* COVID-19 updates as on 23.12.2020 at 8 AM 👇

▪️ Active Cases: *2,89,240*
▪️ Cured/Discharged: *96,63,382*
▪️ Death cases: *1,46,444*

* Please stay at home and comply with lockdown and social distance guidelines to help yourself, family and community stay safe. *

* Useful Alerts *

❇️ * COVID-19 Highlights: *
▪️* Active caseload stands below 3 lakh *
▪️* More than 26,000 new recoveries in the last 24 hours *
▪️* Recovery rate improves to 95.69% *

❇️ * PM Modi pays tributes to former PM Chaudhary Charan Singh on his Jayanti *

❇️ * Health Ministry issued SOP for Epidemiological Surveillance and Response in the context of new variant of SARS-CoV-2 virus detected in UK *
👉 * https://mohfw.gov.in/pdf/SOPforSurveillanceandresponseforthenewSARSCov2variant.pdf *

❇️ * Major Cabinet Decisions taken today: *
▪️* A big push for education for SCs; Approves ₹59,000 crore Post Matric Scholarship Scheme for more than 4 crore SC students in 5 years *
▪️* Approves revision in guidelines for providing DTH services in the country; DTH license will now be issued for 20 years, and renewal will be done in every 10 years *

❇️ * PM Modi to release next instalment of more than ₹18,000 crores to more than 9 crores beneficiary farmer families under PM-KISAN on 25 December *

❇️ * Govt. and World Bank signs $500 Million Project to Develop Green, Resilient and Safe Highways in the states of Rajasthan, HP ,UP & Andhra Pradesh *

❇️ * A website claims to be the official website of the National Recruitment Agency and is inviting applications for various posts is FAKE! Don’t fall prey to such rumours. *

❇️ * Indian Railway launched "SMART SAHELEE" for women commuters safety on suburban system in Mumbai. *
▪️* To attain the target of zero crime against women *

❇️ * On #KisanDiwas, let us all express our gratitude to farmers for their hard work and for producing record food grains in spite of the hardship faced during the pandemic. *

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Good morning, have a nice day !

* Useful Alerts *

❇️ * COVID-19 Highlights: *
▪️* Recovery Rate improves to 95.69% *
▪️* Active caseload stands below 3 lakh *

❇️ * PM Modi to virtually address the centenary celebrations of the iconic VisvaBharati University, Shantiniketan today at 11AM *

❇️ * Union Health Secretary reviews the status of passengers coming from UK to India and found positive, with 10 States/UTs where flights from UK to India land. *

❇️ * Health Ministry along with IT Ministry announced “CoWIN”, a Grand Challenge for strengthening the COVID Vaccine Intelligence Network (CoWIN) system, *
▪️* To scale up the mechanism for COVID Vaccine Distribution System nationally. *
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❇️ * Major Cabinet Decisions taken: *
▪️* A big push for education for SCs; Approves ₹59,000 crore Post Matric Scholarship Scheme for more than 4 crore SC students in 5 years *
▪️* Approves revision in guidelines for providing DTH services in the country; DTH license will now be issued for 20 years, and renewal will be done in every 10 years *
▪️* Approves Merger of Film Divisions, Directorate of Film Festivals, National Film Archives of India & Children's Film Society of India with National Film Development Corporation *

❇️ * Paddy procurement shows increase of 23.16 % over last year; *
▪️* About 51.90 lakh Paddy Farmers benefitted from KMS procurement operations with MSP value of Rs. 81399.80 crore *

❇️ * Physical Distancing is important to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Avoid large gatherings & maintain Physical Distancing. *

#IndiaFightsCorona #NewNormal

* COVID-19 updates as on 24.12.2020 at 8 AM 👇

▪️ Active Cases: *2,83,849*
▪️ Cured/Discharged: *96,93,173*
▪️ Death cases: *1,46,756*

* Please stay at home and comply with lockdown and social distance guidelines to help yourself, family and community stay safe. *

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* Useful Alerts *

❇️ * COVID Highlights: *
▪️* Recovery rate improves to 95.75% *
▪️* More than 16 crores COVID samples tested in the last 24 hours *
▪️* Less than 400 daily deaths have been registered for the last 12 days; Fatality rate stands at 1.45% *

❇️ * PM addresses at the centenary celebrations of Visva-Bharati University; Says Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore's vision is the essence of Atmanirbhar Bharat initiative *

❇️ * Govt. rejects report claiming half of Coronavirus positive travellers from the UK infected with the new strain *

❇️ * Govt. invites farmer unions for talks; Reiterates its commitment to discuss and find solutions to their issues *

❇️ * India adds Tso Kar wetland complex in Ladakh as its 42nd Ramsar site, which is the second one in UT of Ladakh *
▪️* A Ramsar Site is a wetland site designated to be of international importance under the Ramsar Convention *

❇️ * Defence Secretary Launches DGNCC Digital Forum *
▪️* This Forum will provide a platform to National Cadet Corps cadets all over the country to share their experiences of various NCC activities *

❇️ * Mobile Application “Swachhata Abhiyan” launched *
▪️* It has been developed to identify and geotag the data of insanitary latrines and manual scavengers *

❇️ * While #COVID19 vaccine development has been expedited, protocols ensuring its safety & efficacy have not been compromised: Health Minister *

❇️ * On #NationalConsumerDay, let us pledge to educate ourselves about our rights & responsibilities as a consumer for truly realising the vision of an Aatmanirbhar Bharat. *

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Good morning, have a nice day !

* Useful Alerts *

❇️* COVID Highlights: *
▪️* Recovery rate improves to 95.75% *
▪️* More than 16 crores samples tested in the last 24 hours *
▪️* Less than 400 daily deaths have been registered for the last 12 days; Fatality rate stands at 1.45% *

❇️ * PM Modi to interact with farmers & transfer ₹18,000 crore to bank accounts of 9 crore farmers under PM Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana today. *
👉 * Watch it live here at 12 PM: https://youtu.be/LGxnpdyZV4w *

❇️ * PM Modi to pay floral tributes and release a book titled 'Atal Bihari Vajpayee' in Parliament today *

❇️ * PM to launch Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY SEHAT to extend coverage to all residents of J&K on 26 December *

❇️ * Ayushman Bharat PM Jan Arogya Yojana completes 1.5 crore treatments across the country *

❇️ * Union Minister Nitin Gadkari announces enforcement of mandatory FASTag from 1st January 2021 *
▪️* It is useful for the commuters as they will not need to stop at toll plazas for cash payments *

❇️ * Govt writes a letter to Farmers' organisation; Govt is ready to talk on all legal issues *

❇️ * MSP operations during Kharif marketing season 2020-21 *
▪️* A quantity of 65.10 lakh cotton bales valuing Rs.19,048.87 crore has been procured benefitting over 12.6 lakh farmers *

❇️ * Spitting in public places increases the risk of COVID-19 transmission. Quit Spitting now! #Unite2FightCorona *

As the year comes to an end, let's remember PM Narendra Modi's wise words:
Wear a mask.
Wash hands.
Follow social distancing.
Practice ‘Do Gaj Ki Doori.’
Together, we will win against COVID-19.
#JanAndolan

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