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President Trump, First Lady Melania Test Positive www.theindianpanorama.news # 1 Indian American Weekly: Since 2006 VOL 14 ISSUE 40 ● NEW YORK / DALLAS ● OCT 02 - 08, 2020 ● ENQUIRIES: 646-247-9458 America President Trump, First Lady Melania UNITED against test positive for Coronavirus; World COVID-19 leaders wish them quick recovery KEEP SAFE ● Follow CDC guidelines ● Observe Social Distancing The development is likely to bring to standstill President's hectic campaign ● Wash Hands Frequently for November 3 presidential election KEEP AMERICA SAFE WASHINGTON (TIP): US President Donald Trump said on Friday, October 2, that he and first lady Melania Trump US ELECTION 2020 have tested positive for the coronavirus, a We have created for the readers of development that is likely to affect his The Indian Panorama, a new column-US hectic election campaign just weeks Election 2020 -where experts will analyze before the presidential polls. election scenario, week after weeks, until "Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our the election results are out. quarantine and recovery process Articles and comments are welcome, immediately. We will get through this and may please be emailed to TOGETHER!" 74-year-old Trump tweeted. [email protected] Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was among the first to respond Friday, QUICK TAKES writing on Twitter: "Wishing my friend ● US Presidential elections: You ain’t @POTUS @realDonaldTrump and seen nothing yet P-8 @FLOTUS a quick recovery." German ● Implications of Donald Trump testing Chancellor Angela Merkel, Israeli Prime positive for COVID-19 P-10 contd on Page 2 President Trump and First Lady Melania have been travelling a lot in the election campaign. ● No End to Caste-driven Rape Culture in India P-11 A grateful Nation Remembers Father of the Massive protest in Delhi against Nation on his 151st birth anniversary, Oct 2 Hathras Gangrape of a Dalit Girl Reliance develops Prime Minister Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal demands Narendra Modi pays RT-PCR kit that can give homage to Mahatma strictest punishment for accused Gandhi on the occasion of his 151st Members of various Covid-19 results in 2 hours birth anniversary at organizations during a Rajghat in New Delhi protest against the on Friday, October 2. death of a 19-year-old Reliance Dalit woman who was develops Photo / Courtesy allegedly gang-raped in RT-PCR kit Tribune - Mukesh Hathras, at Jantar that can give Aggarwal Mantar in New Delhi on Covid-19 October 2, 2020. results in 2 Photo / Courtesy PTI hours NEW DELHI (TIP): Gandhi Jayantiwascelebrated across NEW DELHI (TIP): A massive protest erupted in Delhi on NEW DELHI (TIP): Reliance Life India on October 2 to mark the birth anniversary of Mahatma Friday, October 2 evening as hundreds of civil society Sciences has developed an RT-PCR kit Gandhi's 151st birth anniversary. The occasion was marked by activists, students, women and political leaders gathered at that promises diagnosis of Covid-19 people honoring Mahatma Gandhi's contributions towards Jantar Mantar against the alleged gangrape of a young woman infection in about 2 hours, company India's freedom struggle, while also remembering his ideals in Hathras district and the UP Government's response to it. sources said. At present, Covid-19 RT- and philosophy. Wearing masks and raising slogans against the UP PCR test, which is a real-time reverse Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid homage to Mahatma administration, they demanded justice for the 19-year-old transcription-polymerase chain Gandhi on the occasion at Rajghat in New Delhi on Friday, victim and asked Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to resign. reaction (rRT-PCR) test for the October 2. Paying tributes to the Mahatma and late PM Lal The protest was to be held at India Gate initially but had to qualitative detection of nucleic acid Bahadur Shastri on their birth anniversary, be shifted to Jantar Mantar owing to the prohibitory orders in contd on page 2 contd on page 32 place in the Rajpath area. contd on page 32 THE INDIAN PANORAMA TURN PAGE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2020 02 contd from page 1 the 77-year-old former vice president. Biden, who shared the debate stage with Trump, is expected to get tested for coronavirus, CNN reported, citing a source familiar PRESIDENT/PUBLISHER: President Trump, First Lady... with his plans. Prof. Indrajit S. Saluja Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and British Prime Minister The channel quoted former chief of staff at the Department of VICE PRESIDENT: Boris Johnson also offered support. Homeland Security Miles Taylor as saying that President Trump Chitagam Saluja "Like millions of Israelis, Sara and I are thinking of President having coronavirus sparks national security concerns. Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump and wish our CHIEF EDITOR: "We have to consider the possibility that this may affect, again, friends a full and speedy recovery," Netanyahu, a close Trump his ability to carry out the duties of his office. That's a big Prof Indrajit S. Saluja ally, tweeted. concern. It's something that this White House wasn't preparing CONSULTING EDITOR : "My best wishes to President Trump and the First Lady. Hope for, in my view," Taylor said. Deepak Dwidedi, Chairman, they both have a speedy recovery from coronavirus," said Trump and Melania were tested for COVID19 hours after one Bhaskar Group, Delhi Johnson, who was diagnosed with the infection in late March of their close aides, Hope Hicks, tested positive for the ASSISTANT EDITOR: and spent a week in a London hospital, where he received oxygen coronavirus. Bidisha Roy therapy. "Hope Hicks, who has been working so hard without even SPL. REPORTER UNO: Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a tribute to Trump, taking a small break, has just tested positive for COVID-19. H.S. Panaser reportedly writing in a telegram: "I am confident that your vital Terrible!" Trump said in an earlier tweet. GRAPHICS DIRECTOR: energy, high spirits, and optimism will help you cope with the Hicks, 31, is the closest aid of the president to have tested dangerous virus." The Kremlin said this week that Putin plans to positive with coronavirus. She had travelled with the president Om Parkash Malik be vaccinated soon against the coronavirus with an on Air Force One early this week. DIRECTOR experimental Russian vaccine. Trump, in an interview to Fox News on Thursday, October 1 ADMINISTRATION: In a statement, Trump's physician Dr. Sean Conley said the night, said he and the first lady spend a lot of time with her. Gauri Beri president and the first lady "are both well at this time", and they "She wears masks a lot. But she tested positive," Trump said. CONTRIBUTING plan to remain at home within the White House during their And, late on October 2, a former senior advisor to Trump, PHOTOGRAPHERS: convalescence. Kellyanne Conway said she tested positive. Baldev Singh / BJ Videos "Rest assured I expect the President to continue carrying out In a statement, Deputy White House Press Secretary Judd Gunjesh Desai / Masala Junction his duties without disruption while recovering," Conley added. Deere said that the President takes the health and safety of Jay Mandal, Trump's physician said he received confirmation of the himself and everyone who works in support of him and the Mohammad Jaffer, positive tests on Thursday evening. American people very seriously. SnapsIndia "The White House medical team and I will maintain a vigilant Several White House staffers have tested positive with COVID- Mohammad Shahzad, watch, and I appreciate the support provided by some of our 19 in recent months, including the National Security Advisor Zia Khan, country's greatest medical professionals and institutions," Robert O'Brien and Katie Miller, Vice President Mike Pence's Nisha Rani Conley said. press secretary.(With inputs from agencies) Vaaho Photographers, Trump's all engagements outside of the White House were Vijay Shah - Photo Journalist. cancelled. He was last seen in public on Thursday afternoon CORRESPONDENTS : returning to the White House after a fundraising trip to New Reliance develops RT-PCR kit that... SACRAMENTO: Jersey. from SARS-CoV-2, takes up to 24 hours to give a diagnosis. Parminder S. Aujla "As too many Americans have done this year, @potus & I are The sources said computational biologists at Reliance Life NEW YORK : quarantining at home after testing positive for COVID-19. We are Sciences, a subsidiary of billionaire Mukesh Ambani-run Chitagam feeling good & I have postponed all upcoming engagements. Reliance Industries Ltd, analyzed more than 100 genomes of Please be sure you are staying safe & we will all get through this SARS-CoV-2 sequenced in India and designed unique RT-PCR FRESNO: together," Melania, who is 50, tweeted. primers for developing quantitative-Real Time PCR (RT-PCR) Tarlochan Singh Trump's "diagnosis amounts to the most serious known health kit for Covid-19 detection. DALLAS: threat to a sitting American president in decades," the CNN said. RT-PCR kit is so far considered as Gold standard. Harjit Dhesi, Amarjit Dhillon "At 74 years old, Trump falls into the highest risk category for The kit, developed by scientists at Reliance Life Sciences, is OVERSEAS CORRESPONDENTS serious complications from the disease." named R-Green Kit (SARS COV2-real-time PCR) and has been LONDON "His infection with the disease could prove destabilizing in an technically validated by ICMR for satisfactory performance, Nirpal Singh Shergill already fraught political climate, and stock market futures the sources said. tumbled on news of Trump's infection," it said. ICMR's validation process does not approve/disapprove the SPL CORRESPONDENT Vice-President Mike Pence said millions across America were kit design as well as it does not certify user-friendliness. DELHI BUREAU CHIEF: praying for the full and swift recovery of the president and his The sources said the kit can detect the presence of E-gene, R- Ashishpal Singh wife.
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