Новости за 02.04.2020

A video of 'safai sewaks' being honoured by local residents has been making the rounds over the social media groups. Some local residents honoured the cleanliness workers with garlands and currency notes for providing services in the times of global pandemic that had forced people to stay indoors.

An Indian-origin Singaporean, Jasvinder Singh Mehar Singh (52) was sentenced to two months' jail on Thursday for shouting "corona, corona" and spitting on a hotel floor at the Changi Airport, the first conviction of its kind in the country related to the coronavirus outbreak. Singh breached a remission order after his early release from prison in February.

Amid coronavirus outbreak, Kerala is fighting legally to get Karnataka border opened to send its Covid-19 patients to this coastal city. Netizens in the state and ‘Namma Kudla’ have upped the ante through a Twitter campaign #SaveKarnatakafromPinarayi. The Kerala HC in a late-night decision on Wednesday directed Karnataka to open its border for patients from Kasaragod at Talapady.

The number of Covid-19 positive cases in northeast stands at 22 after five more cases were reported on Thursday morning from three states. The overall count in the region is 24, which includes two cases in Manipur and Mizoram that are not linked to Nizamuddin.

As many as 15 Nizamuddin Markaz attendees who were in an isolation facility at the Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences Hospital allegedly misbehaved with the hospital staff and doctors.

A 52-year-old Covid-19 positive patient passed away in Vadodara early on Thursday.

Eleven people from Bidar who were found to have links with Tablighi Jamaat, the largest known Covid-19 hotspot in India, tested positive for the infection.

Without ration and wages for since March 24, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a 21-day lockdown, 70,000 tea workers of Barak Valley region in Assam are struggling to even find one proper meal a day.

The 52-year-old businessman from Hailakandi who was declared Assam’s first Covid-19 patient on Tuesday had come in contact with an unspecified number of people as he took two Rajdhani Express trains from New Delhi to his home after taking part in the Nizamuddin Markaz congregation.

In a glimmer of hope for medical specialists, health workers, policemen and other allied workers who lack high-quality protective gear in their fight against Covid-19, the Punjab's textile industry has been able to develop personal protective equipment (PPE), especially hazmat (hazardous materials) suits, which are not only of high quality, but will cost just a fraction of the price of imported ones.

Haryana recorded its first Covid-19-related death as a 67-year-old man from Ambala died at the PGIMER here soon after testing positive for coronavirus, a senior health department official said on Thursday.

A Padma Shri-winning former hazuri ragi of the Golden Temple was among the five people who tested positive for coronavirus (Covid-19) in Punjab on Wednesday, taking the state’s total to 46.

Three persons tested positive for Covid-19 in Goalpara district here on Thursday, taking the total number of coronavirus cases in the state to 16, health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.

At a time when the closure of liquor shops due to lockdown in the state have left many high and dry, a bank manager in Bhubaneswar attempted to try his luck in buying a bottle of beer online.

Three more patients admitted to Medanta The Medicity after they contracted Covid-19 fully recovered and were discharged on Wednesday, a health department release said.

Sanjay Mishra, a Ghaziabad resident, had checked at least five shops in his neighbourhood when he told TOI he hadn’t been able to find a packet of instant noodles.