Новости за 27.04.2021

Many special trains on the Konkan Railway route have been temporarily cancelled due to reduction in passenger demand in view of Covid-19 situation.

Dr Neeraj Sachan, in-charge of Patara CHC, who was also heading the Rapid Response Team and deputed at Integrated Covid Command control Center (ICCC), failed to satisfactorily answer queries of the district magistrate, Alok Tewari, on Covid-19 arrangements at a review meeting late Monday.

The search operation for workers who went missing after the avalanche in Sumna near the India-China border in Chamoli district continued on Tuesday while all 15 bodies recovered from the site are of BRO workers from Jharkhand.

Gujarat on Tuesday reported the highest number of 14,352 coronavirus positive cases in a day and a record 170 deaths, including 27 in Surat, the state health department said.

An earthquake of magnitude 3 occurred at Haryana's Rohtak district on Tuesday evening, National Center for Seismology said.

The man, who suffered a fracture on a shoulder bon, was admitted to Tirupur Government Hospital.

Assam on Tuesday imposed night curfew in the state with immediate effect to prevent gathering of people for a longer time under the shadow of rising fresh Covid-19 cases in the state.

Industries manufacturing and supplying medical oxygen in the backward north Karnataka region have come to the rescue of Bengaluru.

Former Punjab minister and senior BJP leader Manoranjan Kalia said that chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh should resign for violating the oath of his office and secrecy under the Constitution of India by allowing Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) president Sunil Jakhar in the cabinet meeting.

Industries manufacturing and supplying medical oxygen in the backward north Karnataka region have come to Bengaluru's aid. Of seven oxygen manufacturing units in the state, five are in Kalyana Karnataka. Some are playing a key role in oxygen distribution in the state — of 21 distributors, 14 are in north Karnataka.

Leading civil society organization of Assam, the Axom Nagarik Samaj (ANS), has urged the government to give people free and universal vaccination amid a raging country-wide second wave of Covid-19.

Demand for medical equipment has hit the roof, said pharmacies here, as people have gone on a panic buying spree picking up anything and everything related to Covid-19 prevention and cure like oximeters, oxygen cans and steam inhalers. Vitamin C, D and Zinc tablets are also flying off racks.

With no intervention from the health department and the Kamrup (Metro) district administration, ragpickers at the Boragaon dumping site, located adjacent to the Deepor Beel, are working without face masks, sanitizers and social distancing. Many of them don’t even know about vaccination, or basic protocols that need to be followed during a pandemic.

Even as parts of the country struggle to meet the demand for medical oxygen, the Assam government has decided to augment its oxygen generation within the state despite oxygen stocks lying untouched.

Students of different higher secondary schools in the city on Monday staged a protest at the Mahatma Gandhi Marg for the second time in a week to step up the pressure on the government for the cancellation of the Class XII board exam in the wake of the rising Covid-19 cases.

With no commitment from the manufacturers on the likely volume and date of supply of vaccines to the state, the inoculation plan for people in the the age group of 18 to 44 from May 1 remains uncertain.

Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said Bhutan King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck on Monday issued a royal decree on request from India to permit resumption of construction work of a private oxygen plant, which was hit due to a lockdown in the Himalayan country last year.

In a revised SOP, the Assam government on Monday ordered shutting of all marketplaces, weekly markets, shops in malls, including restaurants, dhabas and eateries, across the state by 6 pm and has made wearing of face masks mandatory even for a single person driving a vehicle.

Two incidents that took place on Monday exposed the inhuman face of the authorities in the time of pandemic. In the first, the family of a dead woman arranged a bicycle cart, and in the other, relatives of a dead man hired an autorickshaw to ferry the bodies to the cremation ground. Both victims were Covid-19 positive.

When an 85-year-old man died following complaints of breathlessness, neighbours kept away from assisting his family as they feared his medical condition carried Covid-like symptoms. That was when a group of Muslim youths who were relaxing after iftaar put off their namaz by three hours and performed the elderly person’s last rites in Koppal town, about 350km from Bengaluru, late Sunday night.

Officially, there were seven Covid deaths in Gurugram on Monday. But at the Madanpuri cremation ground, which has been designated for Covid deaths, there were so many bodies that cremations spilled over to the parking lot.

In separate incidents, three people died due to lack of medical oxygen in state-run hospitals in Periyapatna and Hunsur taluks of Mysuru district on Monday.

Tamil Nadu added 94 deaths and 15,684 new cases to the state Covid registry on Monday, leaving 1,07,145 active infections. While the case tally touched 10.97 lakh and cumulative toll reached 13,651, the state said 9.76 lakh people have recovered from the disease so far.