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Union Home Ministry on
Sunday diluted the norms
for “lockdown 4” which has
been extended till May 31 by
allowing States to operate buses
and passenger vehicles while
sticking to others existing
restrictions, including wear-
ing of masks in public places.
The States are also now
empowered to designate con-
tainment and buffer zones
depending upon cases of
Covid-19 in a particular area.
In these zones only essen-
tial services will be allowed
while in rest of the areas all
business and economic move-
ments will go on with social
distancing norms, according to
the new guidelines issued by
the Home Ministry.
The night curfew will
remain in place from 7 pm to
7 am.
According to the latest
guidelines, air passenger ser-
vices and metro train services
will remain shut till May 31.
The States were asked to allow
all inter-State movement of
passenger vehicles and buses
with mutual consent. The
inter-State movement of all
cargo vehicles and empty cargo
vehicles will take place without
any interruption.
States are empowered to
decide the definition of pas-
senger vehicles ranging from
taxis, Uber-Ola kind cabs, auto
rickshaws, cycle rickshaws and
decide on limiting the number
of passengers, including in
buses.
Changing the earlier rules
in certain areas on mandatory
downloading of Arogya Setu
App, the MHA said employers
have to use “best effort ser-
vices” on employees and dis-
trict administration to advice
the people on downloading
the App. The Centre has
changed the mind on this
regard after critics of the App
threatened to move the court
against the “illegal” ordering of
downloading the App citing
privacy rules.
The containment zones
will be decided by the States in
considering the health data on
Covid-19 pandemic of partic-
ular areas.
The Centre has asked the
States to take all tracing, sur-
veillance of Covid-19 patients
in the designated containment
zones and asked to ensure
delivery of responsibilities of
district authorities.
However, the MHA said
across India people above age
of 65, pregnant persons and
kids below 10 years must be
advised to stay home except for
essential needs. The school, col-
leges and universities will con-
tinue to be shut. Consumption
of alcohol, smoking, paan
chewing in public places is
banned across the country.
All restaurants are allowed
to operate their kitchen services
and engage in home delivery of
food items. Restaurants and
canteens are only allowed to
operate in full-fledged manner
at railway stations, hospitals
and government offices.
Cinema halls, shopping
malls, gyms, bars will contin-
ue to be shut till May 31, while
sports complexes and stadia are
allowed to operate without
spectators.
All social, political, reli-
gious gathering not allowed
and religious paces will be
closed for public till further
notice.
Religious places are closed
for public but are allowed to
continue their rituals. As many
as 50 persons will be allowed
for marriage and 20 persons
allowed for funeral functions,
said the MHA.
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The Covid-19 crisis deep-
ened further in
Maharashtra on Sunday as 63
more persons succumbed to
the pandemic and an all-time
day’s record 2,347 people test-
ed positive, taking the total
number of deaths to 1,198 and
infected cases to 33,053 in the
State. The country’s overall
count of confirmed cases stood
at 95,639 with 3,025 deaths. As
many as 4,990 new cases and
141 deaths were reported on
Sunday
Of the 63 deaths, Mumbai
accounted for 38 deaths, while
there were nine deaths in Pune,
six in Aurangabad, three each
in Solapur and Raigad and
one each in Thane district,
Pancel city, Latur and
Aurangabad city.
Of the dead, 44 were men
while 19 were women. Thirty
four were aged over 60 years, 22
were from the age group 40 to
59 years and 7 were aged below
40 years. “41 out of 63 patients
(65%) had high-risk co-mor-
bidities such as diabetes, hyper-
tension, heart disease,” a State
health bulletin said.
On a day when the total
number of deaths mounted to
1,198 in Maharashtra, the total
number of infected cases
jumped 33,053. The authorities
pegged the total number of
active cases at 24,161.
With 38 deaths and 1,571
new cases, the death toll
mounted to 734 and infected
cases to 20,150 in Mumbai.
After Maharashtra, Tamil
Nadu recorded 639 fresh cases
on Sunday, taking the tally of
total infected persons in the
State to 11,224.
As many as 79 deaths have
been registered in the State
including five deaths on
Sunday.
Gujarat on Sunday record-
ed 391 new Covid-19 cases and
34 deaths, taking the total case
count to 11,380 and the num-
ber of fatalities to 659. Of
them, Ahmedabad recorded
276 new cases with 31 deaths.
Madhya Pradesh reported
187 new infections, total rises
to 4,977, according to a bulletin
issued by the State health
department. The State also
reported five deaths, pushing
toll to 248. Uttar Pradesh
reported 206 new cases for an
overall count of 4,464 cases.
Simultaneously, a total of
191 patients were discharged
from hospitals, taking the total
number of recovered patients
to 4,499 so far, she said.
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Migrant workers went on
rampage at several places
on Uttar Pradesh border after
the Yogi Government imposed
strict restriction on their move-
ment on foot or by any mode
of transport to check road
mishaps.
Big crowds of migrants
and long queues of vehicles
were witnessed at road blocks
put up by the authorities to stop
the migrants.
The arrangements made
by the State Government to
ferry back the migrants to
their State of origin turned out
to be inadequate in view of
their huge numbers leading to
tough time for the local
authorities to handle the situ-
ation.
Besides, rising tempera-
ture also created problems.
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In yet another case of Indian
airspace violation by China,
its helicopters intruded into the
Indian territory in Himachal
Pradesh last month at least on
two occasions before returning
to their bases across the Line of
Actual Control (LAC).
The border has also seen
two incidents of face-off earli-
er this month in Sikkim and
Ladakh respectively when sol-
diers from both sides were
engaged in fisticuffs leading to
injury of some from both sides.
On the transgression by air,
a Chinese helicopters entered
Indian airspace in Lahaul-Spiti
on April 11 and then on April
20. Local authorities said the
helicopter came at least eight to
ten kilometres inside Himachal
and flew back after sometime.
The State had seen similar air-
space violations some years
ago too.
The last village in India,
where the latest helicopter
intrusion took place, had wit-
nessed enhanced Chinese army
activities in 2017 also when the
73-day stand-off between India
and China was on in Doklam
in Sikkim.
Since then, the Chinese
have improved its infrastruc-
ture across the LAC besides
increasing helicopter flying,
sources said on Sunday.
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An Assistant Commissioner
of Police (ACP) posted at
Rashtrapati Bhawan has tested
positive for the coronavirus
after which five police men
have been quarantined.
The 58-year-old ACP was
posted at Rashtrapati Bhawan
Police Lines, away from the
Rashtrapati Bhawan core area
which comprises the residential
premises of the President.
The ACP was tested and
isolated on May 13. Five other
personnel who came in contact
with him too have been quar-
antined as a precautionary
measure, police officials said.
“We were informed about
his reports today. He has test-
ed positive for the virus but he
is asymptomatic. He was in iso-
lation since May 13 and has
been admitted to a private
hospital,” a senior police officer
said.
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Even as India grapples with
rapidly spreading novel
coronavirus disease Covid-19,
another natural threat looms
over the east coast of the coun-
try. Several coastal districts of
Odisha and parts of West
Bengal are on high alert as
cyclone Amphan (pronounced
as UM-PUN) intensified into a
severe cyclonic storm over the
Bay of Bengal on Sunday, rais-
ing the likelihood of heavy
rainfall with high-speed wind.
It is likely to cross West
Bengal-Bangladesh coasts
between Sagar Islands in West
Bengal and Hatiya islands in
Bangladesh between after-
noon and evening of May 20
as a very severe cyclonic
storm.
The India Meteorological
Department (IMD) said
cyclone Amphan is likely to
make landfall in between Sagar
Islands (West Bengal) and
Hatiya Islands (Bangladesh)
during the afternoon/evening
of May 20 as a very severe
cyclonic storm.
It lay centred about 980 km
south of Paradip in Odisha,
1,130 km south-southwest of
Digha in West Bengal and
1,250 km south-southwest of
Khepupara in Bangladesh.
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Amid a spurt in coronavirus
positive cases, the Goa
Government on Sunday decid-
ed to charge C2,000 for Covid-
19 testing per person entering
the State.
The State Executive
Committee (SEC), led by State
Chief Secretary Parimal Rai, is
responsible for overseeing the
Covid management and relief
work in the State.
During a meeting held on
Sunday, the committee took
stock of the Covid situation in
the State, where the number of
positive cases has gone up to
16.
“After the recent positive
cases emerging amongst the
travellers, the SEC decided
that the practice of testing
every person entering Goa
needs to continue,” said a
Government spokesperson.
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While the Central
Government on Sunday
extended lockdown for two
more weeks till May 31 with
certain dilution of curbs, the
Delhi Government on Sunday
said it will announce its
detailed plans based on
Centre’s guidelines for lock-
down on Monday.
Chief Minister Arvind
Kejriwal said the Centre’s
guidelines are largely in line
with the proposal sent by the
Delhi Government based on
suggestions of Delhiites.
“We have always been say-
ing that we all will now have
to learn to live with corona.
We used the last two months
lockdown period to prepare
ourselves for dealing with
corona by improving neces-
sary logistics and health infra-
structure. We do expect a
slight increase in cases when
the economy reopens and
Delhi is prepared to deal with
it,” Kejriwal said.
Meanwhile, if officials in
the Delhi Government are to
be believed, popular shop-
ping destinations like Khan
Market, Chandni Chowk and
Karol Bagh can open.
“Market places have now
been allowed to open, howev-
er, operation of malls and cin-
emas continues to be banned,”
the official said.
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The Government on Sunday
raised the allocation for
job creation under MGNREGS
by C40,000 crore and suspend-
ed new bankruptcy filings on
loan defaults for one year to
ease the pain for the industry
hit by Covid-19.
The other measures
announced by Finance
Minister Nirmala Sitharaman
focused on the consolidation of
PSUs and making the envi-
ronment conducive for the pri-
vate companies to boost ease of
doing business.
The Centre has acceded to
the request of the States and
increased borrowing limit from
3 per cent of gross State domes-
tic product (GSDP) to 5 per
cent for 2020 subject to some
conditions.
