# Covid-19

• India recorded a big dip in covid-19 numbers in the week ending sunday, with both fresh cases and deaths registering their sharpest weekly percentage decreases in atleast the last four months.
• For the first time since early June, India is likely to record less than 50000 new cases in a week.
• Meanwhile, the Ramon Magsaysay Award foundation had picked former Kerala Health minister K K Shailaja for the Magsaysay award a few weeks ago.
• But the CPM member turned it down following the party’s diktat.

# Institutional births

• Road construction programmes that improve access increased the probability of an institutional delivery by 11-13 percentage points in India.
• However, there was no evidence that increased institutional deliveries improved rates of neo natal mortality or post birth complications, whether the Women delivered in a public or private facility.
• These were the surprising findings of a study published in the British medical journal global health in July.
• It indicated that to reduce neo natal mortality or to improve maternal health outcomes, it was not sufficient to simply increase the proportion of women delivering in health facilities or in the presence of a skilled health provider.

# Union home minister

• Union Home minister Amit shah on Sunday said it is imperative to rehabilitate about 90% of the prisoners in the country.
• Home minister was speaking at the inauguration of the 6th All-India prison duty meet.
• Home minister said the task is vital not only from a humanitarian point of view but also to ensure law and order.

# United Kingdom

• Rishi Sunak and Liz truss on Sunday renewed their pledge to tackle UK’s worsening energy crisis that has resulted in soaring energy bills.
• The results of the conservative Party internal elections to elect the prime minister of UK will be declared today.