Новости за 17.05.2021

Assam reported 92 more Covid-19 deaths on Monday, its highest single-day fatality, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.

At least 775 prisoners have been released on bail and parole in the state between May 1 and 15 to decongest jails following a Supreme Court order in the wake of the fresh surge in Covid-19 cases.

Odisha government on Monday fixed the rate for availing of different types of ambulance services in the wake of reports of exorbitant tariff charged by many such private emergency vehicle operators during the Covid-19 pandemic.

A 'bir' of the Guru Granth Sahib was burnt in a fire at Gurdwara Sri Guru Singh Sabha in Ambala Cantonment area of Haryana at about 10.30am on Monday.

Some members from the Christian community, who lost the battle to the deadly virus, are not burying the dead. Instead, they are adopting the Hindu tradition of cremating the bodies on ghats of the Ganga and taking the ashes in urns to the graveyard for entombment. Coffins are missing, funerals are mute and caution against Covid is the key for the Christian community in Kashi.

A farmer couple in Karnataka's Gadag district is receiving praises for composing songs to spread awareness on Covid-19.

The district administration has roped in several private medical colleges, as well as institutions teaching naturopathy and yogic sciences, to combat the pandemic.

Kamrup (Metro) deputy commissioner Biswajit Pegu on Sunday said that the district has witnessed a marginal decrease in positivity rate of Covid-19 cases.

Chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has asked the health department to make senior doctors available on night shifts in medical colleges treating Covid patients, as sudden death of newly admitted cases at night has been noticed in the state.

Ganjam district administration wants people to furnish Covid negative certificates while attending wedding ceremonies and has advised brides and grooms to urge their guests to furnish rapid antigen test report (RAT) report to this effect.

A 26-year-old man died of Covid-19 five days after his wedding in Kendrapada district on Saturday. He had returned from Bangalore on May 7 where he was working in a private company. Sanjay Kumar Nayak of Durgapdevipada village under the Rajkanika police station limits had fever even before his wedding on May 10.

Amid the consistent surge in Covid cases, the state government is likely to take a call on the extension of the lockdown in Odisha after the all-party meeting scheduled to be held on Monday. The current lockdown came into effect on May 5 and will remain in force until May 19.

The state government has started the vaccination of the Puri Jagannath Temple servitors in the 18-44 age group ahead of the Rath Yatra on July 12. However, other residents of this age group in the pilgrim town are yet to get the jab.

Covid deaths in Assam dropped to 56 on Sunday — the lowest in a week — even as the daily positivity rate remained unchanged and was hovering around 9%. Highest 13 deaths were reported from Kamrup (Metropolitan) district under which the Guwahati city falls.

Covid infection continues to rise in Odisha with 26 of the 30 districts reporting over 1,000 active positive cases, categorized as red zone, after the state registered 11,732 cases from 56,842 samples tested in the past 24 hours, a test positivity rate (TPR) of 20.63%. Only Deogarh, Malkangiri, Gajapati and Kandhamal have now less than 1,000 active cases.

Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has said this was the right time for Ulfa(I) leader Paresh Baruah to come forward for dialogues with the government because PM Narendra Modi is wiling to address the “genuine concerns of people of the state”.

In a bid to contain the spread of Covid and to provide early medical intervention for the infected patients to avoid hospitalisation, the state government has decided to follow Covid Mitra concept.

Several districts in western and southern Tamil Nadu received moderate to heavy rainfall triggered by Cyclone Tauktae on Sunday resulting in heavy inflow to major dams. Coimbatore and Tirupur experienced continuous showers ranging from mild to severe for the whole day.

Violent clashes erupted between farmers and Haryana Police in Hisar on Sunday and the cops resorted to tear gas and lathi charge to control the situation. Farmers estimated to be around 3,000 in number had gathered to protest against the visit of chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar to inaugurate a 500-bed temporary Covid care hospital set up on the campus of Om Prakash Jindal Modern School in Hisar on Sunday.

Covid numbers in Nuh, Gurgaon’s neighbouring district in south Haryana, have started to come down, official data shows. But illness in the villages isn’t, sarpanches say.

Over the past few years, Harish Reddy and D Roopa, residents of Tilak Nagar in Mysuru city, had saved up Rs 2 lakh for their elder daughter H Chitra’s wedding.

There appears to be no signs of a truce in the fee collection row between the department of public instruction, private school managements and parents.