follow us: monday, june 15, 2020 Delhi City Edition thehindu.com 16 pages ț ₹10.00 facebook.com/thehindu twitter.com/the_hindu Mamata flays draft 4,827 seafarers will Gujarat experiences Bollywood actor Electricity Bill, seeks return in largest crew 5.5 magnitude quake, Sushant Singh Rajput Opposition support sign­off exercise no damage reported found dead in Mumbai page 9 page 9 page 10 page 14 Printed at . Chennai . Coimbatore . Bengaluru . Hyderabad . Madurai . Noida . Visakhapatnam . Thiruvananthapuram . Kochi . Vijayawada . Mangaluru . Tiruchirapalli . Kolkata . Hubballi . Mohali . Malappuram . Mumbai . Tirupati . lucknow . cuttack . patna NEARBY In the pandemic, the disabled remain an invisible minority “Where should I go now? his legs in an accident two results from a study of 1,067 According to professional Study says 75% of Should I buy food or medi­ years ago. He needs Ms. Naz­ people with disabilities psychologists, individuals such people were cines?” nin’s assistance for most of (about 73% male, 27% fe­ with disability and their fa­ hit by lockdown Ms. Asha Devi works in a his tasks. She sighs in an­ male) — over 73% of those milies are at a greater risk of steel line. Post the lock­ guish and says, “How can I surveyed faced serious diffi­ poor health and quality of Suchitra down, the families have got stand in long lines for ration culties due to the lockdown. life outcomes because either Capital reports highest absolutely no support from when there is nobody to take their social status is affected spike in COVID-19 cases In Delhi's Wazirpur, two fa­ the government or from Locked out by their disabilities or their NEW DELHI milies are struggling each their employer. She has not SPECIAL For many like Mr. Pulinder disabilities are made worse Delhi recorded 2,224 new day to make it. Pulinder, 49, received wages from the and Mr. Sajjaad, living with by the inaccessibility that COVID­19 cases on Sunday in the highest single­day spike so is paralysed due to an epi­ steel line she works at, and care of him back home? I disabilities has been more of comes with social status. far. This is the third successive leptic seizure. For the past Mr. Pulinder has not been have three small children to a task post­lockdown be­ Lower income levels have day when over 2,000 cases two years, his wife, Asha De­ able to access proper medi­ support as well. Who should cause of governmental negli­ been consistently correlated have been reported in the vi, has been supporting the cation for his condition. I ask for help?” gence, combined with inac­ with poor health and infe­ last 24 hours. Also, 56 deaths family. They have a son, who Another woman who is a According to a report by cessibility to healthcare and rior quality of life. have been reported, taking has an undiagnosed ailment product of deprivation on the National Centre for the rewarding employment. A (The writer is an indepen- the toll to 1,327. that leaves him weak now account of both disability Promotion of Employment large class divide has be­ dent journalist based in Delhi) CITY Ī PAGE 3 and then. Ms. Asha Devi and class is Naznin. Her hus­ for Disabled Persons come increasingly visible in Pushed to penury: Delhi couple Sajjaad and Naznin are DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD wipes a tear and says, band, Sajjaad, lost the use of (NCPEDP) — which includes the lockdown. CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 8 having a hard time finding a livelihood. * SUCHITRA EDUCATION PLUS Ī PAGE 11 India’s rise in cases third fastest globally Testing to be ramped up in Country has been adding 11,000­plus cases and over 300 deaths daily; new highs in Maharashtra, Delhi the Capital, says Amit Shah Special Correspondent Chennai Panic as new Home Minister chairs meeting with CM Kejriwal, L­G With 11,220 new COVID­19 cases and 325 deaths regis­ cases climb Special Correspondent tion in containment zones,” tered on Sunday, the total New Delhi Mr. Shah tweeted. number of infections and the in Beijing Amid an exponential rise in He said to provide infor­ death toll in India reached the number of COVID­19 cas­ mation and guidelines to 3,32,777 and 9,521 respec­ After two months with es in Delhi, Union Home Mi­ small hospitals in Delhi, the tively. This data was based almost no new COVID­19 nister Amit Shah said on Sun­ Modi government had decid­ on reports from State Health infections, Beijing has now day that testing would be ed to constitute a committee Departments and collated by recorded a total of 51 cases, ramped up in the next two of senior doctors for tele­ The Hindu. all linked to a wholesale days and polling booths phonic guidance in the AI­ The recovery rate was food