Новости за 08.05.2020

Barring patients, the Assam government has decided not to allow anyone travelling from West Bengal to enter the state after two Covid-19 positive cases were found to have a travel history from the neighbouring state.

A 60-year-old man died due to coronavirus in western Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddh Nagar on Friday, becoming the first fatality in the district due to Covid-19, officials said.

Nuh district gave a sigh of relief for health authorities who were continued to be disappointed as 22 new more cases were found in Haryana which took state total tally to 647. Besides Gurugram, other districts from where fresh cases were reported include Faridabad, Sonipat, Jhajjar, Panipat, Jind and Fatehabad.

Former chief minister of Karnataka and Congress leader Siddaramaiah on Friday asked the state government to demand a special economic package of at least Rs 50,000 crore from the centre to deal with the coronavirus crisis.

Chaos erupted at Mangaluru Central Railway Station on Friday after more than 1,000 migrant workers hailing from Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Assam and Bihar grouped at the station falling prey to a rumour that train services were available for them to return back home.

Odisha reported 34 new cases on Thursday, 30 of them migrant workers who had returned from Surat in Gujarat.

Directing officials to ensure that nobody walks back home, chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday said that the government was making all efforts in deploying buses and trains to bring back stranded migrant workers.

With 60 Covid-19 positive cases in the past 24 hours, the number of infected people in Odisha mounted to 245 on Friday, government updates show.

Deputy commissioner (Sonitpur) Manvendra Pratap Singh told TOI, "I have held a review meeting will all government officials and the preparations are complete.

Assam University Teachers' Association (AUTA) is unhappy with the Centre's decision to freeze hike of Dearness Allowance (DA) of its employees and Dearness Relief (DR) of pensioners at current rates till July 2021.

A total of 26 Bangladeshis, who were in Assam on tourist visas and had been held in Dhubri for violating their visa conitions, have been sent to judicial custody.

Four northeastern neighbouring states – Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya and Nagaland — are jointly working on simultaneous imposition of cess on liquour in their respective states.

Seven-year-old Elena was up for a pleasant surprise when policemen knock at her door in Krishna Colony on Thursday with cake and balloons to celebrate her birthday. Gurugram police along with members of IT cell of Haryana BJP made arrangement to celebrate the birthday of seven years old after her grandmother, who lives in New Delhi, twitted to chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar.

Khushbu Khatoon of Begusarai in Bihar was a happy bride after her nikah was solemnised with Kanpur's Imtiyaz on March 21.

The Assam health department on Thursday launched a drive in every village to check if people were suffering from viral infections like Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI) and Influenza-Like Illness (ILI). Health teams moved from house to house to conduct tests on villagers.

Nearly 1000 returnees, including 140 students of Assam studying in different universities and institutions of Gujarat, arrived in Guwahati on Thursday, even as nearly three lakh people, who had earlier registered for coming to the state, have re-applied cancelling their requests for permits.