Follow us on: @TheDailyPioneer facebook.com/dailypioneer RNI No. TELENG/2018/76469 Established 1864 ANALYSIS 7 MONEY 8 SPORTS 12 Published From HYDERABAD DELHI LUCKNOW GEOPOLITICS TRUMPS SURGE IN CORONAVIRUS CASES MAY CLINICAL CSK REGAIN BHOPAL RAIPUR CHANDIGARH GEOECONOMICS PUT ECONOMIC RECOVERY AT RISK TOP SPOT BHUBANESWAR RANCHI DEHRADUN VIJAYAWADA *LATE CITY VOL. 3 ISSUE 189 HYDERABAD, THURSDAY APRIL 29, 2021; PAGES 12 `3 *Air Surcharge Extra if Applicable PRABHAS-NAG ASHWIN FILM TO LAUNCH ON DIWALI { Page 11 } www.dailypioneer.com SONY'S PROFIT ZOOMS TO RECORD LEVEL US RUSHING ASSISTANCE TO INDIA TO MAHA GIVES RS 1,500 EACH TO 9.17 FOUR-DAY LOCKDOWN IN GOA FROM ON VIDEO GAMES, ‘DEMON SLAYER’ COMBAT COVID SURGE: JOE BIDEN LAKH CONSTRUCTION WORKERS TODAY AS CASES SPIKE: CM ony's January-March profit zoomed eight- ashington, Apr 28 (PTI) The US is rushing he Maharashtra government has transferred he Goa government on Wednesday fold to 107 billion yen (USD 982 million) a whole series of help, including life- Rs 1,500 in the bank accounts of each of decided to impose a strict lockdown Sfrom a year earlier as people stuck at Wsaving drugs and machinery, that India Tthe 9.17 lakh registered construction Tin the state beginning April 29 till home during the coronavirus pandemic needs to combat the massive surge in workers as assistance in view of the May 3, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant turned to the Japanese electronics and COVID-19 cases, President Joe Biden has COVID-19-induced restrictions, state said. Speaking to reporters, he said entertainment company's video games and said, as he again recalled New Delhi's Labour Minister Hasan Mushrif said on essential services and industries will other visual content. Sony Corp. reported a assistance to America when it was in a "bind" Wednesday. There are 13 lakh registered be exempted from the purview of the record profit of 1.17 trillion yen (USD 11 due to the pandemic. Biden spoke at length active construction workers in the state, an lockdown but public transport will not billion) for the fiscal year that ended March 31, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday official statement said. Mushrif said the relief be allowed. "The lockdown will come roughly doubling from 582 billion yen the and conveyed solidarity with India in its fight has been given to workers as Rs 137.61 crore into force on Thursday evening and previous fiscal year. The popularity of the “Demon against the viral disease. "We are sending immediately has been transferred into the respective accounts of remain effective till Monday morning to break Slayer” animation film also helped, along with solid sales in mobile a whole series of help that he needs, including providing for those 9.17 lakh labourers in "just four days". The Maharashtra Building the chain of the coronavirus transmission," he said. Goa on game applications and digital content. Demand persists for the Remdesivir and other drugs that are able to deal with this," Biden and Other Construction Workers' Welfare Board is implementing Tuesday reported 2,110 fresh cases and 31 deaths, taking the PlayStation 5 game console, which went on sale last year. told reporters at a White House news conference on Tuesday. the decision to assist the workers, it said. tally to 81,908 and the toll to 1,086, the government had said. Journos, you remain etched in our memory Next 4 weeks crucial to bring n the battle against Covid-19, journalists across the globe have worked shoulder to shoulder with doctors, nurses, paramedical staff as well as healthcare Iproviders and experts in various fields related to health and medicine to put things in perspective: be it a lowdown on Covid-19 caseloads, reproduction number down Covid second wave: DPH of the virus, positivity, recovery, mortality, analyses of countless data-driven studies relating to coronavirus, updates on what the governments are doing or not doing to help contain the virus, or 'ground' reports on the huge piles of bodies n Situation improving, thanks to the state government's measures and people's currently burning in makeshift crematoriums. In the process, these warriors, wielding pens or cameras, have been sucked into the dance n of death triggered by the pandemic. The Pioneer joins journalistic CM’s Covid rapid cooperation Only those with breathing difficulties should seek hospital beds circles in paying tributes to these intrepid Indian journalists who have lost their lives after contracting Covid-19 in line of duty. ML MELLY MAITREYI So far, 45 lakh preventive measures, aside from the test result negative n HYDERABAD people above efforts of the government and var- n Kosuri Amarnath, Hyderabad, n Srinivas, Yacharam, Telangana, PNS n HYDERABAD ious institutions. "If people extend- Editor, Scribes News Reporter, Andhra Jyothi Telugu Daily The second wave of the pandem- 45 years of age ed the same