Chaos As Liquor Shops Reopen After 40 Days
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Abe declared the state of emergency on April with over 1.1 million COVID-19 cases and more than voted unanimously in April to back the be held on May 31, 2020, therefore stands deferred. 7, initially only for Tokyo and six other urban prefectures, but later 67,000 deaths. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposal. Dubai, a sheikhdom in the United This preliminary examination also serves as the extending it to the entire nation and requesting the people to gave emergency use authorisation (EUA) for the use of Arab Emirates, has bet billions of dollars on screening test for the Indian Forest Service Examination. reduce social interactions by up to 80%. investigational Remdesivir to treat COVID-19 patients. the event to rejuvenate its troubled economy. 1,074 patients recovered in CHAOS AS LIQUOR SHOPS 24 hrs, highest in single day REOPEN AFTER 40 DAYS PNS n NEW DELHI On Sunday, 57,474 tests PNS n NEW DELHI As many as 1,074 COVID-19 patients have recovered in the were conducte. We Impatient to end a nearly 40- last 24 hours, the highest num- have progressively day dry spell, a multitude of tip- ber of recoveries recorded in increased our testing plers descended on liquor shops one day, the health ministry capacity as that reopened Monday in many said on Monday. per need Modi will take parts of India, jostling and Addressing a press briefing, pulling at each other in total Joint Secretary at the health — LAV AGARWAL India out of defiance of social distancing ministry Lav Agarwal said the Home Ministry Joint Secretary Corona- norms, forcing authorities to recovery rate stands at 27.52 shut the stores in some places per cent with 11,706 COVID- induced crisis to prevent near-riot situations. 19 patients cured till now. April 17 was 80:20 which is now flat as of now and it was not Extraordinary scenes of In the last 24 hours, 1,074 90:20 which can be seen as an right to talk in terms of when chaos were witnessed outside COVID-19 patients have improvement," Agarwal said. the peak would come. the government-run shops in recovered, the highest number In the last 24 hours, 2,553 If we collectively work then 2 New Delhi, Mumbai, Benga- of recoveries in one day, COVID-19 cases were report- peak might not ever come luru, Lucknow and other cities. Agarwal said. ed, taking the number of over- while if we fail in any way we While in one shop the first cus- He further said the outcome all cases to 42,533, while the might experience a spike in tomer was welcomed with a gar- ratio of COVID-19 -- the ratio total active cases stand 29,453, cases, he said. land of marigolds, in another a of recoveries and deaths of he said. Agarwal assured that there customer broke a coconut to her- closed cases -- was recorded at Agarwal also said that the is no shortage of testing kits. ald the end of the coronavirus- 90:20. "The outcome ratio on COVID-19 curve is relatively 2 enforced lockdown dry spell. Thousands of men, and in a Customers forget social distancing norms as they queue up outside a wine shop in Prayagraj few cases women too, were seen (Bottom) A customer carries alcohol after purchasing from a wine shop at Chander Nagar in East Delhi. standing in snaking queues for HC takes serious note Heatwave alert hours or jostling restlessly as they In the national capital, many government-run liquor waited for the shutters to go up. shops had to be shut as people, who gathered outside in Telangana As India entered the third of death of pregnant phase of the lockdown and some the outlets, did not follow social distancing PNS n HYDERABAD curbs were eased, the cynosure norms, while in some cases police had to use of attention for those deprived woman, newborn The first heatwave warning their daily or weekly tipple was mild force to disperse the unruly crowd. for summer2020 has been clearly the alcohol shops. PNS n HYDERABAD issued to Telangana for Coronavirus being the great IMFL and country liquor. liquor shops had to be shut Monday and Tuesday with equaliser, they stood together, But it didn't always go just minutes after they The Telangana High Court on people being asked to avoid Naidu holds first the affluent and the not so, according to plan, the move to opened as restless, edgy Monday took serious note of exposure to direct sunlight. meeting with RS united in their urgency to reopen liquor vends leading to crowds milled around, the deaths of a mother and her The India Meteorological stock up on their favourite tip- chaos all over. Like in Delhi, parts forgetting all about social newborn baby under tragic Department authorities said officials during ple, be it single malt and pricey of West Bengal, Rajasthan and distancing norms neces- circumstances at Jogulamba isolated pock- lockdown beers and wine, or humbler Andhra Pradesh where many sary to ward off COVID-19. Gadwal district recently. The ets in the court directed the state gov- State will ernment to ensure that both experi- general and emergency med- ence heat- TS flattening the ical services are extended to wave con- 5 Healing touch to hurt heels people suffering from various ditions on n curve, reports only ailments. Monday and KCR books 40 trains for migrants at state cost A division bench of the Chief Justice RS Chauhan Tuesday. 3 new cases Telangana High Court, com- Heatwave conditions very PNS n HYDERABAD prising the Chief Justice of the cerned to take steps for ensur- likely to occur at isolated KCR said that PNS n HYDERABAD state Justice RS Chauhan and ingthat pregnant women are pockets in the districts of Striking a benevolently differ- special trains would JusticeB.Vijaysen Reddy, given utmost care in govern- Adilabad, KomaramBheem, ent path from that of most of Telangana State reported three directed the state government ment hospitals. The HC had Nirmal, Nizamabad, Jagitial, his counter parts in the coun- run from various fresh positive cases of coron- to file a detailed counter affi- converted a letter written by Mancherialand Peddapalle. try, Telangana Chief Minister stations in avirus on Monday. These cases davit in the case. an advocate K. Kishore Additionally,thunderstorm K Chandrashekhar Rao on Hyderabad as well were reported from the GHMC The court passed the orders Kumar, anative of accompanied with light- Monday declared that migrant area. No death was reported whiledealing with a Public Chinathandrpad village of ning, is very likely to occur labourin the state would be as from Warangal, on Monday. In all, 40 people Interest Litigation (PIL) plea Leeza Mandal from Jogulamba at isolated places over sent to their respective native Khammam, were discharged on Monday. seeking direction from the Gadwaldistrict, into a PIL. Telangana. states in 40 special trains that There are now 1,085cases in court to the authorities con- 2 2 would be operated for one Damaracharla and the state, of which only 471 week starting Tuesday with the other places in are active.