# Vaccination production

• The centre informed the supreme court that the production capacity of covid-19 vaccines had been “gradually ramped up” in light of the immunisation drive.

• The SII had ramped up production from five crore doses a month to 6.5 crore doses. A further increase was expected in july 2021.

• Bharat biotech international limited had hiked production from 90 lakh a month to two crore. An increase was expected upto 5.5 crore doses per month by july 2021.

• Russian Sputnik vaccine was expected to increase production from 30 lakh to 1.2 crore doses a month by july 2021.

# Pradhan mantri garib kalyan anna yojana

• Of the 40 lakh tonnes of free foodgrains promised under the PMGKAY for may, one lakh tonnes has been distributed so far, food secretary Sudhanshu pandey said on monday.

• In the first 10 days, PMGKAY grains reached 203 crore of the 80 crore beneficiaries.

• The states which have started distribution of the 5 kg of free rice and wheat include Andhra pradesh, Arunachal pradesh, Haryana, Himachal pradesh, jharkhand, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tripura and uttarakhand.

# Naval ships

• Navy’s landing ship tank INS Airavat arrived at the naval dockyard in Visakhapatnam from singapore with eight cryogenic oxygen tanks and other covid equipments.

• In addition, INS trikand and INS kolkata reached mumbai and new mangalore respectively with oxygen filled containers from west asia.

# Bangladesh

• Bangladesh will receive a major consignment of china made vaccine doses for the pandemic which will arrive on wednesday.

• This will be the first time that Bangladesh will receive the chinese vaccine in such a large quantity since the beginning of the pandemic.

• India has delayed delivery of covishield vaccine in recent weeks.

# Israel-Palestine

• Israel’s security forces has clashed with stone throwing Palestinians at a flashpoint Jerusalem Al Asqa mosque.

• In an apparent attempt to avoid further confrontation, Israeli authorities changed the planned route of a march by ultranationalists jews through the muslim quarter of the old city.