Новости за 27.03.2020

Two new coronavirus positive cases were reported in Dakshina Kannada district on Friday.

Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday announced a Rs 2,200 crore package for the poor, old-age persons and construction workers in the state, who bore the brunt of the ongoing 21-day countrywide lockdown, which has been enforced to contain the spread of Covid-19.

The purpose of the 21-day lockdown to prevent the spread of Covid-19 seems to have got defeated by citizens who are showing no signs of social distancing at vegetable markets.

Karnataka Small Scale Industries Association while thanking the government for series of reliefs announced for MSMEs hit by the lockdown, requested the state government to provide similar relief for payments of fixed charges, electricity and water bills by the SMEs for the next three months as it will be critical for them to pick themselves up. The government must also consider subsidising salaries of workers of the SMEs in coming months.

A 70-year-old Jalandhar woman tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday. She was admitted in CMC Hospital Ludhiana since March 21 with complaints of cough, fever and breathlessness. She actively participated in a three-day long Holi celebrations at an ashram in the area, a very crowded affair, during which she worked in community kitchen and was leading the activities associated with the celebrations and intermingling among scores of people.

With one third of the Covid-19 positive patients in the state identified in Coimbatore, Erode and Salem districts, health authorities are on their toes in western Tamil Nadu.

All the employees of Odisha assembly will be quarantined and the entire assembly building will be disinfected after it came to light that an employee of the assembly has come in contact with a 60-year-old man who tested positive for Covid19 on Thursday.

The nation-wide lockdown came crashing down in Guwahati on Friday morning as hundreds of people converged at a massive temporary vegetable market opened by the civil administration at a vacant area inside a dismantled jail complex.

The Odisha government on Friday said the state may be moving towards Phase 3 of Covid-19 transmission (community), day after a 60-year-old man with no foreign travel history tested positive for the virus.

Odisha government on Thursday asked people not to visit a particular hospital after it came to light that a patient, who tested positive for Covid-19, was treated there.

Even as the news of the deadly gurdwara attack in Kabul is yet to sink in, the families of two Ludhiana-based victims are worried about how they will get the bodies to India amid lockdown in the entire world.

Authorities are going all out to contain the spread of Covid-19 in the twin cities. More than 7,000 workers have been deployed to carry out door-to-door sanitisation drives across localities in Noida and Greater Noida.

As stocks are drying up across NCR owing to shortage of supply, a few highrises have set up makeshift shops within their apartment complexes with designated teams managing the arrangements to supply essential commodities to residents.

Online delivery staff, hawkers selling essentials and employees involved in releasing salaries can commute within the district without a pass, the administration said on Thursday.

Immigration officials on Thursday handed over to public health department officials details of passengers who flew into the country from abroad in the past one month. Coimbatore district has 3,984 people who returned from other countries since March 1 and their details have been given to police.

With the district administration and civic body facing some difficulties in providing grocery and vegetables at people’s doorsteps during the nationwide curfew till April 14, some city residents are advising the authorities to follow the pattern of cities like Vijaywada and Puducherry for providing things to residents as pictures of these cities are being circulated in social media. People claimed that they have been told to sit back at home, but without essential commodities it is not possible to... Читать дальше...