Delhi Lieutenant Governor and Chairman of Delhi Disaster Management Authority Anil Baijal has overruled Arvind Kejriwal government's order that only Delhi residents will be admitted to government hospitals in the city for COVID-19 treatment. Mr. Baijal has directed authorities to ensure that treatment is not denied to any patient on the ground of not being a resident of the national capital.

Earlier, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had announced that all government and private hospitals in the city will only treat Delhi residents till the rising COVID-19 cases are contained.

The Communist Party of India (CPI) also has deplored Delhi government’s decision to reserve hospitals for Delhiites.The party in a statement said, this is unconstitutional and goes against the oath of office Arvind Kejriwal had undertaken while assuming charge as the Chief Minister.

The party said Mr Kejriwal himself has repeatedly asserted that Delhi being the national capital belongs to all Indians. The Party appealed to the Chief Minister to immediately withdraw the partisan and unconstitutional order.

Meanwhile the Central Government  said today, that the recovery rate of Covid-19 is 48.46 per cent in the country and the total number of recovered people from corona virus reached 1,29 215. During the last 24 hour, 4, 785 people have been cured.

The Health and Family Welfare Ministry said 9,987 new cases of Covid-19 have been reported in the last 24 hours taking the total number of cases to 2,66598 in the country. This is the highest spike in new cases in one day since the outbreak of the pandemic in India. During the last 24 hours, 266 deaths have been registered taking the nationwide toll to 7,466. The case fatality rate is 2.80 per cent in the country.

Meanwhile, The Indian Council of Medical Research, ICMR said, a total of 1,41682 samples of corona virus were tested in the last 24 hours. With this, the figure of total number of tests reached 49,16116 in the country. ICMR is continuously scaling up its testing facilities by giving approval to government and private laboratories. As of now, total 784 laboratories across India have been given approval to conduct the test for Covid-19 including 553 government laboratories and 231 private laboratories' chains.

The global death toll from the novel coronavirus has surpassed 4 lakh with some 70 lakh infections. John Hopkins University said 400135 people have succumbed to COVID-19.

The tolls include over 1,10000 deaths in the United States alone , the country with the highest death rate from the pandemic. The US also saw nearly 20 lakh infections.

After the US, the hardest-hit countries are Britain with 40,465 deaths from 2,84,868 cases, Brazil with 35,930 deaths and 6,72,846 infections, Italy with 33,846 deaths from 2,34,801 cases, and France with 29,142 deaths and 1,90,631 cases.