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New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Aditya Nath has no threat to his office. There have been speculations that Yogi will be asked to quit before the 2022 Assembly elections but the top leadership of the BJP is 'fully satisfied' with Yogi’s work and he has full support of the leadership -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP president JP Nadda, which feels Yogi has given the best performance as a chief minister.

After spending two days in Delhi, Yogi Adityanath has gone back to Lucknow. Modi has himself been a chief minister for more than 12 years and is aware of the challenges Yogi Adityanath faces as the chief minister of the large state like UP. Source says that PM Modi is happy with Yogi who is heading the government in UP since 2017 and, according to him, is the best chief minister in the country. 

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) will begin the fourth national-level sero surveys to assess the spread of COVID-19 and all states/UTs. According to Niti Aayog, preparations for national sero survey are over and would begin work for the next sero survey this month. 

"The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) will conduct national sero surveys to assess the Covid spread and states/UTs should also conduct them to get all geographies' information," Union Health Ministry said on Friday.

It would be the fourth sero survey and will begin in 70 districts across the country. It would include children aged 6 years and above. Apart from the general population, the ICMR officials would collect the blood samples of health care workers in district hospitals of 70 districts in 21 states.

At the invitation of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will participate in the outreach sessions of the G-7 Summit on 12-13 June in virtual format, it was officially announced here today. Earlier, Modi was scheduled to visit the United Kingdom to attend the summit. He, however, decided last month against going to the UK in view of the second wave of Covid-19 in India.

The UK currently holds the presidency of the G-7 and has invited India, along with Australia, South Korea and South Africa, as guest countries for the summit. The meeting will be held in hybrid mode.

India reported 1,00,636 fresh COVID-19 cases, the lowest in 61 days, taking the infection tally to 2,89,09,975, while the number of active cases dropped to 14,01,609, according to the Union Health Ministry's data updated on Monday

The death toll due to coronavirus reached 3,49,186 with 2,427 new fatalities, the lowest in around 45 days, the data updated at 8 am showed

A total of 96,982 new cases were recorded in a span of 24 hours on April 6

Also, 15,87,589 tests were conducted on Sunday, taking the total cumulative tests conducted so far for detection of COVID-19 in the country to 36,63,34,111, while the daily positivity rate was recorded at 6.34 per cent

Forty-four crore doses of Covid vaccines will be made available to the country from August, the government today said amid a raging shortage that has forced a closure of vaccine centres in many states. These doses will be delivered between August and December 2021, the Union Health Ministry said.

The health ministry announcement -- that orders have been placed for 25 crore doses of Covishield and 19 crore doses of Covaxin to achieve universalization of vaccination -- came a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a fresh vaccine policy.

The new policy takes back the onus of vaccine purchase from the states. The finance ministry said today that the new programme will cost around ₹ 50,000 crore and the Centre has the necessary funds.