Новости за 17.03.2020

The Gajapati Maharaja of Puri, Dibyasingha Deb, and his family have been staying in home quarantine after arriving in Bhubaneswar from a US trip. The Gajapati also registered himself on the COVID-19 portal of the state government on Tuesday.

Sangram has joined hands with an organisation that is working towards providing better facilities to students of government schools across India

A couple of schools were reported to be functioning on Monday despite the government advisory asking the authorities to keep their educational institutes closed till the end of the month to check the spread of the novel coronavirus.

The Meghalaya legislative assembly on Monday cut short its ongoing budget session which was slated to conclude on March 25.

Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said the state government has decided to start random screening of domestic passengers at all airports from Tuesday to stop the outbreak of the Covid-19 virus.

Surveillance teams in Dakshina Kannada and Kasaragod districts have initiated process of contact tracing of all those who met a passenger flying down from Dubai on March 14. The passenger who reported to Kasaragod health authorities on return from Mangaluru International Airport was confirmed Covid-19 positive, minister for health and family welfare BR Sriramulu said.

Two people have tested positive for coronavirus in Noida, one in Sector 78 and another in Sector 100 with travel history to France. Both have been admitted to a designated isolation hospital. Both have been admitted at Government Institute of Medical Sciences (GIMS) in Greater Noida where anti-viral therapy has been initiated.

The 63-year-old medical practitioner who treated India' first Covid-19 victim has been tested positive for the virus. He was reportedly under home quarantine along with his family members. The doctor had treated the victim in Kalaburagi before he left the hospital to be admitted at private medical facility in Hyderabad. The 76-year-old man had succumbed on March 11.

Opening up another revenue stream, the Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority (GNIDA) is eyeing at a yearly revenue of Rs 1.25 crore through trade of treated water. From the next financial year, the authority plans to sell recycled waste water to industries at the rate of Rs 7 for every 1,000 litres.

Six people, including two women, were booked for allegedly kicking a one-month pregnant woman post a road rage case near Omaxe Mall in Sector Beta 2 on Sunday. However, police added the two parties have reached a compromise.

A 10-year-old special child died after falling into a sewage treatment plant (STP) in the Supreme Court Bar Association society in Sector 99.

A couple from Rabupura’s Dhanpura village who married against their parents’ will in August 2019 has filed a complaint alleging that the woman’s relatives, who had attacked the man’s brother on March 10, as he wanted to bring them home, has also threatened them. On Monday, an FIR was lodged against seven people.

A 35-year-old journalist with a leading Hindi daily was allegedly chased by two youths on the same dark and desolate stretch where senior executive Gaurav Chandel was found murdered two months ago.

Unhappy with his son for marrying a woman without taking any dowry, the state general secretary of Congress allegedly attacked the couple with a sword at their home in Rithoj on Monday. The couple are fighting for their lives at a private hospital in Badhshapur, while Omveer, the politician, is on the run.

A family of four returned from Dubai to a housing society in Sector 76 late on Sunday night, sparking panic among 3,000 residents there.

The moment a Covid-19 case is reported in an area, district officials will initiate a door-to-door check of all houses within a 3-km radius. Teams of 500 officials each will be trained for Noida, Greater Noida and Jewar areas. Leaves of all government officials, meanwhile, have been cancelled till further notice.

Many RWAs have made it mandatory for visitors and residents to get themselves checked by thermal temperature guns at housing societies in Noida and Ghaziabad.