❇️ * COVID Highlights: * ▪️* Recovery rate reaches 87.56% * ▪️* Case fatality rate stands at 1.52% *
❇️ * PM hails Food & Agriculture Organization for ensuring food security across the globe *
❇️ * During the past 7-8 months, India distributed food grains worth about ₹1.5 lakh crore to 80 crore people free of cost to fight starvation & malnutrition: PM *
❇️ * Govt has committed $2.03 billion for strengthening of health infrastructure in the wake of #COVID19 pandemic - Finance Minister *
❇️ * Centre deputes high-level teams in five states to check spike in COVID cases *
❇️ * In India, 3 vaccine candidates are developing well with one of them in the advanced stage-III clinical trials & two others in stage-II trials: Health Minister *
❇️ * MSP operation during Kharif Marketing Season 2020-21 * ▪️* Over 69.5 LMT paddy procured from more than 6 lakh farmers; total #MSP flow of Rs. 13,128.12 crores *
❇️ * Wearing a mask can reduce the spread of #coronavirus substantially, hence ensuring everyone's safety & well-being. #Unite2FightCorona *