Новости за 25.04.2021

Four patients died in a private hospital here on Sunday allegedly due to a shortage of medical oxygen following which the district administration launched an investigation to ascertain the reason behind the deaths.

Massive forest fires have broken out in several parts of Mizoram damaging vast tracts of land and vegetation forcing chief minister Zoramthanga to seek central help, an official of the state disaster management and rehabilitation department said on Sunday.

Udupi-Chikkamagaluru MP Shobha Karandlaje has written to chief minister B S Yediyurappa to declare a medical emergency in the state, in the wake of a spike in Covid-19 cases.

Dakshina Kannada district reported a new high of 564 Covid-19 cases on Sunday.

The Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) board has sanctioned Rs 9.32 crore for the development of Hingula temple at Talcher in Angul district. Union petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan had written a letter to Coal and mines minister Pralhad Joshi on this issue.

With 82 more people succumbing to the disease, the state's Covid toll increased to 13,557.

The second wave of Covid-19 may not result in fast deterioration of the health conditions of those testing positive, as health experts have recorded speedy recovery in many cases which are without co-morbid conditions.

Jharkhand's Covid-19 death toll rose to 1,778 as the state reported 63 fresh fatalities in the last 24 hours, the health department said in a bulletin on Saturday.

Amid mounting anxiety over availability of beds and oxygen with Covid-19 cases rising in the seven districts comprising the Belagavi division – Dharwad, Belagavi, Bagalkot, Vijayapura, Gadag, Uttara Kannada and Haveri – the authorities have taken steps to ensure that taluk hospitals and other healthcare institutions are in a position to accommodate all infected patients.

With the sharp rise in new covid-19 infections, the daily oxygen consumption in the state has surpassed the peak demand of the first phase of the pandemic last year.

Even when the state is facing an acute shortage of oxygen in hospitals to treat Covid-19 cases, hospitals in Dakshina Kannada district have not been affected so far, according to officials.

The state child rights body, Assam State Commission For Protection Of Child Rights (ASCPCR), on Saturday said that the minor was “pregnant” before she was allegedly set ablaze her employers on Thursday.

With the second wave of coronavirus targeting mostly those below 60 years, the district has ramped up testing and the healthcare experts are urging the youngsters to get vaccinated as soon as inoculation drive for those above 18 begins next month.

A 29-year-old man, identified as Dom Chaki, was shot dead by unidentified persons around 4pm on Friday when he was riding a bicycle to Kudaburu village and his body was recovered by police from a Sonua police station area on Saturday. Sonua police station OC Sohan Lal said Chaki was a fugitive and refuted that he was killed by Maoists for being a police informer, a charge doing the rounds on social media. Chaki had a criminal record and was wanted in a seven-year-old abduction case, Lal said.

The shortage of beds in Bengaluru and other cities is forcing some Covid-19 patients to seek treatment in Dakshina Kannada. The district health and family welfare department is noticing a rise in the number of such patients.

A three-judge bench of the Orissa High Court has finally dismissed the petition that challenged the ban the state government had imposed on the book, The Lives of Sri Aurobindo, 12 years ago.

The Gauhati High Court, while observing that Assamese writer Sikha Sarma had expressed her personal views on the use of the term ‘Swahid/martyr’, granted bail to the 48-year-old writer, who was arrested here on April 6 on charges of sedition and other offences for an alleged Facebook post on security forces after 22 personnel were killed in a Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh.

A truck carrying 300 LPG cylinders rammed a vegetable shop at Bamphakuda in Cuttack on National Highway 16 between Cuttack and Bhubaneswar on Saturday. No casualty has been reported.

Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday said there is adequate supply and generation of medical oxygen, Remdesivir injections and Covid vaccines in the state and significant number of hospital beds, including ICU beds, in the state at present.

The Assam government has decided to re-introduce free food and drinking water for Covid patients at government hospitals and Covid care centres.