The Center also updated the Co-WIN platform and communicated to the states that, unlike before, when the second dose of the vaccine would be scheduled for Day 29, beneficiaries will have the discretion to choose the date of the second dose within the extended interval of 4-8 weeks.
New cause for concern: 81% of samples from Punjab are positive for the UK variant
81% of the 401 samples sent by the Punjab government for genome sequencing tested positive for the British variant of Covid-19, Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said on Tuesday. The samples were sent for analysis at the National Center for Disease Control.
“A total of 401 samples, collected between 1.1.2021 and 03.10.2021, were submitted to the NCDC for genome sequencing. The result of these samples was concerning as it showed the presence of the B.1.1.7 variant in 326 Covid samples, ”said a government statement citing the head of the state’s Covid expert committee, Dr. KK Talwar .
Amarinder expressed concern and urged the Center to expand the vaccination network to cover those under the age of 60, as the mutant strain has been found to infect young people more.
Record increase in Gujarat with 1,730 Covid cases, 9 positive MLAs since the start of the House session
GUJARAT REPORTED a record 1,730 new Covid-19 cases on Tuesday, topping Monday’s peak of 1,640 cases. At least nine MLAs have also tested positive for the infection since the Gujarat Legislative Assembly’s budget session began on March 1.
Congressional lawmakers Naushad Solanki and Punja Vansh, and BJP MLAs Vijay Patel and Mohan Dodiya, who were among those in attendance at the current budget session, tested positive for the infection on Tuesday, President Rajendra Trivedi reported to the House. . In Vadodara, MP Ranjan Bhatt and Dabhoi Shailesh Mehta’s BJP MLA tested positive last week.
On Tuesday, the president of the Assembly prohibited the entry of visitors as a precautionary measure. “Several members of the ministers’ staff have been infected. My first request is to ministers not to call any visitor inside the Assembly building until the House is in session. The minister can organize such meetings in his offices, ”Trivedi said. The current session is expected to conclude on April 1.
One year from shutdown 1.0: Labor force participation is already declining, Covid-19 job loss hits women hardest
For 28 years, Munni Devi walked from her home to the Welspun Polybuttons Pvt Ltd factory on Gurugram’s Behrampur Street, where she led the button assembly process in the workshop. Today, the 54-year-old makes the same walk through her factory but to a different destination: a protest site in the Gurugram mini-Secretariat.
She is among 200 employees laid off after the factory closed three months after the one-year shutdown tomorrow. Out of work since July, Munni’s family struggles to pay rent, cuts to buy medicine for their physically disabled grandson. Of the three household members of five adults who have since lost their jobs, two are women.
Away from her, at the Euro Clothing Company factory in Srirangapatna, Karnataka, Shobha S, a mother of two and a breadwinner, was among the nearly 1,300 workers laid off in June. Almost all the laid off workers at this Gokaldas Exports unit, which counted H&M among its suppliers, were women like Shobha.
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