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1. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to the United States to be part of the first in-person summit of the leaders of the 'Quad' countries that is Australia, India, Japan and the United States, that will be hosted by President Joe Biden next week, confirms the centre, pandemic, other global issues on agenda. 2. With two more fatalities due to dengue in Uttar Pradesh, the death count due to the viral fever in the district rose to 60 on Monday, said officials in Firozabad. Additional Director, Health, Agar Divison, A K Singh said that a 14-year-old girl died in a medical college, while one child was brought there dead. 3. India has delivered more than 75 crores of Covid vaccine doses since the launch of the nationwide drive in January this year, said Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya. At this rate, up to 43 per cent of the country's population will be covered by December. 4. There is no wishing away masks even next year as the battle against Covid will require a studied combination of vaccines, effective drugs, and disciplined social behaviour, according to Dr VK Paul, a member of NITI Aayog, India's public policy think-tank. 5. Ola Electric Mobility Pvt's new electric-scooter factory aims to build 10 million two-wheelers annually, or 15 per cent of the world's e-scooters by 2022, in an operation run and managed entirely by women.