The West Bengal Government requested the centre to rescind the latest order regarding transfer of its Chief Secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay on the normal date of his superannuation. In a letter sent to the Prime Minister this morning, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee informed that the state government cannot release its Chief Secretary at this critical hour.

Maharashtra, a drive-in vaccination centre in Hadapsar area of Pune was virtually inaugurated by deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar. The drive-in vaccination centre will cater to elderly and divyangs. Pune leads in the vaccination drive in the state. Kolhapur guardian minister, Satej Patil has asked the concerned authorities to prepare the list of students below 18 years having co-morbidities in eight days.

Mr. Patil also said that one hour counselling sessions of students should be done by teachers online to allay fear among them. He said to fight the possible third wave of COVID-19 teachers, parents and health machinery should come together, adding that a protocol will be prepared in the next four days listing out the measures to take care of kids and students. The Maharashtra Government has facilitated walk-in vaccination of students studying abroad. Accordingly, arrangements have been made at three vaccination centres of the Mumbai civic body. Meanwhile, borders of districts and corporations having more than 20 percent positivity L will be totally closed and no person will be allowed to enter or exit from such districts.

In Maharashtra’s Nashik, the district authority has been taking help of local dialects of the tribals to clear apprehensions and to facilitate the COVID-19 vaccination drive.

Nashik zilla parishad’s chief executive officer, Leena Bansod said that there have been  certain misconceptions among tribals regarding the vaccination drive. Hence, she said, the district authority has been making use of local dialects of the tribals to create awareness on the benefits of taking the vaccine against COVID-19.

Ms. Bansod further said that audio-video clips have been made in these local dialects to create awareness

In Meghalaya, the number of active cases is on a steady decline as the State recorded 408 fresh new cases against 977 recoveries in the last 24 hours. Directorate of Health Services in a statement said that the number of total active cases stands at 6913 while that of recovered cases has reached 28,107. In the last 24 hours, 14 deaths were reported; nine from East Khasi Hills district, two from Ri Bhoi district and one each from South West Garo Hills, South West Khasi Hills and West Jaintia Hills districts. The total number of COVID 19 fatalities in Meghalaya has reached 578 out of which the maximum number of deaths has been recorded from East Khasi Hills district with 469 deaths followed by West Jaintia Hills district with 38 fatalities and West Garo Hills district with 26 deaths.

Gujarat has recorded 1871 new cases of COVID 19 yesterday. According to the state health department, 5146 patients recovered during the last 24 hours and were discharged from the hospitals.

Total 7 lakh 62 thousand 670 patients have recovered from Covid19 in Gujarat till now. The recovery rate further improved and reached up to 94.40 percent. Maximum 237 new cases of Covid19 reported from Ahmedabad. Vadodara recorded 216 new cases, while Surat recorded 139 new cases. 25 patients lost their lives yesterday. With these, the death toll due to Covid19 in the state has reached up to 9815.  Gujarat has now 35 thousand 403 active cases at present, out of which 521 patients are on ventilator. 1 lakh 83 thousand 70 persons have been vaccinated in the state yesterday.