DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS 8th JUNE

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June 8, 2021

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# Vaccination centralisation

 

 

  • Prime minister Narendra Modi on monday announced that India would revert to a system of centralised procurement of vaccines against covid-19.
  • He also announced that free vaccines will be provided for the 18-44 age groups as well.
  • Private sector will be allowed to procure 25% of vaccines and service charges on vaccination by private hospitals is fixed at 150 per dose.
  • Prime minister Modi also announced the extension of the free ration distribution scheme for 80 crore beneficiaries under pradhan mantri garib kalyan yojna till Diwali.

 

 

 

# Covid cases

 

 

  • India recorded 83,887 new covid-19 cases and 2075 new deaths on monday.
  • Nearly 15.88 lakh samples were tested in the country and test positivity rate dipped to 4%.
  • Nearly 13.91 lakh vaccine doses were administered on monday.
  • Health ministry informed that India has repoprted 28,252 cases of mucormycosis.

 

 

 

# Domestic air travel

 

 

  • The civil aviation ministry is “examining” a proposal to dispense with the need for a negative RT-PCR test for fully vaccinated passengers for domestic air travel.
  • So far only 4.49 crore Indian citizens have received both doses of covid-19 vaccines and 18.55 crore have received a single dose.

 

 

 

# Maldives wins UNGA election

 

 

  • In a first for the maldives foreign minister Abdulla Shahid was elected the president of the UN general assembly for 2021-22.
  • Maldives got 143 votes or nearly three fourths of the 191 countries that voted in the annual election.
  • Abdulla Shahid’s rival former Afghanistan’s foreign minister Zalmai Rassoul, won 48 votes.

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