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True.
We have been so heartless towards these hapless migrants. So many of them are facing unimaginable problems in what, just reaching their own homes? Isn't it their right to go to their homes whenever they want? Also, if it wasn't safe for them to travel to go to their homes 2 months ago, how come it's safe now?
Pathetic management all around.
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Mumbai should start improving their govt hospitals, schools and offices before they compare themselves with Delhi. It's easy to make fun of Delhi sitting outside but you actually have to see the work Kejriwal govt has done here.
Nirmala has gone senile, talking about space research at this time when so many are dying to her and her master's policies?
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/con...ts-cant-get-home-2229977?pfrom=home-topscroll
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/con...ts-cant-get-home-2229977?pfrom=home-topscroll
Here is another one. Nirmala Sitharaman prefaces an extension of a credit linked subsidy scheme for middle income groups by describing who exactly it is meant for.
She says, "We wish to give the middle income group, and that too the lowest strata of the middle income group, who gets only six lakhs to eighteen lakhs annual income- so they are probably above poverty line all right, and slightly above that, but clearly the middle class- the lowest rung of middle class ...."
She would be surprised to learn where exactly this line stands. The poverty line is defined as below a daily income of Rs 32 for rural India and Rs 47 for urban India. Thus for urban India if you have an annual income of more than seventeen thousand one hundred and fifty five rupees you are, by definition, not poor. There are an estimated 35 crore Indians below this poverty line.
Unfortunately, they are not even recognising the existence of the “actual poor” here.
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As they say, to rectify a problem, you have to first acknowledge it.
In any case, not a novel thing for this dispensation. Have always treated the lowest strata of the society with utmost disdain.
Otherwise how can anyone say this with a straight face, 'stay wherever you are'.
Does he honestly think that these 35 crores could stay wherever they were at the time of his yet another tughlaqi farmaan which gave them just 4 hrs notice?
But no, his approval ratings are highest so aaalll issss wellll....
In any case, not a novel thing for this dispensation. Have always treated the lowest strata of the society with utmost disdain.
Otherwise how can anyone say this with a straight face, 'stay wherever you are'.
Does he honestly think that these 35 crores could stay wherever they were at the time of his yet another tughlaqi farmaan which gave them just 4 hrs notice?
But no, his approval ratings are highest so aaalll issss wellll....
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India is nearing two months of a countrywide lockdown and is grappling with 50,000 active coronavirus cases.
But in all that time, grocery stores and food markets have been allowed to stay open, classed as essential services.
The centre of India's biggest cluster is now focused on Koyambedu, a vegetable market in Chennai with a far-reaching trail that's as tangled as the country's food supply chain.
Unsurprisingly, it has sparked a public row over who is to blame. But it has also revealed the challenge of regulating India's bustling, crowded food markets, where space is a luxury and social distancing a fantasy.
Spread over 65 acres in the heart of Chennai, the Koyambedu market is one of the largest in Asia. Wholesale and retail shops selling grains, fruits, vegetables and flowers draw tens of thousands of buyers every day. Add to that the shop owners, truck drivers and daily-wage labourers and it amounts to around 100,000 people, on average.
But in all that time, grocery stores and food markets have been allowed to stay open, classed as essential services.
The centre of India's biggest cluster is now focused on Koyambedu, a vegetable market in Chennai with a far-reaching trail that's as tangled as the country's food supply chain.
Unsurprisingly, it has sparked a public row over who is to blame. But it has also revealed the challenge of regulating India's bustling, crowded food markets, where space is a luxury and social distancing a fantasy.
Spread over 65 acres in the heart of Chennai, the Koyambedu market is one of the largest in Asia. Wholesale and retail shops selling grains, fruits, vegetables and flowers draw tens of thousands of buyers every day. Add to that the shop owners, truck drivers and daily-wage labourers and it amounts to around 100,000 people, on average.
https://theprint.in/politics/bjp-ge...campaign-with-modis-next-mann-ki-baat/423096/
56" is getting ready for Bihar elections.... Well done. Got his priorities absolutely spot on.
56" is getting ready for Bihar elections.... Well done. Got his priorities absolutely spot on.
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There is no need to single out the BJP. India hasn't had a pro-poor government in living memory.
Government after government and party after party have conspired to keep the poor the way they are.
Every government has turned a blind eye to UP, Bihar and the other black holes of India, forcing their people to migrate out in their millions. This lop-sided development is entirely to blame for this displacement and the associated misery.
If India is making any progress, it is inspite of its government, and not because of it.
No political party deserves a clean chit. Not one of them.
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Tens of thousands of impoverished migrant workers are on the move across India, walking on highways and railway tracks or riding in trucks, buses and crowded trains in blazing heat.
Some are accompanied by pregnant wives and young children, and say they have been forced to leave cities and towns after they were abandoned by their employers amid the nationwide coronavirus lockdown, the Associated Press reports.
The government and charities have tried to set up shelters for them, but their numbers are simply overwhelming, leaving them little choice but to head on a perilous journey home.
Last week, a train crashed into a group of tired workers who fell asleep on the tracks while walking back home in western Maharashtra state, killing 16.
“I dont know what the future holds for me,” said Hari Ram, a 28-year-old mason who set out for his village in central India this week on foot, hoping to hitch a ride on the way.
“One thing is certain: If I die, I will die in my home. I will never set foot in New Delhi again,” he said.
Half of India’s population earns less than $3 a day. Over 90% of the workforce is employed in the informal sector, without access to social protection benefits such as paid sick leave or insurance, according to the World Bank.
The exodus of these migrant workers is causing worries for India’s top consumer goods companies, which fear a possible labor shortage as they resume production.
Some are accompanied by pregnant wives and young children, and say they have been forced to leave cities and towns after they were abandoned by their employers amid the nationwide coronavirus lockdown, the Associated Press reports.
The government and charities have tried to set up shelters for them, but their numbers are simply overwhelming, leaving them little choice but to head on a perilous journey home.
Last week, a train crashed into a group of tired workers who fell asleep on the tracks while walking back home in western Maharashtra state, killing 16.
“I dont know what the future holds for me,” said Hari Ram, a 28-year-old mason who set out for his village in central India this week on foot, hoping to hitch a ride on the way.
“One thing is certain: If I die, I will die in my home. I will never set foot in New Delhi again,” he said.
Half of India’s population earns less than $3 a day. Over 90% of the workforce is employed in the informal sector, without access to social protection benefits such as paid sick leave or insurance, according to the World Bank.
The exodus of these migrant workers is causing worries for India’s top consumer goods companies, which fear a possible labor shortage as they resume production.
Yeddi preventing migrants leaving to protect the interest of the builders. Does that ring a bell? If that’s not anti-poor then what it is?
And when was the last time any political party have to face a situation like this?? This ill planned lockdown is Government’s decision not any other political party or the peoples. In any civilized State there would have been a reckoning by now. Except in India. Even the countries worst hit by the virus haven't left millions of their citizens in the lurch to fend on their own. Thousands and thousands of our people- men and women and little children- are on a death march night and day for weeks on end without adequate food or water. They are dying of thirst and hunger and exposure, a train, some trucks just mowed nearly 50-100 of them. All of us are terribly sad but no one is responsible- the Centre blames the states, the states blame the Centre, and we lucky ones hide in our stone houses.
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Even as a phot-op, this is too low-class for Modiji.
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India recorded the highest single-day spike in Covid-19 infections with 4,987 new cases in the last 24 hours as the national tally crossed the 90,000-mark on Saturday, according to the Union health ministry.
The jump in the number of Covid-19 cases comes on the last day of the third round of the lockdown, which was first imposed from March 25.
It is scheduled to end on Sunday night and the norms for the next round would be announced before that.
As of 8am on Sunday, the cases in India stood at 90,927, the number of deaths at 2,872 and the number of those recovered at 34,108.
Maharashtra, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Delhi have three out of every four cases in the country. Maharashtra reported 30,706 cases and 10988 followed by 10,585 in Tamil Nadu. The national capital has 9,333 cases.
The health ministry has told the government that 30 municipal areas, including Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata which account for nearly 80% of India’s coronavirus cases, should have the maximum restrictions under lockdown 4.0 ground rules.
These 30 municipalities are spread across 12 states and Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu account for over one-third of these municipalities. Gujarat and Rajasthan have three cities each in this list and West Bengal has two.
The government’s renewed focus on the urban areas comes in the context of data that suggests these 30 cities are home to most of the country’s Covid-19 case.
Union health secretary Preeti Sudan held a special meeting on Saturday with municipal and health officials from the 12 states where the 30 municipal corporations are located. The meeting discussed the high-risk factors and reviewed indices such as confirmation rate, fatality rate, doubling rate, tests per million for these places.
Sudan also updated the states about the health ministry’s new guidelines aimed at such urban settlements, particularly informal settlements such as Mumbai’s Dharavi slums.
The last version of the lockdown that came into effect from May 4 had introduced considerable relaxations in districts that had not reported Covid-19 cases and eased restrictions elsewhere.
The Centre’s objective, starting from the first round of relaxations from April 21, has been to gradually resume economic activity.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had this week told chief ministers that the Centre would opt for another spell of the national lockdown but made it clear that lockdown 4.0 would be very different from the earlier three versions.
PM Modi had also indicated that the Centre would let the states decide how to ease the restrictions this time
https://www.hindustantimes.com/indi...ll-at-2-872/story-tdc8yROtXHdXmKZIp1ncuI.html
The jump in the number of Covid-19 cases comes on the last day of the third round of the lockdown, which was first imposed from March 25.
It is scheduled to end on Sunday night and the norms for the next round would be announced before that.
As of 8am on Sunday, the cases in India stood at 90,927, the number of deaths at 2,872 and the number of those recovered at 34,108.
Maharashtra, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Delhi have three out of every four cases in the country. Maharashtra reported 30,706 cases and 10988 followed by 10,585 in Tamil Nadu. The national capital has 9,333 cases.
The health ministry has told the government that 30 municipal areas, including Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata which account for nearly 80% of India’s coronavirus cases, should have the maximum restrictions under lockdown 4.0 ground rules.
These 30 municipalities are spread across 12 states and Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu account for over one-third of these municipalities. Gujarat and Rajasthan have three cities each in this list and West Bengal has two.
