4 Doctors on Duty at Airport Fall Prey to Covid-19
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Follow us on: @TheDailyPioneer facebook.com/dailypioneer Established 1864 RNI No. TELENG/2018/76469 Published From *Late City Vol. 2 Issue 167 NATION 5 MONEY 6 SPECIAL 7 HYDERABAD DELHI LUCKNOW *Air Surcharge Extra if Applicable BHOPAL RAIPUR CHANDIGARH MHA CHANGES RULES: SDF TO BE FARMERS SHOULD MAINTAIN SOCIAL CLASS OF BHUBANESWAR USED FOR MIGRANT WORKERS DISTANCING WHILE HARVESTING: ICAR 2020 RANCHI DEHRADUN VIJAYAWADA FEARLESS, HYDERABAD, SUNDAY MARCH 29, 2020; PAGES 12 `3 FUN AND FIERCE 12 www.dailypioneer.com PM ANNOUNCES NEW FUND FOR CORONAVIRUS: US TO AIRLIFT CHINA VIRUS EPICENTRE EASES TRAVEL IRAN REPORTS 139 NEW COVID-19 PEOPLE TO MAKE DONATIONS CITIZENS STRANDED IN INDIA RESTRICTIONS AFTER LOCKDOWN DEATHS, RAISING TOTAL TO 2,517 rime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday announced the creation of he US government is making arrangements to airlift over 2,000 American he Chinese city of 11 million people that was Ground Zero for what ran announced Saturday that Pan assistance and emergency situation relief fund where people can Tcitizens stranded in India due to the suspension of flights and the Tbecame the global coronavirus pandemic partly reopened on Saturday I139 more people had died contribute and help in the government's fight against lockdown in the country to limit the spread of the cornovirus pandemic, the after more than two months of almost total isolation. from the novel coronavirus, coronavirus.The Prime Minister's Citizen Assistance and State Department has said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday Wuhan was placed under lockdown in January with raising the official death toll to Relief in Emergency Situations Fund will go a long way announced a three-week lockdown in the country as part of measures to residents forbidden to leave, roadblocks ring-fencing the 2,517 in one of the world's in creating a healthier India, he said on Twitter. "People curb the spread of coronavirus that has claimed over 26,000 city's outskirts and drastic restrictions on daily life. But worst-affected countries. Health from all walks of life expressed their desire to donate to lives globally. Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Ian the major transport and industrial hub has now ministry spokesman Kianoush India's war against COVID-19," he said, adding the fund Brownlee, Bureau of Consular Affairs on COVID-19, said signalled the end of its long isolation, with state Jahanpour told a news conference has been constituted respecting that spirit. "It is my that there were about 1,500 Americans in the New Delhi media showing the first officially sanctioned that 3,076 more cases had been appeal to my fellow Indians, kindly contribute to the area, between 600 and 700 in the Mumbai area and 300 to passenger train arriving back into the city just confirmed in the past 24 hours, PM-CARES Fund. 400 Americans elsewhere who have identified themelves. after midnight. bringing the total number of infections AMIDST THE ‘TEMPEST' TS reports first Covid-19 death PNS n HYDERABAD Saturday. Of the screenings n Total positive cases in done on Friday and Saturday, Telangana State on Saturday state 65 it was found that just four fam- reported its first case of death n Four families ilies contributed to an increase caused by Covid-19, after a contributed to the spike in the number of cases over the 74-year-old man, being past two days. treated for multiple n Four doctors Four doctors among the conditions caused screening at Hyderabad airport screening or aggravated by airport staff tested Covid-19 positive. ‘ALL AND the virus, suc- testpositive One family member of one of cumbed on the airport staffers also tested SUNDRY’ Friday. positive. A family of four from A resident of Covid-19 positive. Quthbullapur tested positive Khairtabad with Consequently, his and six members from one Curfews always travel history to Delhi, family members are family in the Old City tested cause conflict; he had been admitted to now being quarantined. positive. Global Hospitals in a critical Telangana Health Minister Eatala urged people to avoid knack lies in condition with complications EatalaRajender said that the going to prayer halls as three preventing them of diabetes and pneumonia total of positive cases mount- of the cases registered so far symptoms. Results of samples ed to 65 in the state, excluding pertained to those who had obtained from him came in the deceased. Six new positive gone to prayer halls in Delhi. 