Greece on Tuesday named a new head to the state health watchdog that oversees the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic as the country’s death toll neared 15,000.
The health ministry said the new head of the Eody agency is Theoklis Zaoutis, a former chief of the division of paediatric infectious diseases at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
As of Monday, the virus had claimed more than 14,990 lives with an average age of 78, according to Eody.
The government on Tuesday relieved Baseer Ahmad Khan of the charge of advisor to the Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor with immediate effect.
According to an order issued by the Jammu and Kashmir general administration department, Khan, a retired IAS officer of 2000 batch, was relieved of the charge following a communication from the Union Ministry of Home Affairs.
His removal from the post came all of a sudden and the reasons behind it were not immediately known.
Khan was made an advisor in March last year when G C Murmu was the Lt Governor, and he continued in the post under Murmu’s successor Manoj Sinha.
Prior to his appointment as an advisor, Khan was the Divisional Commissioner of Kashmir.
Kerala on Tuesday for the second day running reported less than 10,000 fresh Covid-19 cases -- 9,735 to be exact -- and 151 deaths, taking the infection caseload to 47,38,818 and the toll to 25,677.
The number of people who recovered from the infection since Monday was 13,878, which brought the total recoveries to 45,88,084 and the active cases to 1,24,441, an official press release said
Adding a new twist to Sunday's violence in Lakhimpur Kheri in which nine persons, including four farmers, were killed,a video surfaced on social media platforms showing an SUV running over a crowd of what looked like farmers on a dusty village road.