The government’s renewed focus on the urban areas comes in the context of data that suggests these 30 cities are home to most of the country’s Covid-19 case.
Union health secretary Preeti Sudan held a special meeting on Saturday with municipal and health officials from the 12 states where the 30 municipal corporations are located. The meeting discussed the high-risk factors and reviewed indices such as confirmation rate, fatality rate, doubling rate, tests per million for these places.
Sudan also updated the states about the health ministry’s new guidelines aimed at such urban settlements, particularly informal settlements such as Mumbai’s Dharavi slums.
The last version of the lockdown that came into effect from May 4 had introduced considerable relaxations in districts that had not reported Covid-19 cases and eased restrictions elsewhere.
The Centre’s objective, starting from the first round of relaxations from April 21, has been to gradually resume economic activity.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had this week told chief ministers that the Centre would opt for another spell of the national lockdown but made it clear that lockdown 4.0 would be very different from the earlier three versions.
PM Modi had also indicated that the Centre would let the states decide how to ease the restrictions this time
https://www.hindustantimes.com/indi...ll-at-2-872/story-tdc8yROtXHdXmKZIp1ncuI.html
56" will never do this. He is above these lowly things, like directly interacting with the people who are actually suffering due to his pathetic policies. And he has too many blind bhakts to support him. Read this to understand him better,View attachment 101054
Even as a phot-op, this is too low-class for Modiji.
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https://theprint.in/opinion/narendr...suffering-he-causes-iran-ali-khamenei/423355/
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Lockdown extended again till 31st May. 
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Lockdown extended again till 31st May.
Most activities will open though
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India's lockdown could be extended until 31 May
India's National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has requested a nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of coronavirus is extended to 31 May.
The NDMA, responsible for setting policy on the lockdown, made its request in a letter to India's interior ministry, which is expected to issue detailed guidelines on the lockdown later on Sunday.
There have been more than 90,000 cases of coronavirus in India and at least 2,871 deaths.
India's National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has requested a nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of coronavirus is extended to 31 May.
The NDMA, responsible for setting policy on the lockdown, made its request in a letter to India's interior ministry, which is expected to issue detailed guidelines on the lockdown later on Sunday.
There have been more than 90,000 cases of coronavirus in India and at least 2,871 deaths.
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India extends coronavirus lockdown until May 31
India has extended a nearly two-month-old stringent lockdown by another two weeks with Mumbai, New Delhi, Chennai and some other key regions still battling to control the rising curve of coronavirus infections.
The government-run National Disaster Management authority said in a statement that fresh guidelines will be issued that keep in view the need to open up economic activity.
Indian media reports said that travel by air, rail and metro will remain shut down nationwide until the end of May. Schools, hotels, restaurants, bars, shopping malls, cinemas and places of worship will also be closed nationally.
On May 4, the government eased some restrictions, allowing reopening of neighborhood shops and manufacturing and farming in rural areas. It also resumed running a limited number of trains, mainly to carry the stranded workers.
India has extended a nearly two-month-old stringent lockdown by another two weeks with Mumbai, New Delhi, Chennai and some other key regions still battling to control the rising curve of coronavirus infections.
The government-run National Disaster Management authority said in a statement that fresh guidelines will be issued that keep in view the need to open up economic activity.
Indian media reports said that travel by air, rail and metro will remain shut down nationwide until the end of May. Schools, hotels, restaurants, bars, shopping malls, cinemas and places of worship will also be closed nationally.
On May 4, the government eased some restrictions, allowing reopening of neighborhood shops and manufacturing and farming in rural areas. It also resumed running a limited number of trains, mainly to carry the stranded workers.
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Nothing surprising,after 31st May they will extend for few days then again for few days ,the cycle goes on.
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All of India feeling the effects of lockdown which they subjected Kashmir to
56" has done the only thing he knows besides his inane monologues, extending the lockdown.Lockdown extended again till 31st May.
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whole world is in lockdown including pakistan
it's a different story that we r not following lockdown properly & roaming around
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Rather than fighting battles on social media choozay Indians should worry about these Indians
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="ur" dir="rtl">انڈیا: پیدل گھر پہنچنے کی کوشش میں اب تک 119 مزدور زندگی کی بازی ہار گئے<br>مزید تفصیلات: <a href="https://t.co/H23Icur1Dz">https://t.co/H23Icur1Dz</a> <a href="https://t.co/kTCO8I3bji">pic.twitter.com/kTCO8I3bji</a></p>— BBC News اردو (@BBCUrdu) <a href="https://twitter.com/BBCUrdu/status/1261889071409922053?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 17, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="ur" dir="rtl">انڈیا: پیدل گھر پہنچنے کی کوشش میں اب تک 119 مزدور زندگی کی بازی ہار گئے<br>مزید تفصیلات: <a href="https://t.co/H23Icur1Dz">https://t.co/H23Icur1Dz</a> <a href="https://t.co/kTCO8I3bji">pic.twitter.com/kTCO8I3bji</a></p>— BBC News اردو (@BBCUrdu) <a href="https://twitter.com/BBCUrdu/status/1261889071409922053?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 17, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">You have to be a very very heartless megalomanic like Modi to celebrate your 6yrs in power while the country's <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVID19?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#COVID19</a> cases have surpassed China, while country's economy has gone back to 1940s, and country's hundreds of migrants workers dying on the streets! <a href="https://t.co/ofljk75LUz">https://t.co/ofljk75LUz</a></p>— Ashok Swain (@ashoswai) <a href="https://twitter.com/ashoswai/status/1261562432352333824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 16, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Ghatiya govt.
Ghatiya party.
Ghatiya govt.
Ghatiya party.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Stimulus 2.0 Modi Govt is clearly rejecting doles. Preferring to pay wages for work done through MNREGA rather than direct cash transfer to poor. It’s a question of economic beliefs. PM has the mandate. Doesn’t want people getting used to cash transfers. Prefers empowerment route</p>— Rahul Kanwal (@rahulkanwal) <a href="https://twitter.com/rahulkanwal/status/1261921743423238145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 17, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
What to do with these antinationals lol.
What to do with these antinationals lol.
How is the situation in Chennai? Hearing really bad news every day.
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Yeah they bungled up Koyambedu market completely so cases are exploding.
I hear they have isolated the people but the numbers will rapidly grow for a while now.
There is no restricted movement in Chennai other than in Containment zones.
But people are trying not to go out much.
Time will tell how it goes. Hope they isolated these people properly or else we might see another wave.
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India on Monday reported the biggest one day spike in the number of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases in a single day so far as 5,242 more people tested positive in the last 24 hours, Union health ministry data showed.
The number of people who have died after contracting the highly contagious disease also rose to 3,029 up from 2,872 from Sunday, according to the health ministry’s Covid-19 dashboard at 8am.
The rise in the number of cases comes on a day India relaxed restrictions for the fourth phase of the lockdown put in place to fight the spread of the coronavirus disease till May 31.
There are 56,316 active cases and 36,823 people or 38% have recovered from Covid-19.
Ahead of announcing lockdown 4.0. the Centre on Saturday officials from 30 municipal areas spread across 12 states, which contribute 79% of India’s Covid-19 cases, to maintain high vigil and closely monitor areas of old cities, slums, migrant camps and other high-density pockets.
Apart from this, 550 of India’s 736 districts had Covid-19 cases on May 17, an addition of around 180 districts in the last fortnight. This is according to data compiled from the states.
As of Saturday, rural districts accounted for only 21% of the total number of cases in India but the numbers are increasing.
Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh witnessed the maximum increase in the number of districts affected since May 1.
Government officials largely attribute the increase in the number of Covid-19 cases to the return of hundreds of thousands of migrant workers to rural areas in these states, with weak health infrastructure.
The Centre started special Shramik trains from May 1 even as thousands of others continue to walk hundreds of kilometres to their villages.
Maharashtra, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Delhi are among those with the highest number of Covid-19 cases.
Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu on Sunday imposed lockdown 4.0 till the end of Ma, even as most of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ruled states such as Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh said they would follow the Centre’s guidelines on the extension.
Meghalaya and Nagaland announced on Sunday that the existing restrictions would continue for the next round of lockdown beginning from Monday in the fight against Covid-19.
Delhi, West Bengal, Goa and Jharkhand said they would announce norms for the fourth phase of lockdown on Monday.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/indi...to-covid-19/story-x2o4GZsLwegTAdv68d9PfN.html
The number of people who have died after contracting the highly contagious disease also rose to 3,029 up from 2,872 from Sunday, according to the health ministry’s Covid-19 dashboard at 8am.
The rise in the number of cases comes on a day India relaxed restrictions for the fourth phase of the lockdown put in place to fight the spread of the coronavirus disease till May 31.
There are 56,316 active cases and 36,823 people or 38% have recovered from Covid-19.
Ahead of announcing lockdown 4.0. the Centre on Saturday officials from 30 municipal areas spread across 12 states, which contribute 79% of India’s Covid-19 cases, to maintain high vigil and closely monitor areas of old cities, slums, migrant camps and other high-density pockets.
Apart from this, 550 of India’s 736 districts had Covid-19 cases on May 17, an addition of around 180 districts in the last fortnight. This is according to data compiled from the states.
As of Saturday, rural districts accounted for only 21% of the total number of cases in India but the numbers are increasing.
Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh witnessed the maximum increase in the number of districts affected since May 1.
Government officials largely attribute the increase in the number of Covid-19 cases to the return of hundreds of thousands of migrant workers to rural areas in these states, with weak health infrastructure.
The Centre started special Shramik trains from May 1 even as thousands of others continue to walk hundreds of kilometres to their villages.
Maharashtra, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Delhi are among those with the highest number of Covid-19 cases.
Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu on Sunday imposed lockdown 4.0 till the end of Ma, even as most of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ruled states such as Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh said they would follow the Centre’s guidelines on the extension.
Meghalaya and Nagaland announced on Sunday that the existing restrictions would continue for the next round of lockdown beginning from Monday in the fight against Covid-19.
Delhi, West Bengal, Goa and Jharkhand said they would announce norms for the fourth phase of lockdown on Monday.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/indi...to-covid-19/story-x2o4GZsLwegTAdv68d9PfN.html
This guy has been a sellout for long. He just needs to keep himself in these migrants' shoes and say whether he wants to be empowered too.