In the fifth and final
tranche of the economic stim-
ulus package, the Finance
Minister raised allocation for
the employment guarantee
scheme by C40,000 crore over
and above the C61,000 crore
budgeted earlier to provide
employment to migrant work-
ers moving back to their
States.
The FM said this will help
generate nearly 300 crore per-
son-days in total.
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Sharpening its attack on the
Centre over the mega eco-
nomic package announced by
Prime Minister Narendra
Modi last week and its subse-
quent detailing by Finance
Minister Nirmala Sitharaman,
the Congress on Sunday
alleged that if the last five days’
announcements were exam-
ined then their total worth is
only C3.22 lakh crore.
Former Congress
Minister Anand Sharma said
the announcements made by
the Finance Minister didn’t
add up to C20 lakh crore as
announced by PM Modi on
May 12. He was ready to
debate with the FM on his
claim, he said.
Sharma pointed out that
C3.22 lakh crore is only 1.6 per
cent of India’s GDP and not 10
per cent as claimed by Modi.
“I’m questioning the
Finance Minister, disputing
PM and challenging the
Government to disprove me
on numbers; ready for debate
with FM Sitharaman,” the
senior Congress leader said at
AICC video Press confer-
ence.
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Continuing to scale up its
protective and welfare
measures for its personnel on
COVID-19 frontline duty,
Punjab Police has added anoth-
er 20 district quarantine cen-
tres, notified by the
Department of Health and
Family Welfare, for its person-
nel in the past one week, tak-
ing the total number of such
centres to 78.
The move came even as
eight of the 16 COVID-19
positive cops in the State were
discharged after full recovery
from hospitals on Sunday.
Giving details on the quar-
antined police personnel, the
state DGP Dinkar Gupta on
Sunday DGP said that a total of
190 cops from District Police
(110) and Armed Police (80)
are currently in quarantine at
district quarantine centres set
up by the Department, after
coming in contact with infect-
ed persons while on duty.
Another 90 district police
personnel and 69 Armed police
personnel are under home
quarantine, taking the total
number of cops now in quar-
antine to 349, from the earlier
615, of whom 266 had com-
pleted the mandatory quaran-
tine period.
To ensure strict adherence
with all protocols and uncom-
promising care for the well-
being of cops at the quarantine
centres, close coordination is
maintained with police nodal
officers of the districts and doc-
tors, said the DGP.
The welfare wing receives
information from the nodal
officers regarding health
updates on quarantined per-
sonnel every day, while advi-
sories issued by the
Department of Health of
Punjab and WHO regarding
COVID-19 is circulated to all
the quarantined cops.
Similar care is taken with
respect to those in home quar-
antine, and the availability of
medical officers is ensured for
monitoring their health for
any symptoms through the
police nodal officers of the dis-
tricts.
“An analysis of quaran-
tined police personnel and
those tested positive revealed
that 16 cops had to undergo
quarantine as they are prima-
ry contacts of the police offi-
cials tested positive, while 150
cops are primary contacts of
accused persons who were
brought for interrogation and
had thereafter tested COVID-
19 positive,” he added.
Another 118 cops had to be
quarantined as they were
deployed on duty to bring
back pilgrims from Hazur
Sahib, workers from Jaisalmer
(Rajasthan), escort students to
Jawahar Navodaya Sadan, trav-
el to Jammu and Kashmir to
drop stranded children and
labour, and escort students
from Kota (Rajasthan).
In addition, 54 were quar-
antined in Mansa district as
they were primary contacts of
COVID-19 positive cops who
were performing duty in the
containment zone of
Buddladah, Mansa, while 11 in
Ludhiana were quarantined as
they came in contact with the
body of a person suspected to
have died of infection.
A Whatsapp group of the
COVID-19 positive cops under
isolation in hospitals has been
created with ADGP Welfare V
Neeraja, who’s coordinating
and supervising the entire
effort for the Punjab Police,
AIG (Welfare), the Range
supervisory officers and the
nodal officers as members to
keep in touch with them direct-
ly.
Meanwhile, the welfare
wing has, as per the DGP’s
directions, written to all dis-
tricts and Armed police units
to with draw police personnel
who are suffering from chron-
ic medical problems like BP,
diabetes and other respirato-
ry problems from frontline
duties, and also those above 55
years of age and suffering
from chronic medical prob-
lems, based on the informa-
tion of 2019 annual medical
examination of the police per-
sonnel.
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Chief Minister Hemant
Soren on Sunday
announced an ex-gratia of C4
lakh each to the families of 11
migrant workers from
Jharkhand who lost their lives
in Auraiya road mishap in
Uttar Pradesh, a press com-
muniqué from the Chie
Minister’s office said. Soren also
announced a compensation of
C50,000 to each of the
Jharkhandi migrants who sus-
tained injuries in the incident.
At least 24 migrant labour-
ers were killed and 36 others
injured when a speeding mini-
truck climbed over a stationary
truck trolley in Auraiya early
on Saturday, police officials
said. Sources said that at least
11 migrant workers from
Jharkhand died in the mishap.
The Chief Minister also
criticized the UP Government
for sending the bodies of
migrants by a truck to
Jharkhand. “Sending the bod-
ies by a truck is disrespectful.
“I have directed the concerned
officials to arrange for medical
treatment of all the migrant
workers who have sustained
injuries in the incident once
they enter Jharkhand border,”
said Soren.
Innumerable people have
been walking home from big
cities after being laid off
because of the lockdown to
contain the spread of the
Coronavirus since late March.
Several thousand workers were
left without work across cities
and towns in India when the
lockdown was announced on
March 24, resulting in the first
wave of workers going back to
their villages.
Earlier, around a dozen
migrant workers were run over
by a train while they were
resting on a railway track,
news reports said.
The Chief Minister also
praised the efforts of the district
administration in Ranchi and
congratulated the team here for
containing the spread of the
virus to a large extent. The
number of active Covid-19
cases reduced considerable in
Ranchi – the only red zone in
Jharkhand—in the past couple
of weeks. “Ranchi has set an
example. We are extremely
thankful to our doctors and
other Covid-19 worriers,” he
said.
While Ranchi tops in the
number of cases and accounts
for nearly 50 per cent of the
cases in State, it is also the dis-
trict that has reported highest
number of patients surviving
the infection. Out of the 108
COVID-19 survivors in State,
82 are from Ranchi, said a
National Health Mission
(NHM) report.
The first case of COVID-
19 in Jharkhand was reported
from Hindpiri in Ranchi on
March 31. Since then, the local-
ity emerged as a hotspot of the
viral infection, officials said.
A 22-year-old Malaysian
woman, who attended the
Tablighi Jamaat congregation in
New Delhi, is said to be the first
carrier of the virus in the local-
ity. She was apprehended along
with 17 other foreign nationals
from the locality in March. Two
of them –the Malaysian woman
and a man from Trinidad– test-
ed positive, health officials
said. Later, both of them test-
ed negative, they added.The
number of containment zones
in Jharkhand has also increased
from 33 to 63 in the course of
a fortnight. Health officials
said that 25 red zones have
been identified across the
country, and passengers trav-
eling to Jharkhand from these
zones will be put in
Government quarantine for
tests.
Ranchi, being the only city
with a fully-operational airport,
is likely to receive most of these
passengers, sources said.
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Bokaro district administra-
tion has put around 90
migrant labourers in quaran-
tine, after they returned to
Gomia and Nawadih from
Mumbai – a red zone.
On Saturday, all 90 migrant
workers returned from
Mumbai were screened and 17
of them were sent to Hurlung
and Chatrochatti Panchyat
Quarantine Center, 9 Chutte, 4
Hosir, 5 Lodhi and 5 of them
were sent to Pachmo Panchyat
Quarantine Center, informed
Dr H Barla in-charge Gomia
CHC.
While 50 migrant workers
were quarantined at Surhi,
Parasbani and Pokharia
Panchyaat after screening at
Nawadih CHC
Earlier out of 99 migrants,
also rushed from Mumbai, 40
among them were tested neg-
ative for COVID-19 infections
were sent to in-home quaran-
tine. They were at Pitts Morden
School Quarantine Center,
informed an official of the dis-
trict health department.
Meanwhile, 18 workers
who rushed to Bermo form
Hyderabad and Mumbai were
also sent to quarantine at
Panchyat Bhawan center. On
Friday surveillance teams of the
district health department con-
ducted search and identified
over 800 new migrants were
screened and sent in-home
quarantine, informed A K
Pathak Civil Surgeon Bokaro.
Also, 23 migrant labourers
sent to home quarantine after
scanning and examination by
the medical team at Balika
Middle School, Petarwar.
Among them, 5 workers are of
Nawadih block and 18 of them
are from Chandrapura block
respectively, he said. “At least 40
migrants were screened at
community Health Center
Bermo, 85 at Chandankiyari, 4
at Chas, 243 at Gomia, 256 at
Nawadih, 52 Jaridih, 41
Kasmar, 25 at Paterwar and 137
at Sadar Hospital on Friday and
sent in-home quarantine,” he
added.
About 15,156 migrants
were rushed in the district
since after the coronavirus out-
break out of them, 4808 are in-
home quarantine while 325
are still in institutional quar-
antine, he said.
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With 23 fresh Coronavirus
cases in Haryana on
Sunday, the total tally now
stood at 910.
The state has so far report-
ed 14 Coronavirus related fatal-
ities.
Out of 23 fresh cases, 11
were reported from Gurugram,
4 from Rohtak, 3 from
Faridabad, 2 from Panipat and
one each from Sirsa, Karnal
and Mahendragarh, according
to the State Health
Department’s evening bulletin.
The total active COVID-19
patients in the state are 334
while 562 patients have been
cured and discharged from
hospitals, as per the State’s
health bulletin.
The worst-affected districts
of the state with the maximum
number of positive cases are
Gurugram with 204 cases,
Faridabad with 147 cases and
Sonepat with 134 cases. As
many as 78029 samples have
been tested so far, of which
72494 have tested negative.
However, the report of 4625
samples is awaited, the bulletin
stated.
