Новости за 07.08.2020

Haryana reported nine more deaths due to COVID-19 on Friday, while 751 fresh cases took the infection tally in the state past the 40,000-mark, according to the health department's daily bulletin.

Though it was an almost rainless day in the Coast, the heavy rains in the past couple of days saw the shores ravaged by sea erosion, which destroyed some roads and took chunks of land into the sea in many areas of the coast. Officials have been on foot all day to assess the damage and vulnerable spots.

Ambala recorded its 19th death due to Covid-19 as a 66-year-old man died at PGIMER, Chandigarh on Thursday night, while the district reported 79 positive cases said civil surgeon Dr Kuldeep Singh.

Following public complaints of encroachment by the shopkeepers in market areas on the road connecting Jagadhri and Yamunanagar cities, the teams of Yamunanagar Municipal Corporation on Friday conducted a drive to remove the encroachment.

The body of a 25-year old man lay at his home in a village at Konark in Odisha for more than 15 hours as relatives and villagers stayed away suspecting that he had been infected with Covid-19, officials said on Friday.

On popular demand, Udayraga, the online Odissi dance festival, will include other Indian classical dance forms, and contemporary dance and martial art, from Friday.

Amid the pandemic gripping the nation with Haryana numbers tally touching 39,303 by August 6, ​​​ there is some good news from Gurugram as the Covid-19 positivity rate has further come down in the district.

Six more Covid-19 patients died in Assam on Thursday, which has pushed the total number deaths up to 126. On the other hand, the cumulative count of confirmed cases crossed the 50,000-mark on Wednesday. The state has so far recorded 50,445 cases.

A group of students from the Institute of Technical Education and Research (ITER) under SOA Deemed-to-be University, and CV Raman Global University have excelled at the Smart India Hackathon 2020, which was organised online for the first time by Union ministry of human resource development.

Out of the 305 sanctioned faculty positions at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Bhubaneswar, 114 are lying vacant, an RTI query has revealed.

The city on Thursday saw more people stepping out cautiously to go shopping for non-essentials after a gap of nearly four months. Residents visited shopping malls and markets here, albeit in much reduced numbers as compared to pre-Covid.

Vigilance on Thursday arrested Prasant Kumar Swain, an assistant conservator of forests (ACF) of the wildlife division in Puri, for allegedly possessing assets disproportionate to his known source of income.

Khurda SP Ajay Pratap Swain tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday. Ajay Pratap, who is the younger brother of state food supplies and consumer welfare minister Ranendra Pratap Swain, has been advised by doctors to stay in home isolation.

The total Covid-19 positive cases in Odisha crossed the 40,000-mark after the state reported its highest single-day spike of 1,699 new infections on Thursday. Ten more died of the virus, raising the death toll in the state to 235.

After the closure of 141 days in view of Covid-19 lockdown, the temple of Lord Kaal Bhairo, also called as Kotwal of Kashi, will open from Friday.

The Covid tally for Uttar Pradesh reached 1,08,974 with 4,658 cases in the past 24 hours. According to officials, 46.2% (or 2,154) cases were reported from 10 big cities: Lucknow (664), Kanpur (447), Varanasi (281), Prayagraj (197), Bareilly (138), Gorakhpur (135), Gautam Budh Nagar (105), Ghaziabad (103), Meerut (50), Jhansi (34). Spikes were recorded in Azamgarh (132) Shahjahanpur (130), Deoria (104), Jaunpur (102), Ballia (94), Aligarh (92), Mathura (90) and Maharajganj (88). The number of active infections in the state reached 43,654.

Different parts of Kodagu district continues to reel under flood-like situation due to incessant rainfall in Karnataka.

An unidentified person escaped with more than three sovereigns of gold and a television set from a house at Kovilpalayam near Kinathukadavu on the outskirts of Coimbatore when its occupants were admitted to a private hospital for Covid-19 treatment.