And ghatiya bhakts too...
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The nerve of these low class jackasses to call this empowerment...
This guy actually got owned when someone asked him what about rs 500 given to some women and he said he is explaining govt's view of empowerment and not his.
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The testing has significantly increased and hence the daily positive cases are more, nothing to be alarmed.
for active cases to testing ratio is significantly dropped to 2.44 from 3 plus a month ago.
again supreme efforts by medical fraternity and health ministry in india. Absolutely brilliant the way it’s handled until now.
Let the irrelevant ones cry and cringe things will only get better however you try to portray it.
for active cases to testing ratio is significantly dropped to 2.44 from 3 plus a month ago.
again supreme efforts by medical fraternity and health ministry in india. Absolutely brilliant the way it’s handled until now.
Let the irrelevant ones cry and cringe things will only get better however you try to portray it.
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Testing has increased only in few states. Some (if not many) states are not increasing their testing intentionally as they don't want cases so that they can open up economy & make money. 'No test no case' is their motto.
What will these poor people do by getting empowered when they don't even know where their next meal is coming from?
Whether they won't be crushed by a vehicle while walking 1000s of KMs to their home in this extreme heat?
Empowerment, my foot!
Whether they won't be crushed by a vehicle while walking 1000s of KMs to their home in this extreme heat?
Empowerment, my foot!
Btw SIF, do you know that clueless health minster of ours was saying till 13 March that there was nothing to be alarmed at by India's coronavirus situation?
Had that ***** and his master were fully vigilant and sane, we may not have been seeing so much destruction which we are seeing for so many weeks now.
Had that ***** and his master were fully vigilant and sane, we may not have been seeing so much destruction which we are seeing for so many weeks now.
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(On the data available till May 17th)
Delhi stands as no.1 when it comes to testing. They have 6853 tests per million & they are on their way to flatten the curve. Their active cases curve is slowing but surely coming down as they are testing more.
Next comes Andhra Pradesh with 4577 tests per million. AP has started flattening the curve as it is evident from their active cases curve.
Next comes Tamilnadu with 4316 tests per million. Even though they are getting more cases per day but still it looks like they are also on their way to flatten their curve.
These 3 states have shown on how to flatten their curve by testing rather than saying 'v quarantined ppl hence no testing is required or v have superior healthcare hence no testing is required etc.,'
Remember community transmission has started in many states in India and aggressive testing is the only way to control this virus.
Delhi stands as no.1 when it comes to testing. They have 6853 tests per million & they are on their way to flatten the curve. Their active cases curve is slowing but surely coming down as they are testing more.
Next comes Andhra Pradesh with 4577 tests per million. AP has started flattening the curve as it is evident from their active cases curve.
Next comes Tamilnadu with 4316 tests per million. Even though they are getting more cases per day but still it looks like they are also on their way to flatten their curve.
These 3 states have shown on how to flatten their curve by testing rather than saying 'v quarantined ppl hence no testing is required or v have superior healthcare hence no testing is required etc.,'
Remember community transmission has started in many states in India and aggressive testing is the only way to control this virus.
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There has to be a method to everything. No country how ever big cannot start with testing everyone it’s not feasible albeit it could be ideal way. Ofcourse india has its own geographical challenges too.
initially only people with full symptoms are tested. So high chance even if you present at testing clinic, they will send you back.
Only when the cases are really low, they can start testing universally for anyone with flu like symptoms and hope to find the last case present out there. That’s the unfortunate truth.
This is how other countries have been operating too, examples are out there like New Zealand, Australia and usa.
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Yep. I posted a tweet reg that in this thread.
In Jan 30th when we got the first case, the director general of trade tried to restrict the export of PPE.
Then the order of amended and export of masks and gloves were allowed.
Then it was finally banned on March 19th.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">More visuals from Ghaziabad where migrants have turned up in large numbers to get themselves registered for special trains. This is the time medical screening and quarantine facilities in East UP and Bihar should be stepped up to the maximum. <a href="https://t.co/oGZAs4yIfx">pic.twitter.com/oGZAs4yIfx</a></p>— Piyush Rai (@Benarasiyaa) <a href="https://twitter.com/Benarasiyaa/status/1262283822290407424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 18, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
No words need to be said.
Salute the planning.
No words need to be said.
Salute the planning.
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One correction brother:
Flattening the curve is taken using the total cases chart.
Active cases chart has to show a steep (or gradual) decline when we flatten the curve.
Less new cases = Less overall increase in total cases = Flattened curve
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Ya true but what if the state govt. intentionally ignores not to test ppl ?
Classic example of this situation is in hyderabad , telangana. State govt. wanted badly to open liquor stores in most of the places in hyderabad as liquor gets lot of money to state govt. As they can't justify to open liquor stores in red/containtment zones they had intentionally stopped testing in some areas.
Now situation became out of control where community transmission has started in few places in hyderabad. (refer to my post number 2693 in this thread).
In the end if situation goes out of control this state govt. blames central govt. and central govt. blames state govt.
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Yes I know . There is no steep decline for tamilnadu & delhi yet but you can see some of amount for andhra pradesh.
The reason I took active cases is bcoz it indirectly points out the recovered cases in the state as well. In those 3 states there have been people who have recovered well.
Total cases doesn't show the picture of recovered cases hence I had to post active cases.
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Actually I misread your post. Apologies.
Andhra has done quite well.
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For one thing, I don't understand how come the deaths in some states are astronomical compared to others and yet cases aren't growing as it should.
I thought Punjab would explode with new cases but it barely did.
Gujarat has 10X the deathrate of TN yet both have same amount of cases.
MP has almost similar death rate of Gujarat yet the cases aren't rising as it should.
Does that mean Gujarat or MP has 5X or 10X more hidden cases in there or is it just that they have been negligent in helping patients recover?
I dunno.
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May be the kind of population it is effecting makes a difference ? Like young people have more chances of survival than older ones.
We can't be 100% sure unless states test aggressively in vulnerable areas. Nearly 80% of the cases in andhra pradesh r asymptomatic. So unless authorities test aggressively they can't identity a positive case.
I believe situation might be worse in gujarat,MP as they haven't tested well enough.
Their testing compared to the actual cases they have is very less. That’s the reason for high case fatality rate in Gujarat and also in WB.
Koyambedu infact Tamil Nadu as a whole is crucial for Kerala. No matter how much we control here, we will either rise or fall together with TN or Karnataka. We are too dependent on our neighbouring states, can’t survive alone for long.
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'Ab corona se marayga Pakistan' coming back to haunt India.
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Kashmir didn’t have internet and cable tv even man. Not even comparable
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Public transport has been reopened in New Delhi and other Indian states as the nearly two-month coronavirus lockdown continues to be eased.
Under the new measures, buses, taxis and three-wheeled rickshaws will return to the streets with restrictions.
Buses in the capital cannot carry more than 20 passengers, each of whom will be screened before boarding, said Delhi’s chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday.
“Corona will stay, and we will also survive,” Kejriwal said, outlining the new guidelines for the city of 20 million people that has one of highest numbers of coronavirus cases in the country.
The southern state of Karnataka also lifted some restrictions on the movement of trains, taxis and buses within the state.
Transportation from outside the state will remain suspended except for essential services.
Under the new measures, buses, taxis and three-wheeled rickshaws will return to the streets with restrictions.
Buses in the capital cannot carry more than 20 passengers, each of whom will be screened before boarding, said Delhi’s chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday.
“Corona will stay, and we will also survive,” Kejriwal said, outlining the new guidelines for the city of 20 million people that has one of highest numbers of coronavirus cases in the country.
The southern state of Karnataka also lifted some restrictions on the movement of trains, taxis and buses within the state.
Transportation from outside the state will remain suspended except for essential services.
Great example of social distancing being practiced in MP.
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/cor...al-amid-lockdown-2231090?pfrom=home-topscroll
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/cor...al-amid-lockdown-2231090?pfrom=home-topscroll
AGRA: In an apparent controversial and insensitive statement UP state minister Chaudhary Udaybhan Singh on Sunday dubbed the acts of migrant workers of rushing to their homes as if they are thieves and robbers.
Commenting on Auraiya incident in which 26 migrants were killed, Singh said, "we also feel sad about the incident but no one is responsible for it. The fact is that if they had not lost patience, this would not have happened. Food and shelter homes are available at every place but some of them are not ready to stop there and are running away like thieves and robbers".
https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.time...eves-and-robbers/amp_articleshow/75792695.cms
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Cyclone Amphan raises fears for India virus migrants
The last thing anyone needs in the middle of a pandemic is a super cyclone.
But that's exactly what India is gearing up to contend with - millions are being evacuated and relief teams are on the ground as Cyclone Amphan bears down on its eastern coast. Two states - West Bengal and Odisha (formerly Orissa) are expected to be affected.
This has raised fears for the tens of thousands of migrants making their way back to villages from the cities, fleeing a harsh lockdown put in place to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
Many made the journey on foot after train and bus services were halted. Although special transport has been arranged in recent weeks, demand is so high many are continuing to walk. Evacuation arrangements are underway, but it is unclear if people currently in affected areas will be able to take shelter in time.
Amphan has intensified in strength over the last few days and is currently expected to make landfall as an "extremely severe" cyclonic storm. It is currently a "super cyclonic storm" but will likely slow down before it makes landfall.
The last thing anyone needs in the middle of a pandemic is a super cyclone.
But that's exactly what India is gearing up to contend with - millions are being evacuated and relief teams are on the ground as Cyclone Amphan bears down on its eastern coast. Two states - West Bengal and Odisha (formerly Orissa) are expected to be affected.
This has raised fears for the tens of thousands of migrants making their way back to villages from the cities, fleeing a harsh lockdown put in place to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
Many made the journey on foot after train and bus services were halted. Although special transport has been arranged in recent weeks, demand is so high many are continuing to walk. Evacuation arrangements are underway, but it is unclear if people currently in affected areas will be able to take shelter in time.
Amphan has intensified in strength over the last few days and is currently expected to make landfall as an "extremely severe" cyclonic storm. It is currently a "super cyclonic storm" but will likely slow down before it makes landfall.
