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13 Jun

Nabanna sanitisation for two days

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June 13.2020: Bengal secretariat Nabanna will be closed for sanitisation on Monday as at least seven people who visited the 15-storey building in the past one week tested positive for Covid-19. “Of the seven patients, six were drivers of senior government officials and another was a police officer. A disinfection drive would be carried out at the building on Sunday and Monday,” said a senior official. Since a number of drivers tested positive, the government has conducted Covid-19 confirmation test on all drivers as a precautionary measure. “Test results of most of the drivers have come and almost all have…

13 Jun

Everything is under control in India-China border row, said Army Chief

editor0 CommentsNorth EastArmy, China, Corona, INDIA, Indian government

Army chief general MM Naravane informed that the entire situation in the India borders with China is under control.A detailed informatiom regarding the overall situation in eastern Ladakh was given by Army chief Gen MM Naravane to the Defence Minister at a high-level meeting which was also attended by chief of defence staff Gen Bipin Rawat, navy chief Admiral Karambir Singh and air chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria.He says,"I would like to assure everyone that entire situation along our borders with China is under control. We're having a series of talks which started with Corps Commander level talks. This has been followed up…

13 Jun

Anurag Kashyap is not quitting Bollywood without making a film with Shah Rukh Khan

editor0 CommentsEntertainmentAlia Bhatt, Bollywood, Ranbir Kapoor, Shah rukh khan

filmmaker Anurag Kashyap and Bollywood’s King Khan studied together in the same college and have known each other since a very long time.Anurag also claims that he is not leaving the Bollywood industry without working on a film with Shah Rukh Khan. On the work front, Shah Rukh Khan will be seen making a special cameo in Ayan Mukerji’s ‘Brahmastra’. The movie stars Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt in the lead roles. The superstar is yet to announce his next full-fledged Bollywood project They surely share a long friendship, it is amusing to know that they haven’t yet worked together. Anurag reportedly told…

13 Jun

200 safe homes for migrant patients

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The Mamata Banerjee government has decided to set up 200 safe homes in Bengal to keep Covid-19 migrant workers with no symptoms or with mild symptoms as part of a move to stem the disease’s spread in rural areas. “As of now, there are 5,587 active cases in the state. Of which, around 3,000 are migrant workers who are either asymptomatic or with mild symptoms. If we can isolate them institutionally, the spread of the disease to villages could be prevented,” said a senior government official. Given that more than 95 per cent of the migrants willing to come back…

13 Jun

UGC asks colleges to go back 100 years to rate Covid-19 handling

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June 13, 2020: The University Grants Commission has asked campuses to do comparative studies of India’s handling of the Covid-19 and Spanish flu pandemics, triggering charges the Centre is seeking kudos by pitting its performance against a 102-year-old benchmark from medically backward times. Academics, one of whom derided the exercise as “moronic”, also slammed the higher education regulator’s increasing tendency to issue diktats to universities and colleges despite being an advisory body. In a letter on Thursday, the commission asked every university and college to conduct two studies each, one by asking villagers how they were handling the Covid-19 challenge…

13 Jun

Punjab conducts its first plasma therapy successfully

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Punjab on Friday successfully performed its first convalescent plasma therapy on a critically ill Covid-19 patient at Guru Gobind Singh Medical College & Hospital, Faridkot. The therapy was performed by Dr Ravinder Garg, Department of Medicine, Dr Neetu Kukar, Department of Blood Transfusion, Dr Neerja Jindal, Department of Microbiology, and Dr Divya Kavita, Department of Critical Care. Punjab Medical Education and Research Minister O P Soni said that the patient is gradually improving. This hospital has become one of the pioneer institutes in the country to initiate this therapy, as a part of National Clinical Trial under the ICMR (Indian Council of…

13 Jun

Vasant Raiji, India’s oldest first-class cricketer, dies at 100

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Vasant Raiji, who was India’s oldest first-class cricketer at 100, died here in the wee hours of Saturday. Raiji was 100 years old and is survived by his wife and two daughters. “He (Raiji) passed away at 2.20 am in his sleep at his residence in Walkeshwar in South Mumbai due to old-age,” his son-in-law Sudarshan Nanavati told PTI. Raiji, a right-handed batsman, played nine first-class matches in the 1940s, scoring 277 runs with 68 being his highest score. He made his debut for a Cricket Club of India team that played Central Provinces and Berar in Nagpur in 1939. His…

13 Jun

Assam hospital discharges wrong Covid-19 patient

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Guwahati | Updated: June 13, 2020: A civil hospital in Assam discharged a Covid-19 patient after mixing him up with a recovered person with a similar sounding name, sparking panic in the community. The mix-up occurred when a state government-approved list of recovered persons was read out loud by hospital staff before the patients. This list of 14 names received by Mangaldoi Civil Hospital in Darrang district included one Hamid Ali, a migrant worker who was being treated since June 5. However, when his name was called out, it was another patient who responded—Hanif Ali, who had been admitted since June 3 and had not…

13 Jun

Our strategy is trace, quarantine, test, isolate and treat

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June 13, 2020 : K K Shailaja, Kerala Health Minister, has made global headlines for the state’s handling of Covid-19. In this E-Xplained episode before a nationwide audience on Zoom, she discusses how Kerala kept the numbers down, and looks at the challenges ahead. Edited excerpts: On Kerala’s robust Panchayati Raj and healthcare systems In Kerala we implemented [Panchayati Raj] in a democratic way. Our local self-governments are fully charged with power and the distribution of money is also like that… Our Primary Health Centres are now under the panchayat, local-level panchayat. They are well planned; they are implementing so many novel…

13 Jun

65% deaths in 21-60 age group

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13 June, 2020: Amid the spike in the number of Covid-19 deaths in Uttar Pradesh, another concern is growing —more people below the age of 60 without known comorbidity have died of Covid-19 in the state. Despite the assessment that healthy youngsters are at lesser risk from SARS-CoV-2 and only elderly people with underlying conditions have increased risk of severe infection, the latest data from Uttar Pradesh show otherwise. Out of the 321 deaths reported in the state till Wednesday, 209 — roughly 65 per cent — were in the 21-60 years age group. In the remaining cases, 101 (31.5…