Новости за 26.03.2020

About 700 pilgrims of Assam, comprising men, women and children, who are stuck on the inter-state border with West Bengal will not be sent to their homes, but will be quarantined by the government inside a massive tent being constructed by the state government in the premises of an athletic stadium in Guwahati and another two sites with capacity to hold 2,000 people are in pipeline.

The Odisha government on Thursday constituted a high-powered committee to identify prisoners, who can be released on parole or temporary bail in the wake of Covid-19 outbreak. The committee has been set up in consonance with a recent Supreme Court directive to all states to decongest the jails to prevent spread of novel coronavirus.

After Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the 21-day lockdown to prevent spread of coronavirus pandemic and asked people to stay at home across the country, hundreds of people started leaving towns and cities to reach their native villages fearing that the people in urban areas could be more vulnerable than villages. But to their dismay, scores of villages have started restricting their entry fearing that it may spread the disease among rural populace.

A 50-year-old pastor from Mizoram, who returned from the Netherlands on March 16, tested positive for Covid-19, state health minister R Lalthangliana said on Wednesday.This is the second such case in the northeast.

Devotees on Wednesday offered prayers from home on the first day of Navratra. Premises of Kali Devi temple in Patiala, which used to witness a crowd of lakhs of pilgrims from across Punjab and other states every year, remained abandoned amid coronavirus threat.

With almost every industry in Punjab shutting down following the imposition of lockdown and curfew to check the spread of coronavirus, the industrial workforce is among the worst affected in the state with their both present and future at stake. Though in Ludhiana - one of the most important industrial hubs in the state, a section of businessmen released salaries and advance to their workers despite staring at losses worth several hundred crores, others were not so lucky in other parts of Punjab.

Amid concerns over Covid-19 outbreak, chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday appealed to his counterparts in other states to come to the rescue of Odias stranded across the country. Naveen also pledged all possible support to stranded persons from other states in Odisha.

Odisha on Thursday announced setting up of two large hospitals with total 1000 beds in Bhubaneswar to treat coronavirus patients.

In Jalandhar, Many PharmacistsbDon't Collect Passes After One Of Them Is Detained

The Gurugram police on Thursday rolled out a new notification exempting people providing "technical services" from the 21 days lockdown. The list includes- electricians, plumbers, lift technicians and nine other professionals.

The Gurugram police on Thursday rolled out a new notification exempting people providing "technical services" from the 21 days lockdown. The list includes- electricians, plumbers, lift technicians, domestic helps and nine others professionals.

Two fresh cases of coronavirus, one each in Hoshiarpur and Ludhiana, were reported in Punjab taking the overall tally to 31.

A 56-year-old man from Udupi allegedly committed suicide after he feared that he had contracted coronavirus infection.

The Kandhamal district police has come up with a unique method to publicly shame those flouting the lockdown order and roaming the streets without any urgent need in the wake of the outbreak of coronavirus.

The Karnataka State Federation of Petroleum Dealers on Thursday modified a decision taken on Wednesday to operate retail outlets in single shift from 7am to 2pm. Instead, retail outlets will operate for normal working hours with skeletal staff.

A short film on water conservation by young Odia filmmaker Nishith Sahasransu Ray has been officially selected for screening at Central Illinois Feminist Film Festival 2020. The short titled, Last Drop, has been selected in the documentary category.

With a curfew in force and district administrations rushing in to improve door-to-door delivery of essential supplies, poultry farm owners in Punjab are running out of bird feed and fear that once they exhaust existing stocks, birds might starve to death, causing them losses worth several crores.