India reported less than 3 lakh cases after 27 days on Tuesday with 2.63 lakh new Covid-19 infections, with 4,329 deaths, the highest single-day toll. In the past two weeks, Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu have been driving India's Covid-19 breakout with Maharashtra. The government has dropped plasma therapy as an 'off-label' treatment for Covid-19. Stay tuned for updates.

• 17:00

  Dr Shahid Jameel speaks on India's Covid numbers

  Dr Jameel mentioned that the annual mortality rate of India for 2019 was 7.3 per 1,000 per year. 'If you convert that into deaths per day, it turns out to 27,600 deaths per day. Now let's say we have 4,000 deaths per day because of Covid. This number, 4,000, is only a 15% increase over the natural deaths happening. Now, with that small a difference, you would not even notice it at crematorium grounds, at burial grounds. But what you are seeing is a completely different picture,' he told.

• 16:52

  Children whose both parents die either due to Covid-19 or with one parent already dead and the one succumbing to Covid, will be given Rs 2,500 monthly pension till they attain the age of 25 years. They will be provided free education: Arvind Kejriwal. - ANI

• 16:49

  Families where the breadwinner died, will be given Rs 2,500 monthly pension besides the ex-gratia. If husband dies, pension will be given to the wife, if wife dies it will be given to the husband. If an unmarried person dies, the pension will be given to his/her parents: Delhi CM. - ANI

• 16:41