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Senior Aam Aadmi Party leader Atishi informed on Sunday that more than 25 per cent of the youth in Delhi has been vaccinated with a single dose of Covid-19 vaccine while the primer dose immunisation among the age group of 45+ years has reached 50 per cent.

Delhi has been under strict lockdown since April 19 and with continuous decline in daily cases.

Flagging the acute shortage of Covid-19 vaccine doses in the national capital, Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Monday said that Delhi has only one day’s Covaxin stock left and its Covishield doses will last for just three to four days.

The Royal Thai Embassy in New Delhi has asked Thai people in India to return to their homeland In view of the Covid-19 situation there. Flights are available for Thais to travel to Thailand on May 8 and 15, the embassy posted on its Facebook page on Monday.

Amid the acute shortage of Covid-19 essential drugs and widespread reports of their sale in the black market, the Delhi government has ordered to form a special task force (STF) to crack down on hoarders of such medicines.

For the third day in a row, the hospitals in Delhi are in panic after their oxygen supply plummeted to the point that only a few hours of Oxygen is left for thousands of Covid-19 patients admitted to them.

In an attempt to curb the spread of Covid in the national capital, the Delhi Government has announced a weeklong lockdown starting from 10 pm on Monday night to 5 am next Monday.

According to the report submitted to the Delhi government, there are three reasons to worry that may cause excessive pressure on healthcare services.

Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai earlier in the day called an emergency meeting to discuss the situation and also directed the administration to be alert and asked officials of the Agriculture department to make field visits in areas close to Gurugram.

With 3,788 fresh cases, Delhi's coronavirus tally has risen to over 70,000 as it became the country's worst-hit city, overtaking Mumbai, the country's financial hub.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said 441 people from the Markaz Nizamuddin mosque in Delhi, where a religious gathering was conducted earlier this month violating the lockdown orders, have shown symptoms linked to the deadly novel coronavirus.

Severe cold wave continued unabated in Uttar Pradesh with the minimum temperature in Kanpur touching zero degrees Celsius and state capital Lucknow recording 0.7 degrees Celsius on Monday, the meteorological department said. Meanwhile, the air quality of the neighbouring Delhi improved significantly from ‘severe’ to ‘very poor’ category on Tuesday.