Новости за 30.04.2020

Stones were pelted on policemen late on Thursday evening during a drive to seal the containment areas in Godhra in wake of Covid-19 cases there. The police lobbed teargas shells in wake of the situation.

A sexagenarian woman on ventilator at district Wenlock Hospital, the designated Covid-19 facility, succumbed to the pandemic in Mangaluru on Thursday.

After taking up the issue regarding smooth return of stranded Odias with the his counterparts in Gujarat and Maharashtra, chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday reached out to Tamil Nadu CM EK Palaniswami over the issue.

They are currently able to sell only cardboard since that is sent for recycling within Uttar Pradesh while remaining dry waste, including plastic will be sent for recycling only once the lockdown opens and interstate movement is allowed.

One more person tested positive for coronavirus in Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddh Nagar on Thursday, taking the total number of Covid-19 cases in the district to 138, officials said. On the brighter side, seven patients were discharged from hospitals following their treatment for Covid-19, even as the number of active cases came down to 50, the officials said.

A little over 19-hour wait from 5pm on April 29 confirmed a strong rumour that the 16th resident of Dakshina Kannada district had tested positive for Covid-19.

The Gurugram district administration on Thursday announced additional strict restrictions on cross-border movement to be implemented from May 1. Residents of Gurugram working in Delhi have been asked to make their living arrangements in Delhi and those commuting every day from Delhi to Gurugram for work will have to make their living arrangement in Gurugram only.

The health department on Thursday collected samples of 39 people for Covid-19 tests, after they returned from Nanded in Maharashtra to Ambala late on Wednesday.

On April 24, cab driver Prasanta Mishra obtained a lockdown pass from the commissionerate police and left for Kolkata to drop a German passenger at the airport. On return same evening, little did Mishra imagine that he would be denied entry to his home state by the police at Laxmannath interstate check-post in Balasore district.

The Asom Chah Mazdoor Sangha on Wednesday expressed apprehension regarding the fate of 32,000 workers employed in 14 tea gardens of Assam Company India Limited (ACIL) owned by UAE-based billionaire BR Shetty, following media reports about him being investigated by international agencies over alleged fraud.

Students of classes IX and X are “hugely benefiting” from the e-learning initiative of Board of Secondary Education Assam (Seba), the board’s executive council member Apurba Dutta said on Wednesday.

To effectively combat Covid-19 pandemic, the commissionerate police on Thursday framed special regulations that entail strict compliance to the social distance norm in market places in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack. The law has a penal provision of fine up to Rs 500 for the violation.

The Assam government on Wednesday announced several austerity measures for the first quarter of the financial year following a sharp dip in its revenue collection in April due to the lockdown. However, there will be no cut in April salary of its nearly four lakh employees.

The restrictions imposed in Kalaburagi district of Karnataka have been extended till May 7 in a bid to prevent the spread of Covid-19, Deputy Commissioner Sharat B said on Thursday.

With World Immunization Week on, Unicef hopes vaccination drives will resume in Assam soon as the state has very few “Red” or “Containment” zones.

Assam health experts are wary of a “second wave” of Covid-19 as several lakh citizens of the state are now set to return home after the MHA on Wednesday allowed interstate travel by buses for those found asymptomatic during the screening process before leaving.

The 240 manufacturers of Noida’s Special Economic Zone (NSEZ) would have to wait at least until May 3 to gain clarity whether they can roll up shop floor shutter and work at a bare minimum 25% strength, but it all depends on the hotspots in the neighbourhood.