Evening News - 07 March, 2020
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Majuli and Jorhat are now under the scare of coronavirus outbreak. A US tourist who had come to visit Jorhat and the river island has been detected positive with the deadly coronavirus disease in Bhutan. People of Jorhat and Majuli are now in grip of fear after the news of detection of coronavirus in the American tourist spread.  Employees of Thengal Menor, Jorhat are now under complete medical observation as the tourist had, reportedly, spent two nights there before leaving for Bhutan. As a part of precautionary measure the police of both districts are now searching for the taxi drivers where the tourist had travelled during his visit.

Management at Radisson Blu Hotel in Guwahati had evacuated the second floor of the hotel as the US tourist who tested positive for coronavirus had stayed at that place. The tourist had stayed at room number 224. Over 20 staff of the hotel who had come in contact with the tourist are under observation. The hotel authorities are sanitizing the room and carrying out the necessary procedure.

An Italian national on March 6 was put under observation at a hotel in Tezpur, Sonitpur district after he arrived there amidst the coronavirus scare, an official said. However, the foreigner did not show any of the traditional symptoms of the terrible disease, which has prompted a global panic. After China, Italy is one of the worst-hit countries where the disease broke out. The official said that the visitor’s samples have been collected and sent for testing.

Around 14,640 people have been kept under complete observation for coronavirus, said a Health Department official from Mizoram. At least seven screening centers are set up in different parts of the state along with international and inter-state borders with the Lengpui airport.

Andhra’s Tirumala temple trust withdrew Rs 1,300 cr from the crisis hit yes bank in 2019. According to an official with the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam, deposits of Rs 1,300 crore were withdrawn some months ago from Yes Bank but it had nothing to do with the crisis in the bank. On Friday before the Reserve Bank imposed a moratorium, Vadodara Smart City Development Company, a Special Purpose Vehicle of the Vadodara Municipal Corporation, withdrew Rs 265 crore from Yes Bank.

On March 7, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting lifted the ban on two Kerala-based news channels. The Information and Broadcasting ministry had imposed a 48-hour ban on two Malayalam news channels- Asianet News and Media One on Friday. The reason behind the ban was their coverage of the violence in north-east Delhi.  The government accused them of being one-sided and particularly leaning towards one community.  In a circuler sent out by the government, it noted that “such address could fuel communal disharmony across the country when the situation is highly volatile.”

Sanjay Gupta, Bharatiya Janata Party Legislator  from Uttarakhand claimed that ancient Hindu rituals and cow urine can be a medication to kill coronavirus in the “air and within the body”. 

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar  defended the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). He spoke out in favour of CAA and said that the UNHRC has got it all wrong, once again. “Everybody, when they look at citizenship, have a context and has a criterion. Show me a country in the world which says everybody in the world is welcome. Nobody says that,” 

With all sorts of preventive measures floating around, WHO has said that  spraying alcohol or chlorine all over the body will not kill viruses that have already entered the body. The global health organisation said, “Spraying such substances can be harmful to clothes or mucous membranes (i.e. eyes, mouth). Be aware that both alcohol and chlorine can be useful to disinfect surfaces, but they need to be used under appropriate recommendations.”