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Businessman attempts suicide near Telangana CM's residence
Upset over the financial losses he suffered due to the ongoing lockdown, a businessman attempted self-immolation near Telangana chief minister's official residence in the high-security Begumpet area here, police said.
However, alert security personnel stopped the man from taking the extreme step.
According to police, Mohammed Nazeeruddin reached near the CM residence on Sunday and doused himself with petrol. However, security personnel present nearby snatched the matchbox from him and poured water on him.
Nazeeruddin, a footwear businessman from Malakpet area in Hyderabad, told police that he was distressed over his financial losses. "He said he had taken loan but could not repay it as there was no business. He was also finding it difficult to feed his family," Inspector M. Niranjan Reddy said.
Police said the businessman had to pay Rs 20 lakh to a private chit fund company and had recently received a legal notice from the company.
Source : https://www.greatandhra.com/politic...n-attempts-suicide-near-kcrs-residence-104775
Upset over the financial losses he suffered due to the ongoing lockdown, a businessman attempted self-immolation near Telangana chief minister's official residence in the high-security Begumpet area here, police said.
However, alert security personnel stopped the man from taking the extreme step.
According to police, Mohammed Nazeeruddin reached near the CM residence on Sunday and doused himself with petrol. However, security personnel present nearby snatched the matchbox from him and poured water on him.
Nazeeruddin, a footwear businessman from Malakpet area in Hyderabad, told police that he was distressed over his financial losses. "He said he had taken loan but could not repay it as there was no business. He was also finding it difficult to feed his family," Inspector M. Niranjan Reddy said.
Police said the businessman had to pay Rs 20 lakh to a private chit fund company and had recently received a legal notice from the company.
Source : https://www.greatandhra.com/politic...n-attempts-suicide-near-kcrs-residence-104775
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It's one of those things that we can't blame anyone.
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India's coronavirus infections surge past 100,000, deaths top 3,000
Coronavirus cases in India have reached 100,000, matching the number of intensive care unit beds in the country, while the rate of growth of new infections showed little sign of slowing.
According to Reuters, India reported 4,970 new cases over the past 24 hours, taking the total from the outbreak to 101,139. Deaths rose by 134 to 3,163.
The number of Indian cases has easily outstripped China, where the virus originated late last year and which has been one of the infection hotspots in Asia.
Coronavirus cases in India have reached 100,000, matching the number of intensive care unit beds in the country, while the rate of growth of new infections showed little sign of slowing.
According to Reuters, India reported 4,970 new cases over the past 24 hours, taking the total from the outbreak to 101,139. Deaths rose by 134 to 3,163.
The number of Indian cases has easily outstripped China, where the virus originated late last year and which has been one of the infection hotspots in Asia.
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Lockdown 4.0 is a joke. All the shops are opened in my area. The only difference is people are wearing masks.
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Yes you can! Blame the government for their policies. All loan/finance repayments have been suspended for 3 months (as of yet) in the UK.
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India have also suspended the loan for three month and that too in March, customer was given the choice if they want to pay, they can pay or if they want to suspend, they can suspend for three month without affecting their credit score.
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Gujarat: Migrant workers ‘attack police, vandalise property’; 35 arrested
As many as 35 persons were arrested on Monday after a group of migrant workers employed at the IIM Ahmedabad site in Vastrapur area vandalised office property, government vehicles and assaulted police personnel and other workers, demanding that they be allowed to return home.
Police said they fired tear gas shells and resorted to lathicharge when the irate group assaulted other workers, pelted stones at police teams and vandalised properties. All 35 arrested are from Jharkhand, they added.
https://indianexpress.com/article/c...olice-vandalise-property-35-arrested-6417546/
As many as 35 persons were arrested on Monday after a group of migrant workers employed at the IIM Ahmedabad site in Vastrapur area vandalised office property, government vehicles and assaulted police personnel and other workers, demanding that they be allowed to return home.
Police said they fired tear gas shells and resorted to lathicharge when the irate group assaulted other workers, pelted stones at police teams and vandalised properties. All 35 arrested are from Jharkhand, they added.
According to police, around 10 am on Monday, Vastrapur police station received a message that a mob of over 250-300 migrant workers had assembled at the GMDC Ground behind Alpha One mall, demanding that they be allowed to go back to their home states.
The workers, carrying iron rods, pipes and sticks started marching towards IIM Ahmedabad area when police stopped them at the overbridge intersection. The mob then threw stones a the personnel before entering the IIM Ahmedabad premises where they broke the glass windows of the site office and vandalised three cabins of the security guards.
“The workers from PSP construction company were hired by IIM management for construction work. They wanted to return to Jharkhand but was not able to due to limited number of trains. This angered the workers who resorted to violence, leading to the arrests ,” said SR Gamit, in charge officer, Vastrapur police station.
The workers also damaged police and private vehicles stationed outside IIM campus with iron pipes and wooden sticks. Later, they also assaulted other migrant workers who stayed with them in shanties at the GMDC ground who did not join them. A total of 500 workers and families live in shanties at the GMDC ground of Vastrapur.
“We all want to go home but on Monday, some workers started assaulting the supervisor of our company when he tried to reason with them. My husband was also attacked by the mob saying that we should also protest and vandalise property to go back home,” said Anita, a migrant worker from Madhya Pradesh.
“For the past few days, we were being told that trains are being arranged to send us back home. The workers have been waiting after registering,” said Sushil Mahto, a worker from West Bengal.
Police have booked the 35 persons under Indian Penal Code sections 143 (unlawful assembly), 144 (unlawful assembly armed with deadly weapon) 147 (rioting), 148 (rioting armed with deadly weapon), 149 (unlawful assembly), 186 (obstructing public servant in discharge of duty), 332 (causing hurt to public servant), 333 (causing grievous hurt to public servant), 336 (act endangering life), 337 (causing hurt to others by rash act), 427 (mischief), and 188 (disobedience to order given by public servant).
Seven police teams from nearby police stations arrived at the sport, after which the workers were rounded up and a flag march was conducted.
In a mail sent out by the chief administrative officer’s office to the IIMA community with the subject, “unrest of migrant workers at new campus construction site entrance”, stated that “the workers were from Jharkhand and were agitated as they could not go home due to want of trains”.
Construction work of new academic, faculty and hostel blocks at IIMA’s new campus was put on hold due to lockdown.
The workers, carrying iron rods, pipes and sticks started marching towards IIM Ahmedabad area when police stopped them at the overbridge intersection. The mob then threw stones a the personnel before entering the IIM Ahmedabad premises where they broke the glass windows of the site office and vandalised three cabins of the security guards.
“The workers from PSP construction company were hired by IIM management for construction work. They wanted to return to Jharkhand but was not able to due to limited number of trains. This angered the workers who resorted to violence, leading to the arrests ,” said SR Gamit, in charge officer, Vastrapur police station.
The workers also damaged police and private vehicles stationed outside IIM campus with iron pipes and wooden sticks. Later, they also assaulted other migrant workers who stayed with them in shanties at the GMDC ground who did not join them. A total of 500 workers and families live in shanties at the GMDC ground of Vastrapur.
“We all want to go home but on Monday, some workers started assaulting the supervisor of our company when he tried to reason with them. My husband was also attacked by the mob saying that we should also protest and vandalise property to go back home,” said Anita, a migrant worker from Madhya Pradesh.
“For the past few days, we were being told that trains are being arranged to send us back home. The workers have been waiting after registering,” said Sushil Mahto, a worker from West Bengal.
Police have booked the 35 persons under Indian Penal Code sections 143 (unlawful assembly), 144 (unlawful assembly armed with deadly weapon) 147 (rioting), 148 (rioting armed with deadly weapon), 149 (unlawful assembly), 186 (obstructing public servant in discharge of duty), 332 (causing hurt to public servant), 333 (causing grievous hurt to public servant), 336 (act endangering life), 337 (causing hurt to others by rash act), 427 (mischief), and 188 (disobedience to order given by public servant).
Seven police teams from nearby police stations arrived at the sport, after which the workers were rounded up and a flag march was conducted.
In a mail sent out by the chief administrative officer’s office to the IIMA community with the subject, “unrest of migrant workers at new campus construction site entrance”, stated that “the workers were from Jharkhand and were agitated as they could not go home due to want of trains”.
Construction work of new academic, faculty and hostel blocks at IIMA’s new campus was put on hold due to lockdown.
I love how this woman is showcased as the face of Covid response of Kerala than the CM or any other communist party leader. More importantly proud of our Public health system in Kerala and the cheap man power involved in this. Still there is lot scope for improvement.
CNN and Guardian also following the suit.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/14/the-coronavirus-slayer-how-keralas-rock-star-health-minister-helped-save-it-from-covid-19
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/12/asia/india-coronavirus-kerala-flatten-curve-intl-hnk/index.html
CNN and Guardian also following the suit.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/14/the-coronavirus-slayer-how-keralas-rock-star-health-minister-helped-save-it-from-covid-19
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/12/asia/india-coronavirus-kerala-flatten-curve-intl-hnk/index.html
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Lockdown 4.0 is a joke. All the shops are opened in my area. The only difference is people are wearing masks.
That'll be the way of life now.You can't lockdown forever
Eventually malls,restaurants and salons will open too
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Coronavirus cases in India reached 100,000 on Tuesday, a day after the government extended the lockdown even as the rate of increase of new infections showed little sign of slowing.
India's worst affected areas include the financial hub of Mumbai, capital New Delhi, southern state of Tamil Nadu and the western state of Gujarat. The nationwide lockdown, the world's largest affecting 1.3 billion people, was on Monday extended until the end of May.
The pandemic has killed nearly 319,000 people worldwide, with more than 4.8 million confirmed cases, while recoveries have surpassed 1.7 million, according to figures compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
On Sunday, the Indian government extended the lockdown yet again, but relaxed rules in areas with lower number of cases and allowed state governments to issue their own guidelines on some matters.
Delhi and some state governments ordered the reopening of public transport on Monday in a further easing of a nearly two-month coronavirus shutdown.
Under the new rules, buses, taxis and three-wheelers will return to the streets of New Delhi but with restrictions. Buses will not carry more than 20 passengers, each of whom will be screened before boarding, Chief Minister Kejriwal said.
