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1. India remains on the UK's red list. Fully vaccinated Indians with India-made AstraZeneca Covishield are still not welcome in the UK. However, fully vaccinated travellers from the US and European Union countries will be able to avoid a 10-day compulsory quarantine when they arrive in England from next Monday, the UK government has said. 2. At a time when other parts of the country are reporting daily Covid case counts in double digits, Kerala has been consistently clocking over 10,000 cases everyday. Health Ministry sources say the Kerala government is not focusing on containing Covid, as a result of which up to 50 per cent of the new cases are being reported from that state. 3. Mamata Banerjee meets Congress president Sonia Gandhi in Delhi in their first meeting since the two parties were contested as rivals in the Bengal election in April-May. The talks are significant amid opposition moves to join forces for a united fight in the 2024 national election. 4. Bank depositors will get an insurance of Rs 5 lakh on their deposits within 90 days in case of moratorium, the government announces. 5. New York City offering residents 100 dollars to get vaccinated against COVID-19 as the highly contagious delta variant spreads throughout the United States fuelling a surge in new infections.