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The Indian Railways will start operations of 200 passenger services from June 1.
The booking for these trains will start from 10 a.m. on May 21. These special services will be in addition to the 30 existing Shramik special trains and Special air conditioned trains already running.
Rest all trains will continue to remain cancelled for now.
Department of Fisheries has made an app called 'DOF' to home deliver fresh fishes. The delivery will be made within 2-3 hours with no delivery charges. It is getting popular amid lockdown: Dr Prem Kumar, Minister of Agriculture, Animal& Fishery Resources, Bihar pic.twitter.com/3xQ9wIsxrb
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Kerala recorded 24 new Covid-19 cases in the state taking the total number of active cases to 161.
This is just more than a week after the state had seen its total active cases fall to less than 30. The state has now recorded 666 infections. Of the 24 new cases, 12 have returned from abroad while 11 have returned from other states. One person was infected by contact.
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The Indian Council of Medical Research today said that over 25 lakh tests for Covid-19 have been done in the country so far.
As of 12:30 p.m., 25.36 lakh tests had been done. Of these, 1.07 lakh tests were done on Tuesday marking the second consecutive day of over 1 lakh tests.
There are a total of 555 laboratories that are active. 164 labs are private.
Of the over 60,000 active Covid-19 cases in India, only 2.9 percent require oxygen support, India’s health ministry said today.
This is an important data point as it shows that early identification has helped in improving the recovery rate, joint health secretary Lav Agarwal said in a press briefing. The health ministry said that 3 pecrent of the active cases are admitted to intensive care units while less 0.5 percent require a ventilator.
Indian airlines have been barred from commercial operations since March 25.
Around 500 personnel of the Kolkata Police Combat Force staged a protest here, alleging that they were being deployed in areas where chances of contracting Covid-19 are high, a senior official said on Wednesday.
The policemen demonstrated inside the Police Training School complex on Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Road late on Tuesday, he said.
Sources said they gheraoed the vehicle of Deputy Commissioner of Police, Combat Battalion, Col Nevendera Singh Paul when he tried to initiate a dialogue with them, and allegedly vandalised his vehicle.
"We are being sent on duty in high-risk areas. There are several policemen who have been infected with the virus. This cannot go on," a police officer of the Combat Force told PTI.
When contacted, a senior police officer of Kolkata Police said an investigation has been launched to ascertain the facts.
"An investigation is underway. There can be disappointment among the policemen regarding the duty schedule, but no acts of indiscipline will not be tolerated...," he said.
Earlier in the day, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had visited the complex and assured the agitating police personnel of looking into their demands.
Source: PTI
The departure of Howrah-New Delhi AC Special Express for Wednesday has been cancelled owing to the super cyclone 'Amphan', the Eastern Railway said here.
It said that since the system is most likely to cause heavy rain and storm, the departure of 02301 Howrah-New Delhi AC Special Express on Wednesday and 02302 New Delhi-Howrah AC Special Express on May 21 would remain cancelled.
The Met department in an advisory asked for stoppage or diversion of train movements owing to damage likely to be caused by the super cyclonic storm.
Source: PTI
Invasive technique should not be adopted for forensic autopsy in Covid-19death cases as mortuary staff are exposed to potentially dangerous health risks due to organ fluids and secretions even after taking the highest precautions, the ICMR has said.
The Indian Council of Medical Research, in its 'Standard Guidelines for Medico-legal autopsy in Covid-19 deaths in India', said, "It will prevent the spread of infection to doctors, mortuary staff, police persons and all the people in chain of dead body disposal."
According to the guidelines, the deaths in hospital and under medical care due to coronavirus infection is a non-MLC case and doesn't require postmortem examination and the required certification of death will be done by treating doctors.
Bodies of suspected Covid-19 patients, which are brought to hospital, may be labelled as medico legal cases by the doctor in emergency and it will be sent to mortuary and police will be informed, which may necessitate a medicolegal autopsy for clarity in the cause of death.
"The forensic autopsy of these cases may be waived off," the guidelines said.
Source: PTI
India’s Virus Cases Cross 100,000, Jump at Fastest Pace in Asia
Global Updates:
President Donald Trump called the country’s 1.5 million cases a “badge of honor” for U.S. testing efforts. New York City is struggling to meet the standards to reopen and still seeing rising hospital admissions, while Governor Andrew Cuomo hailed progress in the state capital region and Long Island.
Brazil is now the world’s fastest-growing virus hot spot, accounting for 13% of new cases globally in the past week. Russia’s prime minister returned to office three weeks after testing positive -- a period that saw total cases in the country almost triple to just under 300,000.
Total cases globally topped 4.8 million and more than 3,22,000 dead.
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