Cites ‘outside forces’, orders panel under Union Home Secy to take a call

Passengers will be given hand sanitisers on entry and exit and allowed to enter stations only if they don’t display symptoms and clear thermal screening. This is why the direction to reach the station 90 minutes before departure.

The incidents took place in the Naku La sector — it’s a mountain pass in Sikkim at an altitude of over 5000 metres — on Saturday, and in a contested area near Pangong Tso, a lake in Ladakh, on the night of May 5-6.

Chief Secretary Vijay Dev wrote: “It has come to notice that both public and private hospitals (both Covid dedicated and non-Covid) are not reporting deaths of positive cases of Covid-19 occurring in their hospitals in a timely and regular manner.”

In a meeting on Sunday that has set the stage for Monday’s discussions, state chief secretaries called for a calibrated stepping up of economic activities in a video conference with the cabinet secretary.

Nabarro, a British physician and public health professional who was in the race for the top post at WHO, is one of the six special envoys named by the WHO director general in February to provide strategic advice to countries and engage in high-level political advocacy on Covid-19.

The notice directed the reporter to “join the investigation of the case as and when required” and warned of legal action under IPC Section 174 in the event of “Failure to attend/Comply with the terms of this Notice”.

According to district officials, they were able to catch up with the outbreak and get ahead by adopting an “evolving” strategy that included a tweaked quarantine protocol of up to 55 days, intensive sealing of local hotspots and aggressive home surveys.

Some corrections being made, says police research bureau under Home

Over the last few days, about 20,000 migrants have returned every day by trains and by road through the state’s six inter-state borders.

On May 4, the government had issued a notification asking over 25,000 registered allopathic doctors in Mumbai to fill forms, providing details of their specialisation, preference of area of work, current hospitals or clinics where they work and their addresses.

On Sunday, the Uddhav Thackeray government announced that it would pay for the train tickets of stranded migrants who are unable to pay the fare themselves.

Hospital authorities said she is suspected to have jumped off the service outlet of the toilet on the third floor of COVID hospital wi-thin the Civil Hospital premises. Her body was found on Sunday morning.

Indian Railways IRCTC Train Ticket Booking: More routes may be added after 10 days based on demand for inter-state travel; bookings open 4 pm today

This, on a day when the city sent back 30,000 migrants to their home states and districts within Gujarat by 14 trains and buses of the Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation (GSRTC), the highest numbers to leave in a single day.

Announcing the two new cases at his daily press briefing, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said it was “alarming” that they tested positive as soon as they landed, showing they were infected before they reached the state.

As cases rise, govt revises norms, from treatment to labour laws

Incidentally, bodies of those who have tested positive for Covid-19 are returned to families, with the authorities seeking that the numbers at the funeral, including officials, be kept to the minimum.

As for higher education institutions, the Ministry is keen that at one time, only half the student strength is on campus.

Across the state, movement was sealed in 1,243 areas, which emerged as local hotspots. Till Saturday, 2.53 lakh people were kept in quarantine at home and in government centres like hotels, lodges, schools, hostels, sports complexes and marriage halls.

50% want to return to Gurgaon; 74.5% of applicants from UP, Bihar

The exemption under Section 80G is not available to all religious trusts. A charitable or religious trust has to first apply for registration for income tax exemption under section 11 and 12, following which the exemption under Section 80G is granted to the donors.

"The driver of the goods train heading towards Manmad noticed the labourers sleeping on the tracks and honked repeatedly... and applied emergency brakes, but could not save the lives of the labourers," said Divisional  Railway Manager Upinder Singh.

Other districts in Odisha have also reported cases of labourers returning from Surat testing positive — Bhadrak (3), Kendrapora (5), Balasore (2), Mayubhanj (4) and Jagatsinghpur (4).