection among #Corona patients.

❇️ 1.5 lakh doses of Sputnik V vaccine arrived in India.

❇️ UP, Delhi, J & K under lockdown till 17 May, Tamil Nadu till 24 May.

❇️ Govt to distribute AYUSH 64 to COVID-19 patients at 7 more centres in Delhi.

❇️ #FAKENews: A fake news claim that Bharat Biotech's vaccine, Covaxin, has been approved for children above 12 years.
Currently, citizens above the age of 18 are eligible for #COVID19Vaccination