Security personnel stand guard at India Gate for the rehearsals of Republic Day 2022 parade. (Express Photo by Amit Mehra)Delhi Live News: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has approved proposals to end the weekend curfew in the national capital, stop the odd-even rule in markets and malls and allow private offices to call 50 per cent of their staff. He has sent the proposals to Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal for a final nod.
Delhi on Thursday recorded 12,306 fresh Covid-19 cases, a decrease from the number of infections detected on the previous day, according to the city health department.
The number of fatalities reached 43, which is the highest since June last year. So far, nearly 400 people have died of the virus this month. The positivity rate of the proportion of samples tested came down by 2.38 percent.
Health minister Satyendar Jain said that the third wave Covid peak has passed but restrictions in the city will be eased only after the numbers drop further. “The peak is gone, but not the infection. The number of cases increased from 50 a day to 28,000, now it has come down to 12,000 but that is still high. When it comes down further, we will definitely remove the restrictions,” said Jain.
In other news, Delhi is likely to witness light rainfall on Friday, the IMD said in its weather forecast. The minimum temperature in the city today settled at 7.6 degrees Celsius. The air quality will, yet again, remain in the ‘very poor’ category today but is expected to improve after the rainfall.
Former Yes Bank managing director and CEO Rana Kapoor (Express File Photo)
Cloudy skies and light rainfall are on the India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecast for Delhi on Friday.
A western disturbance is likely to affect parts of northwest India from Friday night onwards, bringing rainfall with it. Thunderstorms are on the forecast for Saturday, while Sunday is also likely to be a rainy day, according to the IMD. Read more
Three days after a student of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) alleged she was molested on campus by a biker, the university authorities released a statement on the matter claiming they had “zero tolerance” towards any “violence”.
The statement, dated January 20 by Registrar Ravikesh, was released to the press Friday. It is the first official statement by the administration since the incident. Read more
Fewer precautionary doses have been administered in the capital this week, dropping to a daily average of 15,215 shots, as per data on the government’s CoWin portal. In comparison, 21,106 shots were administered on average each day, barring Sunday, during the previous week when the drive was first opened up for the third dose of the vaccine.
The total number of doses administered per day in Delhi also dropped below the 1 lakh-mark over the last two days. Delhi has been vaccinating over 1 lakh persons each day this month – averaging 1,33,130 shots a day – even crossing the 2 lakh-mark once on January 6, as per the data. Read more
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has approved proposals to end the weekend curfew in the national capital, stop the odd-even rule in markets and malls and allow private offices to call 50 per cent of their staff. He has sent the proposals to Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal for a final nod.
A Delhi court Thursday sentenced the first person to be convicted in a Northeast Delhi riots case to five years rigorous imprisonment for trespassing into a woman’s home and setting it on fire.
Sentencing the convict, Dinesh Yadav, Additional Sessions Judge Virender Bhat said: “It cannot be gainsaid that the offence committed by the convict was a very serious one. However, no evidence had been led by the prosecution to prove that the unlawful assembly of which the convict was a member had been formed in pursuance to some conspiracy.” Read more
The Delhi government on Thursday further slashed the prices of Covid-19 testing, reducing the cost of the gold-standard RT-PCR test to Rs 300 if the samples are given at the lab or hospital and Rs 500 if they are collected from home. Several private lab owners, however, said it will be impossible for them to sustain business at these rates.
Last year in August, the government had fixed the prices at Rs 500 for lab collection and Rs 700 for home collection. The cost of the less accurate rapid antigen test was also fixed at Rs100, reduced from Rs 300 previously fixed by the government. Read more
Delhi on Thursday recorded 12,306 fresh Covid-19 cases, a decrease from the number of infections detected on the previous day, according to the city health department.