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Coronavirus News LIVE Updates: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called for leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) rich nations to make a commitment to vaccinate the entire world against COVID-19 by the end of 2022 when they meet in Britain next week. Johnson will host the first in-person summit in almost two years of G7 leaders – which follows a meeting of the group’s finance ministers which wrapped up earlier in the day – and said he would seek a pledge to hit the global vaccination goal. “Vaccinating the world by the end of next year would be the single greatest feat in medical history,” Johnson said in a statement. “I’m calling on my fellow G7 leaders to join us to end this terrible pandemic and pledge we will never allow the devastation wreaked by coronavirus to happen again.”
The leaders of Germany, France, the United States, Italy, Japan, the European Union and Canada will join Johnson for the three-day summit in Cornwall, southwest England, which begins on Friday. It will be the first overseas trip for U.S. President Joe Biden since he took office in January.
While the richest nations have been vaccinating large numbers of their populations, many poorer countries have not had the same access to vaccines. And health experts have warned that unless more COVID shots were donated, the virus will continue to spread and mutate.
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The Biden administration clarified that the United States will promptly ship out 25 million doses. During the summer, almost 75 per cent of the 80 million doses would be administered. Between one and two million of these would be made accessible to India. These will not be AstraZeneca dosages, which have not yet been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration.
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Centre Defends Vaccine Policy, Says Reports of Inequities 'Baseless' | The centre on Saturday defended its liberalised vaccine policy and said the media reports suggesting inequities in distribution of doses were "inaccurate and speculative in nature". It said the vaccine policy that came into effect from May 1 reduces the "operational stress" on state-run vaccination facilities.
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UK PM Boris Johnson calls on G7 to vaccinate world by end of 2022 | British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Saturday called for leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) rich nations to make a commitment to vaccinate the entire world against COVID-19 by the end of 2022.
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Local trains, which are the lifeblood of highly packed Mumbai city, would, however, not be available to everyone. Only medical and essential services are permitted to go by train. Buses in Mumbai will be allowed to run at full capacity, but passengers will not be permitted to travel standing up to avoid overcrowding.
100 ICU beds being set up in Bengaluru through CSR | A total of 100 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds are being set up in Bengaluru through the corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative. While 77 of these ICU beds with set at CV Raman General Hospital, the remaining 24 ICU beds will be set at Epidemic Diseases Hospital, Karnataka Health and Medical Minister K Sudhakar informed on Saturday after his visit to the hospitals.
Basti: Negligence of team members of health department surfaced in Mahripur village, where they were seen packing RTPCR test kits without taking sample
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"People in the video have been identified. Action will be taken against them," said DM Saumya Agarwal (05.06) pic.twitter.com/GR5IbKDZQA
Tamil Nadu, Himachal Pradesh and Goa governments on Saturday extended the Covid restrictions in their respective states till June 14. However, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin said though lockdown will be in place, some of of the curbs will be eased from Monday, except in 11 districts where the number of new cases reported was still high.
Update: Tamil Nadu logged in the highest number of new cases as well as deaths in the country with 21,410 cases and 443 fatalities
Coronavirus Live Updates: Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao has decided to start diagnostic Centres in 19 identified district headquarters in the state and in the major government hospitals from Monday
