Новости за 03.07.2020

Assam on Friday put into play the 'test-track-treat' strategy for early detection and containment of the Covid-19 pandemic with use of a point-of-care rapid antigen test, which is quick, simple, safe and will eventually ramp up the test capabilities.

Karnataka has been demanding ban on import of silk from China to protect farmers of Ramanagara for many years ever since Siddaramaiah's tenure as the chief minister. However, the central government has made Indian software experts jobless by banning TikTok and other apps, said Mangaluru MLA UT Khader.

Lack of ambulances, swab collection teams and sufficient number of staff is making managing Covid-19 situation tough in Dakshina Kannada district where the number of cases is increasing considerably every day.

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath rushed to Kanpur on Friday to meet the family members of the slain policemen and announced financial assistance of Rs one crore each to the bereaved families.

An earthquake of magnitude 4.6 hit near Champhai in Mizoram on Friday, said the National Centre for Seismology (NCS).

Four central crime branch (CCB) police personnel tested positive for coronavirus on Friday in Dakshina Kannada district in Karnataka.

Puri Shankaracharya Nischalanand Saraswati on Thursday warned that both Nepal and its government could head towards “ruin” if the present dispensation of the Himalayan nation tilts towards China.

The Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital, part of SOA Deemed to be University here, has been chosen by the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) to undertake human clinical trials of India’s first Covid-19 vaccine, the hospital said.

A decision to start plasma therapy for the treatment of Covid-19 patients was taken in a meeting chaired by health minister Naba Kishore Das on Thursday.

Congress legislature party (CLP) leader Narasingha Mishra on Thursday urged chief minister Naveen Patnaik to convene a session of the state assembly by the third week of August to discuss various issues pertaining to the states, including the Covid-19 pandemic, and other related matters.

While the state government has decided to impose weekend shutdowns in July in 10 districts having more than 50 active positive cases, the administrations of four other districts — Bargarh, Balangir, Kendrapada and Dhenkanal — also decided to replicate the move.

Security personnel busted a Maoist camp, which was operating from a reserve jungle under the Phiringia police station limits in Kandhamal district, and seized around 15kg explosives from the spot on Wednesday.​

The Yogi Adityanath government in UP faced opposition onslaught on Friday over the killing of policemen in an encounter in Kanpur, with Congress leader Rahul Gandhi saying it was another proof of "hooliganism", while the Samajwadi Party said the state has become "Hatya Pradesh".

The higher education department on Thursday issued guidelines for online teaching of undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) students of all colleges coming under its administrative control. All colleges and universities are closed to students till August 31.

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After a 23-yearold man committed suicide in his house in Painsra village on Thursday and his family named kin of a woman living just opposite their house, accusing them of forcing the victim to take his life. The police booked them in the afternoon. The woman had also killed herself by hanging in her house later that evening, said the police.

Ahead of the final well-capping operation of the Baghjan-5 well scheduled for July 7, efforts are on to remove the mounds of debris which have piled up at the site following the blowout.

Yet to recover from the losses suffered during the lockdown, the floods in the state have washed away farmers' hopes of any business.