Around 70 vehicles, including a 48-seater bus, a 24-seater police bus and one police quick reaction team (QRT), were deployed for their rescue.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated the scientists and innovators of Bharat Biotech and Serum Institute of India (SII) after the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) approved the ingeniously developed Covaxin and Oxford's Covishield for emergency use on Sunday.
Several parts of Delhi and adjoining areas received moderate to heavy rainfall along with thunderstorms on Sunday morning.
Jagannath temple in Puri was closed since March 25 when the Centre imposed a lockdown across the country to contain the spread of Covid-19.
The farmer leaders have, however, so far, not sought any permission for their march on January 26.
The Drugs Controller General of India briefed the media at 11 am and officially approved emergency use authorisation for Serum and Bharat Biotech Covid-19 vaccines.
Even as India moves forward to roll out the Coronavirus vaccine, the country successfully completed its Coronavirus vaccination dry run yesterday. In a massive nation-wide exercise, an end-to-end drill was conducted in all States and Union Territories at 286 session sites spread across 125 districts.
The Indian Council of Medical Research has announced that its Pune-based National Institute of virology has managed to successfully isolate and culture the UK strain of the Coronavirus from the UK arrivals.
The Government-appointed expert panel has recommended granting permission for restricted emergency use authorisation for Bharat Biotech's indigenously developed COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin.
Pakistan has arrested wanted terrorist and Lashkar-e-Tayiba chief Zaki-ur-Rahman Lakhvi. However, the terrorist has not been arrested in connection with the Mumbai terror attacks.
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