Parts of Delhi-NCR recorded light to moderate rain on Wednesday, however, “heavy” rain eluded the capital despite overcast skies recorded post noon.
Before the Covid-19 outbreak, Aditya Sharma, cricketer-turned-owner of Box N Burn in Lajpat Nagar, used to employ four helpers at his ‘fitness studio’. With gyms and yoga centres allowed to reopen from August 5, Sharma has decided to hire one more employee, whose sole job will be to keep on sanitising fitness equipment, mats and every touch point on the premises at regular intervals.
The occupancy of beds reserved for Covid-19 patients in Delhi’s hospitals reduced to 18% on Wednesday with only 2,958 out of 16,038 beds being occupied. Even the ventilator beds, which were in high demand till last month, remained mostly vacant. According to data shared by the hospitals on Delhi Corona app on Wednesday, out of 1,207 Covid beds with ventilator support, only 396 (33%) were occupied and the remaining 811 (67%) were lying vacant.
Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday asked all districts to strictly ensure that each and every symptomatic person testing negative through antigen test is subjected to an RT-PCR test. It is part of the government directive to increase the number of the gold standard test.
Stating that they wanted to change the mindset of students being job seekers rather than job providers, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and deputy CM Manish Sisodia invited Arjun Malhotra, co-founder of IT company HCL, to interact with government school students on Wednesday. Malhotra responded to the queries of students, which ranged from the importance of language to the risks one faced as an entrepreneur.
According to the study by University of Chicago through its Air Quality Life Index which took the 2018 pollution levels as base, the average Delhiite is losing 9.4 years of life.
India Meteorological Department has issued an orange alert for the capital for the next two days, forecasting moderate to heavy rain for Wednesday and Thursday.
The Delhi government is keen that all business activities, including hotels, cinema halls and gyms, should reopen and services of Delhi Metro resume in the next phase of unlocking (Unlock-3) of the economy.
Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal held a meeting with Public Works Department on Tuesday regarding the redesign of seven arterial roads in Delhi on the lines those in European cities
In an escalation of the latest confrontation between lieutenant governor Anil Baijal and the Delhi government, a cabinet meeting chaired by chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday rejected Delhi
With the Covid-19 situation under control, Delhi government may delink the hotels attached to different hospitals.
Till May 10, Abdul Qadir was a contract teacher at a primary school under South Delhi Municipal Corporation. Now, he is busy selling pakoras and jalebis in his home state Bihar.
By next year, the drainage system and roads in Mayapuri, which were damaged considerably from chemicals and fumes arising out of vehicles being dismantled in the open, would be completely revamped through a Rs 55.3 crore plan, Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) said.
Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal is likely to announce a series of initiatives next week for the economic revival of Delhi. With Delhi government succeeding in containing the spread of Covid-19, the focus is now on bringing the economy back on track and getting people their livelihoods, sources said.
Students can apply for admission under the extra-curricular activity (ECA) quota at Delhi University between August 1 and 31. There are 14 categories of activities.
From a daily average of around 91 deaths due to Covid-19 in the first half of June to about 50 in July, Delhi witnessed a sharp decline of 44% in mortality. This figure, among others, was revealed in a detailed analysis of deaths carried out by Delhi government’s health department.
Delhi recorded 1,142 new cases of Covid-19 on Saturday, pushing the city’s case load to almost 1.3 lakh, while the death toll jumped to 3,806.
An assistant commissioner police (ACP) was killed after being hit by a speeding vehicle while he was managing traffic near the Rajokri flyover in south-west Delhi on Saturday night. ACP Sanket Kaushik, 58, was from Ajmer in Rajasthan and posted with Delhi Traffic Police.
The super-specialty hospital in Burari in north Delhi, which was planned over a decade ago, was thrown open to the public on Saturday. Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal inaugurated the hospital via videoconferencing.
