Новости за 28.03.2020

Around 65,000 registered street vendors in 114 urban local bodies (ULBs) will get assistance of Rs 3000 each as chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday announced financial package with an aim to support them at the difficult time because of the 21-day countrywide lockdown to contain Covid-19.

Odia actress Anubha Sourrya and her mother veteran actress Puspa Panda have recently pledged to donate their bodies after their deaths. Both of them signed a will with a Cuttack-based NGO, working in the field of creating awareness for organ donation and SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack.

Odia actor Sabyasachi Mishra, who is known for his benevolent works and helping hands during disasters in the state, has donated Rs one lakh to the Chief Ministers Relief Fund (for COVID-19). He handed over the cheque to the concerned officials taking care of the CMRF.

The Assam government on Friday closed all markets, including fish and meat shops, for an indefinite period after citizens across the state came out in large numbers across the state in the morning to buy essentials, violating social distancing guidelines set for the 21-day lockdown.

With the rise of coronavirus threat in the country and Punjab that witnessed a number of positive cases, some villages in Ropar district had blocked the entry and exit gates for any outsider, especially NRIs.

As tea plantation workers in upper Assam on Friday came to collect their weekly wages for the first time since the nationwide lockdown was imposed, they meticulously followed the social distancing rule, patiently waiting in a queue and standing 5 metre apart from each other.

Silchar and other parts of Barak Valley remained peaceful on the third day of the nationwide lockdown, even as people stepped out to buy groceries in the morning. However, unlike in the previous days, on Friday they were seen maintaining a social distance.

Chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Friday said his government has taken all necessary steps to ensure doorstep delivery of essential commodities to everyone in the state.

From contributing to the Chief Minister's Relief Fund to helping people tide over the crisis during the lockdown, lawmakers, community leaders and well-to-do families in Mizoram are joining hands to fight the coronavirus.

The six-decade old trade body wrote a letter to union minister of state of shipping Mansukh Mandaviya stating the problem due to the continued operation during this lockdown period.

Liquor manufacturing units, which were closed over the nationwide lock-down, have found an ingenious way to address t shortage of alcohol-based hand sanitizers. The units will be producing over 5 lakh litres of sanitizers for the health department.

In the next seven days, Assam will ready 1,000 final-year MBBS, BDS and ayurvedic students and 1,500 final-year students of nursing to join its existing frontline healthcare workforce in its fight against stopping Covid-19 outbreak in the state.

The Assam government will convert three government medical colleges with 5,000 beds to exclusively deal with Covid-19 patients, health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said, as the state continued efforts to boost preparedness to fight the novel coronavirus.

While the lockdown has brought out the good in police, the uniform is also tainted at times with shades of rudeness sometimes.

The 21-day lockdown announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday will dent the finances of Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) and it might lose Rs 450 crore during the period.