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Haryana on Saturday reported seven more coronavirus deaths, pushing the toll to 297, while 648 fresh cases raised the state's infection tally to 20,582, according to a health department bulletin.

Institute of Life Sciences (ILS), Bhubaneswar, has established in vitro cultures of coronavirus from the patient samples using Vero cells (host cells for growing viruses). Ajay Parida, director of the institute, said this here on Saturday.

Ludhiana deputy commissioner Varinder Sharma on Saturday said that under the “Mission Fateh” of the Punjab government, the number of Covid-19 patients getting cured in district Ludhiana is increasing with each passing day. He said that there are 570 active patients in the district at present.

Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that only 2% of all the negative results from rapid antigen test for Covid -19 in Guwahati so far have been found to be false negative after the repeat tests by real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction or RT-PCR laboratory technique.

Peasant leader Akhil Gogoi, who was arrested by the NIA for his alleged role in violent protests against the CAA last year, tested positive for coronavirus inside the Guwahati Central Jail on Saturday. A total of 55 inmates, including Gogoi, have tested positive at the jail, forcing the authorities to issue orders for taking samples of all the 1,069 prisoners.

Nine people including four minors tested positive for Covid-19 while six got discharged after they reported negative in Kurukshetra district on Saturday, said district civil surgeon Dr Sukhbir Singh.

NSUI Udupi district demanded the cancellation of final year university examinations and the promotion of all the students.

Covid-19 numbers shot through the roof in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts of Karnataka on Saturday with the districts combining for 276 positive cases. Of this, DK, with 186, recorded its single biggest 24-hour spike since the outbreak of the pandemic in the state on March 8, inching past the July 8 tally of 183, while Udupi accounted for the remaining 90 cases. The spurt also saw DK tally 2034 positive cases while Udupi’s tally is 1567.

Punjab and Haryana high court in Chandigarh have directed the CBI to probe the matter of Ambience Mall's construction in Haryana's Gurugram, on the land adjacent to the Delhi-Jaipur National Highway, meant for a housing project.

The Maharashtra anti-terrorism squad on Saturday arrested two henchmen of the UP-based gangster Vikas Dubey gang from Thane. The duo was accused in the killing of 8 policemen on the intervening night of July 2 and July 3 in Kanpur when a police team had gone to arrest Dubey. The duo was caught while searching a safe hide-out in Thane district, near Mumbai.

With a view to providing psychological support to inmates of quarantine centres and counselling to discharged persons who are under home quarantine, the Cachar district administration has launched a new initiative called Aastha.

Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, operations at the Numaligarh Refinery Limited’s (NRL) refinery in Assam’s Golaghat district is almost back to normal with the first quarter of crude throughput being just about 8% lower than the corresponding period in the previous year.

The Covid-19 pandemic is pushing Guwahati Police to the edge as 190 personnel have been infected with the virus till Friday and over 300 others have been quarantined.

: As many as 165 police personnel, who are among 431 cops to have contracted the novel coronavirus in Assam, have been cured and are now all set to rejoin their duties. All these personnel had contracted the virus while being out on roads, enforcing the rules of lockdown and guarding containment zones and quarantine centres.

Tea gardens in upper Assam have been hit by disruption of natural gas by Oil India Limited (OIL) due to continuous blockades and agitations at their wells by locals following the May 27 Baghjan blowout.

With over 70 positive cases in random testing within a week in Kalaburagi district, the administration is mulling over a stagggered lockdown. From July 3 to July 9, 73 persons tested positive; the total number is 1901 with 477 active cases.

The students of Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law (RGNUL) Patiala would not be charged late fee in case of delay in payment of their fees for the courses.