Home quarantine, which accounts for approximately 8500 of the active cases currently, will no longer be allowed. The government has also capped the charges for beds, ICU and ventilators in private hospitals.The decision to cap prices was taken by a high-powered committee constituted by Home Minister Amit Shah.

The committee has recommended fixing the cost of an COVID-19 isolation bed in private hospitals in Delhi in the range of ₹8,000 to ₹10,000 and an ICU bed with ventilator at ₹15,000- ₹18,000 per day.Delhi has the third highest number of cases in the country with approximately 50,000 total cases of which approximately.

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A monoclonal treatment site located in a tent is closed for patients on January 25, 2022 in Sunrise, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) WASHINGTON - U.S. health regulators on Friday authorized a new antibody drug that targets the omicron variant, a key step in restocking the nation's arsenal against the latest version of COVID-19.The Food and Drug Administration said it cleared the Eli Lilly drug for adults and adolescent patients with mild-to-moderate cases of COVID-19.

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How Muhammad Ali, African American Muslims established Houston’s most historic mosque

HOUSTON - It’s no secret Houston has a bustling Muslim population with residents stemming from all walks of life. There’s a rich tapestry of work focusing on the legacy left behind by Muslims in this city, yet little has been touched on when it comes to African American efforts. For example, Houston’s oldest and most historic mosque, Houston Masjid Al-Islam, located in the 6600 block of W Bellfort Ave.

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AirTag stalking: Apple cracking down on unwanted tracking

AirTag clipped onto a bag. Apple announced it’s cracking down on unwanted tracking among AirTag users, according to a company news release. AirTags launched last April for $29 apiece and allows users to keep track of their personal items, such as keys, wallets, purses, backpacks and luggage through Apple's "Find My' app. But the seemingly harmless tool is being used by some to stalk people and even commit car thefts. Police departments have called this recent string of crimes "AirTag stalking." "We’ve become aware that individuals can receive unwanted tracking alerts for benign reasons, such as when borrowing someone’s keys with an AirTag attached or when traveling in a car with a family member’s AirPods left inside," the tech giant wrote in an update on its website Thursday.

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MRI hours at Saskatoon hospital reduced due to ‘recent critical shortage’: SHA

MRI department at Royal University Hospital has decreased to the point where health officials have decide to scale back hours of operation, creating concerns about wait times for the service.A memo sent earlier this week to Saskatoon physicians and staff within the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) cites “ongoing recruitment challenges” due to a “recent critical shortage of MRI technologists.” Saskatchewan moves to end COVID-19 public health orders The shortage means the department at RUH will only operate from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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Eagerly awaited COVID lifesavers molnupiravir, Paxlovid now wait for patients

Supplies of the eagerly awaited oral COVID-19 antiviral prescription medications are slowly arriving at US pharmacies, but despite strong evidence that they can help reduce symptoms and prevent severe illness, federal data and experts suggest that many patients don't know about them or don't want to take them.

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COVID-19 vaccine for kids under 5 delayed as Pfizer extends trial

In a sudden turnabout, Pfizer and BioNTech today announced they were delaying the application process for an emergency use authorization (EUA) for their vaccine for children ages 6 months to 4 years old, and gathering more information on two and three doses of the vaccine.

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COVID-19: Wastewater shows decline of virus in Waterloo Region may have hit a wall

COVID-19 wastewater signal in the last few weeks has slowed or plateaued at all sites,” medical officer of health Dr. Hsiu-Li Wang told reporters on Friday morning.

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Despite decline in patients, Waterloo hospitals remain ‘under great pressure’: Wang

COVID-19 patients in area hospitals continues to decline but that has not relieved the pressure on hospitals, according to the region’s top doctor.According to Friday’s dashboard update, there are 75 patients in the three hospitals in Waterloo Region, including 20 who are in need of intensive care. Premier Doug Ford declares state of emergency amid protests at land border and in Ottawa Three weeks ago, on Jan.

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Ontario on track to remove ‘almost all restrictions’ on businesses ‘very soon,’ Doug Ford says

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COVID-19: MLHU reports 3 deaths, LHSC has 87 COVID inpatients

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With low COVID vaccine uptake, rural US bore brunt of Delta surge

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Reality check on Alberta politicians’ statements on schools, COVID-19 transmission and vaccines

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FDA postpones advisory meeting on COVID-19 vaccines for kids under 5

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James Harden #13 of the Brooklyn Nets passes the ball against the Sacramento Kings during the second half of their game at Golden 1 Center on February 02, 2022 in Sacramento, California. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by d CAMDEN, N.J. - The oversized Ben Simmons magazine cover that hung inside the 76ers' training complex was gone.The former MVP acquired for the one-time franchise guard? Well, James Harden wasn't in town, either, and his debut for Philadelphia is on hold at least until next week.But yet another new era is soon set to begin for the Sixers as they chase their first NBA title since 1983, this time with the superstar pairing of Harden and MVP candidate Joel Embiid.The clock is ticking for Harden to win a championship.Harden, though, will not play for the Sixers in games Friday and Saturday night, and he won't play until he's evaluated this weekend by the team's performance staff.The earliest Harden could play for Philly is at home Tuesday against Boston.