The COVID-19 positive
rate stood at 1.24 percent,
recovery rate at 61.75 percent
and doubling rate of
Coronavirus cases at 13 days on
Sunday in Haryana.
A spokesman of the State
Government said that the
Department of Ayush has dis-
tributed immunity boosting
medicines to more than 1.5
lakh persons (sanitation work-
ers, health workers, police per-
sonnel, senior citizens, PRIs
etc.) in Haryana.
More than 46.98 lakh per-
sons have already downloaded
Aarogya Setu App in Haryana.
Currently, Haryana has 27984
bedded quarantine facilities in
dedicated COVID Care
Centers and 11107 beds are
available in dedicated COVID
hospitals and in dedicated
COVID Health Centers, the
spokesman added.
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Punjab, it seems, is on road
to recovery. Sample this:
With just 563 active cases out
of the total 1,964 positive cases
reported till date across the
state, Punjab’s recovery rate
has touched 70 per cent.
The state recorded the
steep rise in the recovery rate,
by about six times, in just
three days — from 12 percent
on May 14 (Thursday) to 69.55
percent on May 17 (Sunday).
Attribute it to the Centre’s new
“relaxed” discharge policy or
hard work, as many as 1569
patients have recovered and
sent back home in the past
three days in Punjab.
Till May 14, Punjab’s recov-
ery rate was just 12 percent, or
11.52 percent to be precise with
1,680 active cases, and only 223
patients cured and discharged
out of the total 1,935 positive
cases across the state. The
same has now reached 70 per-
cent with 1,366 patients
emerged victorious in their
battle against the deadly virus.
The recovery rate depends
on a number of factors includ-
ing the flow of patient, death
rate, number of cases requiring
hospitalization, the quality of
care, and discharge policies,
among others.
The Union Health
Ministry, past week, had releas-
es a “revised” discharge policy
for COVID-19 patients, noting
that similar move was initiat-
ed by several other countries.
As per the revised policy, the
discharge protocol varied
depending on the severity of
the disease.
Being a Central
Government policy, the state
authorities are bound to imple-
ment it, and put into force from
Friday last with the respective
districts started to discharge
patients under the new policy.
On Friday (May 15), the
first batch of 508 asymptomatic
patients walked out of state’s
hospitals from all districts with
maximum 108 from
Gurdaspur, 81 from Tarn
Taran, 79 in Jalandhar, 65 in
Amritsar, 51 in Sangrur, 46 in
Moga, 35 in Mohali, 21 in
Bathinda, 11 in Ludhiana,
among others. A day later, on
Saturday (May 16), 952 were
discharged with maximum 261
from Amritsar.
On Sunday, another 109
COVID patients recovered and
sent back home. Among them,
18 are from Jalandhar, 36 from
Muktsar, 34 from Faridkot, 11
from Bathinda, and five each
from Patiala and Ropar —
leaving just 563 active cases in
the state till date.
Sharing, via a tweet, the
“improved” recovery rate and
doubling rate of 49 days, The
Chief Minister Capt Amarinder
Singh, “We’ve slowed spread of
#Covid19, but we still need to
work hard”.
Punjab’s doubling rate has
improved steadily over the last
11 days from past three days to
more than to 1.5 months (45
days).
Even as The Pioneer tried
to get in touch with some doc-
tors and health experts work-
ing on the frontline, they main-
tained that the new “relaxed”
policy to discharge the patients
with mild symptoms may prove
dangerous. However, no one
was ready to comment on the
record.
A senior doctor, working
with the State Health
Department, maintained that it
would be hard to keep these
patients under check, whether
they are following all protocols
of home isolation.
On the other hand, a senior
government official, requesting
anonymity, submitted that
those who are being discharged
are giving us an affidavit that
they would follow all rules
and in case of violation, we can
against them.
“The civil surgeons are
responsible to keep a check on
them. We have also asked them
to download COVA app which
would help us keep a track on
their movements,” said the
official.
Among those discharged,
majority are the ‘stranded’
Punjabis, who have returned to
Punjab from other states, espe-
cially the pilgrims from
Gurdwara Hazur Sahib at
Nanded in Maharashtra.
The state had witnessed a
massive jump in its cases fol-
lowing the return of thou-
sands of Punjabis to their home
state, who were stranded in
other states in the wake of
nationwide lockdown.
As per the official com-
munication regarding Revised
Discharge Policy, “The mild,
very mild, symptomatic, pre-
symptomatic, asymptomatic
cases can be discharged from
isolation health facility without
testing, provided they have are
asymptomatic (no fever,
breathlessness) for more than
three days.”
It added that all close con-
tacts of home quarantined per-
sons will take hydroxychloro-
quine as per the protocol and
as prescribed by the treating
Medical Officer.
Thus, the patients, who
were being discharged in such
a large number, are not being
tested before being allowed to
go.
The policy stated,
“Discharging without test, the
patient should be clinically
assessed for the resolution of
symptoms by the treating
Medical Officer”.
The treating medical offi-
cer will certify that the patient
is symptom-free as per guide-
lines and fit for home isolation.
Further, the patient will give an
undertaking for self-isolation to
ensure the availability of ade-
quate facilities for isolation.
In addition, the patients
would also have to download
COVA app and keep it active at
all times. Besides, a communi-
cation link between the care-
giver and hospital will also be
established for the entire dura-
tion of home isolation.
That was not all! The new
policy mandated the asympto-
matic returnees from other
states to remain quarantined at
their homes instead of gov-
ernment quarantine as was
case in the old policy.
“Persons returning from
other states should be screened
for symptoms. Asymptomatic
persons may be sent for home
quarantine for 14 days.
Symptomatic persons should
be taken to isolation centers
and tested for COVID-19 with
RT-PCR. If test is negative, they
can be discharged after symp-
toms subside. If positive, the
revised discharged policy to be
followed.”
Under the new policy, the
asymptomatic persons and
those tested negative for
COVID-19 in government-
run quarantine centers will
also be sent to their homes with
instructions for home quaran-
tine for total of 14 days.
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Financial resources will be
available for the States and
migrant labourers returning
to their villages will get employ-
ment following the announce-
ments made by the Union
Finance Minister Nirmala
Sitharaman on Sunday.
Stating this, the Chief
Minister Trivendra Singh
Rawat said that the provisions
announced will strengthen the
health infrastructure at the
grassroots and a new chapter of
quality digital education will
also begin. Rawat thanked
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
and Sitharaman for all the
announcements.
The CM said, “The
Central Government is doing
all that can be done in the pre-
sent circumstances. Multi-
faceted steps have been taken
under the C20 lakh crore spe-
cial economic package
announced by the PM.
Along with providing
relief to the affected people,
broad-based reforms are also
being undertaken to pave the
way for a self-reliant India.
We had requested that the
loan limit for states be
increased.
We thank the PM and the
Union Finance minister for
approving this request. Health
and wellness centres have been
major points of the state’s
health policy.
Now, we will find it more
convenient to establish health
and wellness centres. Further,
by making C40,000 crore addi-
tional allocation for MNREGA,
employment opportunities will
increase considerably in vil-
lages. This will particularly
benefit the labourers returning
to their villages.”
Rawat further said that the
health infrastructure will be
strengthened by increasing
public expenditure in the
health sector. While health
research will be encouraged,
investment in grassroot health
institutions will also increase.
Establishment of contagious
disease hospitals and public
health laboratories at the dis-
trict and block level will enable
extension of the health system
to the villages.
Stating that technology dri-
ven education has been accord-
ed prominence, the CM said
that quality education will be
available on the digital platform
under the Diksha Yojana for
school education under the
PM E-Vidya initiative.
One class, one channel is a
major step. Further, the Centre
has stepped up ease of doing
business. This will help the
industrial sector rise from the
current difficult conditions.
The new public sector
enterprises policy will improve
work efficiency while also
enhancing employment and
production.
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Welcoming the final
tranche of Centre's C20
lakh crore economic package
announced by the Union
Finance Minister Nirmala
Sitharaman, Haryana Chief
Minister Manohar Lal on
Sunday expressed his special
gratitude towards Prime
Minister Narendra Modi for
increasing borrowing limits of
states from 3 percent of Gross
State Domestic Product
(GSDP) to 5 per cent in 2020-
21, thereby giving extra
resource to the State
Government.
In a statement issued here,
Manohar Lal said that this
decision would certainly give a
major boost to the efforts made
by Haryana Government and
help in expeditiously achieving
the targets envisaged for vari-
ous sectors that have been
impacted due to COVID-19.
While thanking Prime
Minister for making important
announcements related to the
education sector, he said that
Centre's initiative of technolo-
gy-driven education through
DIKSHA. PM e-VIDYA pro-
gramme for multi-mode access
to digital or online education
would not only help lakhs of
students studying in Haryana,
who are unable to attend their
schools amid COVID-19 crisis
but would undoubtedly bene-
fit many aspiring children
across the country.
He said that Haryana has
already taken many steps in
promoting technology-driven
education as since April 15,
new classes for more than 52
lakh students have been start-
ed through cable and DTH
channels under the distance
education program to ensure
that students of Government
and private schools in Haryana
do not suffer academic loss.
The Chief Minister also
praised Centre's new initiative
‘MANODARPAN’ to extend
psycho-social support to stu-
dents, teachers and families for
mental health and emotional
well-being.
He thanked the Central
Government for announcing
an additional C 40,000 crore to
MGNREGA scheme as it will
surely help in generation of jobs
in rural areas.
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Amid spread of contagion of
Covid-19, the state health
department is gearing up to
meet the challenge from
dengue. Last year the vector
borne disease had affected
more than 10,500 persons in
Uttarakhand and had taken
many lives.
In Dehradun district alone,
the health department report-
ed 4,991 patients with six
deaths.
As dengue season starts
with the summers and lasts till
onset of the winters, the state
health department which at
present is engaged in a grim
battle with the Covid-19 wants
that the dengue should not
assume epidemic proportions
this year.
The director general of
state health services, Dr Amita
Upreti has already issued two
advisories to the districts on
preparedness for dengue. The
state nodal officer of Integrated
Disease Surveillance
Programme, Dr Pankaj told
The Pioneer that the depart-
ment has started an awareness
programme for the disease.