4 Saturday. The person tested cases were recorded on 2 "Thick darkness has gathered over our squares, our streets and our cities; it has taken over our lives, filling everything with a deafening silence and a distressing void, that stops everything as it passes by," Pope Francis stood alone in vast Saint Peter's Square to bless Catholics around the world suffering under the coronavirus pandemic, urging people to ease their fears through faith. Borrow from RBI 4 doctors on duty and give Rs 1L cr New routines, chores as Covid-19 UP to release to states: TN CM 11,000 at airport fall prey to Modi takes psychological toll on people n prisoners due to Covid-19 PNS CHENNAI NAVEEN KUMAR Tips for mental health amid Covid-19 outbreak Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K. n HYDERABAD to Covid-19 l Unless symptomatic, health Palaniswami on Saturday n Do not n Don't exaggerate your anxiety by thinking requested the Central gov- n professionals are generally not tested The long-drawn nationwide over- of the worst-case scenarios in your mind PNS LUCKNOW ernment to grant Rs 9,000 shutdown and virtual home crore to the state for coron- consume n Pick up a book or a hobby to pursue as quarantine has taken a psycho- social media Messages The Uttar Pradesh gov- NAVEENA KAVI avirus impact relief works you stay indoors. It can keep you relaxed n All the four airport logical toll on manypeople who and news as a lot of it is ernment has decided to HYDERABAD after borrowing from Reserve staffers are doctors. Lockdown now suddenly find themselves fake. It only creates a n Keep your free 11,000 prisoners Bank of India. forced to effect sudden changes situation of panic n mind calm: lodged in 71 jails in the Four doctors who were on Eatala said that these In a letter to Prime Minister ‘botched-up', in their routines and chores.From Spend time state amid the COVID-19 duty at the airport here,screen- Narendra Modi, text of which n Don't live in a with family: Use this Yoga and staffers had come in India deserves inflexibly cooking at home to meditation outbreak in the country, an ing passengers for Covid-19, was released to the media, personally doing the dishes state of optimistic as time to connect and official statement stated have tested positive for the very close contact with Palaniswami said the Central better: Prashant bias like 'It will not recuperate. We have all or some thousands of people instead of waiting for the house- deep on Saturday. dreaded virus. government should provide Rs maid, people are required to re- happen to me', 'I become emotionally isolated The decision comes after Minister EatalaRajender during the screening 1 lakh crore to state govern- am safe.' The breathing write their routines and modify through excessive reliance on the Supreme Court earlier said, "Four health profession- process ments based on the size of a crisis is real and it gadgets and technology. exercises chores. With the number of can be done this week directed all states als under the Central govern- state's Gross State Domestic 5 cases steadily going up across the can happen to This is a great chance and union territories to ment, Airports Product (GSDP) to the nation- for keeping globe, fear is pervasive. Many anyone. Take to bond and bind constitute high-level com- Authority of India process. He said, al Gross Domestic Product necessary precautions calm and feeling individuals are in deep despair less stressed. mittees to consider releas- and the state gov- "Some people took (GDP). Urging Modi to look with a gloomy outlook. "We n Don't spread ing on parole or interim ernment tested pos- paracetamol in flights at unconventional measures prefer to have an end date or a information that n Take time to declutter your physical bail prisoners and under- itive. People who to avoid showing and setting aside the conven- goal in mind; it's human nature creates fear in society, space: Cleaning up and organising trials for offences entailing have been screening fever symptoms, and tional economic doctrines to have certainties, but with the unless it comes from a everything helps in making the mind up to 7-year jail term to passengers at the air- (some among them) temporarily, Palaniswami said coronavirus pandemic, there is reliable source feel fresh decongest prisons in the port tested positive. have transmitted it to the Central government can no specific date and we don't wake of coronavirus pan- Even in that, one others. Airport borrow from the RBI to com- know how long this will last; plus danger; we naturally flock being told that what we do by demic. employee spread it screening staff, due to bat coronavirus and also its we have no idea what will hap- together. Birds and animals do instinct is irresponsible and The top court had said to their family." their professional aftermath. "Under the Indian pen next, which is causing panic it, so do people. We believe there potentially dangerous. It all feels overcrowding of prisons All the four airport staffers obligations, believe in people public finance system, only the all over," said a psychologist.