"Corona[virus] will stay, and we will also survive," Kejriwal said, outlining the new guidelines for the city of 20 million people that has one of the highest numbers of coronavirus cases in the country.
Local markets and small businesses reopened and industrial and construction activities resumed across many regions.
The southern state of Karnataka, home to technology hub Bengaluru, also lifted some restrictions on the movement of trains, taxis and buses within the state. Transport from outside the state will remain suspended except for essential services.
Schools, places of worship, shopping malls, cinemas and gyms must remain closed, and domestic and international air travel will remain suspended, the Ministry of Home Affairs said.
But in a bid to ease the economic pain, restaurants will now be allowed to operate for takeaway services. Sport complexes and stadiums are permitted to host events - but without spectators.
Experts say that coronavirus cases will rise in coming weeks with 4,970 new cases reported in the last 24 hours.
India's number of cases has easily outstripped that of China, where the virus emerged late last year and which has been one of Asia's infection hotspots.
However, India's death rate is less than that of some other big countries, at 3 percent, compared with about 6 percent in the United States, where more than 90,000 people have died, and 14 percent in the United Kingdom.
China has reported nearly 84,000 cases but has kept its daily rise in new infections to single digits for the past week.
In contrast, new cases in India have risen by an average of more than 4,000 a day over the past week, according to a Reuters tally based on official data, despite a severe weeks-long lockdown.
Mumbai, the capital of the western state of Maharashtra and epicentre of coronavirus infections in the country, is facing an acute shortage of hospital beds for severely ill patients and is grappling to scale up capacity, officials said on Monday.
Mumbai reported 1,185 new infections on Monday, of which nearly 40 were from the Dharavi slum area, taking the number of patients in the city to 21,152, with 757 fatalities.
Maharashtra is home to one-third of the total coronavirus cases in the country.
"We are facing a shortage of hospital beds for critical patients who need oxygen support and intensive care," Greater Mumbai Municipal Corporation health officer Mangala Gomare told the DPA news agency.
Humanitarian crisis
India's strict lockdown has sparked a humanitarian crisis, with hundreds of millions of migrant workers stranded in cities across the country battling hunger and government apathy.
With no work and little public transport, many urban migrants attempting to return to their home villages have set out on gruelling journeys on foot or hitched rides in the back of trucks.
At least 23 migrants were killed trying to reach their homes on Saturday when a truck carrying them crashed in northern India.
Sixteen migrant workers died on May 8 after being struck by a train. They had fallen asleep on the tracks while walking back to their village after losing their jobs in the coronavirus lockdown, police said.
We don't have money to eat... It has been over 50 days, we just want to go back now.
Mohammed Javed who worked in Bhiwandi city as an auto-driver was left with no work.
On May 11, he set out for his hometown in Uttar Pradesh state - a distance of 1,400km (870 miles) - on his three-wheeler. Nearly 250km (155 miles) into the trip, his vehicle was hit by a car.
The 35-year-old died on the spot, highlighting the humanitarian cost of the lockdown.
His wife, Ambareen Javed and her two sons - six and eight - survived. Ambareen's right hand was fractured in the accident.
Ambareen said her husband was her only support. They could barely meet their ends with Mohammed's daily earnings of 300-400 Indian rupees ($4-5.3).
With no saving and no one else to support her financially, Ambareen has been left to the mercy of benefactors. She told Al Jazeera over the phone that no government official reached out to her.
"The government should give some compensation so that I can raise my children. I do not know how will I feed my children," Ambareen told Al Jazeera from a Mumbai hospital where she was taken after the accident.
In the southern city of Chennai, construction worker MD Rustom queued along with hundreds of others for a bus and train trip back to the eastern state of Bihar, some 2,000km (1,243 miles) away.
"We don't have money to eat," he said. "It has been over 50 days, we just want to go back now."
The government has also faced scrutiny for lack of transparency in making health data public.
Criticism of gov't handling
The government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been criticised for its handling of coronavirus crisis and moving slowly to help workers still stuck in cities more than 50 days after the lockdown was imposed.
Authorities have now stepped up efforts to help migrants reach their hometowns, with the government relaxing conditions on railway services.
The government says it has been overwhelmed by the sheer scale of the crisis and that it is doing whatever it takes to help people and revive the economy.
On May 12, Prime Minister Modi announced 20 trillion rupees ($266bn) in fiscal and monetary measures to support the economy battered by weeks-long lockdown.
The government also said it would provide free food grains to millions of migrant workers hit by the lockdown as well as offer employment under a rural jobs programme.
The government will spend 35 billion rupees ($463m) on food for nearly 80 million migrant workers over the next two months, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told a news conference on Thursday.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/05/india-coronavirus-crisis-200519120521747.html
India's worst affected areas include the financial hub of Mumbai, capital New Delhi, southern state of Tamil Nadu and the western state of Gujarat. The nationwide lockdown, the world's largest affecting 1.3 billion people, was on Monday extended until the end of May.
The pandemic has killed nearly 319,000 people worldwide, with more than 4.8 million confirmed cases, while recoveries have surpassed 1.7 million, according to figures compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
On Sunday, the Indian government extended the lockdown yet again, but relaxed rules in areas with lower number of cases and allowed state governments to issue their own guidelines on some matters.
Delhi and some state governments ordered the reopening of public transport on Monday in a further easing of a nearly two-month coronavirus shutdown.
Under the new rules, buses, taxis and three-wheelers will return to the streets of New Delhi but with restrictions. Buses will not carry more than 20 passengers, each of whom will be screened before boarding, Chief Minister Kejriwal said.
"Corona[virus] will stay, and we will also survive," Kejriwal said, outlining the new guidelines for the city of 20 million people that has one of the highest numbers of coronavirus cases in the country.
Local markets and small businesses reopened and industrial and construction activities resumed across many regions.
The southern state of Karnataka, home to technology hub Bengaluru, also lifted some restrictions on the movement of trains, taxis and buses within the state. Transport from outside the state will remain suspended except for essential services.
Schools, places of worship, shopping malls, cinemas and gyms must remain closed, and domestic and international air travel will remain suspended, the Ministry of Home Affairs said.
But in a bid to ease the economic pain, restaurants will now be allowed to operate for takeaway services. Sport complexes and stadiums are permitted to host events - but without spectators.
Experts say that coronavirus cases will rise in coming weeks with 4,970 new cases reported in the last 24 hours.
India's number of cases has easily outstripped that of China, where the virus emerged late last year and which has been one of Asia's infection hotspots.
However, India's death rate is less than that of some other big countries, at 3 percent, compared with about 6 percent in the United States, where more than 90,000 people have died, and 14 percent in the United Kingdom.
China has reported nearly 84,000 cases but has kept its daily rise in new infections to single digits for the past week.
In contrast, new cases in India have risen by an average of more than 4,000 a day over the past week, according to a Reuters tally based on official data, despite a severe weeks-long lockdown.
Mumbai, the capital of the western state of Maharashtra and epicentre of coronavirus infections in the country, is facing an acute shortage of hospital beds for severely ill patients and is grappling to scale up capacity, officials said on Monday.
Mumbai reported 1,185 new infections on Monday, of which nearly 40 were from the Dharavi slum area, taking the number of patients in the city to 21,152, with 757 fatalities.
Maharashtra is home to one-third of the total coronavirus cases in the country.
"We are facing a shortage of hospital beds for critical patients who need oxygen support and intensive care," Greater Mumbai Municipal Corporation health officer Mangala Gomare told the DPA news agency.
Humanitarian crisis
India's strict lockdown has sparked a humanitarian crisis, with hundreds of millions of migrant workers stranded in cities across the country battling hunger and government apathy.
With no work and little public transport, many urban migrants attempting to return to their home villages have set out on gruelling journeys on foot or hitched rides in the back of trucks.
At least 23 migrants were killed trying to reach their homes on Saturday when a truck carrying them crashed in northern India.
Sixteen migrant workers died on May 8 after being struck by a train. They had fallen asleep on the tracks while walking back to their village after losing their jobs in the coronavirus lockdown, police said.
We don't have money to eat... It has been over 50 days, we just want to go back now.
Mohammed Javed who worked in Bhiwandi city as an auto-driver was left with no work.
On May 11, he set out for his hometown in Uttar Pradesh state - a distance of 1,400km (870 miles) - on his three-wheeler. Nearly 250km (155 miles) into the trip, his vehicle was hit by a car.
The 35-year-old died on the spot, highlighting the humanitarian cost of the lockdown.
His wife, Ambareen Javed and her two sons - six and eight - survived. Ambareen's right hand was fractured in the accident.
Ambareen said her husband was her only support. They could barely meet their ends with Mohammed's daily earnings of 300-400 Indian rupees ($4-5.3).
With no saving and no one else to support her financially, Ambareen has been left to the mercy of benefactors. She told Al Jazeera over the phone that no government official reached out to her.
"The government should give some compensation so that I can raise my children. I do not know how will I feed my children," Ambareen told Al Jazeera from a Mumbai hospital where she was taken after the accident.
In the southern city of Chennai, construction worker MD Rustom queued along with hundreds of others for a bus and train trip back to the eastern state of Bihar, some 2,000km (1,243 miles) away.
"We don't have money to eat," he said. "It has been over 50 days, we just want to go back now."
The government has also faced scrutiny for lack of transparency in making health data public.
Criticism of gov't handling
The government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been criticised for its handling of coronavirus crisis and moving slowly to help workers still stuck in cities more than 50 days after the lockdown was imposed.
Authorities have now stepped up efforts to help migrants reach their hometowns, with the government relaxing conditions on railway services.
The government says it has been overwhelmed by the sheer scale of the crisis and that it is doing whatever it takes to help people and revive the economy.
On May 12, Prime Minister Modi announced 20 trillion rupees ($266bn) in fiscal and monetary measures to support the economy battered by weeks-long lockdown.
The government also said it would provide free food grains to millions of migrant workers hit by the lockdown as well as offer employment under a rural jobs programme.
