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Update at 11.15am: World Bank announces $1 billion social protection package for India linked to Govt of India programmes
Update at 11.09am: In a bid to create awareness about the Covid-19 pandemic among children in slums, a teacher in Maharashtra's Aurangabad city created a nursery rhyme in Marathi to teach them the 20-second hand-washing routine.
Update at 10.15am: The coronavirus-induced lockdown, which has severely affected functioning of government and semi -government departments, has led to a significant drop in cases of bribe in Maharashtra, reflected in low number of traps set up by the ACB in the last one-and-a-half months.
Update at 9.30am: Death toll due to Covid-19 rises to 2,649; cases climb to 81,970 in India, reports PTI quoting health ministry
*Another 45-year-old constable attached to Shivaji Nagar police station succumbed to coronavirus on Thursday. This takes the total deaths in the force in the city to six and nine in the state.
*The BEST Workers’ Union, the biggest union in the transport undertaking, has given a call to 40,000 staffers to ‘Stay Home’ from Monday if the administration does not accept its demands, which include protective gear like PPE kits, masks, sanitisers and gloves for drivers and conductors, proper quarantine and hospital facilities, and Rs 1-crore medical cover for employees and their families.
*More than 1,000 “glad and relieved” passengers arrived in the city by the first special New Delhi-Mumbai Central train on Thursday morning. Most of the 1,072 passengers got emotional on reaching their city after being stuck in the capital and other northern states while on family visits, business trips or vacations since the lockdown was announced in the last week of March.
*The city’s housing crisis, with over half its 12 million-plus people packed into cramped tenements and slums, was best exemplified recently when a Covid-19 positive woman requested authorities not to discharge her from the NSCI quarantine centre. The Worli BDD chawl resident feared going back to her 180 sq ft house and infecting her husband and child due to lack of quarantine space.
*With the addition of 44 deaths on Thursday, the Covid-19 toll in Maharashtra breached the 1,000 mark to reach 1,019. The state has crossed 1,000 deaths in just over two months since the first case was reported here. About 55% of the total deaths have come in the past 14 days of May alone.
Update at 11.15am: World Bank announces $1 billion social protection package for India linked to Govt of India programmes
Update at 11.09am: In a bid to create awareness about the Covid-19 pandemic among children in slums, a teacher in Maharashtra's Aurangabad city created a nursery rhyme in Marathi to teach them the 20-second hand-washing routine.
Update at 10.15am: The coronavirus-induced lockdown, which has severely affected functioning of government and semi -government departments, has led to a significant drop in cases of bribe in Maharashtra, reflected in low number of traps set up by the ACB in the last one-and-a-half months.
Update at 9.30am: Death toll due to Covid-19 rises to 2,649; cases climb to 81,970 in India, reports PTI quoting health ministry
*Another 45-year-old constable attached to Shivaji Nagar police station succumbed to coronavirus on Thursday. This takes the total deaths in the force in the city to six and nine in the state.
*The BEST Workers’ Union, the biggest union in the transport undertaking, has given a call to 40,000 staffers to ‘Stay Home’ from Monday if the administration does not accept its demands, which include protective gear like PPE kits, masks, sanitisers and gloves for drivers and conductors, proper quarantine and hospital facilities, and Rs 1-crore medical cover for employees and their families.
*More than 1,000 “glad and relieved” passengers arrived in the city by the first special New Delhi-Mumbai Central train on Thursday morning. Most of the 1,072 passengers got emotional on reaching their city after being stuck in the capital and other northern states while on family visits, business trips or vacations since the lockdown was announced in the last week of March.
*The city’s housing crisis, with over half its 12 million-plus people packed into cramped tenements and slums, was best exemplified recently when a Covid-19 positive woman requested authorities not to discharge her from the NSCI quarantine centre. The Worli BDD chawl resident feared going back to her 180 sq ft house and infecting her husband and child due to lack of quarantine space.
*With the addition of 44 deaths on Thursday, the Covid-19 toll in Maharashtra breached the 1,000 mark to reach 1,019. The state has crossed 1,000 deaths in just over two months since the first case was reported here. About 55% of the total deaths have come in the past 14 days of May alone.
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