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Migrant workers queue to undergo medical exams before boarding Shramik special trains to return to their home states on Friday (Express photo: Gurmeet Singh)
The deaths of 16 migrant workers who were hit by an empty freight train in the Aurangabad district of Maharashtra brought focus back to the plight of the unemployed and unemployed migrant workers as a national closure was announced to contain the spread of the new coronavirus.
The workers, who were walking to Bhusawal from Jalna to board a “Special Shramik” train to return to Madhya Pradesh, were sleeping on the railway line when the accident occurred between Badnapur and Karmad stations in the Nanded Division.
The empty train was heading from Cherlapally station near Hyderabad to Panewadi station near Manmad in Nashik. Motorists tried to stop the train, but did not, an official said.
The measure comes almost three weeks after ICMR issued a tender on April 13 requesting central UPMs to act as the Procurement Agency for essential supplies related to the COVID19 test.
In other news, the public sector unit HLL Infra Tech Services Limited, under the Ministry of Family Welfare Health, began issuing offers on behalf of the Indian Council of Medical Research for the supply of test kits, in a major change from to the acquisition of test kits in India for COVID19.
The measure comes almost three weeks after the ICMR, on April 13, issued a tender requesting the central UPMs to act as the Procurement Agency for essential supplies related to the COVID19 test. The ICMR’s April 13 decision came after the agency underwent the scan for the delay in acquiring the test kits.
On Friday, the HITES Procurement and Consulting Services Division, on behalf of ICMR, invited an electronic tender for three types of medical equipment: RT-PCR kits, RNA extraction kits, and transportation of viral media. The tender was issued for a supply of 29.00,000 RT-PCR kits, 33.00,000 RNA extraction kits and 40.00,000 Transport of viral media.
The decision to connect a specialized power supply for the acquisition of test kits also comes in the context that the ICMR increases the testing capacity to 1 lakh of tests per day by the end of June.
A visitor looks inside his bag of donated food for people in need in New York. (AP Photo / John Minchillo)
The consequences of the new coronavirus are affecting developed economies. An unprecedented 20.5 million Americans lost their jobs in April and the unemployment rate in the US USA It rose to 14.7 percent, the highest level since the Great Depression, as the coronavirus pandemic severely restricted operations in the world’s largest economy.
The Department of Labor announced Friday that the unemployment rate in the US USA It rose to 14.7 percent from just 4.4 percent in March and a nearly 50-year low of 3.5 percent in February before the virus hit the US. USA
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