He said that the department
has increased its testing capac-
ity for dengue this year. Dr
Pankaj said that a video con-
ferencing session would soon
be organised with the district
officials. The district vector
borne diseases officer of
Dehradun, Subhash Joshi said
that all hospitals have been
asked to keep the department
informed about the cases of
dengue. He said that the hos-
pitals have been asked to
refrain from rapid testing tech-
nique and adhere to Enzyme
Linked Immuno Sorbent Assay
(ELISA) test for confirmation
of the disease. Joshi added
that the health workers have
been asked to keep an eye on
dengue prone areas.
Dengue is a viral infection
spread by the mosquito Aedes
Aezypti popularly known as
Tiger Mosquito. The symp-
toms of the disease are persis-
tent high fever, rashes,
headache and pain in the joints.
In the acute cases the platelets
number decrease drastically
which may prove fatal for the
patient. In Uttarakhand the
disease is more prevalent in
Dehradun, Haridwar, Nainital
and Udham Singh Nagar dis-
tricts.
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The Dehradun chief munic-
ipal health officer Dr
Kailash Joshi said that
Municipal Corporation of
Dehradun (MCD) can assist
people in selling plastic waste
if they will segregate it from
their garbage at their homes.
He stated that half of the issues
that the corporation has to face
during garbage dumping will
be resolved if the residential
and non-residential bodies
begin to segregate and manage
the generated waste at their
own place.
In an interaction with The
Pioneer, Joshi said that the
garbage collected by MCD
mainly comprises wet garbage
along with the plastic waste.
“Such garbage causes foul smell
besides making the dumping
process difficult in the waste
management plant.
Since a large percentage of
waste comes from commercial
bodies, they can make the
compost of their biodegradable
waste and can use it in their
garden while sending the plas-
tic materials for recycling,” he
stated.
If people begin to wisely
segregate the garbage, it will
help the public and the envi-
ronment, opined Dr Joshi.
He mentioned that last
year MCD held a campaign of
plastic waste segregation in
schools. The same year, MCD
sold about 22 quintals of plas-
tic waste to Public Works
Department (PWD).
If locals begin to segregate
plastic waste from their daily
garbage, MCD will even hire an
agency that can collect plastic
waste from their homes and
pay them for it.
Talking about the chal-
lenges MCD has to face due to
Covid-19 pandemic, Joshi said
“Some projects like the process
of tender for cleaning drains
got delayed.
Since the health section of
the corporation has been oper-
ational even during the lock-
down, there is nothing much
that got hindered due to the
pandemic.” Though, the cor-
poration is regularly sanitising
the city, locals are consistently
approaching MCD to sanitise
their houses and refusing them
regularly is a challenge too.
When we sanitise residential
areas, we make sure to spray
disinfectant over the main gate
and at the front of the house
where generally people touch
and pass through.
Sterilising over one lakh
houses on a regular basis is not
possible. Besides, excessive
sanitisation with such chemi-
cals damages our environment
too.
It is useless to sanitise
again and again unless there are
any positive Covid-19 cases in
or around the area, said Dr
Joshi. In the past, MCD had
several dispensaries for the
locals to receive affordable
treatment and medicine but
now most of them are non-
functional. Explaining about
this, Dr Joshi said that there are
sufficient hospitals in every
part of Dehradun except
Premnagar, where one can get
affordable treatment and med-
icines, so such dispensaries
are irrelevant. For now, there
are only two functional dis-
pensaries one of which is locat-
ed at Gandhi Road and anoth-
er one near Chakrata Road, he
informed.Sanitation workers
are playing a vital role during
the lockdown by maintaining
cleanliness in the city while also
facing the risk of contagion.
Talking about this, Dr Joshi
informed that MCD has made
a system for it.
If any of sanitation work-
er gets sick or shows any other
symptoms, they will contact
their respective supervisors
who will get them examined
immediately and provide them
proper medical treatment in
the hospital.
He also admits that novel
coronavirus has made more
locals aware about hygiene and
sanitation of their surround-
ings. Speaking about the learn-
ing experience for MCD from
the Covid-19 pandemic, he
said that this pandemic taught
everyone how important regu-
lar sterilisation and cleanli-
ness of public places is.
It is crucial to sanitise the
places like electricity and water
bill payment offices, ATM
boothsandbankswherethereis
the maximum risk of infection
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The Pradesh Congress
Committee (PCC) presi-
dent, Pritam Singh has
expressed concern over the
sudden spurt in number of
Covid-19 cases during past
one week in Uttarakhand. He
said that the State Government
should make better arrange-
ments for quarantine of the
returning migrants in the vil-
lages. Singh said that the man-
ner in which the migrants
have returned back to the state,
the number of Covid-19 posi-
tive cases is also witnessing in
spike. He added that migrants
are welcome to come back to
their homes but improper test-
ing and quarantine arrange-
ments done by the State Govt
has generated grave concern.
Singh said that similar situation
prevails in every village of
state as proper drinking water,
sanitizers, masks and other
arrangements are not there in
quarantine centres.
The general secretary of
Uttarakhand Congress, Vijay
Saraswat said that the care-
lessness shown by the State
Govt in quarantining people
could prove costly for the state.
He added that it believed that
the number of Covid-19 cases
in the state could increase
drastically. He said that by
providing only C10,000 to
Village Pradhans, proper quar-
antine for the returning
migrants is not possible.
The vice president of
Uttarakhand Congress,
Dhirendra Pratap expressed
grief on the death of woman
quarantined in a school at
Reva village of the Rikhnikhal
block of Pauri.
He said that the quarantine
centres opened in the schools
are proving to be death traps.
The Congress leaders demand-
ed that the task of opening and
managing these quarantine
centres should be handed over
to the SDMs and Tehsildar con-
cerned.
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The toll of the novel
Coronavirus (Covid-19) in
Uttarakhand increased to 92 on
Sunday with the State health
department reporting one case
of the disease. This 27 year old
patient reported from
Rishikesh town of Dehradun
district had returned on May 14
from Mumbai was in Home
quarantine. He was working as
a receptionist in a five star hotel
in Mumbai and when some of
his fellow workers were report-
ed positive for the disease he
went to the All India Institute
of Medical Sciences (AIIMS),
Rishikesh for testing on
Saturday. On Sunday, his sam-
ple was tested positive. The
health authorities are now trac-
ing his contact history.
Following the sudden spurt
in the number of cases of the
disease, the state health depart-
ment has issued an appeal that
all those who have travelled
from outside the state must
observe necessary quarantine
as mandated. During the home
quarantine they should remain
in a separate room. It is perti-
nent to mention here that dur-
ing last one week alone the 24
cases of the disease have been
reported and all of them have
either travelled from outside
the state or have got the virus
from getting into contact with
these people.
Meanwhile, Haridwar the
only district in Uttarakhand
listed under red zone became
free from active cases of disease
on Sunday.
The only active patient of
the disease was discharged
from Mela hospital of Haridwar
following his complete recov-
ery on the day.
The additional secretary,
state health department, Yugal
Kishore Pant said reports of 326
samples were found negative
for the disease on Sunday while
one were found positive.
He added that reports of
951 samples are still awaited by
the department. On Saturday,
a total of 549 samples were col-
lected for COVID -19 testing.
The authorities have so far
taken swab samples of 13212
suspected patients for COVID-
19 test. Out of the total sam-
ples taken, 0.81 percent samples
have been found positive for
the disease. On Sunday the rate
of recovery from the COVID-
19 in the state further dipped
to 56.52 percent. Incidentally
the rate was about 67 percent
few days ago.
A total of 1472458 people
have so far downloaded the
‘Aaroggya Setu App’ on their
smart phones.
The state now has 39 active
cases in the state with
Dehradun district at top of the
table with 16 active cases. The
Udham Singh Nagar district
now has 15 active cases while
Nainital has five active cases.
Uttarkashi, Almora and Pauri
districts have one active case
each.
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With the seventh Covid-
19 positive patient
recovering and being dis-
charged from hospital,
Haridwar district became free
of Covid-19 on Sunday. The
seventh positive case was dis-
charged from the isolation
centre at the Mela hospital
after his second sample report
came negative.
Haridwar Chief Medical
Officer Dr Saroj Naithani said
that so far seven positive
Covid-19 cases had been
admitted in the district, out of
which six patients had recov-
ered earlier and returned to
their homes. The seventh
patient was discharged on
Sunday. From the stage of
tracing and till the stage of
recovery, every doctor and
medical staff who have worked
hard are now very happy.
The seventh patient after
recovering thanked the team
of doctors who treated him.
He further appealed to the
people who left the hospital
not to run away and immedi-
ately inform the doctors if
there are any suspicious symp-
toms. Talking to The Pioneer,
Dr Naithani said that all
Covid-19 patients in the dis-
trict recovering is a happy
moment but stressed that pre-
cautions must be observed.
The challenges are still there.
People returning from other
states and districts pose a
challenge, she added.
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The process of migrants
returning to Uttarakhand
continued on Sunday. So far,
about 2.23 lakh people have
registered to return and out of
these 98,840 had returned to
Uttarakhand till Saturday. On
Sunday, a Shramik special train
from Ahmedabad arrived in
Lalkuan with about 1,200 peo-
ple hailing from various parts
of the Kumaon region. The
administration had arranged
about 60 buses to ferry the
returning migrants back to
their home districts after ther-
mal screening and other nec-
essary formalities.
The train which departed
about an hour later than sched-
uled from Ahmedabad arrived
about three hours late at
Lalkuan at about 8 PM.
However, all the returning
migrants were happy at return-
ing to their native state. In
another development, approval
has been received in principle
for sending 1,400 persons by
train from Haridwar to West
Bengal.
Meanwhile, more than
37,000 people have registered
online for travelling from
Uttarakhand to other states.
Till Saturday, 20,855 had
departed from Uttarakhand
for other states. Within the
state, 77,598 people have gone
from one district to another.
