Новости за 20.04.2020

Front-line corona warriors in Karnataka have hit gold dust with a personal testimony of a Covid-19 cured patient – Saleem Hegde from Thokkottu. A 138-second long video of Saleem returning home after his discharge and his emotional message on how the corona warriors cured him at a great personal sacrifice, has come as major morale booster for officials concerned.

From April 24, Assam will use rapid test kits for random tests on patients coming for general treatment in the state’s medical colleges and hospitals and district civil hospitals if the consulting doctors have any doubts.

Assam may have flattened the Covid-19 graph and discharged more people than those who are still in isolation, but its financial health isn’t sound and health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, who is also the finance minister, said that state treasury cannot be kept open from June without “massive infusion of funds” and that too from outside the state’s “predictable resources.”

A school teacher from Assam, who had gone to Apollo Hospitals in Chennai for the treatment of his father and got stranded there because of the lockdown, has covered a distance of 2,700 km in an ambulance to reach home in Bongaigaon district. The 60-hour journey cost them Rs 1.6 lakh.

A school teacher from Assam, who had gone to Apollo Hospitals in Chennai for the treatment of his father and got stranded there because of the lockdown, has covered a distance of 2,700 km in an ambulance to reach home in Bongaigaon district. The 60-hour journey cost them Rs 1.6 lakh.

In its biggest reach-out exercise, ‘Assam Cares', Assam government on Monday deposited Rs 2,000 each to the accounts of 86,000 residents of the state stranded across India due to the nationwide Covid-19 lockdown as a sustenance support.

Three more positive cases of coronavirus were detected in Gautam Buddh Nagar on Monday, taking the tally in this district in western Uttar Pradesh to 100 so far, officials said. The patients included a 33-year-old woman from Cherry Count society in Greater Noida, a 61-year-old woman in Sector 55 and a 52-year-old woman in Sector 34 of Noida, the Health Department said.

District administration on Monday turned up the heat on a medical practitioner and a netizen for their respective actions in connection with death of a coronavirus patient.

One more person was cured of Covid-19 and discharged from a hospital in Assam on Monday, taking the total number of recoveries in the state to 18, health and family welfare minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.

Haryana offices will start functioning with 50% of the staff strength from Monday amid the lockdown due to coronavirus outbreak. While all officers of A and B category will attend office, class C and D staff will work in rotations. The Haryana government offices in Chandigarh handling essential services will work with skeleton staff while departments involved in non-essential services will not be allowed to operate, said UT officials.

Death of ‘P-390’ due to Covid-19 on Sunday against the run of play has literally pushed Dakshina Kannada district administration on the back foot. The incident has come at a time when the administration’s efforts against the pandemic was seen paying off with 18-clean days until April 17 when the 13th case in DK surfaced.

With 18 more new cases, most of them from NCR districts of the state, the total number of Covid-19 positive cases touched the figure of 250 in Haryana on Sunday.

The unfortunate death of a Covid-19-affected police officer in Ludhiana and another cop in Indore on Saturday prompted the commissionerate police to go for massive sample testing of their personnel on lockdown duty. On Sunday, the samples of at least 200 police personnel were collected and sent to the designated testing laboratories in Bhubaneswar. The reports of the test are awaited.

Government offices opened in Jharkhand on Monday amid lockdown 2. The relaxation has been given in green areas.

The Puri district administration has shown the way by successfully executing its pandemic management system and keeping Covid-19 at bay. The district has not reported any positive case since the first Covid-19 patient was detected in Pipili on April 3, drawing appreciation from the Centre on Saturday.

Going beyond their call of duty, two policemen responding to an emergency call in Noida donated their blood at a hospital that helped in the delivery of a pregnant woman who has given birth to a baby boy. The call was made at 6.46 pm on Sunday on the emergency 112 service of the Uttar Pradesh Police during which the caller said his wife was admitted at the ESI Hospital in Sector 24 for delivery, according to officials.

Fifteen poor families of Fatuhiwala village in Mukstar district have accused the civil and police administration of forcibly harvesting wheat sown over 15 acres of panchayat land that was in their possession.

The death toll due to Covid-19 in Surat rose to ten after two positive patients undergoing treatment at the New Civil Hospital (NCH) succumbed to the deadly infection on Monday.