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NEW DELHI, JUN 17
(PTI): Noting that the spread of COVID-19 is more in a few big states and cities, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday asked chief ministers to make full use of their state’s existing testing capacity and also work to augment health infrastructure.
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Speaking to chief ministers and representatives of 14 states and the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, Modi said big crowds, lack of physical-distancing, daily movement of large number of people and small houses in some cities have made the battle against the coronavirus “more challenging”.
This was the second day of Modi’s sixth round of consultations with chief ministers on fighting COVID-19 pandemic.
Saving lives should be the top priority, he said, and called for expanding health infrastructure, according to a statement.
People’s discipline during the nationwide lockdown has stopped the virus’ exponential growth, the prime minister said, adding that India is now better placed than earlier vis-à
NEW DELHI, JUN 17
(PTI): Front-line bases of the Indian army and the air force along the nearly 3,500 km de-facto border with China were Wednesday put on high alert in view of the worst border clash between Indian and Chinese troops in Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh that left 20 Army personnel dead, official sources said.
The Indian Navy has also been asked to raise its alert level in the Indian
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vis treating patients, health infrastructure and trained manpower.
Citing the details of the boost in capacity to deal with the virus, he asked states to continue to put emphasis on “health Infrastructure, information systems, emotional support and public participation”.
Referring to the rise in number of infections, Modi underscored the need for testing, tracking, tracing and isolating COVID-19 patients to deal with the pandemic.
There has been criticism that some states and cities, including Delhi, are not doing enough testing.
The prime minister, however, stated that the number of recovered patients has also been rising, and added that it is a matOcean Region where Chinese Navy has been making regular forays.
The decision to raise the alert level of the three forces were taken at a highlevel meeting Defence Minister Rajnath Singh held with Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat and the three service chiefs, sources said.
The Army has already rushed in additional troops to all its key front-line bases and formations along ter of relief that very few patients needed ICU and ventilator care. Praising efforts of states and local administration, he said the country now has more than 900 COVID-19 testing labs, lakhs of special beds, thousands of isolation and quarantine centres, adequate stocks of testing kits, with over one crore PPEs and almost same numbers of N-95 masks supplied to states.
Despite a rise in coronavirus cases in a few places, people’s patience, administration’s work and dedication of corona warriors have ensured that things did not go out of control, he said.
Stressing on the importance of providing timely information, the prime minister said it should be ensured that helplines are not “helpthe Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Arunachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Ladakh, they said.
The Indian Air Force has already raised the alert level in all its front-line bases tasked to keep an eye on the LAC, the de-facto border.
The sources said the Navy is increasing its deployment in the Indian Ocean Region to send across a strong message to the Chinese Navy. less” but helpful for people. He called for building teams of senior doctors and young volunteers to guide patients through telemedicine and run helplines, respectively.
Modi also called for fighting the stigma associated with the disease, saying people should be assured that there is no need to panic if somebody has been infected as the number of those cured is huge.
He highlighted the need to keep reminding people of the benefits of sanitisation, wearing masks and social distancing to fight the virus. He asked states to share their best practices with each other.
Continuing with his consultations with state governments on ways to check the spread of coronavirus during ‘unlock 1.0’, Modi held consultation with the CMs for the second consecutive day.
Chief ministers of Maharashtra, Delhi, Karnataka, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar were among those who attended the meeting on Wednesday.
It assumed importance as some of these states account for a majority of the cases in the country.
NEW DELHI, JUN 17
(PTI): The Railways has deployed 503 isolation coaches in Delhi at nine stations days after Union Home Minister Amit Shah made the announcement as part of measures to contain the novel coronavirus pandemic, officials said on Wednesday.
The units are among the 960 converted coaches deployed in five states in an effort to augment medical care facilities for patients of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). While Delhi’s Anand Vihar railway station has got the lion’s share with 267 such coaches deployed at its seven platforms, there are 50 each in Shakur Basti and Sarai Rohilla, officials told PTI.
The national transport
NEW DELHI, JUN 17
(AGENCIES): The IMD has predicted heatwave to severe heatwave conditions over West Rajasthan and heat-wave conditions over East Rajasthan and Punjab over the next two to three days.
