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Coronavirus outbreak LAST updates: The National Human Rights Commission issued notices on Friday to the Maharashtra chief secretary and the Aurangabad district magistrate to more than 16 migrant workers who were hit by a freight train. The incident occurred between Badnapur and Karmad stations in the Nanded Division.
The NHRC has learned of media reports of the dismantling of 16 migrant workers by the freight train in the early hours of Friday, it said in a statement.
Officers have been instructed to file a detailed report within four weeks. “It should also include details of the steps taken by state and district authorities to provide food, shelter and other basic services to poor people, especially migrant workers, who face extreme hardship from all angles during the closure caused by the coronavirus, “it said.
The national COVID-19 case count reached 56,342 on Friday with more people testing positive for deadly virus infection in Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan, among other states.
India recorded an increase of 103 deaths and 3,390 infections in the past 24 hours, while the number of people who recovered from the infection exceeded the 16,000 mark and the number approached 1,900.
Meanwhile, the situation in Mumbai and Pune in Maharashtra remained worrying, as both cities reported 748 and 111 cases, respectively. The massive increase in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region was reported along with the news that the head of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation was replaced by the Maharashtra government on Friday.
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BMC Commissioner Pravin Pardeshi will exchange offices with Iqbal S Chahal, currently additional chief secretary (urban development).
Delhi, Chennai and Ahmedabad emerged as other major points in the country, with the National Capital reporting 338 new cases, while the other two cities registered 399 and 269 cases, respectively.
Peak in cases continues despite prolonged blockage
A large number of new cases were reported during the day in various cities in Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, while Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Odisha also reported an increase in their accounts.
The number of active cases of COVID-19 was 37,916. While 16,539 people have recovered, one patient has migrated, he said. “Therefore, about 29.35 percent of patients have recovered so far,” said a senior health ministry official.
The total number of cases includes 111 foreign citizens.
The total of 103 deaths reported since Thursday morning include 43 in Maharashtra; 29 in Gujarat; eight in Madhya Pradesh; seven in West Bengal; five in Rajasthan; two each in Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh; and one in Bihar, Delhi, Karnataka, Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir.
Of the 1,886 deaths, Maharashtra tops the count with 694 patients dying from COVID-19, Gujarat ranks second with 425 deaths, followed by Madhya Pradesh in 193, West Bengal at 151, Rajasthan at 97, Delhi at 66, Uttar Pradesh at 62 and Andhra Pradesh at 38.
The death toll reached 37 in Tamil Nadu, 30 in Karnataka, while Telangana has reported 29 deaths. Punjab has recorded 28 deaths from COVID-19, Jammu and Kashmir nine, Haryana seven, Bihar five and Kerala four.
Jharkhand has recorded three deaths from COVID-19. Odisha and Himachal Pradesh have reported two deaths each.
Meghalaya, Chandigarh, Assam and Uttarakhand have each reported one death, according to ministry data.
According to data from the Ministry of Health updated in the morning, the largest number of confirmed cases in the country is Maharashtra with 17,974 followed by Gujarat with 7,012, Delhi with 5,980, Tamil Nadu with 5,409, Rajasthan with 3,427, Madhya Pradesh with 3,252 and Uttar Pradesh at 3,071.
The number of COVID-19 cases has increased to 1,847 in Andhra Pradesh and 1,644 in Punjab.
The count has increased to 1,548 in West Bengal, 1,123 in Telangana, 793 in Jammu and Kashmir, 705 in Karnataka, 625 in Haryana and 550 in Bihar.
Kerala has so far reported 503 cases of coronavirus, while Odisha has 219. A total of 135 people have been infected with the virus in Chandigarh and 132 in Jharkhand.
Tripura has reported 65 cases, Uttarakhand is 61, Chhattisgarh is 59, Assam is 54, Himachal Pradesh is 46, and Ladakh is 42.
33 cases of COVID-19 have been reported from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Meghalaya has recorded 12 cases, Puducherry has nine, while Goa has seven. Manipur has two cases. Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh and Dadar and Nagar Haveli have each reported one case.
“Our figures are reconciled with the ICMR (Indian Council for Medical Research),” the ministry said on its website.
Distribution at the state level is subject to further verification and reconciliation, he said.
MHA says ‘learn to live with viruses’
During a press conference on the situation of COVID-19, the joint secretary of the Ministry of Health, Lav Agarwal, said: “As we speak of relaxations in the confinement and of migrant workers returning to their respective homes, we have before us a great challenge. You also have to learn to live with the virus. “
“And when we talk about learning to live with the virus, it is very important that the guidelines that exist to save from the virus are adopted in the community as a behavior change,” he added.