cooperation, then by n Sridhar Dharmasanam, Editor Maa n Kalpana, Hyderabad, Telangana, Chief Minister K.Chandrasekhar ic, with corona cases surging across and healthcare May-end itself, we can gain control Hyderabad CEO, Bathukamma TV Rao, who has been in isolation at Telangana, has started stabilizing, and frontline over the pandemic, instead of wait- n Chinta Nagaraju, Siddipet District, n Chandrashekar Naidu, Srikakulam, his farmhouse, underwent Covid particularly over the last few days, ing till June or July," he said. TS, Reporter, Eenadu newspaper AP, Reporter, NTV tests on Wednesday. though the next three to four workers So far, 45 lakh people above 45 n P. Ramesh, Karimnagar, TS n Syed Shabaz, Kodangal, The Chief Minister's personal weeks are crucial to flatten the have been years of age and healthcare and n Bura Ramesh, Vemulawada, Vikarabad Dist, TS. Reporter, TV. physician Dr.M.V Rao and his Covid-19 curve. vaccinated frontline workers have been vacci- n team conducted Rapid Antigen Dr.G.Srinivasa Rao, Director of nated. Dr.Srinivas Rao said there Sircilla District, Telangana Journlists Ramzan Ali, Karimnagar, Representational Photo n Jayaprakash, Karimnagar, TS. Senior sub-editor, Eenadu. and RT-CPR and other tests on Public Health, said that, thanks to was no need for panic and anxiety. from Telugu KCR. The Rapid Antigen test various measures taken by the Addressing a media conference ple were wearing masks, observing In the first wave, the recovery rate states who n Telangana Madiraju Giri, Shadnagar, result came negative, while the State government to contain the at his office here on Wednesday, Dr physical distance, and avoiding was 99.5 per cent and even in the n BS Ramachandra Rao, succumbed RR Dist, TS. Reporter, ABN to Covid result of RT PCR test will be pandemic and the cooperation Srinivasa Rao said that over the last congregations. second wave the overall recovery Visakhapatnam, AP, former Andhra Jyothi. known on Thursday. extended by people, there was four weeks people had realized the The impact on controlling the would be 99 per cent. journalist with Sakshi n K. Srinivas Goud (32), a 'some improvement' in the last importance of Covid- appropriate pandemic would be greater if peo- n Sainath, Nirmal Dist, Telangana, reporter for Hindi Milap, Karimnagar 2 one week. behaviour and a majority of peo- ple took precautions and observed 2 Reporter, 99TV n Sammi Reddy (50), Vemanapalli n D. Ashok, Nizamabad District, TS, mandal, Vaartha newspaper Reporter, Andhra Bhoomi newspaper n Manoj, 33, Hyderabad n Prabhakar Reddy, Kadapa, AP n M. Parthasarathy, Tirupati n Surya Prakash, Visakhapatnam, AP n Madhusudan Reddy, Tirupati CoWIN servers crash, as Covid Crematoriums in Hyd n P. Tataiah, Ongole, Andhra Pradesh n N Seshacharyulu, 56, Nellore nd Brahm Kanchibotla, 66, New York Vikas Sharma, 35, Noida vaccine registration for 18+ begins cashing on Covid 2 wave Gulshan Ewing, 92, London Aarti Shejwalkar, 31, Mumbai n Pankaj Kulshrestha, 50, Agra Anjay Bohra, 50, Jaipur PNS HYDERABAD Packages for performing last rites Roshan Dias, 46, Mumbai Kamal Dixit, Bhopal 27 lakhs hits per minute Yogesh Kumar, 53 Kailassinh Pardeshi, 55, Saamana Although the Union Health ANUSHA PUPPALA s Covid vaccination registration n Haresh Munwani, 70, Mumbai Pramod Srivastava, 48, Lucknow Ministry has opened registrations HYDERABAD process opened, the centre's Javed Jivani, 84, Mumbai Sabaji Mohan Palkar for COVID-19 vaccines to be A website for the drive - CoWIN -- Davinder Pal Singh, Chandigarh Fatima Zakaria, 85 administered to those in the Cashing in on the surge in coron- seemed to malfunction at first. K. Ch. Ratnam, 75, Odisha Kapil Datta, 65, New Delhi expanded age group of 18-44 years avirus cases and deaths, some of Many complained that the site had Neelanshu Shukla, 30, Lucknow, UP Pradeep Arya, 58, Bilaspur from May 1, many people are the crematoriums in the city, along crashed but the glitches were soon Tarun Sisodia, 37, New Delhi Jatish Khamari, 46, Bhubaneswar unable to register on CoWIN por- with heartless, avaricious middle- fixed.The CoWIN site is getting Motichand Bedbuthe, Usmanabad Ankit Shukla, 35, Lucknow tal, which went public at 4:00 pm men, are offering pricey packages almost 27 lakh hits a minute, Sopan Bongane, Thane Vinay Srivastava, 65, Lucknow on Wednesday for the purpose, or for performing the last rites of government sources said. Ashok Tupe, Ahmednagar B. Goverdhan Joshi, 67, Bhopal via Arogya Setu app. Many report- those who died of COVID-19. Prakash Deshmukh, Mumbai Jamal Ahmad, Bhopal edly tried registering on CoWin Wednesday. Many people com- There are differing packages Shyam Sarma, Mumbai Sacchidanand Gupta ‘Sacche', Lucknow portal soon after 4:00 pm, but failed plained that registrations in the How to enrol for vax available for the last journey, from Rajiv Ketan, Gorakhpur Himanshu Joshi, Lucknow due to server issues.