Delhi Lieutenant-Governor Anil Baijal overruled Chief Minister Arvind kejriwal’s decision to reserve healthcare facilities in the city for its ‘residents’.
- Kejriwal, meanwhile, self-idolated after reports of sneezing and coughing.
- KS Dhatwalia, principal director-general of India’s Press Information Bureau, tested positive for the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), Press Trust of India said.
- He has been admitted to All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, the news agency reported citing sources late night June 7, 2020.
- Dhatwalia regularly attended media briefings in the Capital along with central ministers and top officials.
- India has started to lift its countrywide lockdown June 8.
- Apart from Metro railways and air travel, most other economic activity has been permitted to resume, subject to conditions.
- The footfall of people has already increased, especially in the metros
- the country recorded 9,983 new positive cases June 7, according to the Union health ministry.
- This took its totaly tally to 256,611.
- Of them, 125,381 were active cases.
- The death toll increased by 206 to 7,135.
- Maharashtra continued to host the largest number of infected by a wide margin, with 43,601 active cases.
- Delhi has 16,229 recorded patients while Tamil Nadu has 14,399.
- Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has announced hospitals in the city state will be shut for non-residents.
- His government has earlier come down on private players for testing asymptomatic persons.
- Cases being reassigned to states: 9,189.
- Sikkim, which recorded its first case on May 23, now has seven patients.
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