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" ) ""* The penetration of coron- 0 0$% avirus in rural India is also linked to greater causality due 1+)*+5)+-.. to non-existent health infrastructure. /01+..+5..3 %" "+, The fallout of the peak that 1+2,+14./0*+)1)3 the country witnessed in the 41561+"0 last two weeks will be reflect- besides poor medical facilities 1+65+45+).2 ed in the number of deaths. and hesitancy to recognise the ealth experts have pointed Currently, record deaths are disease, said the experts. /0,+25+*,63 Hout that though Covid-19 occurring each passing day Dr Jugal Kishore, the head ,1+16+2,2 cases are on the declining with over 4,300 on Tuesday. of community medicine at trend, mortality due to lethal To make the matter worse, Safdarjung Hospital, said, “It’s 7)*+,,+)-./012+*,23 virus amid second wave is Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Sikkim, only in the past seven days that likely to be on the higher side, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur the cases have started declining P 11+41+,4*/0,-+,-53 at least in the near future. The and Mizoram are showing the from over 4 lakh to 3 lakh.” assessment is based on the rise in cases and the positivity. However, one has to keep a 11+--+4-4/0,6+,,43 fact that on an average there is So are the rural areas which are watch on those infected as the a two-week lag in deaths from besieged with their own set of virus has an incubation period 6.+,4+..,/02+.4,3 the infection time. problems like delayed testing of 4 to 14 days. On Tuesday, the daily and inadequate treatment Continued on Page 2 6*+-1+24,/0*+*213 41561+"0 for cremation of a body. 41561+"0 wood is required to cremate a Hari Shankar Gupta, a res- body and 50 to 60 million trees he rise in Covid-19 deaths ident of Vaishali, Ghaziabad, he demand for wood for are burned for cremation every Thas led to runaway black- had to pay 4,000 for a piece of Tcremation has increased year in India. Another study by marketing in items like ghee, kafan at Ghazipur crematorium manifold due to a surge in the IIT Kanpur says that only 216 pitambarai, and kafan, needed for his 32-year-old son who 41561+"0 years. In the trial, the vaccine ! " number of deaths across India. kg of wood is needed. to perform the last rites. succumbed to Covid last week. will be given by intramuscular # $ %&'() Each funeral pyre requires The price of wood has The prolonged lockdown Sidharth Tripathi was yderabad-based Bharat route in two doses at day 0 and +, ! about 4-5 quintals of wood. increased five to six times at and closure of shops dealing shocked when he was demand- HBiotech will start its day 28. The trial will be con- , . $" The price of pyre wood has Garhmukteshwar Ghat at the with non-essential items, ed 2,000 for a one kg ghee Covid-19 vaccine Covaxin’s ducted on 525 healthy volun- soared from 400-500 for Ganga in Uttar Pradesh, due to majority of smaller and bigger packet to be used for cremation Phase II and III clinical trials teers. $+ about 100 kg to 2,000-2,500 in the increased number of deaths cities, including the national of his Covid victim father at on 2 to 18 years age group with- Covaxin, which has been ) some States. these days. Capital, has seen a massive rise Baikunth Dham crematorium in the next 10-12 days. indigenously developed by At an average, one needs to Continued on Page 2 in the prices of commodities in Lucknow early May. India’s drug regulator, the Bharat Biotech in collaboration $ pay 10,000-12,000 for wood For a piece of simple kafan, Drugs Controller General of with the Indian Council of for cremation during the the very mention of evoked India (DCGI), has already Medical Research (ICMR), is Covid-19 pandemic. grief and dread, the family given Bharat Biotech the per- being used on adults in India’s Crematorium operators say members of a Covid-19 victim mission to conduct the clinical approved by the Drugs ongoing Covid-19 vaccination !"" # that contractors are charging have to pay through their nose. trials on children in the age Controller General of India drive. ) more for wood, and contractors Soon there could be a serious group. It will be the first such (DCGI), for Phase II and III The Centre said it has so ,/ say that suppliers or distribu- shortage of kafan. coronavirus vaccine to be test- clinical trials in the age group far provided, both free of cost )/ tors have increased the prices “We have nearly exhausted ed on minors in the country. of 2 to 18 years. I have been told & via direct State procure- ) $ due to shortage of labourers for the raw material (kapda thaan). The development comes that trials will begin in the next ment, more than 20.78 cr vac- chopping the wood during the If the situation does not come against the backdrop of the fear 10-12 days,” Dr VK Paul, cine doses (20,78,04,890) to P % lockdown and curbs. under control, we may presume that in the third wave of Covid- Member-Health, Niti Aayog States/UTs. Of this, total con- The shortage of wood is a crisis for kafan,” said Badre 19, which is expected in the said at a press conference on sumption, including wastages !!& ' 0 fuelling black market and price Alam, owner of a small pow- next few months, it will be chil- Tuesday here. is 18,83,47,432 doses (as per 0 12, increases. erloom unit and stockist in dren who will be the most Bharat Biotech had pro- data available at 8 am on 00 According to a United Chapra Village of Mau. affected due to the infection. posed to carry out the clinical Tuesday, it stated. Nations’ survey, 400-500 kg of Continued on Page 2 “Covaxin has been trial in the age group of 2 to 18 Continued on Page 2 0 $ -' % ,! Q ! " "#$ " " . R ! " # "% #%& '! 41561+"0 “toolkit” purportedly asks the Hindu politics of the +# administrative experience is K Government. The exclusion of Congress workers to use phras- BJP that is causing so ( 41561+"0 Radhakrishnan, who was the Shylaja from the Council of he BJP on Tuesday released es such as “Indian strain” and much distress”. Minister for Social Welfare in the Ministers has caused wide Ta “toolkit” which, it alleged, “Modi strain” on social media The toolkit cautions against he Delhi Government on EK Nayanar-led Government resentment and the social media was prepared by the Congress and “keep using the term super commenting anything on Eid TTuesday announced finan- # , - (1996-2001) and Speaker during has been flooded with messages to tarnish the image of Prime spreader Kumbh to keep greetings. cial assistance to families affect- ! ) . the VS Achuthanandan lambasting the CPI(M). Women Minister Narendra Modi over reminding the people that it is Continued on Page 2 ed by Covid-19 in the nation- Government (2006-2011). activists like Mala Parvathi were his Government’s handling of al Capital. 2"0 Vijayan shocked the party quick to take the social media the Covid-19 crisis. Q R The Delhi Government cadre and followers by drop- to express their anguish. Releasing the “toolkit”, BJP will provide 50,000 ex-gratia, with the ex-gratia amount,” he he CPI(M) which swept the ping KK Shylaja, the Health In yet another develop- spokesperson Sambit Patra said free food grains, monthly pen- said. “Every child who has lost Trecent Assembly election, Minister in the outgoing ment which too is described as in a tweet, “Friends look at the sion and education to children both parents to Covid-19 will sprang a surprise on Tuesday Government, whose services unheard in CPI(M) parlance, #CongressToolKit in extending of families who have lost a be given 2,500 per month till by nominating ten party MLAs and leadership in controlling Mohammed Riyaz, a first time help to the needy during the 41561+"0 AICC Research Department”. breadwinner to Covid-19. the age of 25, and will be pro- with no administrative experi- the Covid-19 pandemic were MLA from Beypore in Pandemic! More of a PR exer- The party wrote to the In his virtual briefing, vided with free education.” ence as its Ministers. The new acclaimed by national and Kozhikode, has been included cise with the help of ‘Friendly he Congress on Tuesday Delhi Police Commissioner Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said his Ministry would be sworn in on international agencies. as a Minister. Riyaz is the son- Journalists’ & ‘Influencers’ than Tlodged an FIR for “forgery” seeking to file a complaint Kejriwal said that 50,000 ex- Government, along with the Thursday at 3.30 pm. It was widely believed that in-law of the Chief Minister. a soulful endeavour. Read for against BJP president JP Nadda, against Nadda and other BJP gratia will be given to the fam- Central Government’s assis- The CPI(M) has 12 nomi- Shylaja who won the election He had married Vijayan’s yourselves the agenda of the Union Minister Smriti Irani leaders.