Новости за 19.05.2020

Udupi reported five cases of Covid-19 including that of a teenager from Chitradurga who was in KMC Hospital for cancer treatment. Dakshina Kannada, on the other hand, had a case-free day after reporting two positive cases on Monday.

The number of Covid-19 cases in Punjab on Tuesday crossed the 2,000-mark with 22 more people testing positive for the disease in the state, officials said.

Keeping an eye over the social media sites including Facebook being used by the alleged criminals the police nabbed an alleged criminal and recovered illegal weapons from his possession in Patiala.

Repatriation of stranded Kannadigas in other states in general and Gulf nations is becoming reason for political tussle between ruling BJP and opposition Congress, especially in Dakshina Kannada district, the home district of DK MP chief Nalin Kumar Kateel. With Congress leadership firing salvos at Nalin, Sudarshan M, president of district unit of BJP to rushed to the defence of his state BJP boss here on Tuesday.

In a big boost to the Covid-19 test facility, Covid-19 lab at the Chamarajanagar Institute of Medical Sciences (CIMS) has started functioning. Dr L Ravi, district health officer (DHO) informed that ICMR issued permission on Monday and lab started functioning from Tuesday. "Today we tested local samples," he said.

Confederation of All Residents Welfare Association (All India body - CARWA) has written to Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman demanding release of Rs 10,000 crore for the body citing lack of funds. In Noida, the district RWA federation (DDRW) has also demanded removal of sanitation tunnel installed at authority offices and other places citing health hazards due to chemical spray from these.

Dakshina Kannada district has seen 21,888 migrant labourers return to their respective cities and states. The district administration in coordination with the state governments has sent these labourers back in 16 Shramik Special express trains. Out of these trains, 5 each has left for Bihar, Jharkhand, and Uttar Pradesh respectively, while one train has also made its way to Rajasthan.

As Cyclone Amphan is approaching, the Odisha government has started the process to broadcast an SMS based alert system and play tower siren to evacuate people in the districts, which are expected to suffer the most due to the cyclone, said state Special Relief Commissioner (SRC), Pradeep Jena, on Tuesday.

Super cyclone 'Amphan' weakened into an extremely severe cyclonic storm over the west-central Bay of Bengal Tuesday afternoon as it rolled towards the Indian shores in West Bengal and Odisha where lakhs of people were evacuated from vulnerable areas and shifted to safety, officials said.

Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar said on Monday that intra- and inter-state bus service will be allowed in the state from Tuesday in the fourth phase of nationwide lockdown.

Disturbed over the abrupt fall in demand and wholesale price of tomatoes in the market, farmers from around five villages in Tosham area of Bhiwani district have been sitting on a dharna for the past four days demanding government compensation. According to them, the relief is essential for them to start sowing the next crop and meet their day to day expenses. After 70% of their crop returned from mandis, farmers dumped tomatoes around the fields.

"The situation is such that these patients require immediate care and you cannot turn them away in this hour of crisis.Hence, we had ordered the facilities a fortnight ago.

The district authorities took over 200 samples, including of doctors in PGIMS, from inside and outside the hospital campus to trace the history of positive patients, said Rohtak CMO Dr Anil Birla.

The case of a coronavirus patient, who had come to Hisar from Ghaziabad about a month ago, has become a headache for the health department.

The long queues in Rajkot’s market seen especially at Paan shops and Fafda shops following a relaxation in lockdown on Tuesday. The market of Rajkot opened after 58 days and Rajkot Municipal Corporation announced odd-even formula for the shopkeepers.

Three people were killed and two others injured when the car in which they were travelling rammed into a stationary mini-truck in Uttar Pradesh's Azamgarh district on Tuesday, police said.

A former Sahastra Seema Bal (SSB) jawan shot dead his wife, son and a relative in Hukanpukhuri area of Dibrugarh on Monday.The incident occurred at around 11.30am.

A constable of the commissionerate police in Bhubaneswar tested positive for coronavirus on Tuesday. This is the first detection of Covid-19 positive case in the police department in Odisha.

"I used to get an average of Rs 1,300 as the bill amount every month, but this time I have got the receipt of Rs 3,700.This is the highest I have seen in years.I was shocked to see the bill and called Cesu.

The Puri district administration continues to be clueless about the source of Covid-19 infection of an inmate in Puri jail, triggering concern about the health of other prisoners in the campus that was sanitised on Monday.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Monday issued forecast of heavy to very heavy rainfall in western districts of Assam and Meghalaya on May 21 as an impact of super cyclonic storm Amphan.

Over 3,000-odd residents inside the IIT Guwahati campus find themselves in a quandary after the Assam government decided to set up a quarantine centre inside the institute.

PM Narendra Modi's Rs 20 lakh crore worth 'Atmanirbhashil Bharat' package will give the Assam government an additional fund flow opportunity of Rs 10,000 crore and direct cash transfer of about Rs 3,000 crore to the people in addition to Rs 153 crore to the government to fight Covid-19.