11.52 am: All India Institute of Medical Sciences chief Dr Randeep Guleria says India hopes to vaccinate one crore people every day by the end of July, NDTV reports.

11.50 am: The Indian Medical Association’s West Bengal unit files a police complaint against yoga guru Ramdev for his remarks against modern medicine, PTI reports.

11.46 am: A top Kumbh Mela official claims it is unfair to call the event a Covid-19 “super-spreader”, PTI reports.

Inspector General Sanjay Gunjyal claims that only 0.2% of the RT-PCR tests conducted in Haridwar from January 1 till the end of the event in April came back positive.

11.35 am: Modi says that India’s production of medical oxygen has grown by more than 10 times. “In normal times, India used to produce 900 metric tonnes of a day,” he says. “Now, we produce about 9,500 metric tonnes of liquid medical oxygen every day.”

11.33 am: Prime Minister Narendra Modi adds that the country is fighting the coronavirus crisis with all its strength.

11.26 am: The prime minister adds that supplying medical oxygen to remote places was a huge challenge in the second wave of Covid-19, but the drivers of cryogenic oxygen tankers worked on war footing and helped saved lakhs of lives.

11.24 am: In his monthly radio programme “Mann ki baat”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi praises frontline workers for their efforts in combating the coronavirus pandemic.

11.21 am: The Centre says nearly 12 crore vaccine doses will be available for the month of June.

9.25 am: Pfizer’s vaccine appears to offer protection against the strain of the infection first detected in India but is slightly less effective, AFP reports, citing a study by France’s Pasteur Institute.

9.22 am: The Centre says that it is against vaccination guidelines for private hospitals to provide inoculation packages in collaboration with hotels. It adds that legal action needs to be taken against such institutions.

9.18 am: India records 1,65,553 new coronavirus cases on Sunday morning, taking its tally of infections to 2,78,94,800 since the pandemic broke out in January last year. This is the lowest number of new infections recorded in a single day in 46 days.

The country’s toll rises to 3,25,972 as it records 3,460 deaths in the last day.

Source: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

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