“When the second wave came and this passenger traffic came down to 40,000 last week. On Thursday it increased to 80,000 and later it will continue to increase with the decline in COVID cases,” said the Union Minister.

The Centre submitted affidavits saying, “The Companies manufacturing COVID-19 vaccination in India have given only “Emergency Use Authorization for vaccinating people of 18 years age and above, therefore, COVID vaccines are not recommended for persons/children less than 18 years of age. This is also because of the fact that the clinical trial group during phase 1, phase 2 and phase 3 did not cover the children below 18 years of age.”

Dubbed the “delta variant” by the World Health Organization, it is estimated to be 50% more transmissible than the coronavirus variant first found in Britain, researchers at the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genetics Consortium and the National Centre for Disease Control said.

in a statement to PTI. Indigo has a ”robust” welfare scheme and a ”benevolent policy” so that each family of the deceased pilot would be getting Rs 5 crore, the sources mentioned.

They added that while there were barely a few pilots of IndiGo who tested positive during the first wave, almost 450 pilots of the carrier tested positive for COVID-19 during the second wave.

So far, about 4.7% of the country’s 950 million adult population have been given both doses. The government said this week supplies are improving and it could have as many as 10 million doses each day in July and August, up from just under three million now.

”Last year, 748 doctors across India succumbed to COVID-19, while in the current second wave in a short period we have lost 624 doctors,” a doctor associated with the IMA said.