Delhi unlock 2.0 news: Today's updates

As the Central and state governments allow phase-wise relaxation in curbs to get the life up and running again following over two months of lockdown to prevent the spread of Covid-19, we bring you the latest updates from Delhi.
*ANI update at 2.30pm: Union health minister Dr Harsh Vardhan launches 'Plasma Donation Campaign' in association with Delhi Police at All India Institute of Medical Sciences.

*ANI update at 2.20pm: All agencies- PWD, Delhi Jal Board, Delhi Municipal Corporation & Flood Department are working accordingly. Some part of our management was busy with Covid-19, but we are doing the needful. CM Arvind Kejriwal is monitoring the situation personally: Delhi deputy CM Manish Sisodia.
*Major private hospitals in Delhi like Indraprastha Apollo, Max Smart Super Specialty Hospital, Saket, and Sir Ganga Ram Hospital had 80%, 57% and 68% vacant Covid beds, respectively, showed the realtime updates on Saturday.
*Residents’ Welfare Associations have welcomed the Centre’s guidelines giving them liberty to set up Covid care facilities in gated colonies in consultation with the local administration; work in association with the nearest health facilities; and look after availability of masks, pulse oximeters and regular screening of visitors, including house workers.
*A Delhi Police constable was thrashed and his uniform torn after he asked three men to return home and not loiter at night.
*The AIIMS Ethics Committee on Saturday gave its nod for starting human clinical trial of the indigenously developed Covid-19 vaccine — Covaxin. The premier hospital is likely to begin the trials by enrolling healthy volunteers from Monday.
*Patients undergoing treatment Delhi government-run Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital will be given a unique ID and all their records will be maintained online.
*Under the Delhi government’s plan to deploy final-year postgraduate students of medical colleges in its Covid hospitals, Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital in East Delhi has given appointment letters to 35 such students. They will be assisting the existing teams of doctors in the fight against the novel coronavirus.
*Update at 9.52am: Highest single day spike of 38,902 cases and 543 deaths reported in India in the last 24 hours. Total Covid-19 cases stand at 10,77,618 including 3,73,379 active cases, ANI reports quoting Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
* ANI update at 9.33am: 1,37,91,869 samples tested for Covid-19 up to 18th July, of which 3,58,127 were tested yesterday, ANI reports quoting Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).
*Delhi has a total of 15,745 Covid beds in hospitals. Of this, data shows, only 3,635 (23%) were occupied on Saturday.
*The number of people who have recovered from Covid-19 in Delhi crossed the one lakh mark on Saturday with 1,973 more people testing negative for the infection in the past 24 hours.
*The recovery rate in Delhi has touched 83%, which is 20% more than the national average, according to official data.
*New cases have also come down significantly in Delhi.
*On Saturday, Delhi recorded 1,475 fresh cases. This is the eighth consecutive day when new cases have been reported in the range of 1,000 to 2,000.
*The total number of cases has crossed 1.2 lakh. Twenty-six fresh fatalities were reported in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll due to Covid-19 in Delhi to 3,597.