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Meghalaya CM Conrad K Sangma tests negative for Covid-19

coronavirus infection, officials said on Sunday.The chief minister has been under home quarantine for the past four days after his return from Delhi where he took disgruntled National People's Party (NPP) MLAs of Manipur from Imphal to meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah.The first test was conducted on Sangma, who is also the NPP president, on June 22 and the second one on Sunday, an official at the CMO said.He had made a trip to Manipur capital Imphal on June 21 to meet the four party MLAs, who switched allegiance from the BJP-led ruling coalition to the Congress.

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Sisodia writes to Shah seeking a rollback of home quarantine rules

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Arvind Kejriwal invites Amit Shah to inspect 10,000-bed Radha Soami Satsang Beas campus

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coronavirus cases in India after Maharashtra. With 3,000 people testing positive in the last 24 hours, Delhi's coronavirus count has inched towards the grim milestone of 60,000-mark.

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Delhi to conduct random serological survey from 27 June as tally nears 60k

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Contact tracing will be done for all Covid-19 positive cases in Delhi: MHA

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Delhi govt issues order fixing cost of COVID-19 isolation beds at private hospitals

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₹8,000- ₹10,000. For ICU unites without ventilators, the charges will be between ₹13,000 to ₹15,000.

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Amit Shah lays emphasis on a common strategy in Delhi-NCR to fight Covid-19

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NCR can't be separated from Delhi in Covid-19 treatment: Kejriwal

Arvind Kejriwal stressed on proper Covid-19 treatment in the entire NCR unit, along with Delhi. "The discussion with Home Minister Amit Shah was focussed on how we can save the entire NCR unit from Covid-19 because NCR can't be separated.

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Amit Shah favours unified NCR strategy for COVID-19, says Delhi can't be separated from suburbs

NEW DELHI : Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday favoured a unified strategy for Delhi and NCR to tackle the coronavirus pandemic and said the suburbs like Gurgaon, Noida and Ghaziabad can't be separated from the national capital in this battle.Shah conveyed this message at a meeting with officials he chaired to review the COVID-19 situation in Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR), amidst increasing number of COVID-19 cases.“In view of the structure of Delhi-NCR region, all concerned bodies need to unite and work on a common strategy against the coronavirus pandemic.

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317 isolation coaches in Delhi to be ready by tonight to host patients, rest by Thursday: Railways

NEW DELHI : The Northern Railways Wednesday said 317 of the 503 isolation coaches deployed in Delhi will be ready by tonight to host coronavirus patients, and the rest by Thursday.As many as 503 isolation coaches are deployed at nine stations in Delhi, days after Union Home Minister Amit Shah made the announcement as part of measures to contain the novel coronavirus pandemic, officials said.Northern and North Central Railway General Manager Rajiv Chaudhary said Wednesday evening that all these will be fully ready to host coronavirus patients by Thursday, while 317 can house patients from tonight itself.He also said the national transporter was taking all measures to ensure that the temperatures inside the coaches are brought down by

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coronavirus pandemic. The states are expected to raise two key issues — focus on improving access to institutional healthcare facilities and need for further opening up of economy to tackle issues of lower consumer spending and unemployment.The chief ministers of Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Gujarat, Rajasthan Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Karnataka, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Telangana and Odisha and the Lieutenant General of Jammu & Kashmir will meet Modi today.

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Amit Shah urges all parties in Delhi to fight virus together

₹450 is to be introduced NEW DELHI : Union home minister Amit Shah held an all-party meeting on Monday to discuss the handling of the covid-19 situation in Delhi and called for all political parties to work together to tackle the crisis. This comes just a day after the minister announced measures for containing the spread of coronavirus in the national capital.A key decision taken at the meeting held to address concerns of low levels of testing and the shortage of hospital beds, is that the government will conduct 18,000 tests in a day and also increase dedicated beds in government hospitals by 20 June.Delhi has the third-highest number of cases in India with about 42,000 covid-positive people.

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Political unity will create confidence among public: Shah at all-party meeting

political parties in Delhi on Covid-19 situation in the national capital, Union Home Minister Amit Shah appealed all parties to rise above political differences in the interest of the people.Political unity will create confidence among the public and lead to improvement in the pandemic situation in the capital, he said.Shah said they all have to stand united under the leadership of the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi in this fight against the pandemic.He also said that the Government of India will take all necessary steps to check the spread of Covid-19 in Delhi.The Union Home Minister informed the all-party meeting of key decisions taken during a meeting convened by him on Sunday and appealed to all political parties to ensure that

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Delhi: Shah asks for installation of CCTV cameras in Covid-19 wards of every hospital

New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday has directed the Delhi Chief Secretary to install CCTV cameras in Covid-19 wards of every Covid-19 hospital, so that there is proper monitoring and problems of patients can also be resolved. said Ministry of Home Affairs.Shah also directed the Delhi Chief Secretary to establish back-ups for canteens supplying food, so that in case there is an infection in one canteen the patients can continue to get food without disruption, said MHA."Shah also directed that psycho-social counselling of doctors and nurses engaged in the treatment of Covid-19 patients should be done.

