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1. India reports 62,224 new Covid cases in the last 24 hours. Positivity rate comes at 3.22 per cent. The positivity rate remains under five per cent for the ninth consecutive day. 2. Reports say scientists did not back 12 to 16 week Covishield gap but had suggested 8 to 12 week gap instead. The government defends and says the decision was transparent and was based on scientific data. Congress says the government should clarify. The government says politics is being played. 3. Twitter has lost the legal protection in India from prosecution over users' posts because of failure to comply with the new rules required to appoint key officers in the country. 4. Twitter and several journalists have been named in an FIR in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad over "flaring communal sentiments" after an elderly Muslim man alleged that he was assaulted. 5. Petrol and diesel price continue to spike. Petrol is near Rs 103 per litre in Mumbai and Rs 107 a litre in Ganganagar, Rajasthan. Diesel crosses Rs 100 mark. 6. Adani CFO speaks exclusively to NDTV saying that ‘welcome any move to improve the market transparency’. 7. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal says 5,000 will be trained as health workers before the next Covid wave. 8. Taj Mahal reopens after lockdown.