New Delhi: Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday chaired a meeting, attended by Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan and other senior officials to discuss coronavirus situation in the national capital.

This is the third meeting on coronavirus Amit Shah has chaired in the last one week.The discussion was held on Niti Aayog member Dr V.

K. Paul's committee report on containment strategy on Covid-19 in Delhi, said Ministry of Home Affairs.It was discussed at the meeting that mapping of containment zones in Delhi will be done again and there will be a close watch on activities inside such areas.In order to arrest the spread of the infection in the national capital, contact tracing will be done for all Covid-19 positive cases in.

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Covid 19 situation in Delhi under control, says Arvind Kejriwal

Arvind Kejriwal said that the number of Covid cases in the national capital is high 'but the situation is under control and there is no need to worry'.He further added the testing has been increased three times in the national capital. "We have increased testing by three times but positive cases have increased by around 3000 per day only," Delhi CM said.No.of COVID19 cases in Delhi is high but the situation is under control&there is no need to worry.

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Kejriwal launches video call facility for COVID-19 patients at LNJP Hospital

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal launched video call facility for COVID-19 patients admitted at the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash (LNJP) Hospital on Thursday."LNJP Hospital was the first hospital to be declared as full-fledged COVID hospital 100 days ago. Many patients have gotten cured here, it is the biggest hospital with 2,000 beds.

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Sisodia writes to Shah seeking a rollback of home quarantine rules

NEW DELHI : The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)-led Delhi government on Wednesday wrote to Union home minister Amit Shah demanding a rollback of the current home quarantine rules.This followed Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia writing to lieutenant governor Anil Baijal on Tuesday, urging him to adopt the original home quarantine rules, as the new guidelines were causing a lot of confusion among patients.The letter to Shah comes in the wake of Delhi recording 4,000 fresh infections in the last 24 hours, the highest single-day number, to reach a total of 70,000 on Wednesday, beating Mumbai, which has around 69,000.On Tuesday, Delhi, which had 66,000 covid-19 cases, had overtaken Tamil Nadu to become the state with the second highest number of

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Arvind Kejriwal invites Amit Shah to inspect 10,000-bed Radha Soami Satsang Beas campus

NEW DELHI : Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has written to Union Home minister Amit Shah inviting him to visit the 10,000-bedded Covid care centre at Radha Soami Satsang Beas campus in Chhattarpur.Kejriwal has also requested home minister Amit Shah to help with doctors and nurses from the ITBP to help with the running of the centers.This makeshift COVID-19 care facility will be the largest in the city so far. The work is expected to be completed by the end of JuneOver the last couple of weeks Delhi government has worked out a slew of measures to help deal with the coronavirus problem in the capital which has so far taken more than 2,000 lives.

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Manish Sisodia writes to Amit Shah, Anil Baijal seeking rollback of new rule

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Delhi govt to give pulse oximeters to those in home isolation, says Kejriwal

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India will win 'war' against China and its virus: Arvind Kejriwal

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Delhi Noida border: Commuters not allowed to enter Uttar Pradesh without e-pass

ANI. The Delhi-Noida border witnessed a massive traffic jam today.

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Delhi changes strategy to fight COVID-19 as cases near 60,000 in Delhi. 5 points

coronavirus cases in India after Maharashtra. With 3,000 people testing positive in the last 24 hours, Delhi's coronavirus count has inched towards the grim milestone of 60,000-mark.

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Delhi to conduct random serological survey from 27 June as tally nears 60k

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Delhi govt issues order fixing cost of COVID-19 isolation beds at private hospitals

NEW DELHI : The Delhi government on Saturday issued an order fixing the cost of a COVID-19 isolation bed in any private hospital in Delhi in the range of ₹8,000- ₹10,000 and an ICU bed with ventilator at ₹15,000- ₹18,000 per day.The order by the Delhi Health Department said the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) had accepted the recommendations of the high-powered committee, set up by Union Home Minister Amit Shah.The committee, under the chairmanship of V K Paul, member, NITI Aayog, was constituted earlier to ensure the availability of 60 per cent beds at private hospitals for coronavirus patients at lower rates and fix the rate of COVID-19 testing and treatment.The Delhi government on had Thursday issued an order to fix the price

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100% Covid-19 beds in private hospitals to be subsidised: Delhi Deputy CM

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No more home quarantine for covid-19 patients in Delhi

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₹8,000- ₹10,000. For ICU unites without ventilators, the charges will be between ₹13,000 to ₹15,000.

