Новости за 31.05.2020

A 17-year-old girl was rescued by residents when she was hanging on the parapet of a four-storey apartment's terrace in Parnera village of Valsad on Sunday. The girl told police that she lost balance and was about to fall but was rescued by locals on time.

Two persons, including a constable, were killed as Maoists opened fire on a police team in Jharkhand's West Singhbhum district on Sunday, a senior officer said.

Returnees from Maharashtra contributed to 18 of the 24 positive cases that the coastal districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi recorded on Sunday, a day that Karnataka saw its single largest spike in Covid19 cases at 299. Incidentally, the districts with close ties to Maharashtra in general and Mumbai shared 18 cases equally among them, while three were from international returnees and rest due to contact with a positive case.

Nine more people, including five linked to a media house, tested positive for Covid-19 in Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddh Nagar on Sunday, taking the total in the district to 414, officials said. Also, one patient was discharged after being cured, leaving 113 active cases, they said.

Two strains of novel coronavirus have been acting in state—one that results in fast death and the other with mild effects, which heal with normal treatment, Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.

There was no let up in cases of coronavirus infection in Gurugram with 97 of the total 168 new Covid patients in Haryana belonging to it and taking the total tally of affected persons in the state to 2,091.

Olinda Pereira, eminent social worker and former Principal of School of Social Work, Roshni Nilaya passed away on Sunday. She was 95.

Three persons, including a father and son duo, died due to electrocution, near here on Sunday, the police said.

Leveraging technology in their combat against crime, the Patiala police on Saturday used a high-end facial recognition tool to nab two wanted criminals who had been eluding arrests.

The Uttar Pradesh government in the latest set of guidelines, issued for unlocking cities in a phased manner, has stated that Noida-Delhi/Ghaziabad-Delhi borders would remain sealed for now.

Days after a primary schoolteacher of Deogarh district tested corona positive, the Deogarh Zilla Prathamika Sikhyaka Sangha has demanded to cover the primary teachers, who have been engaged in the battle against novel coronavirus, under the Rs 50 lakh insurance scheme of the government. The insurance scheme covers frontline corona warriors, including doctors, paramedical staff and police.

Responding to the call of chief minister Naveen Patnaik, residents of the state and the Odia diaspora sang 'Bande Utkala Janani' on Saturday to show gratitude to 'Covid warriors' - doctors, nurses and other frontline workers.

On a day Odisha saluted the spirit of Covid-19 warriors, four frontline workers were among the 120 who tested positive for the virus on Saturday in the single biggest spike the state has seen so far. The surge saw the number of positive cases climb to 1,843.

Six people tested positive for Covid-19 in Hisar on Friday, including five members of two families who crossed over from Rajasthan and a rape accused from Fatehabad who used to sell sugarcane juice.

Assam's flood situation showed signs of improvement as the number of people affected came down to 3,72,471 from 3,81,320 on Friday thanks to no further rains. However, the death toll due to drowning increased to six after one more person died at Kampur in Nagoan district.

On his last day in service, he laid the wreaths at War Memorial Shillong in remembrance of fallen soldiers who laid down their lives in the line of duty.

The state prisons department on Saturday ordered the suspension of an assistant jail superintendent and three head wardens of the Sangrur jail from where two convicts had escaped on Thursday.

After breaching the 1,000-mark on Friday, Assam's count for Covid-19 cases and the number of recovered patients surged ahead on Saturday with the count reaching 1,015 cases.

All personnel of the armed forces and central paramilitary travelling to Assam on deployment will have to complete the mandatory quarantine period before joining duty. Again, those coming on leave to their residences in the state will have to follow the quarantine and testing protocols stipulated for the general public.

With the addition of the 8th government-run Covid-19 testing lab at Council of Scientific and Industrial Research's (CSIR) North East Institute of Science and Technology at Jorhat on Saturday and four more likely to be made operational soon, Assam plans to take it testing capability beyond 10,000 sample tests per day.

A domestic staffer and her family in home quarantine in Noida have alleged harassment by neighbours.

Traders in Noida have requested the administration to allow them to function on Sundays and shift the weekly-off to Tuesday because of complaints from customers who cannot shop on weekdays due to work.

Tightening border curbs for those entering the city from Delhi, police added another layer of barricade at the Sirhaul border point on Saturday.

A Pocso court here on Saturday sentenced a 30-year-old rape convict to 12 years rigorous imprisonment.Judge Lolark Dubey also fined the convict, Pradeep Giri, an amount of Rs 10,000.