Новости за 25.03.2020

Hundreds of people have started walking to their native places from Surat since Tuesday night due to non-availibily of public transport in view of the coronavirus outberak and 21-day nationwide lockdown.

Stray dogs are roaming around the city hungry as people have stopped feeding them. A looming fear that dogs may carry coronavirus coupled with fear of food supply shortage has resulted in the situation, say animal activists, who suggest people to leave food for the animals at a distance.

The Haryana Police have setup a system to facilitate the movement of essential goods and services and workers associated with their delivery during the 21-day nationwide lockdown.

A 34-year-old businessman from Tirupur committed suicide by jumping off the sixth floor of a hotel on the Avinashi Road in Coimbatore on Tuesday due to losses he suffered in business, police said.

Assam would need more than 20,000 isolation beds, including 1000 ICU beds, if the state is hit by a Covid-19 outbreak, Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said in the assembly on Tuesday.

Defying instructions of pracitising social distancing, people turned out in large numbers to form long queues at gas filling stations of Guwahati on Tuesday. Prominent LPG stations were crowded from 7 am to 5pm with people carrying two to three empty cylinders.

20-year-old man, who returned to Hailakandi from China and did not report his arrival at the nearest police station or health centre, has been apprehended and quarantined at Silchar Medical College and Hospital. Sources said the youth is a medical student at an institute in China and returned home following the coronavirus outbreak.

Chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal has directed the supply department to ensure smooth delivery of essential commodities during the lockdown period.

Assam government is contemplating financial assistance for over four and a half million needy families if the lockdown period is prolonged by 10 to 15 days beyond March 31, cabinet minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Tuesday.

All members of the Assam assembly on Tuesday unanimously announced that they would contribute their one-month salary to support the government in fighting the novel coronavirus crisis in the state.

The civic body would issue curfew passes to milkmen and temporary trade licenses to grocery store owners. However the street vendors who have registered identity card from civic body can get vegetables and fruits from the wholesale market and can sell it in localities.

An astrologer at the shrine in Pandu Pindara, Ram Chandar Shastri, said after the battle of Mahabharata, Pandavas had visited the village to offer the 'pinds' of their elders killed in the battle.

Even as the state government is trying to put in place an elaborate mechanism to ensure people during the curfew are provided with essential supplies, it is the unregistered migrant labourers who have come face to face with fear, anxiety and uncertainty.

Civil Lines police have booked a man under various sections of abetment to suicide after a allegedly woman killed herself by consuming some poisonous substance.

The Kotwali Nabha police have booked three dairy owners in Nabha for violating curfew orders.The cops said that the accused did not take any precautions to avoid transmission of coronavirus, and there were no sanitizers.

Police booked a Durga Colony man of Naraingarh on Tuesday for breaking home quarantine. He was found roaming outside his house after the district administration had put him in isolation.

Aurai police in Bhadohi district on Tuesday arrested one Vibhav of Babhnauti village for allegedly making derogatory remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and chief minister Yogi Adityanath on his social media account.