Meanwhile, “isolated to fairly widespread” rainfall with a thunderstorm, lightning and gusty winds are also expected over the Western Himalayan Region and plains of Northwest India between June 19 and June 21, according to the weather office. Widespread rains are also very likely along the West Coast with isolated heavy to very heavy falls over Coastal Karnataka, Konkan and Goa, Northeast, East and adjoining Central India during the next five days.
Boosted by two lowpressure systems, one over southeast Arabian which later turned into ‘severe cyclone’ Nisarga and another system over the Bay of Bengal, the Northern Limit of Monsoon is passing through Kandla, Ahmedabad, Indore, Raisen, Khajuraho, Fatehpur and Bahraich. er has deployed 33 coaches at Delhi Cantonment, 30 at Adarsh Nagar, 21 at Safdarjung, 13 each at Tughlaqabad and Shahdara, and 26 at the Patel Nagar stations, according to the officials.
These coaches can be used in areas where the state has exhausted the facilities and needs to augment capacities for isolation of suspected and confirmed cases, according to an integrated COVID-19 plan by the Health Ministry and the NITI Aayog. The coaches can be used for very mild cases that can be clinically assigned to the coronavirus care centres, the Health Ministry guidelines stated.
Delhi is second only to Maharashtra in terms of both confirmed cases and
NEW DELHI, JUN 17
(PTI): The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Centre to issue directions to states for payment of salaries and providing necessary quarantine facilities to doctors and healthcare workers engaged in treating COVID-19 patients.
The government told the court it would issue the necessary directions.
A bench of justices Ashok Bhushan, S K Kaul and M R Shah said that doctors and healthcare workers treating COVID-19 patients should not be denied quarantine facilities.
The top court asked the Centre to file a compliance report within four weeks on payment of salaries and quarantine facilities to doctors and healthcare workers and warned that non-compliance would be viewed seriously.
The bench was hearing a plea filed by a private doctor raising questions on the Centre’s May 15 decision that 14-day quarantine was not mandatory for doctors.
Doctor Arushi Jain, in her petition filed through advocates Mithu Jain and coronavirus deaths, with a tally of 44,688 infections and 1,837 fatalities.
Amid the alarming rise in cases, Shah had on Sunday announced a slew of measures, including providing 500 railway coaches, which will be equipped with all facilities for treatment of Arjun Syal, had alleged that front line healthcare workers engaged in the fight against COVID-19 are not being paid salaries or their wages are being cut or delayed.
During the hearing, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre said that government would issue the directions to states and union territories within 24 hours to ensure timely payment of salaries to doctors and health care workers.
He said that the May 15 circular on Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) will also be modified and do away the clause for nonmandatory quarantine for healthcare workers engaged in COVID duty.
Mehta also gave the assurance that a new order would be issued for providing suitable alternate accommodation for doctors and healthcare workers engaged in COVID duty to avoid risk to their family members.
He said that Centre is also thinking to make nonpayment of salaries by hospitals to health care workers a criminal offence under the National Disaster Managethe COVID-19 patients.
A total of 960 isolation coaches have been deployed so far -- 503 in Delhi, 372 in Uttar Pradesh, 60 in Telangana, 20 in Andhra Pradesh and five in Madhya Pradesh, the officials said.
Twenty coaches each have been deployed in Sement Act.
The bench said that necessary directions be issued by union health secretary and chief secretaries of the State.
On June 12, the top court had observed, “In war, you do not make soldiers unhappy. Travel extra mile and channel some extra money to address their grievances”.
It had said that the courts should not be involved in the issue of nonpayment of salary to health care workers and government should settle the issue.
Senior advocate K V Viswanathan, appearing for the petitioner, had said that if doctors on COVID duty are not provided accommodation near hospitals their family/friends are exposed to higher risk of infection.
He had said that doctors and other healthcare workers, who are engaged in COVID duty, run a great risk of exposure of infection without proper PPE kits and without proper accommodation, their family members are also at higher
Army, Navy, Air Force raise alert level
An army convoy moves along the Srinagar-Leh NH in Central Kashmir, June 17. (PTI)
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The railway workshop at Jhansi station has received 52 isolation coaches, while Lucknow got 37, and Mau and Bhatni have been allocated 24 each. Kanpur has been allotted 22 coaches, Agra 20 and Jhansi 15.
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