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The number of people using
digital payment mode has
increased during the lock-
down. Due to the fear of the
infection of Covid-19, locals
are opting for cashless trans-
action whenever possible.
According to a Sahastradhara
Road grocery store owner
Ritupal Garg, I ask every per-
son who shops here to pay me
through their cards or online
wallets.
Earlier, the digital transaction
was only about 30 to 35 per
cent. But now more than 60
per cent people pay me
through cards or apps, while
the remaining use cash. I keep
the cash received from the
customers in a separate box
and spray sanitiser over the
money and then open it after
24 hours. I cannot shut my
business but I can avoid touch-
ing the cash for at least one day.
It might do nothing, but it is
the best I can do to sterilise the
paper currency and coins.
A Raipur Road shopkeep-
er Trilok Varma said that his
customers prefer to pay
through digital money wallets
than cash but it does cause
some problems too.
Sometimes digital payment
takes time to reflect in your
bank account. Due to this, a
customer has to wait for the
transaction confirmation. It
consumes the time of seller too.
I tell them that I do not have
any issue with cash payment
but most of them refuse to pay
in cash stating that they do not
have enough cash. There has
been about 30 per cent increase
in digital transaction in my
shop this month, added
Varma
According to another
shopkeeper Yogesh Yadav, peo-
ple are choosing cashless trans-
actions because they do not
want to go to ATMs and stand
in line and face more infection
risk.
However, many store own-
ers opined that people are not
willingly paying through digi-
tal payment modes. According
to them, people are paying
because of compulsion and
helplessness. I understand that
some people might want con-
tactless transaction and deliv-
eries. But many of them do it
because they have no other
options. Several people still
prefer paying in cash but they
do not have time to withdraw
money due to the limited
access to ATMs.
They are still not com-
fortable with digital transac-
tion, especially the old people,
said local store owner
Mohammad Zaid.
However, the percentage
of people paying digitally has
not increased much yet in
smaller shops. Only about
two or three people pay
through card or apps out of
about 30 people in a day. Many
people still find it difficult to
trust cashless transaction.
They prefer to pay and get
paid in cash. Some people
have enough money in their
bank account and have smart-
phones too but they call me at
night to recharge their
mobile number and then pay
me the next day, said Pritam
Singh, a local store owner near
Karnpur.
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Even as the country wit-
nessed a massive surge of
around 5,000 Covid-19 cases
on Sunday, at least eight States
and Union Territories -
Arunachal Pradesh,
Chandigarh, Ladakh,
Meghalaya, Mizoram,
Puducherry, the Andaman
and Nicobar Islands and
Dadra and Nagar Haveli –did
not report any case of
Coronavirus in the last 24 hrs.
Sikkim, Nagaland,
Daman and Diu, and
Lakshadweep have not
reported any case till now,
Union Health Minister Harsh
Vardhan said in a statement
here.
With India entering the
fourth phase of the nation-
wide lockdown from Monday,
Vardhan said that our policy,
perseverance coupled with
aggressive and early mea-
sures have shown encourag-
ing results.
He said that while India
sees a gets accustomed to a
new normal, following sim-
ple hygiene measures like
washing hands with soap
frequently or using alcohol-
based sanitisers, not spitting
in public, sanitizing one's
workplace, using face covers
in public places are a must.
Physical distancing is the
most potent social vaccine
available to us and hence it is
advisable to ensure 'Do Gaz ki
Doori' (two-years distance)
while interacting with others
and to limit social gatherings
by opting virtual gatherings,
he said while people advising
to travel only when it is
absolutely necessary and not
to visit crowded places to
limit the exposure to the
virus.
Due precautions, safe
handling of food can help pre-
vent the spread of COVID-19,
the minister said as he point-
ed out that the
doubling time of coronavirus
infection in India has
improved to 13.6 days in the
last three days from 11.5 in
the past 14 days.
The fatality rate is down
to 3.1 per cent and the recov-
ery rate has improved to 37.5
per cent, he said.
The Minister said coron-
avirus cases in India reached
the 80,000 mark in 106 days
while developed nations such
as the UK, Italy, Spain,
Germany and the US took 44-
66 days to reach that mark.
Also as of Saturday, 3.1
per cent of the active COVID-
19 patients are in the ICU,
0.45 per cent are on ventila-
tors and 2.7 per cent on oxy-
gen support.”
Elaborating on the health
infrastructure preparedness,
Vardhan said “916 dedicated
COVID-19 hospitals with
1,80,473 beds - 1,61,169 iso-
lation and 19,304 ICU - and
2,044 dedicated health centres
with 1,28,304 beds (1,17,775
isolation beds and 10,529
ICU beds) along with 9,536
quarantine centres and 6,309
care centres with 5,64,632
beds are now available in the
country.”
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Older age, being male and
underlying conditions
such as cardiovascular dis-
eases are already known risk
factors associated for Covid-19.
But now, the scientists have
identified, deprivation, living in
a densely populated area, eth-
nicity, obesity, and chronic
kidney disease as also likely
risks associated with the
Coronavirus. These observa-
tions have been published in
The Lancet Infectious Diseases
journal.
Moreover, previous studies
have focused on the risk of
severe COVID-19 in hospital
cases; this new study, however,
identifies risk factors for test-
ing positive for COVID-19
using electronic health record
data from General
Practitioners .
Older age, being male,
deprivation, living in a dense-
ly populated area, ethnicity,
obesity, and chronic kidney dis-
ease (CKD) are seven factors
associated with a positive test
for COVID-19, according to
results from 3,802 people test-
ed for SARS-CoV-2 (including
587 positive tests) in the UK.
The study holds impor-
tance in the context of India
too where a large number of
cases have started pouring
from slum areas like Dharavi in
Mumbai which are heavily
populated. Dharavi has already
reported over 1,200 positive
cases so far. Covid-19 positive
cases are being reported from
other slums too from various
States. Moreover, India has a
large number of people suffer-
ing with CKD.
Study author Professor
Simon de Lusignan from the
University of Oxford, and
Director of the Royal College
of GPs Surveillance Centre,
UK, said: While clear trends
have emerged from hospital
data for the people with severe
symptoms, the risk of infection
among the general population
remains a grey area. It's impor-
tant to know which groups in
the wider community are most
at risk of infection so that we
can better understand SARS-
CoV-2 transmission and how
to prevent new cases.
The authors noted that
other socio-economic factors,
which were not measured in
this study, may also be linked
with SARS-CoV-2 infection,
such as employment in high
risk jobs, education, income,
and differences in access to
healthcare and testing among
ethnic groups. Further
research is needed to under-
stand these associations.
Professor de Lusignan
said: This result does not
indicate that smoking protects
against infection, and there
are many potential alternative
explanations - such as smok-
ing hampering the sensitivity
of the SARS-CoV-2 test, or
people who smoke being
more likely to have an ongo-
ing cough so being more like-
ly to be tested despite not hav-
ing the virus.
“As well as the well-doc-
umented harms to overall
health from smoking, there is
potential for smoking to
increase the severity of
COVID-19 disease, and so
our findings should not be
used to conclude that smok-
ing prevents SARS-CoV-2
infection, or to encourage
ongoing smoking.
The authors analysed
data from 587 people with
positive results and 3,215
with negative results, collat-
ed by GP practices in
England who are part of the
Royal College of General
Practitioners Research and
Surveillance Centre primary
care network.
Among adults, those aged
40 to 64 years were at the
greatest risk of testing posi-
tive for SARS-CoV-2 (18.5
per cent tested positive, 243
out of 1,316 people), com-
pared with children aged up
to 17 years (4.6 per cent, 23
of 499). Among 1,612 men,
18.4 per cent (296) tested
positive, compared with 13.3
per cent (291/2,190) of
women, said the study fund-
ed by Wellcome Trust.
There was a large differ-
ence between people living in
the most and least deprived
areas too as well in urban vs
rural areas. Co-author Dr
Gayatri Amirthalingam, from
Public Health England, said:
With each day that passes
our knowledge of COVID-19
improves.
This analysis of primary
care outcomes of individuals
testing positive for virus is an
important contribution to
our wider understanding of
how COVID-19 is affecting
people of different demo-
graphic groups.”
The authors suggested
that a larger population sur-
vey is urgently needed to
confirm which groups are
most at risk.
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In the fight against
Coronavirus pandemic that
has affected more than 4.6
million people, it is the indige-
nous population worldwide
that is being ignored even
though it may be especially vul-
nerable to Covid-19, according
to a research published in The
Lancet.
The authors noted that
they are largely excluded from
most national or regional
efforts to curb the spread of the
disease.
According to the World
Bank, over 370 million indige-
nous people inhabit over 90
countries, in both rural and
urban areas. India is home to
about 700 tribal groups with a
population of 104 million, as
per 2011 census. These indige-
nous people constitute the sec-
ond largest tribal population in
the world after Africa.
Even in high-income
countries, indigenous groups
like the Navajo have been hit
hard by Covid-19, with per
capita infection rates rivaling
those of New York and New
Jersey.
To address this, a team of
anthropologists, physicians and
tribal leaders has developed a
strategy for mitigating the
impact of Covid-19 among
the Tsimane, an indigenous
population in the Bolivian
Amazon.
Led by University of
California-Santa Barbara’s
Michael Gurven and Hillard
Kaplan of Chapman University,
their plan brings together rel-
evant stakeholders to best serve
Tsmane interests.
They hope to provide a
general template that can be
applied to other indigenous
groups, and to promote a
wider discussion on how to
adapt strategies to local cir-
cumstances, with the goal of
minimizing harm to indige-
nous populations due to the
SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, said
the study.
While every individual
around the world is vulnera-
ble to Covid-19 because it is
new and no one has developed
any immunity, many indige-
nous communities are at addi-
tional risk because of wide-
spread respiratory illness,
including prior history of
tuberculosis, bronchitis and
lower respiratory tract infec-
tions and compromised
immune function.
Though health clinics may
be present in rural areas,
access and resources such as
medication, portable oxygen
and other treatments may be
very limited.
The potential for higher
mortality among infected
individuals makes Covid-19
more salient for indigenous
populations, Gurven noted,
for reasons different from
those typically considered.
