Новости за 29.05.2020

Assam marked the completion of its first 60 days of Covid-19 pandemic on Friday by breaching the 1000-mark and reaching a tally of 1024 positive cases with an average growth of 17.06 cases per day.

The East Coast Railway (ECoR) will play 'Bande Utkal Janani' song at railway stations in Odisha at 5.30pm on Saturday as a mark of solidarity with and support for Covid warriors.

Deputy commissioner Pradeep Kumar Agrawal has informed that the migrants who want to travel to Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand states tomorrow can now come directly at Guru Nanak Stadium, Ludhiana at 10 am on i.e. May 30, 2020. He said that the migrants would be adjusted in the trains on a first come first serve basis.

As return of large scale migrants from different states has led to serious unemployment situation in rural areas, the state government on Friday announced a special livelihood intervention package worth Rs 17,000 crore, a move that aims to generate employment opportunities through different sectors like agriculture, fisheries, MGNREGS, skill development, forestry, handlooms and handicrafts.

Deputy commissioner, Daksina Kannada - Sindhu B Rupesh has set up a nine-member committee under IAS officer Snehal Rayamane, managing director, Mescom to look into a complaint of physical and mental travails faced by a pregnant woman while in institutional quarantine.

Ahead of centre’s decision on possible extension of lockdown to phase five, Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that with social distancing and wearing of face masks having grown into a habit among the people now, the state is ready to once again embrace normal life, though in a phased manner.

Communist Party of India national council member Dr Joginder Dyal, himself an eye surgeon, has strongly opposed the 70% hike in fee of medical colleges in Punjab decided by the Punjab cabinet. He said that the decision was taken mainly to benefit the private medical colleges.

In fact, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had appealed to the people to switch to online transactions and digital payment modes to ensure social distancing and avoid cash transaction by hand.

Three new cases have been reported Covid-19 positive in Patiala on Friday while one each in Ropar and Sangrur district also tested positive for the virus.

Tension prevailed at Darandabagilu in Pilar near Thokkottu on Friday after police and health workers arrived to shift a 15-year-old boy to Covid-19 hospital.

Mysuru on Friday registered two fresh cases - one of Ireland-returned and the other who had come from Rajasthan. With this total tally of Covid cases has gone up to 94 in Mysuru. So far 91 are cured and discharged.

The death toll due to drowning in Assam on Friday climbed to five within a week since the first wave of flood struck, one more than the casualty due to Covid-19 in 60 days, as the deluge hit more than 80,000 population across seven districts in 24 hours taking the total affected population 3.81 lakh.

Two Covid-19 patients died of their comorbidities while 63 more tested positive for the novel coronavirus, the health department updates said.

A Shramik special train departed for Katihar in Bihar from Ambala Cantonment at 4 pm on Friday, carrying 1,676 migrant labourers and 22 children with them towards their home state.

A 20-year-old youth believed to have been murdered six years ago returned home alive in Kanpur Dehat, courtesy lockdown.

In May 2013, the PSPCL had allotted a tender to a private firm for supply of five 20MVA 66/11kV power transformers at a cost of Rs 6.18 crore.

Three Haryana travel agents have been booked by the police for duping three Jind residents by sending them to the United States illegally. Two of these deportees tested positive after they were sent back to India by the US on May 19.

A molecular laboratory established for Covid-19 testing at a government polyclinic in Ambala City got the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) permission on Wednesday, and it was inaugurated on Thursday Haryana home, health, urban local bodies minister Anil Vij.

A 60-year-old migrant worker, on his way to West Bengal from Hyderabad on foot in a desperate attempt to reach home, died near Soro in Odisha's Balasore district on Friday, police said.

Five boys who had gone for a dip in the Ganga here without letting their families know drowned, police said on Friday.