The government will spend 35 billion rupees ($463m) on food for nearly 80 million migrant workers over the next two months, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told a news conference on Thursday.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/05/india-coronavirus-crisis-200519120521747.html
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Indian banks are still charging interests though. Not sure if that's the case in UK? [MENTION=142765]King-Misbah[/MENTION]
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Indian banks are still charging interests though. Not sure if that's the case in UK? [MENTION=142765]King-Misbah[/MENTION]
They are almost nearing negative interest rates. It’s currently 0.1, you can’t compare the situation.
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Wow..6k cases added in 24 hours. I think we'll end up in top 3 soon due to sheer density of our population. Only silver lining is that the low death rate, still the casualities will be massive.
Just wondering if the lock down had any other positives apart from delaying the inevitable or buying some additional time for our healthcare infra!
Just wondering if the lock down had any other positives apart from delaying the inevitable or buying some additional time for our healthcare infra!
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Anybody from Delhi/ Bangalore being forced to attend office although WFH is a feasible alternatives? I know many friends from Bangalore in Non-IT MNCs who are indirectly being forced to come to office. Also, laying off employees randomly; regardless of their salary,seniority, job profiles with 3 months severance packagaes (basic components only).
Any legal options in this case?
Any legal options in this case?
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Tens of thousands of daily-wage migrant workers suddenly found themselves without jobs or a source of income when India announced a lockdown on 24 March.
Overnight, the cities they had helped build and run seemed to have turned their backs on them, the trains and buses which should have carried them home suspended.
So with the looming fear of hunger, men, women and children were forced to begin arduous journeys back to their villages - cycling or hitching rides on tuk-tuks, lorries, water tankers and milk vans.
For many, walking was the only option. Some travelled for a few hundred kilometres, while others covered more than a thousand to go home.
They weren't always alone - some had young children and others had pregnant wives, and the life they had built for themselves packed into their ragtag bags.
Many never made it. Here, the BBC tells the story of just a handful of the hundreds who have lost their lives on the road home.
Sanju Yadav and her husband, Rajan, and their two children - Nitin and Nandini - arrived in India's financial capital, Mumbai, a decade ago with their meagre belongings and dreams of a brighter future.
Her children, she hoped, would thrive growing up in the city.
"It was not like she didn't like the village life," Rajan explained. "She just knew that Mumbai offered better opportunities for all of us."
Indeed, it was Sanju that encouraged Rajan to push himself.
"I used to do an eight-hour shift in a factory. Sanju motivated me do something more, so we bought a food cart and started selling snacks from 16:00 to 22:00.
"She pushed me to think big, she used to say that having our business was way better than a job. Job had a fixed salary, but business allowed us to grow."
Two years ago, all the hard work seemed to be paying off. Rajan used his savings and a bank loan to buy a tuk-tuk. The vehicle-for-hire brought more money for Sanju and her family.
But then came coronavirus.
The couple first heard Prime Minister Narendra Modi talk about the virus on TV on 19 March. A full, three-week lockdown was announced less than a week later.
They used up most of their savings to pay rent, repay the loan and buy groceries in March and April. They were hoping that the city would reopen in May, but then the lockdown was extended again.
Out of money and options, they decided to go back to their village in Jaunpur district in Uttar Pradesh state. They applied for tickets on the special trains that were being run for migrants, but had no luck for a week.
Desperate and exhausted, they decided to undertake the 1,500-km long journey in their tuk-tuk. The family-of-four left Mumbai on 9 May.
Rajan would drive from 05:00 to 11:00. He would then rest during the day, and at 18:00 the family would be back on the road until 23:00. "We ate whatever dry food we had packed and slept on pavements. The prospect of being in the safety of our village kept us going," he says.
But in the early hours of 12 May - just 200km from their village - a truck rammed into the tuk-tuk from behind.
Sanju and Nandini died on the spot. Rajan and Nitin escaped with minor injuries.
"It all ended so quickly," Rajan says. "We were so close to our village. We were so excited. But I have nothing left now - just a big void."
He says he can't help but keep thinking about the train tickets that never came. "I wish I had gotten the tickets. I wish I had never started the journey… I wish I was not poor."
Lallu Ram Yadav used to meet his cousin Ajay Kumar every Sunday to reminisce about the village he had left for Mumbai a decade earlier, in search of a better life for his wife and six children.
For 10 years, the 55-year-old had worked as a security guard, 12 hours a day, six days a week.
But his hard work amounted to little once the lockdown began, and the cousins both found their savings quickly ran out.
Lallu Ram called his family to say they were coming home - at least, he would now get to spend time with his children, he said.
And so Lallu Ram and Ajay Kumar joined the desperate scramble to find a way home to the village in Uttar Pradesh's Allahabad district, some 1,400km away.
But the price demanded by lorry drivers proved too much. Instead, inspired by the migrants walking home they saw on the television, they packed small bags and began the journey on foot with four friends.
The covered around 400km in the first 48 hours - hitchhiking in lorries along the way. But the journey was more difficult than they had imagined.
"It was really hot and we would get tired quickly," Ajay Kumar said. "The leather shoes we were wearing were extremely uncomfortable."
They all had blisters on their feet after walking for a day, but giving up was not an option.
One evening, Lallu Ram started complaining about breathing difficulties. They had just entered Madhya Pradesh state - they still had a long way to go, but they decided to rest for a while before starting again.
Lallu Ram never woke up. When they took him to a nearby hospital, they were told he had died of a cardiac arrest, triggered by exhaustion and fatigue.
They didn't know what to do with the body. An ambulance was going to take five to eight hours to reach them.
The group had around 15,000 rupees ($199; £163) between them - half the amount needed to hire a lorry. But one driver agreed to take the rest of the payment later. And that's how they took the body back home.
Lallu Ram couldn't fulfil the promise of spending more time with his children.
"The family's only breadwinner is gone," says Ajay Kumar. "Nobody helped us. My cousin didn't have to die - but it was a choice between hunger and the long journey.
"We poor people often have to pick the best from several bad choices. It didn't work out for my cousin this time. It seldom works out for poor people like him."
Sagheer and Sahib Ansari were good tailors. They never struggled to find work in Delhi's booming garment factories - until the lockdown.
Within days, they lost their jobs. The brothers thought things would go back to normal in a few weeks and stayed put in their tiny one-room house.
When their money ran out, they asked family members in the village for help. When the lockdown was further extended in May, their patience ran out.
"We couldn't have asked the family for more money. We were supposed to help them, not take money from them," Sahib says.
They would wait in queues for food being distributed by the government. But, Sahib says, it was never enough and they always felt hungry.
So the brothers discussed the idea of going back to their village in Motihari district in Bihar state, some 1,200km from Delhi.
They and their friends decided to buy used bicycles, but could only afford six for eight people. So they decided that they would all take turns to ride pillion.
They left Delhi in the early hours of 5 May. It was a hot day and the group felt tired after every 10km.
"Our knees would hurt, but we kept pedalling. We hardly got a proper meal and that made it more difficult to pedal," Sahib says.
After riding for five days, the group reached Lucknow - the capital of Uttar Pradesh. It had been two days since they had had a proper meal and they were mostly surviving on puffed rice.
"All of us were very hungry. We sat on a road divider to eat because there was hardly any traffic," he says.
But then a car came out of nowhere, hitting the barrier and striking Sagheer. He died in a hospital a few hours later.
"My world came crashing down," Sahib says. "I had no idea what I was going to tell his two children and his wife.
"He used to love home-cooked food and was looking forward to it. He died without having a proper meal for days."
Sahib eventually reached home with his brother's body, brought by an ambulance. But he couldn't mourn with his family for long, as he was put into a quarantine centre right after the burial.
"I don't know who to blame for his death - coronavirus, hunger or poverty. I have understood one thing: I will never leave my village. I will make less money but at least I will stay alive."
Jaikrishna Kumar, 17, regrets encouraging his father Balram to come home after the lockdown started.
Balram was from a village in Bihar's Khagadia district, but was working in Gujarat - one of the states worst-hit by the coronavirus - when much of India closed down in March.
He and his friend Naresh Singh, a maintenance worker for mobile phone towers, were both working hard so their sons back in Bihar could have better futures. Balram wanted Jaikrishna to go to college, Nikram wanted his sons to become government officers.
They started their journey on foot, but about 400km into it, policemen helped them and others to hitch a ride in a lorry.
The "ride" involved them all being precariously perched on top of cargo - a common sight on Indian highways.
But this time, the driver lost control in Dausa town in Rajasthan state, ramming the lorry into a tree.
Both Naresh and Balram died in the accident.
Now Jaikrishna Kumar says he will probably have to quit studying and find a job to support the family.
"The accident took away my father and my dreams of getting an education. I wish there was another way. I don't like the idea of going to a city to work, but what other option do I have?
"My father wanted me to break the cycle of poverty. I don't know how to do it without him."
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-52672764
Overnight, the cities they had helped build and run seemed to have turned their backs on them, the trains and buses which should have carried them home suspended.
So with the looming fear of hunger, men, women and children were forced to begin arduous journeys back to their villages - cycling or hitching rides on tuk-tuks, lorries, water tankers and milk vans.
For many, walking was the only option. Some travelled for a few hundred kilometres, while others covered more than a thousand to go home.
They weren't always alone - some had young children and others had pregnant wives, and the life they had built for themselves packed into their ragtag bags.
Many never made it. Here, the BBC tells the story of just a handful of the hundreds who have lost their lives on the road home.
Sanju Yadav and her husband, Rajan, and their two children - Nitin and Nandini - arrived in India's financial capital, Mumbai, a decade ago with their meagre belongings and dreams of a brighter future.
Her children, she hoped, would thrive growing up in the city.
"It was not like she didn't like the village life," Rajan explained. "She just knew that Mumbai offered better opportunities for all of us."
Indeed, it was Sanju that encouraged Rajan to push himself.
"I used to do an eight-hour shift in a factory. Sanju motivated me do something more, so we bought a food cart and started selling snacks from 16:00 to 22:00.
"She pushed me to think big, she used to say that having our business was way better than a job. Job had a fixed salary, but business allowed us to grow."
Two years ago, all the hard work seemed to be paying off. Rajan used his savings and a bank loan to buy a tuk-tuk. The vehicle-for-hire brought more money for Sanju and her family.
But then came coronavirus.
The couple first heard Prime Minister Narendra Modi talk about the virus on TV on 19 March. A full, three-week lockdown was announced less than a week later.
