News18 Afternoon Digest: Centre's New Guidelines for Free Vaccines to States Take Note of Population, Caseload; Partial Covid-19 Curfew lifted in All UP Districts
News 18Centre’s New Guidelines for Free Vaccines to States Take Note of Population, Caseload, Wastage of Shots Covid-19 vaccine doses provided free of cost by Centre will now be allocated to states and union territories based on criteria like population, disease burden and the progress of vaccination, the government said in its revised guidelines on Tuesday. Partial Covid-19 Curfew lifted in All UP Districts as Active Cases Go Below 600, Night and Weekend Restrictions to Continue The partial curfew to stop the spread the coronavirus has been lifted from all 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh as active cases in all the districts have gone below the 600-mark. 22 Turned Blue in 5 Mins’: UP Orders Probe After Agra Hospital’s Oxygen ‘Mock Drill’ Claim in Viral Video The Uttar Pradesh administration is carrying out an investigation after a viral video from an Agra hospital surfaced where the authorities are purportedly discussing a ‘mock drill’ carried out on April 26 by shutting off oxygen to its Covid-19 patients to see who will survive and who won’t during an oxygen crisis. Casting Director-producer Seher Aly Latif, Known for ‘The Lunchbox’, Dies Casting director Seher Aly Latif, known for her work on films like “The Lunchbox” and “Durgamati”, passed away on Monday due to cardiac arrest, her associate and director Neeraj Udhwani said.