Новости за 20.03.2020

The Odisha government on Friday ordered that no meetings other than those related to Covid-19 or regarding maintenance of basic services will be held in government offices to contain Covid-19 while state cabinet meeting or empowered group of meetings, whenever scheduled, will be held through video-conferencing during the period.

The Kashi Vishwanath shrine has been closed for devotees till March 24 in view of coronavirus outbreak.

Devotees will not be allowed to have darshan at famous Kukke Sri Subrahmanya Temple in Dakshina Kannada district.

Rock singer and biker Nitish Pires who was supposed to perform live in Bhubaneswar on March 17 and 18, had a quiet gig here with a handful of people present due to the coronavirus scare

As a preventive step to check spread of coronavirus, the Haryana government on Friday imposed Section 144 in the state and said it would start using stamps to mark those who are quarantined in homes.

Odia people all over the world celebrated Pakhala Dibasa on Friday at home without arranging any party due to coronavirus scare. No hotels or organisations also organised any party to celebrate this day.

The department of textiles and apparel designing (TAD) of the College of Community Science (CCSc) at the Assam Agricultural University (AAU), Jorhat, has taken up the responsibility of preparing face masks to tide over the crisis created by a sudden surge in demand for face masks in fear over the novel coronavirus.

A total of 11 individual tests and 24 community tests were carried out by IMRC-Regional Medical Research Centre, Dibrugarh, and all of them turned out to be negative, authorities said on Thursday.

Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) on Thursday cancelled 16 pairs of trains till March 31 in order to discourage people from undertaking non-essential travel.

Two youths from Assam's Udalguri district, who had recently come back home from their workplaces in Kerala and Karnataka, have been kept in isolation wards at Udalguri Civil Hospital after they developed symptoms similar to coronavirus.

The Assam man who had fled from a quarantine facility in Kerala was tracked down and held at the New Bongaigaon railway station early on Thursday while he was returning home by train. 24-year-old Sariful Islam, a resident of Mikirgaon village of Lahorighat in Morigaon district, was immediately shifted to the isolation ward of the railway hospital there.

Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday sought postponement of Census operation and related activities in the country over the novel coronavirus pandemic.

In a relief to elderly citizens in rural areas, the AIADMK government will set up 12,525 self-help groups for seniors in each village panchayat in the state.

With memes and videos on coronavirus flooding social media platforms, the creativity, however, is proving to be destructive as it is creating havoc for some people.

In big fat Indian weddings, guests shower bride and groom with flowers at the 'pheras'. But on Thursday at a wedding in Vadodara, guests were given face masks!

At a time when coronavirus outbreak in Hong Kong and China has taken the sheen out of Surat's famed natural polished diamonds, cheap lab-grown diamonds seem to have become best friend of consumers in the United States and Dubai.

Solitude plays out in different ways when sought and when imposed. From countries to people, the one necessary response to the fear surrounding the novel coronavirus is that of shutting down. It's the indispensable containment measure for everything Covid-19, isolation. The more connected you are, the more imperative the need to shut down. Gurugram, with its globalised socio-economic setup, for instance.

Dirty toilets, unhygienic environment and a congested ward at the government hospital in Sonipat forced a patient to opt for self-quarantine at home.

It happens to be the prime responsibility of a school and college to make itself a happy place for children in order to ensure their holistic development.

Even as uncertainty looms over the District Bar Association (DBA) elections, the returning officers came up with the final list of candidates on Thursday. The elections for office-bearers of the DBA, including president, vice-president, secretary, joint secretary, finance secretary and executive members will be held on April 17.