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Amit Shah urges all parties in Delhi to fight virus together

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Political unity will create confidence among public: Shah at all-party meeting

political parties in Delhi on Covid-19 situation in the national capital, Union Home Minister Amit Shah appealed all parties to rise above political differences in the interest of the people.Political unity will create confidence among the public and lead to improvement in the pandemic situation in the capital, he said.Shah said they all have to stand united under the leadership of the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi in this fight against the pandemic.He also said that the Government of India will take all necessary steps to check the spread of Covid-19 in Delhi.The Union Home Minister informed the all-party meeting of key decisions taken during a meeting convened by him on Sunday and appealed to all political parties to ensure that

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Delhi: Shah asks for installation of CCTV cameras in Covid-19 wards of every hospital

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COVID-19 test results within 48 hours. The accredited laboratories should work with their full capacity, the government stated.

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Coronavirus: Install refrigerated containers to keep bodies, Delhi govt panel to hospitals

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Home ministry takes stock of situation in Delhi, offers relief

NEW DELHI : Tests for covid-19 in Delhi will be doubled by Tuesday and tripled in the next six days (from Sunday), Union home minister Amit Shah said on Sunday after a meeting with state and Union ministers to try and contain the spread of coronavirus in the national capital.The government will also conduct a door-to-door survey and deploy 500 train coaches to increase bed capacity, Shah said.The home minister held a meeting with Union health minister Harsh Vardhan, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, and Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal.

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Delhi govt withdraws its decision to declare nursing homes as covid facilities

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Indian Railways deploys 204 isolation coaches in 4 states; 54 in Delhi to boost COVID-19 capacity

NEW DELHI : The Railways has deployed 204 isolation coaches in four states, including 54 at Delhi's Shakurbasti railway station maintenance depot, officials said, adding that the number in the capital will be scaled up to 500 in the coming days.Home Minister Amit Shah earlier Sunday had said the Centre would also provide 500 railway coaches to Delhi to overcome the shortage of hospital beds for COVID-19 patients.States like Uttar Pradesh, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Delhi requisitioned these coaches two months after the national transporter converted over 5,000 of its non-air conditioned coaches into COVID care centres.Seventy coaches have been deployed in Uttar Pradesh -- 10 each in Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay Junction, Varanasi, Bhadohi,

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Delhi: 40 hotels, 80 banquet halls to be converted to COVID-19 facilities with 20K more beds

NEW DELHI : The Delhi government has directed district magistrates and other officials concerned to set up nearly 20,000 more beds within a week in the wake of a spurt in covid-19 cases in the national capital, an official said.According to the official, around 40 hotels and 80 banquet halls will be converted into health facilities to provide medical care to coronavirus-infected people.The covid-19 tally has reached nearly 39,000 in Delhi and the virus has claimed more than 1,200 lives so far in the capital.Earlier this week, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had said that Delhi would need 1.5 lakh beds by July 31 if people from other states start coming to the national capital for treatment.Following the government's order, the northwest

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Delhi to use 500 railway coaches as hospital facilities to fight coronavirus

NEW DELHI : India's federal government said on Sunday it will provide New Delhi's city authorities with 500 railway coaches that will be equipped to care for coronavirus patients, after a surge in the number of cases led to a shortage of hospital beds.The coaches will increase Delhi's capacity by 8,000 beds, home minister Amit Shah said on Twitter after a meeting with the capital's chief minister.The government will also ramp up testing in the city, especially in containment zones, conduct a door-to-door health survey of residents and provide sufficient supplies of oxygen cylinders and ventilators, he said.India is the fourth-worst affected country in the world, with cases steadily increasing.

