Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Tuesday that the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) has been given the responsibility to operate the 10,000-bed COVID-19 centre at Radha Soami Satsang Beas (RSSB) campus in south Delhi’s Chhatarpur. The tweet came in reaction to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s request for deployment of doctors and nurses from the ITBP and the Army at the centre, which is located near the Delhi-Haryana border.

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Amit Shah model or Kejriwal model for Delhi?

"Today there are two models in Delhi: One, Amit Shah ji's model, in which each person who is positive has to be taken to a quarantine centre.

"Second, Kejrwial ji's model, in which a person is COVID positive, then a medical team is sent to his house and if needed taken to a hospital, else home quarantined. And if his house doesn't have facilities, then he will be sent to a quarantine centre."

These were Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia's words, pitching for home quarantine. The Delhi government is facing practical difficulties in implementing L-G's order that every COVID-19 patient has to go to a quarantine center. - Nikhil M. Babu

Don’t visit Puri, ‘darshan’ of trinity not allowed: Odisha DGP

A day after the chariots of Lord Jagannath and his celestial siblings were pulled in Puri in adherence to the Supreme Court guidelines, Odisha Police on Wednesday appealed to people not to visit the pilgrim town as “darshan” of the deities is not allowed.

“In view of curfew in some parts of Puri, all are requested to avoid going to Puri today. It is again reiterated that Darshan of Trinity for devotees is NOT allowed,” Odisha DGP Abhay said in a tweet.

All measures taken for safe conduct of SSLC exam in Karnataka, says Minister

Staff of Seshadripuram high school preparing for SSLC exam, starting on June 25, 2020 in Bengaluru   | Photo Credit: K. Murali Kumar

Amid arguments for and against conducting the SSLC exam, which is due to start on June 25, Minister for Primary and Secondary Education S. Suresh Kumar has maintained that adequate precautionary measures have been taken by the department and that students and parents need not worry.

Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board (KSEEB) too, in a press release issued on Tuesday, said it has put in place various measures as per the Standard Operating Procedure. The department claimed that it had already distributed 18 lakh masks, at two per student.

Ahobilam temple closed as archaka tests positive

The Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Devasthanam temple at Ahobilam in Allagadda mandal has been closed for devotees till June 30 after one of the archakas tested positive for COVID-19, Executive Officer Ganji Mallikarjuna said.

The ekantha seva, aradhana and other daily rituals will be continued inside the main temple complex, but devotees will not be allowed to have darshan, he said.

Stricter norms for Thiruvananthapuram from today

With the partial withdrawal of the lockdown during ‘Unlock 1.0’ showing signs of pushing the city into an alarming situation, the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation has finalised a protocol for commercial establishments in the city to reduce crowding in public areas.

The arrangement, which will take effect on Wednesday, allocates specific working days for shops on the basis of the nature of business.

TMC MLA Tamonash Ghosh, who had tested positive for COVID-19, dead

Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA Tamonash Ghosh, who had tested positive for COVID-19 in May, died at a hospital here on June 24, party sources said. He was 60.

The three-time MLA from the Falta assembly constituency in South 24 Parganas district was admitted to a hospital after he tested positive for the disease, they said. He had several complications related to the heart and kidney.

He is the second legislator in the country to succumb to COVID-19, after Tamil Nadu's J. Anbazhagan.

India saw record single-day spike of 15,968 COVID-19 cases and 465 fatalities, pushing the infection tally to 4,56,183 and the death toll to 14,476 on Wednesday, the Union health ministry data said.

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12 trainee sailors of INS Shivaji test coronavirus positive

At least 12 trainee sailors of the Lonavala-based INS Shivaji, one of the premier training establishments of the Indian Navy, have so far tested positive for coronavirus, officials said.

The first case was found on June 18 and the infected cadet was part of a batch of 157 trainee sailors who had reported back after leave following the easing of lockdown earlier this month, a release issued by the naval station on Tuesday said.

“With the easing of lockdown as per Unlock 1.0 in the first week of June, a batch of 157 trainee sailors who were undergoing training at this establishment and were on extended leave in view of the lockdown, reported back and all were quarantined for 14 days in one of the institutional quarantine facilities prepared in the unit,” it said.

One of the trainee sailors from the batch was found to be symptomatic during the quarantine period and tested positive for coronavirus on June 18, it said.

“Further, all the other high-risk contacts who are staying in that particular quarantine facility are being tested as per the extant procedure and necessary medical support is being provided. A total of 12 out of157 trainee sailors have been found coronavirus positive as on date,” the release said.

- PTI

Sisodia asks L-G to scrap new guidelines

Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Tuesday said he has written to Lieutenant-Governor Anil Baijal urging him to end the new system under which people who test positive for COVID-19 will have to visit a ‘COVID Care Centre’ (CCC) to get examined.

Bengal schools and colleges to remain closed till July 31

Schools, colleges and universities in West Bengal will remain closed till July 31, the State government announced on Tuesday. However, Education Minister Partha Chatterjee said teachers and non-teaching staff members should report for duty.

Quarantine period cut to seven days for healthcare providers on COVID-19 duty

The quarantine period for healthcare providers (HCPs) posted on COVID-19 duty has been reduced from 14 to seven days in some government medical college hospitals in Chennai.

Doctors at Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital (RGGGH) and Government Medical College Hospital, Omandurar Estate, were informed that the quarantine period after seven-day-long COVID-19 duty will be seven days, and not 14 days as was the case earlier.

Navy ship repatriates 198 Indians stranded in Maldives

Indian Naval Ship Airavat repatriated 198 Indians stranded in Maldives following COVID-19-induced lockdown to VOC Port in Thoothukudi on Tuesday under the Union Government’s ‘Samudhra Setu’ operation.

This is the third mission to be undertaken by the Indian Navy as INS Jalashwa had repatriated the Indians from Colombo and Male recently.

Two crore construction workers given cash assistance during lockdown, says Labour Ministry

The Union Labour and Employment Ministry said on Tuesday that States had disbursed ₹4,957 crore as cash assistance to two crore construction workers during the COVID-19 lockdown.

The Ministry said the States had disbursed “a substantial amount” in response to its March 24 advisory to use the funds collected by the Building and Other Construction Workers (BOCW) Welfare Boards to help the workers registered with them.