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Dr Guleria also noted that children usually have a mild disease but there is a need to develop a COVID-19 vaccine for them. He said that Covaxin's data for children after completion of phase 2 or 3 trials is expected by September to october. Continue Reading...

Would television star Pearl V Puri have to spend his birthday in jail? Pearl who turns 32 on 10 July is unlikely to get bail since he has been charged under the section pertaining to sexual violation of a minor. These charges are non-bailable. Continue Reading...

Amid a second wave of COVID-19, farmers took out protest marches at several places, including Moga, Patiala, Amritsar, Ajnala, Nabha, Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur and Bathinda. Despite appeals by farmers who took out protest marches against the weekend lockdown imposed by the state government, shopkeepers in Punjab kept their shops shut on Saturday. Continue Reading...

As thousands of farmers took out protest marches at several places in Punjab on Saturday against the weekend lockdown amid rising of Covid-19 cases, Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh warned that the lockdown violators will be dealt with sternly. Singh also rejected charges by the farmer groups that the state government was trying to ‘sabotage’ the farmers’ agitation. Even as Punjab’s daily Covid caseload continued to hover around the 9,000-mark, 32 farmer unions had announced to hold street protests against the lockdown in the state and urged shopkeepers to defy the restrictions. The protests were taken out in Moga, Patiala, Amritsar, Ajnala, among other places in the state. Continue Reading...

As of now, there are 8 more containment zones in Punjab, with a total population of 16,785 people. In Gurdaspur's Babehali area, a total of 5,287 people reside in a containment zone. Hence, Dugri phases 1 and 2 comprise the biggest containment zone of Punjab as of now. With a combined population of over 35,000, two upscale colonies of Ludhiana — Urban Estate phase-1 and Urban Estate phase-2 of Dugri — were declared as Covid containment zones and put under lockdown from 9 pm on Sunday, till further orders. Continue Reading...