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4 IAS officers transferred to Delhi govt to assist COVID-19 fight, 2 more attached from Centre

NEW DELHI : Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday ordered the immediate transfer of four IAS officers to the Delhi government and attachment of another two from the Centre to help the national capital fight the coronavirus pandemic.The order was issued within hours of a high-level meeting Shah held with Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal."@HMOIndia @AmitShah directed immediate transfer of 4 IAS officers - Awanish Kumar & Monica Priyadarshini from A&N (Andaman and Nicobar Islands), & Gaurav Singh Rajawat & Vikram Singh Mallik from Arunachal Pradesh to New Delhi to assist #GNCTD (Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi) for management of #COVID19," a home ministry spokesperson said..@HMOIndia

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COVID-19 testing to be started at every polling station in Delhi hotspots: Amit Shah

NEW DELHI : Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said the Narendra Modi government is committed to control the spread of coronavirus in the national capital and has taken several important decisions to protect the people of Delhi and to contain the rising number of covid-19 in the national capital.The home minister said the government will soon start coronavirus tests at every polling station in the containment zones of the national capital and a comprehensive house-to-house health survey will be done in the hotspots for contact tracing to contain the spread of coronavirus.After a few days, #COVID19 testing will be started at every polling station in the containment zones in Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah“To be able to do contact

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Delhi: As corona cases spike, 500 railway coaches to be used for Covid patients

COVID-19 patients in Delhi, the Centre has decided to immediately give 500 railway coaches to Delhi, Amit Shah said. Equipped with all facilities to fight COVID-19, these railway coaches will increase 8,000 beds in Delhi, he said.The government has also decided to double Covid testing in the next two days and increase it by three times after 6 days.

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Delhi to receive random testing kits to enhance COVID-19 testing

NEW DELHI : The national capital will soon receive random testing kits to enhance COVID-19 testing.

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COVID-19 tests to be ramped up, door-to-door survey in Delhi hotspots: Amit Shah

NEW DELHI : Novel coronavirus tests will be doubled in Delhi in the next two days and subsequently increased by three times, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Sunday after chairing a meeting on the spiralling cases of the pandemic in the city.Shah announced a slew of measures that will be taken now after he held a meeting with Lieutenant Governor Anil Baija and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal at his office in North Block.Coronavirus tests in Delhi will be doubled in the next two days and increased by three times after six days, he said.The COVID-19 tests will be started at every polling station in the containment zones of Delhi in a few days and a comprehensive house-to-house health survey will be done in the hotspots for contact

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Delhi LG forms high-level panel, which includes ICMR DG, to tackle Covid-19 in national capital

New Delhi: Delhi Lt Governor Anil Baijal on Friday constituted a high-level committee, which includes Indian Council of Medical Research Director-General Balram Bhargava, to suggest effective steps to deal with COVID-19 outbreak in the national capital, sources said.Baijal is the chairman of Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA).The six-member panel also includes two members of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and AIIMS Director Randeep Guleria, they said.The move came two days after Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal met Union Home Minister Amit Shah and both the leaders discussed the COVID-19 situation in Delhi.With 34,867 COVID-19 cases so far, Delhi is in dire straits with the city recording 1,877 cases on Thursday,

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Record rise in coronavirus cases in India raises fear of return of curbs

NEW DELHI/BENGALURU : India reported a record daily increase of novel coronavirus cases on Friday and became the world's fourth worst-hit country, raising the prospect of the return of a lockdown just days after it was lifted.Anxious to revive the economy after a nearly 70-day lockdown, the government this week opened most public transport, offices and malls, even though health officials said the country was weeks away from flattening the curve of infections.On Friday, the health ministry said the number of cases had increased by 10,956 from the previous day, with new infections rife in the cities of Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai.Dr V.K.Paul, head of a government task force tackling the outbreak, said there was no quick end in sight."Our

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

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