Coronavirus live updates: Dr Reddy's starts supply of Sputnik V first doses

One of the youngest patients battling Covid-19 in Andheri’s SevenHills Hospital is 22-year-old Vibha Tiwari from Malad, who also has a heart condition rendering her doubly vulnerable. As she spent six days hooked to a non-invasive ventilator last week, her family kept wishing she was immunised.

New Zealand is "very close" to procuring more coronavirus vaccines and a deal could be announced this week, Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins said on Tuesday, as the country looks to get on top of an outbreak of the Delta variant.

The Kerala high court on Monday held that not allowing citizens to have the second dose of Covid-19 vaccine early while allowing some categories such as those going abroad was discriminatory, especially when they are willing to avail of paid vaccination.

Bangladesh’s minister for information and broadcasting, Hasan Mahmud, on Monday said that India has assured Bangladesh of more Covid-19 vaccines “when the situation further betters here” and that his country is cognisant of India’s “local demands”.

Over one crore doses of anti-Covid jabs were administered on Monday - the third time in last 11 days – with Uttar Pradesh and Bihar accounting for most number of doses administered during the day.

The National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL) certification is must for enrollment of private labs for Covid-19 testing, said the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Monday. ICMR in its affidavit told the Delhi High Court that monitoring the activities of online health service aggregators does not come under the purview of ICMR. Read full story

The number of Covid-free districts in Haryana reached four on Monday, a day when the state recorded more than 1.2 lakh vaccinations, 16 new cases of the virus, two deaths and 28 recoveries. Besides Nuh and Fatehabad which had become Covid-free last week, Mahendergarh and Palwal had zero active cases on Monday. Mahendergarh, however, reported two deaths.