Indian Horizon National English Daily [email protected] www.indianhorizon.org RNI No: Deleng/2013/51507 In memory of Dr Asima Kemal and Prof. Dr. Salim W Kemal [email protected] Volume Price: 3.00 No: 7 Issue No: 109 Published from Hyderabad & New Delhi New Delhi Tuesday, April 21, 2020 Pages 12 + 4 pull out (P16) Industries will be held Downing Street hits back Bravo challenged Dhoni responsible for welfare at claims it was of workers during to sprint after being Lockdown: KTR ‘too slow’ to respond called ‘old man’ P-2 P-8 P-11 Briefs Data suggests 80% positive COVID-19 cases Palghar lynching: Maha suspends 2 cops, are asymptomatic or show mild symptoms gives probe to CID Mumbai, April 20 (IANS) NEW DELHI Apr 20: The health for testing and helped through Hours after Maharashtra ministry on Monday said 80% of early detection and isolation. Chief Minister Uddhav Covid-19 cases were either as- “RT-PCR test usually comes Thackeray briefed Union ymptomatic or with mild symp- positive when a person is symp- Home Minister Amit Shah toms, emphasising on the need to tomatic. A person takes time and Uttar Pradesh Chief follow lockdown rules and main- to be symptomatic and when Minister Yogi Adityanath tain social distancing even within asymptomatic people are test- on Monday, the state gov- the family to avoid further spread ed, chances of the test coming ernment suspended two Sadhus and their driver, of the infection. positive will remain low as com- policemen and directed proceeding from Nashik Responding to concerns that pared to when he is closer to the Crime Invesigation De- to Surat, were lynched by asymptomatic Covid-19 pa- infection. This is the limitation partment to probe the sen- a 200-strong mob outside tients were silent carriers, the of tests,” Dr Gangakhedkar said. sational mob lynching of the Gadchinchle village health ministry as well as the In- He added that Covid-19 was a two Sadhus (mendicants) on April 16 in a police ve- dian Council of Medical Research new disease and research on its and their driver last week. hicle amid rumours that Actress Shraddha Kapoor on Monday shared an adorable picture of herself from her childhood days, flaunting her “bunny” teeth. (ICMR) said while it was not pos- underline that not all non-serious of infection. Dr Gangakhedkar various aspects was still going In an address to the state they were robbers or kid- sible to test everyone, there were patients were asymptomatic. said, as of now, any change in on simultaneously with inter- this afternoon, Thackeray nappers. The mob also at- adequate provisions under the Pointing to a varied testing pro- India’s testing strategy did not ventions. Dr Gangakhedkar said said that so far five of the tacked the policemen and Killings of CRPF troopers current testing strategy to test sus- tocol that includes scrutinising seem warranted. In an earlier though such asymptomatic cas- masterminds and another damaged two police vans, pected asymptomatic people with low prevalence areas, govern- TV interview, Dr Gangakhedkar es were a cause of worry for the more than 100 persons, including one in which will be avenged: IGP contact or travel history, and even ment said that the possibility of had said, “We are equally wor- government, the challenge was including 9 minors have the Sadhus were shifted Gurugram, April 20 (IANS) A 37-year-old wom- those with mild flu-like symptoms a large number of undetected ried about asymptomatic per- to limit the spread of infection been arrested so far in the by the police. The victims an allegedly committed suicide after jumping off in high risk areas. The testing pro- asymptomatic persons who sons who are around and may through such people.Highlight- crime that took place dur- were identified next morn- the 13th floor of a high rise building in Gurugram’s tocol also covers patients with se- do not need medical attention be spreading the infection but ing the impact of lockdown, Dr ing the lockdown. ing as Chikne Maharaj Sector 37C on Sunday night. The deceased, Ritu vere acute respiratory illness. is slim. However, highlight- we must understand that sci- Gangakhedkar said India had “We also need to find Kalpavriksha Giri, 70, Su- Agrawal was employed with an IT company in “On the basis of worldwide ing the limitations of testing, ence has not progressed that done better than other coun- out the people who are shilgiri Maharaj, 30, from Gurugram and resided with her husband and two analysis, 80% of coronavirus pa- ICMR’s head of epidemiology far where you can detect such tries because it used its “stron- creating communal ten- the Shree Panch Dashnam children in Corona Optus residential society (Flat tients are asymptomatic or show and communicable diseases, asymptomatic cases cost effec- gest weapon very quickly” and sions on social media, I Juna-Akhada order, and number 1304). She jumped from the balcony of mild symptoms. Around 15% turn Dr R R Gangakhedkar, said