The authors hope their
paper will serve to affect pol-
icy and call for action.
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In an open letter to Prime
Minister Narendra Modi and
Union Housing and Urban
Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh
Puri, as many as 60 retired
bureaucrats, including former
ambassadors and secretaries,
have expressed grave concern
about the Central Vista
Redevelopment project cur-
rently planned in the most
iconic heritage precinct of New
Delhi and urged them to stop
the project.
Congress president Sonia
Gandhi and other opposition
parties have earlier asked PM
Modi to scrap the project in the
wake of the coronavirus pan-
demic.
“The redevelopment
planned will, moreover, cause
severe environmental dam-
age. In the post Covid-19 sce-
nario, when enormous funds
are required for strengthening
the public health system, to
provide sustenance to people
and to rebuild the economy,
taking up a proposal to
redesign the entire Central
Vista at a cost of at least Rs
20000 crores, a figure likely to
escalate significantly, seems
particularly irresponsible. It
seems like Nero fiddling while
Rome burns”, the letter read.
The former bureaucrats
said that this project needs to
be stopped forthwith for the
multiple and complex rea-
sons. “We appeal to the gov-
ernment to see the fallacy in
going ahead with this project
and to issue the necessary
notifications forthwith to stop
the work from going ahead,”
they said in the letter.
“The Central Vista area
hasbeen accorded Grade 1
heritage status under the
extant Unified Building Bye
Laws of Delhi. Construction
and redesign on the scale
planned in the redevelopment
project will significantly affect
the heritage nature of this
precinct, and destroy it irrev-
ocably. Constructing a large
number of multi-storeyed
office buildings, with base-
ments, in this open area will
create congestion and irre-
versibly change and damage
the environment. Delhi
already suffers from enor-
mous environmental pollu-
tion”, the letter read.
“A premise on which the
redevelopment of Central
Vista is based, appears to be
the necessity to concentrate
offices of the Central
Government in one place.
This is against the basic tenets
of the Master Plan of Delhi
which stipulates that no new
offices should be built in New
Delhi and that efforts should
be made to decongest it. It is
also out of sync with the
maxim of ‘less government,
more governance’, which the
present government had in its
manifesto”.
The letter further states’ it
is sad to note that approvals of
empowered supervisory bod-
ies like the Environmental
Assessment Committee of the
Ministry of Environment and
the Central Vista Committee
have been pushed through in
great haste at meetings con-
vened at short notice while the
country is in lockdown due to
the Covid 19 epidemic, and
despite the absence of private
members who expressed their
inability to attend and advised
waiting till the nation returned
to normalcy’.
The open letter was writ-
ten by former bureaucrats
including Julio Ribeiro, Aftab
Seth, Ashok Kumar Sharma,
Jawahar Sircar, Madhu
Bhaduri, K.P. Fabian, Sushil
Dubey, Harsh Mander, Meena
Gupta and Tishyarakshit
Chatterjee.
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The Supreme Court will hear
all cases via video and
audio links between May 18
and June 19, and has scaled up
its '1881' helpline to assist
advocates and litigants in e-fil-
ing and virtual hearing, accord-
ing to a standard operating pro-
cedure (SoP) released on
Sunday amid the coronavirus-
triggered lockdown.
The fresh SoP assumed
significance as the apex court,
which has been hearing only
urgent cases through video-
conferencing during the lock-
down, decided on May 15 to
postpone its summer vacation
by five weeks and declared
that it would remain function-
al from May 18 to June 19.
Issuing the fresh SoP, the
apex court said for the first time
in the Registry, '1881' helpline
number will remain function-
al from 10 AM to 5 PM under
supervision of senior officers to
provide instant solutions to
query of advocate and litigants
about e-filing and other issues
In order to contain the spread
of coronavirus (COVID-19),
considering the prevailing sit-
uation, and taking into account
the suggestions received from
various quarters and the guide-
lines issued by the Government
of India and Government of
NCT of Delhi from time to
time, the Chief Justice of India
has been pleased to direct the
constitution of the bench(es) to
hear matters in the coming
weeks since the Virtual Courts
will be functioning from May
18, 2020 to June 19, 2020 (both
days inclusive), that is, during
the earlier notified summer
vacations through video con-
ferencing/ tele-conferencing
mode only,” the top court said.
The communication fur-
ther said, The proceedings by
video-conference should not
be recorded/stored or broad-
cast, in any manner whatso-
ever, as
recording/copying/storing
and/or broadcasting, by any
means, of the hearings and
proceedings before the apex
court are expressly prohibited.”
The fresh matters lying in
the pool which could not be
listed due to the pandemic
have been scheduled to be list-
ed before the virtual court for
hearing during the period, it
said.
Once the pool of fresh
matters is exhausted, matters
belonging to Short Categories,
which are ready for listing, will
be listed before the court for
hearing. In addition to the
fresh matters and short cate-
gory matters, such other mat-
ters shall also be listed for
hearing, as may be directed,”
it said.
It further said that the
timing of sitting of the virtu-
al courts will be notified in the
respective causelists which
will be published well in
advance.
The Advocate-on-Record
or the parties in person should
specify as to whether he/she
would link to the Bench
through their own computer
or would prefer to avail the
facility for video-conferencing
in the Supreme Court premis-
es,” the SoP said.
It, however, noted desktop,
laptop, tablet computers pro-
vide stable connectivity for a
video-conference, whereas sig-
nal drop/incoming call on
mobile devices can delink
such devices from an ongoing
video-conference disrupting
such video-conferencing.
It may be further noted
that smooth functioning of the
video-conference is squarely
dependent upon and subject to
the connectivity (signal-
strength/bandwidth) available
at the end of the remote
user(s), and hence it is expect-
ed that any party joining a
video-conference hearing shall
ensure robust connectivity
and bandwidth are available at
their end – in this regard, par-
ties may use broadband con-
nection of minimum 2
mbps/dedicated 4G data con-
nection, and may also ensure
that no other device or appli-
cation
is connected to or using
the bandwidth when the hear-
ing by video-conferencing
is progressing on their
Vidyo-enabled computer.”
The parties are first
required to file the peti-
tion/miscellaneous applica-
tion, preferably through the e-
filing mode available on the
top court's website and upon
completion of all the
formalities, and its due regis-
tration they are permitted to
send separately the signed and
verified mentioning-applica-
tion containing a synopsis of
urgency not exceeding one
page, said the apex court in its
fresh SoP.
It directed the parties to
remember to keep their micro-
phone on “mute” at all times,
except when the Bench
requires them to make sub-
missions as there is the possi-
bility of the microphone catch-
ing audio feed from the speak-
ers and creating “echo/noise-
disturbance” would become
very high and may disturb the
video-conference.
“During hearing through
video-conferencing, the par-
ties may kindly keep in mind
that they are participating in
court proceedings, and hence
it is expected that they would
not resort to any indecorous
conduct or dress or comment,”
said the circular.
It also said that the
Registry may call any party
upon publication of the cause-
list, to test the device or its
connectivity, and every such
party is required to cooperate
with the staff/official and abide
by the instructions given, so
that the hearing by video-
conference may be smoothly
conducted.
The new circular has
superseded the previous SoPs
on e-filing and mentioning
which were issued on March
23, 26 and April 17.
The apex court, since
March 25, has been holding
courts through video confer-
encing due to the nationwide
lockdown to contain the
spread of coronavirus
(COVID-19) and had sus-
pended the entry of advo-
cates and other staff into the
high security zone on the
basis of their proximity cards,
till further orders.
During the lockdown, the
benches usually assemble at
the residences of the judges
and the lawyers are allowed to
join the video-conferencing
from their homes or offices.
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Henceforth, if you enter the
dedicated lane with a
FASTag but which is invalid or
non-functional, then you will
be charged double the toll fee
applicable to the category of
your vehicle.
So far, prior to this new
rule, the user of a vehicle had
to pay twice on the fee plaza
‘only’ if the vehicle didn't carry
the FASTag and entered in the
dedicated tag lane.
The Ministry of Road
Transport and Highways
brought in this amendment
through a notification on May
15.
“If a vehicle which is not
fitted with FASTag or the vehi-
cle is without a valid or func-
tional FASTag, enters into
“FASTag lane” of the Fee plazas,
then they shall pay a fee
equivalent to two times of the
fee applicable to that category
of vehicles,” the amendment in
the National Highways Fee
(Determination of Rates and
Collection) Rules stated.
The Government had
made FASTags mandatory
from December 15, 2019.
A total of 1.68 crore
FASTags have been issued
across the country till the
beginning of May 2020.
FASTag employs Radio
Frequency Identification
(RFID) technology for making
toll payments on national high-
ways directly from the prepaid
or savings account linked to it.
A prepaid tag, fixed on
vehicles' windscreen, allows
automated deduction of toll
charges, and lets any vehicle
pass through a toll plaza with
zero human contact.
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The Delhi Gymkhana Club's
management has ques-
tioned the maintainability of
the Centre's petition filed
before the NCLT saying it
smacks of malafides. The
principal bench of the National
Company Law Tribunal
(NCLT) is presently hearing the
matter. It was heard through
video conferencing last week
and the tribunal would con-
tinue the hearing on Monday
as well.
Terming the Corporate
Affairs Ministry's petition as
completely misconceived,
misplaced and not maintain-
able,” the club in its affidavit
also said it was a private club
formed for the use of its mem-
bers and there is no element of
public interest that was
involved. The ministry has
alleged fraudulent and ram-
pant mismanagement by the
club's general committee and
sought to take over the man-
agement control under section
241 and 242 of the Companies
Act, 2003.
What is equally disturbing
is the manner in which the
petitioner has sought to move
this petition, namely ex-parte,
without service of an advance
copy upon the answering
respondent. This act itself
smacks of malafides as indeed,
does the petition itself, the
club's petition said. It also
noted that present membership
is neither heritable nor trans-
ferable as it is a company lim-
ited by guarantee.
In its petition, the govern-
ment has alleged that the prac-
tice of hereditary succession
mode of membership terming
it as parivaar-vaad (nepo-
tism) and minimal adher-
ence to the democratic ethical
practice.
