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Assam reports 2,805 new positive cases, 3,699 recoveries and 35 deaths in the past 24 hours. Active cases at 31,278, total positive cases at 4,85,310 and today's positivity rate at 1.64%.

Mumbai to Stay in Level 3 Restrictions Till June 27 | The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Monday issued orders that level-3 Covid-19 restrictions will remain in Mumbai till June 27 in view of the large population in the city, daily commuters in local trains and a possibility of third wave. According to the order, Mumbai has a positivity rate of 3.8 percent and the oxygen bed occupancy was 23.6 percent. The order further said that the decision may be reviewed later.

Ladakh reported 33 new cases and 31 recoveries yesterday. The total number of COVID19 active cases in the Union Territory has come down to 365.

Record 16.41 Lakh People Vaccinated in MP in One Day | Madhya Pradesh set a new record for itself by vaccinating more than 16 lakh people against COVID-19 on Monday as part of a mega inoculation campaign launched to coincide with International Yoga Day, with officials saying the target set was 10 lakh.

Delhi BJP, AAP Govt Spar Over Covid Vaccination | The BJP on Monday hit out at the Arvind Kejriwal government, accusing it of creating confusion over the ongoing vaccination drive, even as senior AAP leader and Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia charged the Modi government with spending money on advertisements instead of Covid vaccines. The central government is pressurising Delhi government officials to publish advertisements thanking its vaccination drive, Sisodia alleged in an online briefing.

India on Monday administered more than 80 lakh vaccine doses, the highest in a single day, as the revised Covid-19 vaccination guidelines came into effect.

Want to Administer 1 Lakh Doses a Day: Chhattisgarh Health Minister | "Now we can expect to have better availability of vaccines. If we have all the stock to vaccinate 18+ age group, we would want to administer at least 1 lakh doses per day... Earlier, for 18-44 we had only 3-day stock, while for 45+ group we had 348-day stock. The (previous) policy led to a situation where despite vaccine availability people were not vaccinated. But now, we are expecting more vaccines," Chhattisgarh Health Minister TS Singh Deo said.

Madhya Pradesh had set up a special state-level control room for the exercise on Monday and over 8,000 vaccination centers were made functional for the mega drive. The chief minister himself visited vaccination centres today in three districts of Datia, Bhopal and Sehore after conducting a virtual dialogue with citizens over the last one week, motivating them to get themselves vaccinated.

The highest daily vaccination figure achieved by Madhya Pradesh earlier was 4.9 lakh on June 14. After Indore, Bhopal recorded over 1.37 lakh doses, followed by Ujjain, which clocked nearly one lakh jabs. Five other districts, including Gwalior, Jabalpur and Dhar, reported over 50,000 jabs each.

How MP Bested Other States in Vaccination: Over 8,000 Centres, Monitoring By CM | Madhya Pradesh emerged as the big success story of the blockbuster vaccination day on Monday — recording over 16 lakh jabs. The Indore district alone recorded nearly 2.2 lakh jabs, nearly three times the number recorded by Delhi. “Madhya Pradesh had set a target of vaccinating 10 lakh people today. But seeing the capability of Madhya Pradesh, the Centre gave us five lakh extra doses. I am thankful to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the same. This is a win for our janbaghidari model,” said Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.