Новости за 05.04.2020

A 58-year-old man from a village in Haryana's Karnal district, who had tested positive for Covid-19, died at the PGIMER here on Sunday, Karnal's Chief Medical Officer, Dr Ashwani Kumar said.

The 28-day quarantine period of residents of Udupi district who returned from abroad ended on Sunday. As a precautionary measure, their blood samples have been sent for testing, noted Shobha Karandalaje, Udupi-Chikkamagaluru member of Parliament.

A 55-year-old resident of Varanasi who died on April 3, became the third Covid-19 casualty in Uttar Pradesh after his coronavirus test came positive on Sunday. “This is the third coronavirus related death in the state,” said principal secretary health and family welfare Amit Mohan Prasad.

At a time when the fear of coronavirus spread has kept most private doctors indoors in the Steel City, shutting their clinic doors to even regular patients, there are few who think in this hour of crisis the motto of "duty first, self last" must be followed.

With a 57-year-old ex-BSF jawan tested positive for coronavirus from northeast on Sunday, the total number of cases in this region went up to 30, including 26 in Assam, ministers and officials said.

PSOCL is expecting that during switch off, the power load across the nation will fall by 12,879 MW.

16 Samples From Covid-19 Patient's Village Sent For Test

The three - from Cuttack, Puri and Jajpur - were among the 28 returnees who were tested.The remaining 25 people tested negative for Covid-19.

The farmers are waiting for clear directions from the government on wheat harvesting and managing once it is harvested. They are planning to delay the process, as the workers who operate agriculture machinery are also not available due to coronavirus threat. The government, meanwhile, has allowed the shops that sell agriculture machinery and spare parts (including its supply chain) to open, indicating that harvesting will go ahead as usual.

The coronavirus pandemic has had a debilitating impact on Assam's tourism industry with tour operators estimating an overall loss to the tune of Rs 200 crores. With movement of tourists coming to a standstill from the second half of March, sources in the tourism department said that the loses may go up further when the total is calculated after the lockdown ends.

Farmers and arhtiyas (commission agents) have termed the proposal of doorstep procurement of wheat as not practically feasible. They claim that cleaning, weighing and loading of grains not feasible in such a system, as it is not possible to take cleaning machines and weighing bridges to the fields or homes of farmers. The farmers fear that procurement season would linger on for much longer, leaving very little time for sowing of cotton crop in the cotton belt.

Assam's Sarathi 104 helpline number has not stopped ringing ever since the state government imposed a lockdown to contain the spread of coronavirus.

The ongoing lockdown period is a great lesson on cleanliness, appropriate social norms and self-isolation, a section of citizens has said. With more than half of the lockdown period behind us, a number of citizens said they felt this period will have a lasting impact on the way people look at life and that many will move towards healthier habits once things are back to normal.

Tezpur University (TU) has started developing face shields that can be used by medical staff as personal protective equipment while attending to Covid-19 patients.