According to the club,
existence of public interest is
a condition precedent for
invoking under section 241
and in the absence of public
interest the question of any-
thing prejudicial thereto does
not arise and another condi-
tion precedent for maintaining
such a petition is grounds of
winding up must exist, which
is also not in the present peti-
tion.
Admittedly, there being
no public interest in the pre-
sent matter within the mean-
ing of Section 241 (2) the
petition must be dismissed
with costs; given the apparent
legal malice in the petition, it
said. The club has also alleged
that complaint from a former
ministry official arose as it
resisted pressure to give him
membership.
Noting that the club veri-
ly believes that the person was
a high-ranking member in the
ministry, the petition said,
harassment that the club has
been facing from the
Department of Corporate
Affairs harps back to that
episode. Their grievance is
limited towards the revision of
registration fee and not the
imposition or the power to
impose a registration fee.
Needless to say these are facile
arguments raised by disgrun-
tled applicants, it said.
On April 24, the NCLT
had issued notices to the club
and its general committee
managing the affairs, over the
ministry's petition seeking
management control of the
facility. Among others, the
ministry has fraudulent and
rampant mismanagement by
the general committee.
Moreover, in connection
with election of membership,
the club has always followed
the traditional procedure as
per the past practice and there
is no violation of its article of
association (AoA), it said in the
reply affidavit.
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Congress General Secretary
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on
Sunday urged Uttar Pradesh
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath
to allow the party ferry migrant
labourers back home in buses
arranged by it and kept ready at
the State border.
She made the appeal in a
video message posted on
Twitter, a day after 24 migrant
workers were killed and 36
injured when a trailer rammed
into a stationary truck, both car-
rying passengers, on a highway
near Auraiya in Uttar Pradesh.
Respected chief minister, I
am requesting you, this is not
the time for politics. Our buses
are standing at the border.
Thousands of labourers and
migrants are walking towards
their homes without food or
water and after fighting all
troubles. Let us help them. Give
permission to our buses, she
said.
In another tweet, she said,
Our buses are standing at the
border. Thousands of nation-
builders workers and migrants
are walking in the sun. Give per-
mission Yogi Adityanath ji. Let
us help our brothers and sisters.
She also put out a video of
the buses standing at Uttar
Pradesh border ready for plying.
The Congress leaders
including former party chief
Rahul Gandhi have been for
quite some time seeking per-
mission to ply their buses to
transport migrant labourers to
their homes.
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Even before the indigenous-
ly designed and developed
Light Combat Aircraft (TEJAS)
became fully operational and
proved its capability, a spin off
technology derived from the
fighter aircraft has started sav-
ing many lives in India. This
has come at a time when the
country was facing shortage of
quality critical care medical
ventilators in Intensive Care
Units in its hospitals.
An air delivery system
(ADS)developedbytheDefense
Research and Development
Organization (DRDO) for the
pilots of the LCA turned out to
be the life saver for thousands of
coronaviruspatients.Buttheend
result is the culmination of
years long painstaking research
undertaken by various institu-
tions like PSG College of
Technology, Pricol (a
Coimbatore based engineering
manufacturer ) and Skanray, a
Bangalorebasedhealthcaretech-
nology company.
Dr Jagadish J Hiremath, a
medical doctor with dreams of
making CCMV available to the
poor section of the society
played a crucial role of the
bridge between the engineering
and medical fraternities and
the end result turned out to be
a win-win situation for all.
An ordinary CCMV would
cost anything between Rs 10
lakh and Rs 15 lakh. Then there
is the high maintenance cost of
the instrument which could be
done only by professional engi-
neers. “But the CCMV
designed and built by Skanray
making use of the Bharat
Electricals Ltd (BEL) technol-
ogy succeeded in bringing
down the cost considerably.
This ventilator costs less than
a lakh rupees. It’s a robust ven-
tilator system and the post-pro-
duction clinical trials are
underway. The initial results
are encouraging and we will
soon transform the same into
a super intelligent ventilator,”
said Dr Hiremath speaking to
The Pioneer over telephone
even as he was evaluating the
performance of the machine in
the ICU of his research clinic.
He said India was 100
years behind the technology of
the CCMV when the research
in the field began in 2010.
“Now we have narrowed down
the technical difference to just
20 years. In another five years,
we will have our own super
intelligent ventilator,” said Dr
Hiremath, a MD in anesthesi-
ology with specialisation in
cardiac transplant anesthesia.
The success story of the
indigenously developed CCMV
comes immediately after the
offer by US President Trump
that he would offer ventilators
to India in this hour of crisis.
“Skanray has the capability to
manufacture 30,000 CCMV
per month as on date. Though
the system is not a complete
one like the products manu-
factured in foreign countries,
these ventilators meet all our
requirements and in the course
of time, we can equip all pri-
mary health centres in the
country with these easy to
operate and maintain CCMVs,”
said Dr Hiremath.
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Union Finance Minister
Nirmala Sitharaman’s ‘eco-
nomic package 5.0’ seems to
have failed to fascinate the
Bengal political circle, includ-
ing the Trinamool Congress
and the Left, which slammed
the Centre’s strategy of “mak-
ing money out of a calamity.”
Hitting New Delhi hard for
refusing to transfer cash to State
Governments who are at the
forefront of fighting the coro-
na crisis senior Trinamool
Congress leader and MP
Saugato Roy on Sunday said
“the States were expecting to
get some money in their hands
or at least into the hands of the
common people who are suf-
fering… but the Union
Government refused to do so.
“Instead of giving grants
the Centre is expanding the
scope of loans by announcing
loan worth Rs 4.4 lakh crore
which will further increase the
burden of debt on the States.
“Let alone the State
Governments which are fight-
ing the pandemic from the
forefront we did not even hear
anything from the Government
about increasing the purchas-
ing power of the poor and peo-
ple who are migrating back to
their villages hungry and
impoverished. We expected
cash transfer directly into their
pockets which too did not
happen…
“For the street vendors too,
the Centre has announced loan
schemes instead of reaching
relief directly into their hands.
In the present situation who
will risk taking loan and start-
ing a business when there is no
buyer in sight?” he said adding
“the announcements made by
the Finance Minister are noth-
ing new. These schemes had
already been discussed earlier.
“In the present context we
can only say that the
Government is not providing
relief but it is doing business in
the difficult times.”
CPI(M)’s Md Salim too
slammed the Centre for
remaining “insensitive to the
people’s plight of the people.
“We needed immediate relief
for those lakhs of poor people
displaced and starving under
the impact of the corona pan-
demic and not some distant
plans aimed at selling the entire
resources of the country to the
rich foreigners. What the
Centre has announced is any-
thing but a package,” he said.
Bengal BJP president Dilip
Ghosh however reacted sharply
saying the “State Government
is unhappy because it has not
been given cash to misappro-
priate. The TMC government
wanted money in its hands so
that they could get cut money
out of them. But the Centre
wants the money to go straight
into the hands of the people. So
it has decided against transfer-
ring money to the State
Government.”
He also attacked the TMC
and the earlier Left Front for
allowing hundreds of industries
to flee the State forcing the local
working force to migrate to
other regions. “Why have the
workers been forced to migrate
to distant regions of
Maharashtra, Gujarat or South
India. This because of the
faulty policies of the Left and the
TMC Governments” he said.
Elsewhere senior BJP
leader Kailash Vijaybargiya
also slammed the TMC
Government for “playing with
the corona situation when they
should have helped the people
survive. The TMC will have to
pay very dearly in the next
year’s municipal elections for
mishandling the pandemic sit-
uation and taking partial
approach in providing relief to
the people of the State.”
Meanwhile, Bengal saw 101
newcoronacasesintheStatetak-
ingthetotalnumberofinfections
to 2677. However the active
cases remained at 1480, govern-
ment sources said. 238 people
haddiedduetothedisease.This
include the 72 deaths that hap-
pened due to comorbidity.
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Having not yet arrested the
continued spike in the
number of deaths and infected
cases in major cities like
Mumbai and Pune, the
Maharashtra government on
Sunday extended the lock-
down till May 31, with a
promise to resort to phase-wise
relaxations and issue orders of
lifting the lockdown in certain
parts of the State.
Official sources said in the
evening that the state govern-
ment would in likelihood issue
new guidelines for the
Lockdown-4 on Monday.
Invoking the Epidemic Act,
1807, the Disaster Management
Act, 2005, the orders issued by
the Revenue, Disaster
Management, Relief and
Rehabilitationdepartmentissued
on May 2, 3, 5,, 11 and 15 and
the MHA’s order issued on May
1 and 11, State chief Secretary
Ajoy Mehta issued a new order,
“providing additional human
resources to the Home depart-
ment for assisting police per-
sonneltowardsthecontainment
of Covid-19 in the State”.
Among other things, the
Maharashtra government said
in its order that it was satisfied
that the state was threatened
with the spread of Covid-19
virus and “therefore to take
emergency measures to prevent
and contain the spread of virus”
the Government felt that it was
expedient to extend the lock-
down in the entire state of
Maharashtra “further till the
midnight of May 31”.
As part of its decision to
extend the lockdown till May
31, the State Government “shall
strictly implement the guide-
lines issued earlier from to
time”. “The calibrated phase
wise relaxation /lifting of lock-
down orders will be notified in
due course,” the State
Government order said.
Going by the indications
givenbyMaharashtrachiefmin-
ister Uddhav Thackeray earlier,
the Maharashtra government is
likely to enforce the lockdown
strictly in the red zones of the
state,especiallythecontainment
areas in Mumbai Metropolitan
Region, Pune Metropolitan
Region and areas like
Aurangabad when it announces
the relaxed guidelines on
Monday. However, the State
Government may announce
more relaxations for the green
and orange zones in the state.
Indicating the plans to
extend the lockdown beyond,
Maharashtra chief minister
Uddhav Thackeray had on
Friday ruled the possibility of
reopening of intra-district bor-
ders in the state after May 17.
