Evening News - 15 April, 2020
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Meghalaya reports 6 more positive cases. "Of the 68 tested so far, 6 have come out positive who are all family members & helpers of the first #Covid19 positive case. 6 other cases are being retested. All the rest of the cases are negative," Conrad Sangma, Chief Minister, Government of Meghalaya tweeted. The 69 year old senior doctor who passed away from coronavirus contracted the infection from his son-in-law who was a pilot with Air India who had travelled to New York.

A nurse from Manipur working at a private hospital in Delhi has tested positive for coronavirus. The 24-year-old woman was carried away in an ambulance. Nine of her family members staying with her have been quarantined.

Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has come up with consolidated revised guidelines during lockdown that will stay until May 3.“The objective of the revised guidelines is to consolidate the gains achieved during the 1st phase of lockdown and further slow down the spread of Covid 19 and at the same time provide relief to farmers, labourers and daily wage earners,” according to a press release. During the lockdown, travel by air, rail and road will not be allowed. Mass gatherings stay suspended as usual. Post April 20, 2020 assessments will be made at various states and UTs.

Health Services including AYUSH to function amid lockdown informed MHA in a statement. Hospitals. nursing homes, clinics and telemedicine facilities will function. Veterinary hospitals, medical research labs, Jan Aushadhi Kendras, medical equipment shop, manufacturing unit of drugs, construction of medical health infrastructure, movement (inter and intra state) of medical and veterinary personnel, nurses, scientists, lab technicians and mid-wives including ambulances are permitted.

ICMR researchers have detected coronavirus in two species of bat. “To assess the presence of CoVs in bats, we performed identification and characterisation of bat CoV (BtCoV) in P. medius and Rousettus species from representative states in India collected during 2018 and 2019,” according to a paper published in the Indian Journal of Medical Research on April 13.

Prashant Singh alias Pravesh was admitted to hospital after he was shot at by Jai Veer Singh alias Gullu. The latter is absconding. A ludo game was underway at a temple in Dayanagar village. An argument escalated soon after which shots were fired.“Prashant and three others were playing ludo at the village temple on Tuesday night when Gullu arrived there. An argument broke out between Prashant and Gullu when the former coughed. Gullu got angry thinking he was doing it deliberately,” a police official told media. Coughing, fever are some of the most common symptoms of coronavirus.

3500 jurists, artistes, writers and many others have slammed the UP government for filsing an FIR against The Wire’s editor Siddharth Varadarajan. The FIR was filed against Varadarajan because of this tweet on CM of UP Yogi Adityanath

An FIR has been registered against journalist over a report that states that migrant workers should be given Jan Sadharan special trains so that they can return to their native villages instead of being stuck. This could have prompted the gathering of migrant workers near Bandra railway station, claim reports. Rahul Kulkarni, based in Osmanabad district of Maharashtra has been booked under several IPC Sections.