market, raising fears would be used to test pa­ IMS and a helpline number nearly 51%. According to the of a resurgence of the tients in containment zones. would be released on Indian Council of Medical disease. The Beijing wave A house­to­house survey in Monday. Research (ICMR), the total has already spread to the containment zones was also “A committee has been number of samples tested on neighbouring province of planned. Union Home Minister Amit formed under chairmanship Sunday was 1,51,432, up from Liaoning, where two new As on Saturday, there are Shah with Health Minister of Dr. V.K. Paul (of Niti Aayog) 1,43,737 on Saturday. Maha­ cases were reported. At 241 containment zones in Harsh Vardhan in Delhi on to provide 60% of dedicated rashtra led the tally with least 10 Chinese cities have Delhi, and more than 1,000 Sunday. * PTI COVID­19 beds in private hos­ 3,390 new cases and 120 urged residents not to deaths due to the infection pitals at a low rate, the com­ deaths. Delhi registered travel to the capital. Ī page 12 have been reported so far. tweets about the outcome. mittee will submit its report 2,224 cases and 56 deaths. DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Mr. Shah met Delhi Chief tomorrow on private hospi­ India now ranks third, be­ Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Telephonic guidance tals... Centre has assured the hind Brazil and the U.S. in the U.S. and Mexico. It again Johns Hopkins University's country has conducted few­ rates for the U.S., Russia and Lieutenant­Governor (L­G) “To contain COVID­19 in Del­ Delhi government of all ne­ the daily increase in CO­ ranks fourth in terms of total COVID­19 tracker. er tests per million (3,000) the U.K. are 70,000, 99,870 Anil Baijal, and Union Health hi, testing to increase two­ cessary resources such as ox­ VID­19 cases (7­day rolling av­ number of cases behind the than others with the most in­ and 55,860 respectively. Bra­ Minister Harshvardhan on fold in the next two days and ygen cylinders, ventilators, erage) across the world. U.S. (with nearly 2.1 million), Fewer tests fections, according to data zil’s testing data was not Sunday to discuss the CO­ will be further increased pulse oximeters to fight CO­ In the number of deaths Brazil (8,50,514) and Russia While India's infection rate maintained by the website available. VID­19 strategy in Delhi. three times after six days. Al­ VID­19,” he said. registered every day, India (5,28,267) and ninth in total in terms of cases per million Our World in Data. Soon after the meeting, Mr. so after a few days, testing ranks fourth below Brazil, fatalities, according to the people was much lower, the The comparable testing MORE REPORTS Ī PAGES 7, 8, 9 & 12 Shah posted a series of will start at every polling sta­ CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 8 CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Pak. firing China has preferred talks: Rajnath Caught unawares in Poonch Minister says military and diplomatic channels open to resolve Ladakh stand­off kills soldier Peerzada Ashiq We are augmenting the se­ Special Correspondent Jammu The last firing curity of the country,” he Srinagar Defence Minister Rajnath said. A soldier was killed and Singh said on Sunday that on the border two others were injured as dialogue was under way to ‘Will change J&K future’ the Pakistan Army violated resolve the stand­off on the Though 1967 marked the Promising to initiate an “un­ the ceasefire along the Line Line of Actual Control (LAC) last major fighting between precedented development” of Control (LoC) in Poonch in eastern Ladakh. India and China, it was not, process in the next five years district of Jammu and Bara­ “Military and diplomatic however, the last incident of in Jammu & Kashmir, Mr. mulla district in Kashmir channels are open with Chi­ a shot being fired on the Singh said people in Pakis­ on Sunday. na. China has also expressed contested boundary. That tan­occupied Kashmir (PoK) Doctors of a hospital in desire to resolve the issue would happen eight years would soon prefer India to Poonch said a soldier with through a dialogue. We also later. Ī page 10 Pakistan after watching the multiple splinter injuries believe that Indo­China tuss­ Rajnath Singh DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD progress on this side. “Deve­ was admitted there around le could be resolved through lopment is our priority. In 8 a.m. a dialogue at the military tion’s criticism, Mr. Singh tails at an appropriate time,” the coming five years, we “The jawan was injured and the diplomatic levels,” said the government would he said. He assured the peo­ will change the future of J&K in a firing and shelling inci­ Mr.