They used up most of their savings to pay rent, repay the loan and buy groceries in March and April. They were hoping that the city would reopen in May, but then the lockdown was extended again.
Out of money and options, they decided to go back to their village in Jaunpur district in Uttar Pradesh state. They applied for tickets on the special trains that were being run for migrants, but had no luck for a week.
Desperate and exhausted, they decided to undertake the 1,500-km long journey in their tuk-tuk. The family-of-four left Mumbai on 9 May.
Rajan would drive from 05:00 to 11:00. He would then rest during the day, and at 18:00 the family would be back on the road until 23:00. "We ate whatever dry food we had packed and slept on pavements. The prospect of being in the safety of our village kept us going," he says.
But in the early hours of 12 May - just 200km from their village - a truck rammed into the tuk-tuk from behind.
Sanju and Nandini died on the spot. Rajan and Nitin escaped with minor injuries.
"It all ended so quickly," Rajan says. "We were so close to our village. We were so excited. But I have nothing left now - just a big void."
He says he can't help but keep thinking about the train tickets that never came. "I wish I had gotten the tickets. I wish I had never started the journey… I wish I was not poor."
Lallu Ram Yadav used to meet his cousin Ajay Kumar every Sunday to reminisce about the village he had left for Mumbai a decade earlier, in search of a better life for his wife and six children.
For 10 years, the 55-year-old had worked as a security guard, 12 hours a day, six days a week.
But his hard work amounted to little once the lockdown began, and the cousins both found their savings quickly ran out.
Lallu Ram called his family to say they were coming home - at least, he would now get to spend time with his children, he said.
And so Lallu Ram and Ajay Kumar joined the desperate scramble to find a way home to the village in Uttar Pradesh's Allahabad district, some 1,400km away.
But the price demanded by lorry drivers proved too much. Instead, inspired by the migrants walking home they saw on the television, they packed small bags and began the journey on foot with four friends.
The covered around 400km in the first 48 hours - hitchhiking in lorries along the way. But the journey was more difficult than they had imagined.
"It was really hot and we would get tired quickly," Ajay Kumar said. "The leather shoes we were wearing were extremely uncomfortable."
They all had blisters on their feet after walking for a day, but giving up was not an option.
One evening, Lallu Ram started complaining about breathing difficulties. They had just entered Madhya Pradesh state - they still had a long way to go, but they decided to rest for a while before starting again.
Lallu Ram never woke up. When they took him to a nearby hospital, they were told he had died of a cardiac arrest, triggered by exhaustion and fatigue.
They didn't know what to do with the body. An ambulance was going to take five to eight hours to reach them.
The group had around 15,000 rupees ($199; £163) between them - half the amount needed to hire a lorry. But one driver agreed to take the rest of the payment later. And that's how they took the body back home.
Lallu Ram couldn't fulfil the promise of spending more time with his children.
"The family's only breadwinner is gone," says Ajay Kumar. "Nobody helped us. My cousin didn't have to die - but it was a choice between hunger and the long journey.
"We poor people often have to pick the best from several bad choices. It didn't work out for my cousin this time. It seldom works out for poor people like him."
Sagheer and Sahib Ansari were good tailors. They never struggled to find work in Delhi's booming garment factories - until the lockdown.
Within days, they lost their jobs. The brothers thought things would go back to normal in a few weeks and stayed put in their tiny one-room house.
When their money ran out, they asked family members in the village for help. When the lockdown was further extended in May, their patience ran out.
"We couldn't have asked the family for more money. We were supposed to help them, not take money from them," Sahib says.
They would wait in queues for food being distributed by the government. But, Sahib says, it was never enough and they always felt hungry.
So the brothers discussed the idea of going back to their village in Motihari district in Bihar state, some 1,200km from Delhi.
They and their friends decided to buy used bicycles, but could only afford six for eight people. So they decided that they would all take turns to ride pillion.
They left Delhi in the early hours of 5 May. It was a hot day and the group felt tired after every 10km.
"Our knees would hurt, but we kept pedalling. We hardly got a proper meal and that made it more difficult to pedal," Sahib says.
After riding for five days, the group reached Lucknow - the capital of Uttar Pradesh. It had been two days since they had had a proper meal and they were mostly surviving on puffed rice.
"All of us were very hungry. We sat on a road divider to eat because there was hardly any traffic," he says.
But then a car came out of nowhere, hitting the barrier and striking Sagheer. He died in a hospital a few hours later.
"My world came crashing down," Sahib says. "I had no idea what I was going to tell his two children and his wife.
"He used to love home-cooked food and was looking forward to it. He died without having a proper meal for days."
Sahib eventually reached home with his brother's body, brought by an ambulance. But he couldn't mourn with his family for long, as he was put into a quarantine centre right after the burial.
"I don't know who to blame for his death - coronavirus, hunger or poverty. I have understood one thing: I will never leave my village. I will make less money but at least I will stay alive."
Jaikrishna Kumar, 17, regrets encouraging his father Balram to come home after the lockdown started.
Balram was from a village in Bihar's Khagadia district, but was working in Gujarat - one of the states worst-hit by the coronavirus - when much of India closed down in March.
He and his friend Naresh Singh, a maintenance worker for mobile phone towers, were both working hard so their sons back in Bihar could have better futures. Balram wanted Jaikrishna to go to college, Nikram wanted his sons to become government officers.
They started their journey on foot, but about 400km into it, policemen helped them and others to hitch a ride in a lorry.
The "ride" involved them all being precariously perched on top of cargo - a common sight on Indian highways.
But this time, the driver lost control in Dausa town in Rajasthan state, ramming the lorry into a tree.
Both Naresh and Balram died in the accident.
Now Jaikrishna Kumar says he will probably have to quit studying and find a job to support the family.
"The accident took away my father and my dreams of getting an education. I wish there was another way. I don't like the idea of going to a city to work, but what other option do I have?
"My father wanted me to break the cycle of poverty. I don't know how to do it without him."
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-52672764
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Indian domestic flights to resume next week
Domestic flights in India will resume on Monday 25 May after a two-month break because of the coronavirus pandemic.
India suspended all international and local air travel on 25 March before it went into lockdown to curb Covid-19 infections.
There has been no announcement about when international flights could resume.
Domestic flights in India will resume on Monday 25 May after a two-month break because of the coronavirus pandemic.
India suspended all international and local air travel on 25 March before it went into lockdown to curb Covid-19 infections.
There has been no announcement about when international flights could resume.
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Airlines to follow ticket price rules as India resumes some flights
Airlines should stick to ticket price guidelines issued by India's civil aviation ministry when they restart some domestic flights, two months after air travel was halted due to the pandemic, the ministry has said.
Airlines should adhere to the lower and upper limits of fares set by the ministry, it said in a notice, but it did not give details on the amounts.
Airlines will be allowed to resume about a third of their operations from Monday, adhering to rules that include no meals on board, temperature checks for all passengers and full protective gear for crew, the ministry said.
Airlines should stick to ticket price guidelines issued by India's civil aviation ministry when they restart some domestic flights, two months after air travel was halted due to the pandemic, the ministry has said.
Airlines should adhere to the lower and upper limits of fares set by the ministry, it said in a notice, but it did not give details on the amounts.
Airlines will be allowed to resume about a third of their operations from Monday, adhering to rules that include no meals on board, temperature checks for all passengers and full protective gear for crew, the ministry said.
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A total of 66 people have tested positive at Zee News. It has emerged to be a cluster
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A 15-year-old girl who cycled 1,200km with her injured father on the back of her bike has been invited to a cycling trial by the Cycling Federation of India.
Impressed by her astonishing effort, the federation invited Jyoti Kumari to take the test. If she passes, she will become a trainee at the state-of-the-art National Cycling Academy.
"We have told her that she will be called to Delhi next month as soon as the lockdown is lifted. All the expenses of her travel, lodging and other will be borne by us," Chairman Onkar Singh told Press Trust of India.
Jyoti began her journey after India went into lockdown, and many workers were left stranded and unable to work. She and her family were threatened with eviction and they had no food, she told BBC Hindi.
With trains cancelled, Jyoti decided to buy a bike with the emergency grants given by the government.
Her father, who was injured in January, sat on the back of the bike and they travelled for seven days from Gurugram to Bihar, in eastern India.
Good luck in the trials, Jyoti!
Impressed by her astonishing effort, the federation invited Jyoti Kumari to take the test. If she passes, she will become a trainee at the state-of-the-art National Cycling Academy.
"We have told her that she will be called to Delhi next month as soon as the lockdown is lifted. All the expenses of her travel, lodging and other will be borne by us," Chairman Onkar Singh told Press Trust of India.
Jyoti began her journey after India went into lockdown, and many workers were left stranded and unable to work. She and her family were threatened with eviction and they had no food, she told BBC Hindi.
With trains cancelled, Jyoti decided to buy a bike with the emergency grants given by the government.
Her father, who was injured in January, sat on the back of the bike and they travelled for seven days from Gurugram to Bihar, in eastern India.
Good luck in the trials, Jyoti!
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India allows rail ticket counters to open
India has decided to open counters in some cities to allow people to book tickets for at least 200 trains scheduled to run from 1 June.
Online booking for these trains had already started, but it’s the opening of the counters that is the real deal.
If you have travelled in India, you would know that trains are the country’s lifeline. Millions depend on them every day, and a large number of those people go to counters to book tickets because they don’t have smartphones to do it online.
The decision is likely to bring some relief to tens of thousands of migrant workers who want to go home and had to take arduous journeys on foot. The ministry says norms like social distancing will be followed, but it’s going to be challenging.
When authorities opened a temporary counter for migrant workers earlier this week in Ghaziabad city, thousands gathered and there was hardly any space between people jostling to get a ticket.
The video of the incident went viral, and that will be on everybody’s mind when counters open from Friday.
India has decided to open counters in some cities to allow people to book tickets for at least 200 trains scheduled to run from 1 June.
Online booking for these trains had already started, but it’s the opening of the counters that is the real deal.
If you have travelled in India, you would know that trains are the country’s lifeline. Millions depend on them every day, and a large number of those people go to counters to book tickets because they don’t have smartphones to do it online.
