Coronavirus live updates: Amit Shah favours use of Rapid Antigen Test kits to help reduce Covid transmission rate

10 people, who recently recovered from Covid-19, donated their plasma to newly-established 'plasma bank' at state-run facility in Delhi today: Sources (PTI)

Covid-19 tally in Jammu and Kashmir mounts to 7,849 with 154 fresh cases; 10 more deaths push toll to 115: Officials

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Complete lockdown in UP's Ballia city from July 3 to 10 amid detection of over 40 Covid-19 cases in recent days: Official

Goa reports 95 new Covid-19 positive cases today, taking the case tally in the state to 1,482 including 744 active cases, 734 recovered and 4 deaths: Goa health department

Delhi records 2,373 fresh coronavirus cases, taking tally to over 92,000; death toll climbs to 2,864: Authorities

With 211 new coronaviurs cases, Ahmedabad's tally rises to 21,339; death of 7 patients takes toll to 1,456: Health department

57 deaths and 1554 new positive cases of Covid-19 reported in Mumbai today, taking the total number of cases to 80,262. 5903 patients recovered and discharged today: Municipal Corporation Greater Mumba

Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has registered an FIR against Nanavati Hospital over alleged overcharging for Covid-19 treatment of a patient

Covid-19 tally in Dharavi, Mumbai's biggest slum sprawl, rises to 2,301 with 19 new cases: BMC

UP & Haryana can avail AIIMS-Telemedicine consultation through which patients will get advice from experts: MHA

Home minister Amit Shah also emphasised on - extensive use of Aarogya Setu & Itihaas App to help in mapping of Covid in NCR: MHA

During the meeting, home minister Amit Shah emphasised on adoption of more testing using Rapid Antigen Test Kits to help reduce the infection transmission rate. These kits can be provided by GoI to UP and Haryana. Focus on early hospitalization to reduce mortality rates: MHA

1,502 new Covid-19 cases reported in Karnataka, taking the tally to 18,016

Punjab's Covid-19 case tally reaches 5,784, with 120 new positive cases reported today

Number of Covid-19 cases reache 1,011 in Himachal Pradesh out of which 359 cases are active.

ASI monuments to be reopened for public from July 6

All ASI protected monuments will be reopened for the public from July 6, the Union culture minister Prahlad Patel said on Thursday. Earlier in June, the culture ministry had reopened 820 monuments out of the over 3,000 ASI-maintained monuments where religious events take place.

Amit Shah meets CMs of UP, Haryana, Delhi; discusses Covid-19 situation