Новости за 18.04.2021

The government ban on sale of meat and closure of slaughtering houses on Ambedkar Jayanti, observed on Wednesday, has led to many Dalit leaders and progressive thinkers to claim that this ban was enforced from 2019.

The state government has constituted expert teams both at medical college level and state level, who will visit the established Covid facilities and monitor them for provision of optimal Covid case management.

However, the practical exams which is being conducted will be held as planned till April 23.

The night curfew will be in force from 10pm to 4am.

Karnataka Yakshagana Academy chairman M A Hegde passed away in Bengaluru on Sunday. He was 73. The scholar is survived by his wife, a son and a daughter.

Shops, offices and business establishments remained closed while vehicular movement came to a grinding halt on the first day of the weekend shutdown imposed to break the chain of Covid cases across towns in 10 districts near Chhattisgarh on Saturday.

Even as weekend shutdown in 10 districts and night curfew in urban areas across the state came into force on Saturday, the state government has allowed economic activities like operation of industries, mining, construction works and movement of goods and goods carriers.

The Covid death rate has started going up in the state. Four patients died in the past 24 hours, taking the total Covid deaths to 1,942.

The twin cities of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack together put up 49 police check posts at vantage points as the state began night curfew in all districts from Saturday.

rom zero in late 2005 to 48 at present, militancy-hit Manas National Park has seen an encouraging jump rhino population — a reclamation by the Assam forest department, which has given a new lease of life to the picturesque Unesco world heritage site.

Chief minister Naveen Patnaik has asked the Centre to allow the sale of Covid vaccine in the open market so that those who are willing and have the means to buy them can get inoculated. He also suggested that metropolitan cities, which have been witnessing the bulk of infections, should be given priority in vaccination and states be allowed the freedom to chose the age group to be inoculated.

A student, whose mother tongue is Assamese, can now clear the matriculation examination in Assam even without the marks for the Assamese subject in the Class 10 board exams getting added to the total.

Covid-infected patients, who do not need hospitalization and are asymptomatic, are occupying a large chunk of the hospital beds in Assam. Unless the government quarantine facilities are revamped at the earliest, treatment of non-Covid patients may soon be hit.

After several reports of non-availability of beds leading to death of Covid-19 patients, the Jharkhand government on Saturday appointed a state-level nodal officer for the effective management of admissions at government and private hospitals. Districts were asked to set up similar teams at their level for realtime monitoring and evaluation of occupancies at the healthcare facilities.

The public health department has been collecting at random blood (serum and plasma) samples from about 26,000 people in 888 clusters since March 27 for TN’s second serosurveillance for Covid-19. The survey would go on till the end of April as some districts began the survey after the polls.

Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said there was no link between election campaign rallies and rising Covid-19 cases in Assam and studies have shown that not a single Covid-19 case has been reported from the places where campaign rallies were held.

At 3.30 am on Thursday morning, her mother passed away in the Covid ICU after a week’s battle with the virus. Six hours later, Dr Shilpa Patel, an associate professor with anatomy department at state-run SSG Hospital, was back in the saddle trying to save other lives.

The city recorded 2,549 new cases of Covid-19 on Saturday, the highest single-day spike so far, taking its cumulative tally to 79,324. Since the beginning of the pandemic, this is the first time that daily cases have crossed the 2,500 mark in Gurugram.

Residents trying to source details about intensive care unit beds, oxygen facility and plasma support claim that it is very difficult to get through the government toll-free Covid helpline number.