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Journalists reporting from adverse situations, should be allowed COVID vaccination on priority: Kejriwal ANI | Updated: Apr 14, 2021 19:46 IST
New Delhi [India], April 14 (ANI): Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday said the Delhi government will write to the Centre, advocating the inclusion of journalists into the category of frontline workers as they report from adverse situations and should be allowed vaccination against coronavirus on priority. Journalists are reporting from most adverse situations. They should be treated as frontline workers and allowed vaccination on priority. The Delhi government is writing to the Centre in this regard, Kejriwal said in a tweet.
India is currently facing the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic with the number of new cases increasing each day. The country reported 1,84,372 new COVID-19 cases and 1,027 related deaths on Tuesday.
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India’s drugs regulator looked set to approve a third coronavirus vaccine – Russia’s Sputnik V – as cases continued to soar in the country, taking its total caseload past Brazil.
India reported 168,912 new cases on Monday, according to Health Ministry data, marking the sixth record rise in a week and taking the total number of cases to 13.5 million, second only to that of United States.
The death count has been rising steadily and now stands at 170,179, with 904 new deaths reported on Monday.
The state of Maharashtra, the worst-hit in India, reported 63,294 new cases. It is struggling with a shortage of ventilator-supported ICU beds and oxygen cylinders, the NDTV news agency reported.
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In a bid to steer clear of Beijing-Taipei row, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government on Thursday said that India had supplied the Covid-19 vaccine doses to Paraguay following a request from the South American nation without any involvement of a ‘third party.
New Delhi subtly contradicted Taipei’s claim that it had persuaded India to provide vaccines to Paraguay after Beijing had sought South American nations to sever diplomatic relations with Taiwan if it wanted the shots from China.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar had a discussion with his counterpart in Paraguay, Eladio Loizaga Caballero, who requested him for supply of the Covid-19 vaccines. Jaishankar responded positively and a consignment of Covaxin, a Made-in-India vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, was sent to Asunción. “I would like to confirm that no third party was involved in this,” Arindam Bagchi, the spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs, said.
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