The decision is likely to bring some relief to tens of thousands of migrant workers who want to go home and had to take arduous journeys on foot. The ministry says norms like social distancing will be followed, but it’s going to be challenging.
When authorities opened a temporary counter for migrant workers earlier this week in Ghaziabad city, thousands gathered and there was hardly any space between people jostling to get a ticket.
The video of the incident went viral, and that will be on everybody’s mind when counters open from Friday.
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India on Saturday reported another highest single-day spike with 6,654 new cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in the last 24 hours, taking the infection tally to 125,101, according to data released by the Union health ministry.
This is the second time in a week that the tally of Covid-19 cases has surged beyond 6,000 and the third time that the country reported the biggest one-day rise in the number of infections.
On Friday, 6,088 new cases were recorded and before that 5,611 infections were seen on Wednesday in the span of 24 hours, health ministry data shows.
The death toll related to the respiratory disease stands at 3,720 on Saturday after 137 people succumbed in the last 24 hours, the health ministry’s Covid-19 dashboard showed.
The Covid-19 recovery rate has gone up to 41% as 51,783 people have been cured as the country entered the sixth day of the fourth phase of the lockdown.
According to government data released by NITI Aayog member Vinod Paul on Friday, lockdown 1 and 2 has managed to significantly slow down the virus transmission rate in the country and avert between 1.4 and 2.9 million Covid-19 cases and 54,000 deaths.
“The situation would have been much worse, as the data suggests. We have about 95% confidence level on the data generated out of all this analysis, which is proof enough to say that the country is on the right track. Having said that, this kind of analysis is always prone to improvisations, depending on the kind of data that’s fed,” Paul said.
The government has maintained that lockdown was meant to slow the disease transmission so that it got enough time to upgrade the health infrastructure in terms of hospitals beds, testing capacity and trained human resources, among other things, to better manage the coronavirus pandemic.
At least five different agencies were involved in data analysis, providing a range between 1.4 and 2.9 million cases averted, and between 37,000 and 78,000 deaths averted.
The analysis also shows that much of the outbreak is confined to a limited area. As of May 21, around 80% of the Covid-19 cases were limited to five states, and 90% of the cases were spread largely across 10 states.
The states are Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Delhi, MP, Rajasthan, UP, West Bengal, Bihar and Karnataka. In the cities, about 70% of the cases are confined to just 10—Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Ahmadabad, Thane, Pune, Indore, Kolkata, Hyderabad and Aurangabad.
The deaths follow the same pattern, with 95% of Covid-19 deaths being reported from 10 states and 70% from 10 cities.
The 10 worst affected states in terms of deaths are Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Delhi, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. And the 10 cities from where maximum deaths are being reported are Mumbai, Ahmadabad, Pune, Delhi, Kolkata, Indore, Thane, Jaipur, Chennai and Surat.
Maharashtra now has more than 44,000 Covid-19 cases and 1,517 people have died in the western state, which is the worst hit in the country.
Tamil Nadu has 14,753 infections and Gujarat has reported 13,268 cases of the coronavirus disease so far.
With 12,319 Covid-19 cases, Delhi is the fourth worst-hit region in the country.
The Union health ministry has also issued an advisory expanding the pool of people to be given anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) as a prophylactic to prevent them from contracting the infection.
The earlier HCQ advisory on March 23 cleared its prophylactic use for two high-risk groups: asymptomatic healthcare workers involved in the care of suspected or confirmed cases, and asymptomatic household contacts of confirmed cases.
Experts have also said the medicine must not be given to patients suffering from heart diseases, hypersensitivity etc. The drug is also not recommended for children under 15 years of age, pregnant and lactating women.
Doctors feel more evidence is required before confidence in the drug can be reinstated.
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This is the second time in a week that the tally of Covid-19 cases has surged beyond 6,000 and the third time that the country reported the biggest one-day rise in the number of infections.
On Friday, 6,088 new cases were recorded and before that 5,611 infections were seen on Wednesday in the span of 24 hours, health ministry data shows.
The death toll related to the respiratory disease stands at 3,720 on Saturday after 137 people succumbed in the last 24 hours, the health ministry’s Covid-19 dashboard showed.
The Covid-19 recovery rate has gone up to 41% as 51,783 people have been cured as the country entered the sixth day of the fourth phase of the lockdown.
According to government data released by NITI Aayog member Vinod Paul on Friday, lockdown 1 and 2 has managed to significantly slow down the virus transmission rate in the country and avert between 1.4 and 2.9 million Covid-19 cases and 54,000 deaths.
“The situation would have been much worse, as the data suggests. We have about 95% confidence level on the data generated out of all this analysis, which is proof enough to say that the country is on the right track. Having said that, this kind of analysis is always prone to improvisations, depending on the kind of data that’s fed,” Paul said.
The government has maintained that lockdown was meant to slow the disease transmission so that it got enough time to upgrade the health infrastructure in terms of hospitals beds, testing capacity and trained human resources, among other things, to better manage the coronavirus pandemic.
At least five different agencies were involved in data analysis, providing a range between 1.4 and 2.9 million cases averted, and between 37,000 and 78,000 deaths averted.
The analysis also shows that much of the outbreak is confined to a limited area. As of May 21, around 80% of the Covid-19 cases were limited to five states, and 90% of the cases were spread largely across 10 states.
The states are Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Delhi, MP, Rajasthan, UP, West Bengal, Bihar and Karnataka. In the cities, about 70% of the cases are confined to just 10—Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Ahmadabad, Thane, Pune, Indore, Kolkata, Hyderabad and Aurangabad.
The deaths follow the same pattern, with 95% of Covid-19 deaths being reported from 10 states and 70% from 10 cities.
The 10 worst affected states in terms of deaths are Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Delhi, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. And the 10 cities from where maximum deaths are being reported are Mumbai, Ahmadabad, Pune, Delhi, Kolkata, Indore, Thane, Jaipur, Chennai and Surat.
Maharashtra now has more than 44,000 Covid-19 cases and 1,517 people have died in the western state, which is the worst hit in the country.
Tamil Nadu has 14,753 infections and Gujarat has reported 13,268 cases of the coronavirus disease so far.
With 12,319 Covid-19 cases, Delhi is the fourth worst-hit region in the country.
The Union health ministry has also issued an advisory expanding the pool of people to be given anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) as a prophylactic to prevent them from contracting the infection.
The earlier HCQ advisory on March 23 cleared its prophylactic use for two high-risk groups: asymptomatic healthcare workers involved in the care of suspected or confirmed cases, and asymptomatic household contacts of confirmed cases.
Experts have also said the medicine must not be given to patients suffering from heart diseases, hypersensitivity etc. The drug is also not recommended for children under 15 years of age, pregnant and lactating women.
Doctors feel more evidence is required before confidence in the drug can be reinstated.
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Ivanka Trump draws derision in India
US presidential adviser Ivanka Trump's praise of an Indian teenager's 1,200-km-long (750 miles) bicycle ride home triggered a wave of criticism in India.
"This beautiful feat of endurance & love has captured the imagination of the Indian people and the cycling federation!" Ivanka, daughter of US President Donald Trump, tweeted on Friday night.
Opposition political figures called her remarks insensitive to the plight of impoverished migrant workers who have to leave the big cities for their homes in other parts of India because the shutdown has sapped their savings.
"Her poverty & desperation are being glorified as if Jyoti cycled 1,200 KM for the thrill of it. Government failed her, that's hardly something to trumpet as an achievement," Omar Abdullah, a former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, tweeted in response to Ivanka's message.
US presidential adviser Ivanka Trump's praise of an Indian teenager's 1,200-km-long (750 miles) bicycle ride home triggered a wave of criticism in India.
"This beautiful feat of endurance & love has captured the imagination of the Indian people and the cycling federation!" Ivanka, daughter of US President Donald Trump, tweeted on Friday night.
Opposition political figures called her remarks insensitive to the plight of impoverished migrant workers who have to leave the big cities for their homes in other parts of India because the shutdown has sapped their savings.
"Her poverty & desperation are being glorified as if Jyoti cycled 1,200 KM for the thrill of it. Government failed her, that's hardly something to trumpet as an achievement," Omar Abdullah, a former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, tweeted in response to Ivanka's message.
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India will organise special trains to get at least 3.6 million migrant workers stranded by the pandemic lockdown back home, authorities said on Saturday, AFP reports.
With fears rising over the spread of the disease in Mumbai and other major cities, the government said 2,600 special trains would run over the next 10 days to help the workers who lost jobs when the lockdown started two months ago.
Millions of migrant workers have been stranded in the densely populated cities and many have walked hundreds of miles to get home.
Vinod Kumar Yadav, the chair of the Indian Railway Board, said about 80% of the new shamrik (labourer) trains would go to Bihar and Uttar Pradesh states, the biggest source of domestic migrant workers. About 4 million people have already been moved on the special trains.
The prime minister, Narendra Modi, is gradually easing the world’s biggest lockdown, which has caused mass unemployment among India’s 1.3 billion population.
But at the same time, the number of new cases is rising each day, with at least 6,600 reported Saturday. The health ministry has confirmed at least 125,101 cases and 3,720 deaths.
Experts say the outbreak will not peak in India until June or July and authorities face an increasing struggle to contain the pandemic in Mumbai, Delhi and other cities that account for the bulk of
With fears rising over the spread of the disease in Mumbai and other major cities, the government said 2,600 special trains would run over the next 10 days to help the workers who lost jobs when the lockdown started two months ago.
Millions of migrant workers have been stranded in the densely populated cities and many have walked hundreds of miles to get home.
Vinod Kumar Yadav, the chair of the Indian Railway Board, said about 80% of the new shamrik (labourer) trains would go to Bihar and Uttar Pradesh states, the biggest source of domestic migrant workers. About 4 million people have already been moved on the special trains.
The prime minister, Narendra Modi, is gradually easing the world’s biggest lockdown, which has caused mass unemployment among India’s 1.3 billion population.
But at the same time, the number of new cases is rising each day, with at least 6,600 reported Saturday. The health ministry has confirmed at least 125,101 cases and 3,720 deaths.
Experts say the outbreak will not peak in India until June or July and authorities face an increasing struggle to contain the pandemic in Mumbai, Delhi and other cities that account for the bulk of
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