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Updated: April 26, 2020 9:46:33 pm
After further relaxation from the shutdown, mobile stores in Ahmedabad resumed their activities on Sunday. (Express photo / Javed Raja)
On the 33rd day of the shutdown, India recorded the highest one-day increase of 1,975 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total number of cases close to the 27,000 mark, including 826 deaths. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on his monthly radio show “Mann ki Baat”, called the fight against Covid-19 “people-driven” and asked people to avoid any complacency that they will not be infected with the virus.
The Prime Minister also praised states, emergency workers and civil society groups for their contribution in the fight against the pandemic. He said that the resolve shown by the people of the country has led to the beginning of a transformation with businesses, offices, educational institutions, the medical sector that is rapidly experiencing new changes.
Meanwhile, the World Health Organization warned that recovering the coronavirus may not protect people from reinfection, as the death toll from the pandemic crossed 200,000 worldwide. The United States is the most affected country, registering more than 51,500 deaths and more than 890,000 infections detected.
Vadodara ABVP workers made art to urge residents to stay home to contain the spread of Covid-19. (Express photo / Bhupendra Rana)
Here’s a curated list of amazing stories from around the country on the 33rd day of closing.
Tripura man designs a bicycle with 1 meter separate seats
At a time when social distancing has become the watchword to combat the coronavirus pandemic, a YouTuber from Tripura has manufactured a unique electric motorcycle to raise awareness among people. According to the guidelines issued by the WHO, the electric bicycle has a distance of one meter between each seat.
The bicycle is a creation of Partha Saha from the town of Aralia near Agartala. Speaking to indianexpress.com, Saha said he neither wants to popularize the vehicle as a commercial product nor would he request permission from the transportation department. Read more here
Partha Saha from the town of Aralia with Covid-19 bicycle. According to the guidelines issued by the WHO, the electric bicycle has a distance of one meter between each seat. (Express photo)
Delhi policemen promise children toys when they go out to fight “crown keeda”
From telling their children that they are going to fight the “keeda crown” to promising to bring them toys as soon as the closure is over, Delhi police officers strive to be the best in the other titles attached to their names in these extraordinary times. .
More than 26,000 coronavirus cases have been reported across the country. (Express photo / Amit Mehra)
As healthcare workers battle the coronavirus battle within hospitals, police personnel drive the roads to enforce the blockade. Additional Deputy Police Commissioner (South) Parminder Singh said he is staying away from things that belong to his son for fear that if he is infected, he will put his son at risk.
“What can life be like when you are surrounded by coronaviruses? You cannot access some places at home and you cannot touch certain things despite washing your hands many times. Every day when you wear the uniform, you fear you will get infected today, ”he told PTI over the phone. Singh also has elderly parents at home and has to follow strict social distancing rules.
Covid-19: An elderly woman was among the seven patients who were discharged from GIMS Greater Noida on Sunday. (Express photo of Gajendra Yadav)
Goa women invent a music video about life during the confinement
Women from various professional fields in Goa have created a music video to show what life means to them while they remain indoors during the coronavirus-forced confinement. In the video, titled ‘Teri Kya Story Hai’ (what’s her story), several women, including doctors, teachers, actors, and housewives, have tried to convey that they don’t feel locked up, but this is just a regular routine, along with some additional housework.
“Whether it’s a mother, a daughter, a daughter-in-law or a wife, each one of them,” Neha Savkar Vaze, who wrote the song for the video, told PTI. Vaze recounted how, during a phone call, she and Goan singer Akshada Talaulikar had the idea to do something musical and out of the box during the shutdown.
People bathe healthcare workers with flowers in Chandigarh. (Express photo by Kamleshwar Singh)
The rhythm of the song definitely matched the excitement of each of the participants, Vaze said, adding that the video shows women from various fields and residing in different parts of the coastal state. Talaulikar said that the composition was completed in half a day, but that arranging the music was a difficult task since being confined to her home did not have access to any professional tool.
The “kitchen warriors” in Mathura serve food to 15,000 people daily
A group of “kitchen warriors” comprised of cooks, food packers, and distributors are running a community kitchen in Mathura that serves around 12,000 to 15,000 people daily, bringing a ray of hope to those affected by the national closure. The initiative was initially started to provide food to contract workers for various Uttar Pradesh Braj Teerth Vikas Parishad projects. Eventually it culminated in a community kitchen that has so far provided more than 3.64 lakh of food packages to those in need during the ongoing blockade in the Mathura district. Around 50 chefs, all of them women, 40 packers and food distributors, direct the show.
लॉकडाउन के दूसरे चरण के 12 वें दिन प्रदीप माथुर द्वारा मथुरा वृंदावन में 4050 लोगों को खाना वितरित किया गया जिसमें 1450 लोगों को माँ सौजन्य रसोई म धर्म धर्म धर्म सौजन्य सौजन्य सौजन्य सौजन्य सौजन्य सौजन्य सौजन्य सौजन्य सौजन्य सौजन्य सौजन्य सौजन्य सौजन्य सौजन्य सौजन्यसंस्थ खाना वितरित किया गया pic.twitter.com/4rFEcQok4X
– Pradeep Mathur (@pradeepmathurUP) April 26, 2020
The Uttar Pradesh Braj Teerth Vikas Parishad was established in 2017 to preserve, develop and maintain the aesthetic quality of the Braj heritage. Braj, also known as Brij or Brijbhoomi, is a region around Mathura-Vrindavan and is considered to be the “land of Lord Krishna”. The area extends from Mathura, Jalesar, Agra, Hathras and Aligarh to the Etah, Mainpuri and Farrukhabad districts.
“In this type of setting, when people are really scared and scared and with reason to venture, there are not many people that I can get to work even with pay, and work with discipline. The group (kitchen warriors) works from 6.00 a.m. M. A 6.00 p. M. Cooks make “poor” 8 quintals of wheat. And throughout the shift, social distancing is strictly respected, ”UP Braj Teerth Vikas Parishad Vice President Shailja Kant Mishra told PTI.
Madhya Pradesh, man in a luxury car during curfew made to do sit-ups
A member of a local group of volunteers reportedly misbehaved with a 20-year-old man who was riding in a luxury sports car during the curfew in Madhya Pradesh and had the latter do sit-ups on the road. The man, the son of an Indore-based industrialist, claimed he had a curfew pass to move around the area to distribute food to people in need.
An alleged video of the incident, which according to eyewitnesses took place on Saturday, went viral on social networks. In the video, a Nagar Suraksha Samiti volunteer was seen wearing a black uniform pointing at the man, driving a yellow open-top two-seater convertible sports car that stopped on the city’s MR-10 highway.
After stopping his car by the roadside, the man was seen exiting the vehicle and trying to show his curfew to the volunteer. However, the volunteer said “it has nothing to do with the pass.”
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