Amid prevalent chaos and uncertainty over access to the essential services and commodities during the lockdown, we bring you the latest updates from your city.
*Kaziranga National Park has tightened its security to protect its animals — especially the onehorned rhino — after rumours spread that China is trying to use rhino horns to make drugs to fight Covid-19.
*Government offices in Meghalaya to start work from April 15
*AAI donates Rs 10 lakh each to all Northeastern states, fund will be utilized to procure PPEs, protective kits and equipment for health workers and hospitals in the states.
*The authorities of the Biological Park in Itanagar are taking adequate preventive measures to protect the nine big cats in the zoo, after a tiger at New York’s Bronx Zoo tested positive for Covid-19.
*Patients who tested positive for coronavirus and are currently in Guwahati hospitals are being encouraged to practise yoga to fight mental and physical stress, Assam health minister Pijush Hazarika said on Monday.
*West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee appeals to the patients having comorbidity ailments such as hypertension, blood sugar, kidney problems, lung congestion that they take admission in M R Bangur Hospital.
*West Bengal government has taken over a 128 bed private facility in East Burdwan to function as a Covid-19 treatment facility
*Kolkata hospital starts tailoring unit to stitch protective suits due to shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE).
* Update at 10.27am: West Bengal governor appeals to CM, ministers, MLAs to take a pay cut to fight Covid-19
*Assam MLA held for remarks calling Covid- 19 hospitals worse than detention centres.
*Updated at 10.26am: One more Covid-19 positive case from Dhubri District has been confirmed, taking the total number of positive cases in Assam to 27. This patient is related to the Nizamuddin Markaz event in Delhi: Assam minister Himanta Biswa Sarma
*Updated at 10.17am: State government will extend financial assistance to all wage earners, daily labourers & petty traders who are out of work during the Covid-19 ‘lockdown’, under CM’s Relief Against Wage Loss scheme for daily wage earners at rate of Rs 700 per week: Meghalaya Deputy CM Prestone Tynsong
*Alipore zoo takes guard to save tigers from Covid-19
*New Market sprinklers to spray disinfectant solution on shoppers *
Update at 2.48am: A sweet shop in Kolkata is giving 'Corona' sweets to its customers as gift. Owner of the shop says,"Thousands of people are dying due to Coronavirus. It's a message to uplift the spirit of people that we will fight and digest corona & not vice versa".
*NRS Hospital authorities have sealed the male medicine ward and the critical care unit CCU
*A nine-month-old girl and her six-year-old sister, West Bengal’s two youngest Covid-19 positive patients cured.
*West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday questioned the Centre’s motive in disputing the state’s Covid-19 patients’ tally and death toll.
*A 57-year-old patient was shifted to Salt Lake hospital on Monday, making her the first Covid-19 positive case at the private facility acquired by West Bengal government to treat those with co-morbid conditions.
*MR Bangur Hospital has shifted over 200 patients, including those in critical care, neo-natal and burn unit, to several other hospitals in Kolkata as it is set to become an exclusive hospital to treat Covid-19 patients
*Kaziranga National Park has tightened its security to protect its animals — especially the onehorned rhino — after rumours spread that China is trying to use rhino horns to make drugs to fight Covid-19.
*Government offices in Meghalaya to start work from April 15
*AAI donates Rs 10 lakh each to all Northeastern states, fund will be utilized to procure PPEs, protective kits and equipment for health workers and hospitals in the states.
*The authorities of the Biological Park in Itanagar are taking adequate preventive measures to protect the nine big cats in the zoo, after a tiger at New York’s Bronx Zoo tested positive for Covid-19.
*Patients who tested positive for coronavirus and are currently in Guwahati hospitals are being encouraged to practise yoga to fight mental and physical stress, Assam health minister Pijush Hazarika said on Monday.
*West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee appeals to the patients having comorbidity ailments such as hypertension, blood sugar, kidney problems, lung congestion that they take admission in M R Bangur Hospital.
*West Bengal government has taken over a 128 bed private facility in East Burdwan to function as a Covid-19 treatment facility
*Kolkata hospital starts tailoring unit to stitch protective suits due to shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE).
* Update at 10.27am: West Bengal governor appeals to CM, ministers, MLAs to take a pay cut to fight Covid-19
PM, MPs, Union Ministers @narendramodi take 30% pay cut for a year to Covid-19 efforts. President, VP and Governo… https://t.co/lAEzXbWjSL
— Governor West Bengal Jagdeep Dhankhar (@jdhankhar1) 1586224867000*Assam MLA held for remarks calling Covid- 19 hospitals worse than detention centres.
*Updated at 10.26am: One more Covid-19 positive case from Dhubri District has been confirmed, taking the total number of positive cases in Assam to 27. This patient is related to the Nizamuddin Markaz event in Delhi: Assam minister Himanta Biswa Sarma
*Updated at 10.17am: State government will extend financial assistance to all wage earners, daily labourers & petty traders who are out of work during the Covid-19 ‘lockdown’, under CM’s Relief Against Wage Loss scheme for daily wage earners at rate of Rs 700 per week: Meghalaya Deputy CM Prestone Tynsong
*Alipore zoo takes guard to save tigers from Covid-19
*New Market sprinklers to spray disinfectant solution on shoppers *
Update at 2.48am: A sweet shop in Kolkata is giving 'Corona' sweets to its customers as gift. Owner of the shop says,"Thousands of people are dying due to Coronavirus. It's a message to uplift the spirit of people that we will fight and digest corona & not vice versa".
*NRS Hospital authorities have sealed the male medicine ward and the critical care unit CCU
*A nine-month-old girl and her six-year-old sister, West Bengal’s two youngest Covid-19 positive patients cured.
*West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday questioned the Centre’s motive in disputing the state’s Covid-19 patients’ tally and death toll.
*A 57-year-old patient was shifted to Salt Lake hospital on Monday, making her the first Covid-19 positive case at the private facility acquired by West Bengal government to treat those with co-morbid conditions.
*MR Bangur Hospital has shifted over 200 patients, including those in critical care, neo-natal and burn unit, to several other hospitals in Kolkata as it is set to become an exclusive hospital to treat Covid-19 patients
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