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* Useful Alerts *

❇️ * COVID Highlights: *
▪️* Recovered cases exceed active cases by more than 48 lakhs *
▪️* Recovery rate leaps past 85% *

❇️ * PM launched Jan Andolan for COVID-19 appropriate behaviour today, in view of the upcoming festivals & winter season as well as the opening up of the economy. *

❇️ * India gets its first ever brand & logo for its cotton on 2nd #WorldCottonDay – A historic day for Indian cotton! *
▪️* Now India’s premium cotton would be known as ‘Kasturi Cotton’ in the world cotton trade *

❇️ * Cabinet ratifies ban on 7 chemicals that are hazardous to health & environment listed under Stockholm Convention *

❇️ * Cabinet approves ‘Natural Gas Marketing Reforms’; aims to prescribe standard procedure to discover market price of gas to be sold in market through a transparent and competitive process *

❇️ * Despite Covid, NHAI awards 60% more length of projects during the first half of FY 2020-21 as compared to same period last year *

❇️ * DST has shortlisted 51 companies for developing various COVID-19 solutions and 10 out of them have been supported for manufacturing and large-scale deployment of diagnostic kits *

❇️ * Insurance claim of Rs. 50 lakh paid to families of 95 frontline healthcare workers who lost their lives to #COVID19 *

❇️ * MyGov’s COVID19 page is now available in 8 regional languages along with Hindi and English. Visit: https://mygov.in/covid-19 *