After reviewing the coron-
avirus situation in the state with
the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi
(MVA) colleagues in the state,
the chief minister had said:
“Without reopening the intra-
district borders, we will have to
take all precautions while
preparing road map for the
lockdown-4 beginning on May
18. The Coronavirus crisis is
not over yet in the state. We will
have to seek the help of doctors
and members of Task Force in
dealing with the situation in the
Post-May 18 period”.
In an interaction held earli-
er with the divisional commis-
sioners and district collectors
across the state through video
conferencing, Uddhav had said:
“We will have to draw a delicate
balance between the health
emergency and the economic
emergency. That’s why we will
havetostarttheindustrialactiv-
ities in the state. We will have to
extreme care in areas where we
will resume industrial activities.
In Green Zones, movement of
vehiclescanstartwithindistricts
evenwhiletakingnecessarypre-
cautions”. “Come what may, the
district collectors will have to
enforce lockdown norms strict-
ly in containment zones across
the state so as to ensure that the
pandemic does not spread out-
side these zones,” the CM said.
The CM had advised the
officers on ground that while
relaxing lockdown, they would
take care to see that they would
not open the intra-district bor-
ders in the state. “This is essen-
tial because that a lot of migra-
tion is taking place and you
have to take medical precau-
tions to ensure against the
spread of the pandemic,”
Uddhav had told the revenue
heads across the state.
“We have succeeded in
containing the spread of pan-
demic during April. But, now
in May, we have been told that
the number of infected cases
will increase in a big way. It is
extremely essential that we
break the chain of the spread of
Covid-19. At the same, we will
have to deal with monsoon-
related epidemics and ail-
ments,” he said.
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The Union territory of
Jammu Kashmir on
Sunday marched ahead of
Karnataka as it recorded 62
fresh cases of coronavirus and
reported one more death, tak-
ing the total tally of cases to
1,183. So far 13 deaths due to
covid-19 have been reported
across Jammu and Kashmir.
The sudden spike in fresh
cases have been attributed to
aggressive testing of stranded
passengers arriving from dif-
ferent destinations via rail route
and road link. So far 54,866
stranded passengers have
entered Jammu and Kashmir
via Lakhanpur road link.
Besides, 11,456 passengers have
reached through Covid special
trains at Jammu and
Udhampur railway stations.
According to media bul-
letin on Novel Coronavirus,
“62 new positive cases were
detected on Sunday, 16 from
Jammu division and 46 from
Kashmir division”. 33 patients
were discharged from different
hospitals taking the total tally
of recovered cases to 575.
“Out of 1183 cases, 595 are
active positive. 509 cases are
active positive in Kashmir and
86 in Jammu division”.
Accordingtothemediabulletin,
the highest number of 28 cases
were reported from Kulgam
followed by 15 from Anantnag.
Deputy commissioner,
Anantnag, Bashir Ahmad Dar
said, “as many as 600 samples of
pregnant ladies were taken, out
of which 12 patients turned out
to be positive on saturday. He
added, so far 5,000 tests were
conducted across 11 Red Zones
of the district to contain the
spread of coronavirus.
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The total number of Covid-
19 triggered deaths rose to
56 on Sunday, even as 44 more
people tested positive for
Coronavirus taking the
total number of infected cases
to 1,242.
As it lived up to its reputa-
tion of being a hotspot —
description that it had earned
in the very first week of the out-
break of the pandemic in the
first week of April, Dharavi
recorded 44 more new positive
cases on Sunday.
On Sunday, the authorities
added three more deaths to the
total tally of death in Dharavi
where there have so far been 56
deaths. “The three deaths that
we have added to the total
death tally in this slum had
happened earlier. But, they
were reported late to the
local ward office,” a senior
Brihanmumbai Municipal
Corporation (BMC)
official said.
With 44 new infected cases,
the total number of infected
cases in Asia’s largest slum has
mounted to 1,242.
A maximum of six infect-
ed cases were reported from
Matunga Labour Camp, while
four cases were recorded in 90
feet road area. There were
three new cases in
Kalayanwadi, while two con-
firmed cases were reported
from Kunchikurve Nagar,
Jasmine Mill road and
Kumbharwada.
Matunga Labour camp
from where six positive cases
were reported on Sunday four
infected cases had been report-
ed on Wednesday last, has
been the worst-hit area in
Dharavi.
On Tuesday, eight infected
cases had been recorded in
Matunga Labour camp. On
Monday, this area had regis-
tered eight cases. There was a
seventeen- year-old among the
eight newly infected persons on
that day. Six positive cases had
been reported from Matunga
Labour camp on Sunday.
Dharavi, which is spread
over 240 hectare area, is home
to more than 4 lakh people.
This slum has been one of
major cause of concern for the
Brihanmumbai Municipal
Corporation (BMC), ever since
the first couple deaths and
infected cases were reported
from this slum in the first
week of April.
In an effort to devise ways
to arrest the rapid spread of
pandemic in this slum,
Mumbai’s new Municipal
Commissioner Iqbal Singh
Chahal had visited this slum
and took stock of the situation
hours after he assumed the
office on Saturday last.
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The Covid-19 crisis deep-
ened further in
Maharashtra on Sunday, as 63
more persons succumbed to
the pandemic and an all-time
day’s record 2,347 people test-
ed positive for Coronavirus,
taking the total number of
deaths to 1,198 and infected
cases to 33,053 in the State.
Belying the hopes nursed
by the health authorities about
the early flattening of Covid-19
curse, the pandemic began to
display its ferocious face, as
Coronavirus claimed as many
63 persons — which is the sec-
ond day’s death tally after 67
deaths were reported on
Saturday — and left a stagger-
ing 2,347 infected.
Of the 63 deaths, Mumbai
accounted for 38 deaths, while
there were nine deaths in Pune,
six in Aurangabad, three each
in Solapur and Raigad and
one each in Thane district,
Pancel city, Latur and
Aurangabad city.
Of the dead, 44 were men
while 19 were women. Thirty
four were aged over 60 years, 22
were from the age group 40 to
59 years and 7 were aged below
40 years. “Forty one out of 63
patients (65%) had high-risk co-
morbidities such as diabetes,
hypertension, heart disease,” a
State health bulletin said.
On a day when the total
number of deaths mounted to
1,198 in Maharashtra, the total
numberofinfectedcasesjumped
33,053. The authorities pegged
the total number of active cases
in the State at 24,161.
With 38 deaths and 1,571
new cases, the total number of
deaths mounted to 734 and
infected cases to 20,150 in
Mumbai. According to the
Covid-19 portal analysis, 679
laboratory tests were conduct-
ed per day in March in the
State. In the first fifteen days of
May, this has increased to
8,628 lab tests per day.
It is evident that there has
been a 13-fold increase in the
laboratory tests compared to
March 2020. In India, 1630 lab-
oratory tests per 10 lakh pop-
ulation are done currently.
In Maharashtra, 2,137 lab-
oratory tests per 10 lakh pop-
ulation are being conducted.
There are 1,688 active con-
tainment zones in the state cur-
rently. Total 14,972 surveillance
squadsworkedonSundayacross
the State and surveillance of
63.83 lakh population was done.
As many as 7,688 patients have
beendischargedtilldateafterfull
recovery. Currently, 3,48,508
people are in home quarantine
and 17,638 people are in insti-
tutional quarantine.
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Close on the heels of elimi-
nating top Hizbul
Mujahideen commander,
Reyaz Naikoo in Pulwama, a
joint team of security forces
Sunday morning eliminated
another dreaded terrorist Tahir
Bhat in a five hour long oper-
ation in Khotra village of Doda
district.
According to police, Tahir
Bhat was a close associate of
present Operational
Commander of HM outfit
Saifullah, alias, Dr Saif and was
assigned the task of ‘Revival of
Terrorism’ in erstwhile Doda
district by recruiting more
youth from there.
Police claimed by elimi-
nating Tahir Bhat an attempt of
pro-Pakistan terror outfit to
revive activities in Doda has
been nipped. The designs of the
HM to target SF Convoy and
Camps has also been thwarted.
According to police
spokesman, Tahir Bhat was an
IED expert and his name had
also figured in killing of RSS
functionary Chanderkant
Sharma and his PSO in
Kishtwar in April 2019.
“Tahir had also attempted
to trigger an IED blast on the
Jammu Srinagar National
Highway on March 30, 2019
near Banihal to target CRPF
convoy, police spokesman said
in a press statement.
Tahir was close associate of
Hizbul Mujahideen
Commander Haroon Abbas,
who was neutralised earlier
this year in January.
According to Mukesh
Singh, Inspector General of
Police, Jammu range, “ on sat-
urday late night a specific
information was received
regarding the presence of a top
HM commander Tahir
Ahmed Bhat of Pulwama in the
village Khotra in Tehsil and
district Doda”.
“An operation was
launched and the village was
cordoned off by the joint teams
of security forces early Sunday
morning . During the ongoing
search, terrorists hiding in a
house opened indiscriminate
fire on the security forces. In the
encounter that followed, Tahir
Ahmed Bhat was killed and an
AK 47 Rifle and Magazine
have been recovered”.
IG, Mukesh Singh said,
Tahir Ahmed Bhat joined terror
outfit HM early last year (2019).
His name has figured in the fab-
rication of IED which was
exploded near a CRPF convoy
at Banihal in March 2019.
Singh said, he was given
the task of recruiting youth
and reviving HM activities in
the erstwhile Doda district.
Singh confirmed reports
that Tahir was also a part of
group of HM terrorists who
killed RSS activist Chanderkant
Sharma and his PSO in April
2019 . The same AK 47 Rifle
which was taken away that time
has been recovered after the
encounter on Sunday.
Police spokesman said,
“Tahir was involved in Case
FIR No. 36/2020 U/S
20,38,UAPA 121 RPC P/S
Kakpora , Case FIR No
33/2019 U/S 364,302, RPC P/S
Awantipora , Case FIR No
37/2019 U/S 307,RPC 7/27 A.
Act, 16,18,20, ULAP Act P/S
Litter and Case FIR No
45/2019 U/S 364,302,RPC
7/27 A.Act P/S Shopian”
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