All passengers flying to West Bengal, on both commercial and non-commercial flights, will have to produce either a certificate that shows they are fully vaccinated or a COVID-19 negative (RT-PCR) test report, the state government wrote to the civil aviation ministry on Monday.

The decision will be implemented with immediate effect, West Bengal Home Secretary BP Gopalika wrote to Civil Aviation secretary PS Kharola.

India has been offered 7.5 million doses of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine through the COVAX global vaccine sharing programme, but it is not clear when the jabs will arrive in the country as a consensus on the indemnity clause is yet to be reached, sources said.

The government last week said that it is working actively with vaccine manufacturer Moderna to see how its vaccine can be made available in the country.

Canada on Monday announced that it is extending the ban on incoming passenger flights from India for another month due to the Delta variant of COVID-19.

The ban, which was imposed on April 22 when India was witnessing a surge in COVID-19 cases, was set to expire on July 21, but will now remain in place until August 21, Global News Ca reported.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday (July 19) said that people who take the COVID-19 vaccine become Baahubali in the fight against the disease. He also urged everyone to get vaccinated.

While speaking to the media ahead of the beginning of the Monsoon Session, PM Modi said Vaccine is given in baahu (arms) and those who take it become Baahubali.

Shares of Datamatics Global Services were locked in the upper circuit of 20 per cent at Rs 300.90 on the BSE on Monday amid an over five-fold jumped in trading volumes. In comparison, the S&P BSE Sensex was down 616 points or 1.2 per cent at 52,524 points around 2.16 pm.

A combined 3.09 million equity shares, representing 5.2 per cent of the total equity of Datamatics had changed hands on the counter on the NSE and BSE at the time of writing this report.

The Delta variant was primarily responsible for the second wave of COVID-19 in the country, accounting for over 80 per cent of new cases, Dr N K Arora, co-chair of Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium said, underlining that the cases may go up if a new, more infectious variant comes.

The variant is also around 40-60 percent more transmissible than its predecessor, Alpha variant, and has already spread to more than 80 countries, including the UK, the US and Singapore.

Shares of Larsen & Toubro (L&T) hit a new high of Rs 1,638.65, up 1 per cent on the BSE in the intra-day trade on Monday, in an otherwise weak market, after the construction & engineering major said, L&T Construction, the construction arm of the company, has won a slew of orders in India and abroad for its various businesses. According to L&T, the order value ranges between Rs 1,000 crore and Rs 2,500 crore.

The stock was trading higher for the sixth trading session. It surpassed its previous high of Rs 1,624.90, touched on July 15, 2021.

The lenders of the Reliance Commercial Finance (RCF) have approved the resolution plan for the company and have selected Authum Investment and Infrastructure Ltd as the successful bidder, Reliance Capital said on Monday.

Authum is expected to take over RCF for about Rs 1,600 crore.

India saw a single day rise of 38,164 new coronavirus infections, while the death toll climbed to 4,14,108 with 499 fresh fatalities, the lowest in over three months, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Monday.

The COVID-19 case tally has climbed to 3,11,44,229.

The active cases have declined to 4,21,665 and comprise 1.35 per cent of the total infections.

The price for 10 gm of 22-carat gold on Monday came to Rs 47,190 from Rs 47,200 in the last trading. Silver was at Rs 68,400 per kg, according to the Good Returns website.

Gold jewellery price varies across India, the second-largest consumer of the metal, due to excise duty, state taxes, and making charges.

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