Новости за 06.04.2020

City-based psychiatrist Dr Vinod Kulkarni has moved a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) at the Karnataka high court requesting that liquor shops be kept open for few hours a day as the non-availability of the alcohol due to the 21-day nationwide lockdown is causing suicides by the gullible.

Udupi-Chikkamagaluru MP Shobha Karandlaje brushed aside demands by Popular Front of India (PFI) that a criminal case be registered against her for her reported statement on the Tablighi Jamaat (TJ).

People of Assam studying, working or stranded in other states and want to return home at the end of the lockdown will have to first register themselves and obtain an entry permit, which will enable Assam government to regulate their entry in limited numbers for their smooth quarantine.

In a major breakthrough by Punjab’s industry, two firms, Oxiclear Private Limited of Ludhiana and Surgeine Safety Products, Hoshiarpur have got approval from India’s elite Defence Research and Development Establishment (DRDE) Gwalior for manufacturing N99 and N95 masks which currently are the most sought after masks around the world, particularly in the wake of outbreak of Covid-19.

The Gurugram Police registered a case against the second Tablighi Jamaat patient (a Pataudi resident) from Gurugram who has tested positive, for hiding information

The Majuli administration has sent 800 people on home quarantine who entered the island from other parts of the state and country, deputy commissioner Bikrom Koiri said.

Mizoram health secretary H Lalengmawia issued a notification on Sunday instructing all the doctors working under the state government to remain accessible to patients.

Guwahati/ The number of Covid-19-positive patients went up to 26 in Assam on Sunday after another person from Cachar district who attended the gathering at Nizamuddin tested positive late on Saturday night.

A senior Congress leader and former MLA Gopal Roy filed an FIR against Tripura chief minister Biplab Deb, accusing him of triggering panic by providing false information on coronavirus-infected people in the northeast.

District administration hands over Noida International Institute of Medical Sciences (NIIMS), Greater Noida to Gautam Buddh Nagar chief medical officer (CMO) for quarantine/isolation facility. All medical and paramedical staff from the institute that had gone home or were on leave have been asked to report on duty by Monday morning else action will be taken against them.

The Government Institute of Medical Sciences (GIMS) Greater Noida has issued an advisory for all private medical practitioners to continue telephonic or online consultations and open fever, cough OPDs to ensure adequate medical assistance is given to people.

Seven Covid-19 positive patients – all contacts of late Baldev Singh of Pathlawa village, who was the first Covid-19 casualty in Punjab – tested negative on Sunday, including 78-year-old Sant Gurbachan Singh. Four grandchildren of Baldev Singh tested positive on Sunday while his son has been declared cured after his second sample also tested negative.

The helpline number of Emergency Food Response Team of the Coimbatore corporation hardly stops ringing. Moments after a call on Sunday afternoon informing about a group of people stranded without food in Malumichampatti, volunteers spring into action.

In a bid to escape from hospital, a 55-year-old Covid-19 suspect had a fatal fall from the sixth floor of Kalpana Chawla Medical college in Karnal on Monday morning.

A Gujarat sarpanch with a heart of gold tried to mortgage his wife and mother's jewellery to feed his out-of-work fellow villagers before relatives and friends stepped in with a loan of Rs 4 lakh that he has since been using to provide for all families hit by the lockdown.

Karnataka, which figures among the top 10 states in Covid-19 incidence, has been allocated only Rs 396 crore of the Rs 11,067 crore released by the Centre under State Disaster Risk Management Fund (SDRF) to fight the pandemic.

The state on Sunday responded enthusiastically to the nineminute blackout call by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, underlining the fact that people’s spirits are undaunted by the virus outbreak and the shutdown it has entailed.

The department of town and country planning (DTCP) has directed developers to provide food and accommodation to around 21,000 workers employed at 85 construction sites free of charge as per guidelines issued by the state government.

The health department of Palwal on Sunday covered more than 2,000 houses in its door-to-door survey in 11 villages of the district to identify people who came in contact with Tablighi Jamaat members. As per the data, around 214 houses have been identified till now in the district which is under quarantine.

Mewat is not known for its healthcare infrastructure, and ever since the attendees from the Tablighi Jamaat at Nizamuddin have started returning, villagers are a worried lot. Many of the participants have tested positive for Covid-19.