It is a big challenge and the government needs the support of the community for it, added Agarwal.
The ministry also had several data sets, including those showing an increasing number of infection-free districts and an increasing recovery rate, to suggest the success of the government’s strategy in the COVID-19 fight, even when seeking “a behavior change “and everyone’s support in this massive challenge.
However, Maharashtra Prime Minister Uddhav Thackeray admitted that he has not yet succeeded in breaking the chain of viruses, saying that his government can seek the deployment of central forces, if necessary, to allow personnel from the Police rest in stages. The state leads the national count of confirmed cases and deaths.
Ugly side of the immigration crisis
Sixteen migrant workers who slept on the train tracks while returning to Madhya Pradesh were crushed by a freight train in the Aurangabad district of Maharashtra. The migrant workers, unemployed due to the forced closure by the coronavirus and desperate to go to their places of origin, were walking on the train tracks apparently to escape the attention of the police.
Those killed and the four other migrant workers who survived were all men, authorities said. A viral video clip of the tragedy scene shows the bodies of migrant workers lying on the tracks and nearby with their scant personal belongings scattered.
Aurangabad SP Mokshada Patil said PTI that three of the four survivors had tried in vain to wake up their colleagues who had slept on the runway after a night walk from Jalna, some 40 kilometers from the crash site. The workers were walking to Bhusawal from Jalna along the train tracks as they returned to their home state of Madhya Pradesh, an official at the Karmad police station said.
The governments of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh announced financial aid of Rs 10 lakh to Rs 5 lakh each for the families of the deceased.
Separately in Karnataka, hundreds of migrant workers gathered at the Mangaluru station in protest. They told local police that they were trapped in the city without work, money and adequate food and that they were even willing to walk to their home states if the special trains were not operated immediately.
Meanwhile, a statement was filed Friday with the Supreme Court seeking an address to the Center to ask all district magistrates in the country to identify stranded migrant workers and provide them with shelter and food before guaranteeing their free transportation to native places in view of The Aurangabad Tragedy.
The economic costs of confinement cause concern
With the pandemic and blockade underway severely hitting the economy, Punjab Prime Minister Amarinder Singh urged the Prime Minister to explain the way forward for the country’s economic renaissance and an exit strategy for the third phase of the blockade .
A national blockade has been implemented since March 25, which was first imposed for 21 days, but was extended first for another 14 days until May 3 and then for another 14 days in the third phase, with considerable relaxation, until May 17.
The economic cost of the COVID-19 fight and the ongoing national blockade also appeared to be on the rise, as Moody’s Investors Service projects India’s economic growth at zero percent for the current prosecutor. He also said that high public debt, weak social and physical infrastructure and a fragile financial sector are facing new pressures due to the coronavirus outbreak.
According to experts, industrial establishments and other businesses may also face a severe labor shortage once they resume operations after the close, which has been in effect since March 25 and is scheduled to continue until May 17. Lakhs of migrant workers have either gone to their places of origin or are in the process of doing so, including on trains and buses organized by state governments.
There are also concerns that the spread of the virus may further grow in newer areas after these movements, while large numbers of Indians stranded abroad have also begun to return home on special flights.
Since its outbreak in China last December, it was discovered that more than 38.6 lakh people are infected with this virus, while more than 2.7 lakh people have been killed. So far, nearly 13 lakh people have recovered, including around 2 lakh in the United States.
Separately, a panel of experts, formed to suggest ways to revive the Maharashtra economy, hit by the COVID-19 crisis and the resulting shutdown, presented its report to the government later in the day.
Several states have been taking steps to shore up their resources, including by imposing higher taxes on fuel and liquor.
After Delhi, Andhra Pradesh and several others, the Himachal Pradesh government has decided to impose a ‘coronation’ on liquor sales, while Puducherry Prime Minister V Narayanasamy also said that the territorial administration was reflecting on the imposition. of the special tax COVID-19 on liquor. out of the current fiscal crisis.
However, the Madras High Court ordered the liquor stores in Tamil Nadu to be closed a day after it reopened, but allowed liquor to be sold over the Internet and delivered to the door until the end of the closure.
The Supreme Court also asked states to consider non-direct contact or online sales and home delivery of liquor during the closing period to prevent the spread of the coronavirus due to overcrowding in stores.
The opening of liquor stores was allowed in the third phase of the closure, which began on May 4, subject to compliance with social distancing and other guidelines issued by the government.
With PTI tickets
Update date: 09 May 2020 08:22:33 IST
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