Новости за 25.05.2020

Assam registered a new single-day high of 134 Covid-19 positive cases on Monday, which has taken the total count past the 500-mark to reach 526 in less than 12 hours of an overnight count of 392 cases.

Among the five recoveries in the state on Monday who were discharged from hospitals is the 13-year-old girl, who had tested positive on May 14 after returning from Mumbai following a heart surgery. Her healthy mother, who had refused to leave her Covid-19 positive daughter and stayed back with her at the isolation ward at Guwahati Medical College and Hospital miraculously stayed negative through these 11 days.

Despite a directive from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and the state government allowing private hospitals and clinics to function and subsequent easing/opening of movement during lockdown 4, patient footfall remains low in these centres, about 60-70% down despite routine OPDs being operational.

Fourteen new Covid-19 positive cases were reported in Gautam Buddha Nagar district on Monday taking the total number of cases to 359, said district surveillance officer.

Police on Monday arrested two persons allegedly involved in beating to death a labourer of Emami Limited’s Assam plant at Pacharia in Kamrup district. The deceased, Sanatan Deka (38), had started selling vegetables after his factory temporarily shut down due to the lockdown on Friday.

Two Shramik special trains departed for Muzaffarpur and Barauni in Bihar from Ambala Cantonment at 12pm and 6.10pm on Monday, carrying a total of 1,598 migrant labourers with 9 children and 1,599 labourers with 18 children respectively to their home state.

Assam government wants to wrap up the process of receiving the home-bound people of the state from outside and of their subsequent quarantine by June 30 so that from July it can shift its entire focus on managing the floods, which has already affected over than 30,000 people and displaced nearly 9,000 of them to relief camps.

Tailors have started taking orders for making face masks and it is turning out to be a productive idea to make some money

A Delhi-based woman (45) who came to meet her daughter in Kurukshetra, has tested positive for Covid-19 in New Colony of Thanesar city in Kurukshetra district on Monday, told civil surgeon Dr Sukhbir Singh.

After a gap of almost two months, the first domestic passenger aircraft landed at Hubballi airport on Monday with only four passengers who had boarded the Bengaluru- Hindon(Delhi) via Hubballi flight.

An auto parts trader was killed, while his wife suffered grave injuries when the son of their landlord sprayed them with bullets in Atlas Tank locality under the limits of City Kotwali police station in Azamgarh district on Monday.

Eight flights from Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore brought in 500 passengers to Guwahati while about 350 passengers flew out on Monday as domestic air services resumed.

Scores of migrant labourers in Mandi Gobindgarh town of Fatehgarh Sahib district pelted stones at police vehicles on Monday morning. They were waiting for a special train after their medical tests were conducted a few days ago. The administration had decided to send the migrants to Mohali from where a train is scheduled to leave for Bihar on Monday evening.

The Institute of Life Sciences (ILS), Bhubaneswar, an autonomous institute of department of biotechnology under Union ministry of science and technology, has been identified for establishment of Biorepository for Covid-19 clinical samples. The Centre has identified 16 institutes in the country including one at Bhubaneswar for this purpose.

Student organisations like Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), National Students Union of India (NSUI) and All India Democratic Students Organization (AIDSO) have urged both the Centre and the state to waive school and college fees this year.

Not a single bottle of liquor was home-delivered in the state, even though the Naveen Patnaik government had given its nod to the home delivery of alcohol in select cities and towns on Saturday.

Psychiatrists feel that problems of schizophrenia patients may increase due to lockdown. Schizophrenia is a serious mental disorder that affects how the brain normally functions.

As many as 12 Shramik Special trains carrying thousands of Odia migrant workers had left Telangana for Odisha on Saturday. But Odisha had no prior information about this from Telangana government, said special relief commissioner Pradeep Kumar Jena here on Sunday.

Visitors to north Karnatak often look forward to indulging themselves in the various delicacies that each district in the region has to offer.