Madhya Pradesh Class 12 exams cancelled; state records 1,078 cases, 45 deaths in 24 hours-Health News , Technomiz
Coronavirus Live News Updates: Hours after the Gujarat board announced the cancellation of Class 12 exams, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said HSC exams in the state have been scrapped
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Coronavirus LATEST News Updates: Hours after the Gujarat board announced the cancellation of Class 12 exams, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said HSC exams in the state have been scrapped.
The Delhi High Court said if the Delhi government could not ensure that people will get both the doses of COVAXIN within the stipulated time, then it should not have started so many vaccination centres with “much pomp and splendour”.
Minister of State (Home) G Kishan Reddy said the Centre has formulated action plans to ensure all citizens are vaccinated by December this year, mentioning that talks are on with pharma companies to produce 250 crore doses.
Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board cancelled the Class 12 board examinations, ANI quoted state education minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama as saying.
India has reported lowest daily new cases of 1.32 lakh in 54 days, maintaining the decline in trend in the new cases.
IMA said that 594 doctors died during the more infectious second wave of the coronavirus pandemic in the country. The data shared by IMA showed that as many as 107 doctors had died in Delhi during the second wave. Bihar saw the deaths of 96 doctors, while 67 died in Uttar Pradesh, 43 in Rajasthan, and 39 in Jharkhand.
As India battles the second wave of COVID-19 , the country has recorded 1.32 lakh daily new cases, taking the number confirmed cases so far to 2,83,07,832, as per figures updated by the health ministry at 8 am on Wednesday.
While the decline in daily infections continued for the 54th day, the toll climbed to 3,35,102 with 3,207 deaths being reported in the last 24 hours.
Over 21.85 crore vaccine doses have been administered so far and a consignment of 15 ventilators and 12,000 tablets of anti-viral drug Favipiravir arrived in the country from Iceland. This comes a day after India received the third and largest consignment of Sputnik V vaccines from Russia.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday announced that there will be no Class 12 board exams this year. Both CBSE and CISCE Class 12 exams have been cancelled. The PM’s office quoted him as saying, “The health and safety of our students is of utmost importance and there will be no compromise on this aspect.”
Hours after Modi’s announcement, the Karnataka government said it will too take a call on whether to conduct SSLC and II PU exams. Primary and Secondary Education Minister S Suresh Kumar on Tuesday said, “We need to take a suitable decision after weighing all the options.”
The Indian Medical Association stated that 594 doctors succumbed during the second wave of COVID-19 .
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