Новости за 28.06.2020

The flood situation in Assam worsened further on Sunday with two more persons losing their lives in the deluge which affected nearly 9.3 lakh people in 23 districts, the State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) said.

Dakshina Kannada district recorded its highest ever spike of 97 Covid19 positive cases on Sunday, a day that Karnataka recorded its biggest 24-hour spike of 1267 positive cases. The three deaths that DK district recorded on the day added to the unenviable fact that the 97 cases saw DK second in list of districts behind Bengaluru Urban that recorded 783 cases. Udupi was fourth in the day’s list with 40 cases behind Ballari’s 71.

The homecoming of several people from undivided Dakshina Kannada living abroad and other parts of the country in the wake of the global pandemic has given a new lease of life to uncultivated land here.

Even as news of a student who had appeared for SSLC examinations in Padubidri testing positive for Covid-19 caused concern among officials of department of public instruction (DPI), they had cause for cheer too.

The Haryana government has allowed shopping malls in Gurgaon and Faridabad to reopen from July 1, more than two months after they were shut to combat the novel coronavirus outbreak.

In view of fast-rising Covid-19 cases, the Gurugram administration has identified 8 containment zones in the district and will enforce a complete lockdown for two weeks, an official said.

Deputy commissioner of Ludhiana Varinder Sharma on Saturday informed that under “Mission Fateh” of Punjab government, the number of Covid-19 patients getting cured in district Ludhiana is increasing with each passing day. He informed that 38 more patients have been declared cured in last 24 hours. He said that till now, the total number of patients discharged from hospital has reached 523. Besides, 22 more positive cases have been reported in the district, who are residents of Ludhiana and other districts/states.

Irked over the continuous rise in the diesel prices at a time when paddy transplantation is at its peak, various farm organisations of Punjab have decided to hold protests across the state on June 30. They have termed the increase of nearly Rs 10 per litre in diesel prices in the last three weeks is the worst ever blow to farming class by the Narendra Modi-led Union government.

Recommending measures that can be taken to tackle the floods, the research institute said drainage is of the utmost importance as it extremely necessary to prevent a waterlogging situation.

Oil India Limited (OIL) on Saturday had to suspend their operations to kill the well that has been spewing natural gas since the blowout as incessant rains for the last 72 hours flooded the entire area.