the tively through simpler tests.” He as a result, many countries are requested Amit Shah. We their driver Nilesh Tel- the flat. Preet Pal Singh Sangwan, ACP of Guru- into severe cases and 5% turn into chances of RT-PCR tests com- added that one way of address- reporting deaths similar to the will also find them and wade, 30. “The incident gram Police said: “During preliminary investiga- critical cases,” health ministry ing positive were higher when ing it was to ensure that the number of positive cases in In- take action against them... took place around 110 kms tion, it was found that she had a heated argument joint secretary Lav Agarwal said. there were symptoms and the “index case” helped in tracing dia, which has the world’s sec- No one will be spared,” from Palghar town on the with her husband Ritesh Agrawal.” “The victim He added “mild symptoms” to person was closer to the point his/her contacts or came out ond largest population. the CM warned. The two night of April 16. has not left any suicide note. Her daughter was at home at the time of jump and she is an eyewitness. Further investigation is on,” Sangwan said. India warns its citizens MANNER OF SENDING IMCTS BREACH Parliament Secretariat living in Gulf countries resumes functioning against communal views with 33% staff OF ESTABLISHED PROTOCOL: MAMATA New Delhi, April 20 grounds. Discrimination Kolkata, April 20 (IANS) the same was done without limpong reported the last in- (IANS) India on Monday is against our moral fabric West Bengal Chief Minister prior intimation and hence is fection on April 2. Similarly, New Delhi, April 20 (IANS) The Parliament warned its citizens living in and the Rule of law. Indian Mamata Banerjee on Monday a breach of established pro- the last incident of infection Secretariat on Monday resumed its work with the UAE against discrimina- nationals in the UAE should shot off a letter to Prime Min- tocol, “ she said. The Home in Jalpiaguri was reported on 33 per cent staff, adhering to the Centre’s lock- tion after the Arab countries always remember this.” ister Narendra Modi, alleg- Ministry in a communica- April 4 and in Darjeeling on down guidelines specifically focusing on social accused Indians of blaming He based his comment ing that the Inter Ministerial tion claimed that violation April 16,” she said in the letter. distancing and use of masks. The staff of the Muslims for the spread of on Prime Minister Narendra Central Teams (IMCTs) were of lockdown measures were Banerjee said the selection of secretariat of both Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha coronavirus pandemic. Modi’s earlier tweet, “Co- sent to the state without prior reported from some districts the districts and the obser- returned to work on the 27th day of lockdown Since the Islamic mis- vid-19 does not see race, re- intimation, causing ‘breach of in the country, posing a seri- vations made “unilaterally” imposed nationwide to break the chain of sionary Tablighi Jamaat ligion, colour, caste, creed, established protocol’, besides ous health hazard and risk for are “nothing but a figment transmission of the coronavirus pandemic. The emerged as the super- language or borders before dubbing the Union govern- spread of Covid-19. of imagination and unfortu- Parliament Secretariat was closed on March 24 spreader of coronavirus striking. Our response and ment’s selection of districts It said, “The situation is nate”. Banerjee said her state -- the day Prime Minister Narendra Modi an- cases in the country, many conduct thereafter should with ‘serious’ Covid-19 situa- landed at the Kolkata airport especially serious in Kolkata, was pro-active in announc- nounced nationwide lockdown -- in the wake users on social media have attach primacy to unity and tion as ‘unilateral’ and a ‘fig- much before the conversa- Howrah, Medinipur East, ing lockdown even before the of COVID-19. The functioning of the Parlia- been posting communally brotherhood. We are in this ment of imagination’. tion, at about 10.10 a.m. North 24 Parganas, Darjeel- Central government declared ment Secretariat was closed till March 31 as provocative content, trig- together.” The warning to Banerjee’s missive came She said the Union Home ing, Kalimpong and Jalpai- it. Even before the extension per the orders issued by its administrative gering outrage among Mus- Indian nationals in the Gulf after two IMCT delegations Ministry order dated April 19 guri districts in the state of to the lockdown on April 14, branch. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla arrived at lims in the Gulf countries. came after Independent landed in Kolkata and North addressed to the state Chief West Bengal.” Refuting the the state had extended it up the Parliament House upon resumption of the Taking note of the grow- Permanent Human Rights Bengal’s Jalpaiguri during the Secretary reached only 30 Centre’s allegation, Baner- to April 30, she said.