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Home ministry takes stock of situation in Delhi, offers relief

NEW DELHI : Tests for covid-19 in Delhi will be doubled by Tuesday and tripled in the next six days (from Sunday), Union home minister Amit Shah said on Sunday after a meeting with state and Union ministers to try and contain the spread of coronavirus in the national capital.The government will also conduct a door-to-door survey and deploy 500 train coaches to increase bed capacity, Shah said.The home minister held a meeting with Union health minister Harsh Vardhan, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, and Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal.

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Indian Railways deploys 204 isolation coaches in 4 states; 54 in Delhi to boost COVID-19 capacity

NEW DELHI : The Railways has deployed 204 isolation coaches in four states, including 54 at Delhi's Shakurbasti railway station maintenance depot, officials said, adding that the number in the capital will be scaled up to 500 in the coming days.Home Minister Amit Shah earlier Sunday had said the Centre would also provide 500 railway coaches to Delhi to overcome the shortage of hospital beds for COVID-19 patients.States like Uttar Pradesh, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Delhi requisitioned these coaches two months after the national transporter converted over 5,000 of its non-air conditioned coaches into COVID care centres.Seventy coaches have been deployed in Uttar Pradesh -- 10 each in Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay Junction, Varanasi, Bhadohi,

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Delhi to use 500 railway coaches as hospital facilities to fight coronavirus

NEW DELHI : India's federal government said on Sunday it will provide New Delhi's city authorities with 500 railway coaches that will be equipped to care for coronavirus patients, after a surge in the number of cases led to a shortage of hospital beds.The coaches will increase Delhi's capacity by 8,000 beds, home minister Amit Shah said on Twitter after a meeting with the capital's chief minister.The government will also ramp up testing in the city, especially in containment zones, conduct a door-to-door health survey of residents and provide sufficient supplies of oxygen cylinders and ventilators, he said.India is the fourth-worst affected country in the world, with cases steadily increasing.

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4 IAS officers transferred to Delhi govt to assist COVID-19 fight, 2 more attached from Centre

NEW DELHI : Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday ordered the immediate transfer of four IAS officers to the Delhi government and attachment of another two from the Centre to help the national capital fight the coronavirus pandemic.The order was issued within hours of a high-level meeting Shah held with Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal."@HMOIndia @AmitShah directed immediate transfer of 4 IAS officers - Awanish Kumar & Monica Priyadarshini from A&N (Andaman and Nicobar Islands), & Gaurav Singh Rajawat & Vikram Singh Mallik from Arunachal Pradesh to New Delhi to assist #GNCTD (Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi) for management of #COVID19," a home ministry spokesperson said..@HMOIndia

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COVID-19 testing to be started at every polling station in Delhi hotspots: Amit Shah

NEW DELHI : Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said the Narendra Modi government is committed to control the spread of coronavirus in the national capital and has taken several important decisions to protect the people of Delhi and to contain the rising number of covid-19 in the national capital.The home minister said the government will soon start coronavirus tests at every polling station in the containment zones of the national capital and a comprehensive house-to-house health survey will be done in the hotspots for contact tracing to contain the spread of coronavirus.After a few days, #COVID19 testing will be started at every polling station in the containment zones in Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah“To be able to do contact

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Delhi: As corona cases spike, 500 railway coaches to be used for Covid patients

COVID-19 patients in Delhi, the Centre has decided to immediately give 500 railway coaches to Delhi, Amit Shah said. Equipped with all facilities to fight COVID-19, these railway coaches will increase 8,000 beds in Delhi, he said.The government has also decided to double Covid testing in the next two days and increase it by three times after 6 days.

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Delhi to receive random testing kits to enhance COVID-19 testing

NEW DELHI : The national capital will soon receive random testing kits to enhance COVID-19 testing.

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COVID-19 tests to be ramped up, door-to-door survey in Delhi hotspots: Amit Shah

NEW DELHI : Novel coronavirus tests will be doubled in Delhi in the next two days and subsequently increased by three times, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Sunday after chairing a meeting on the spiralling cases of the pandemic in the city.Shah announced a slew of measures that will be taken now after he held a meeting with Lieutenant Governor Anil Baija and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal at his office in North Block.Coronavirus tests in Delhi will be doubled in the next two days and increased by three times after six days, he said.The COVID-19 tests will be started at every polling station in the containment zones of Delhi in a few days and a comprehensive house-to-house health survey will be done in the hotspots for contact

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Delhi LG forms high-level panel, which includes ICMR DG, to tackle Covid-19 in national capital

New Delhi: Delhi Lt Governor Anil Baijal on Friday constituted a high-level committee, which includes Indian Council of Medical Research Director-General Balram Bhargava, to suggest effective steps to deal with COVID-19 outbreak in the national capital, sources said.Baijal is the chairman of Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA).The six-member panel also includes two members of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and AIIMS Director Randeep Guleria, they said.The move came two days after Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal met Union Home Minister Amit Shah and both the leaders discussed the COVID-19 situation in Delhi.With 34,867 COVID-19 cases so far, Delhi is in dire straits with the city recording 1,877 cases on Thursday,

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

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