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4 RNI Regn. No. MPENG/2004/13703, Regd. No. L-2/BPLON/41/2006-2008 +556 7&18 -95*90 +%&<' <!= 2 !=$< ! >$ ! $ =/ = $ ! < !* $ ! ! =! 9 ! =! !/ $ <! $ ! = >! 2 * > 7? @ $+ --&%& !"# $ $%& ' "()()*+ (,-) !"#$%& '(#) ! ore than 54,000 persons Mare under community &&'&( surveillance against the back- +--( drop of coronavirus pandem- && ic and the health workers are in 0&' regular touch with them, O Health Minister Harsh 2 345-& Vardhan informed Parliament 6+ on Tuesday. People with flu-like &+'%&5.78 symptoms but without a his- &, !" tory of travel abroad are under ',-&+ community surveillance. # $# Informing the Rajya Sabha 9 ,& about measures taken to fight -&8(-& the pandemic, the Health & Minister assured Rajya Sabha +;;'-- members that any complaint --+ about reported unhygienic ith 137 positive cases by conditions in the quarantine is WTuesday evening and getting due attention. Karti Chidambaram sprang a three deaths, latest in Tuesday Highlighting the role of the surprise in the Lok Sabha by in Maharashtra, the medical fraternity, Harsh complimenting the Union Government has decided to % ! & ! ! Vardhan said, “As one metre Government for its efforts to rope in accredited private labs ! ' ! "# ! % social distancing is required to tackle coronavirus and said to conduct tests for the infec- be taken while dealing with ! ! "# one should not “play politics” tion and recommended anti- for laboratory testing and pro- head of the Epidemiology and those affected with the virus, I ! # over the issue. HIV drug combination vide positive controls for estab- Communicable Diseases at laud doctors and paramedics Rahul has all along been Lopinavir-Ritonavir on case-to- lishing the test as soon as the ICMR, said the testing capac- who are working honestly with ties in their areas and suggest are rare complaints,” he said. Government’s immediate pri- targeting the Modi case basis for treatment of the private laboratory concerned ity is not an issue as per the dedication while taking risks in ways to help improve facilities. The Minister also said the ority is to ensure safety of Government’s response in tack- viral infection. has procured the primers, capacity of 52 labs, India can treating these patients.” He noted that the response has Indian Council of Medical people and it will later evalu- ling coronavirus and accusing At present only probes and reagents as per conduct up to 10,000 tests per “I laud all doctors and been positive in appreciating Research (ICMR) scientists are ate losses incurred by the cul- it of being in stupor. Karti, Government labs are permitted SOPs. Adoption of commercial day at present. paramedics, be it in villages or the high quality treatment at in touch with scientists all over ture and tourism industry due however, pointed to complaints to do the test and the Centre is kits for testing should be based “Around 600 samples are cities or in private or quarantine facilities. the world regarding the use of to restrictions on visitors. that people, being quarantined making arrangements to near- on validations conducted by being tested per day,” he said, Government in controlling On reports about poor retroviral drugs in treating Responding to series of over coronavirus suspicion, ly double its testing capacity. A lCMR-National Institute of adding 60,000 testing kits are coronavirus at all levels,” he told facilities at such centres, Harsh coronavirus patients and in queries during the Question have been kept in “substan- Union Health Ministry officials Virology (NIV), Pune. available now and additional the House while replying to Vardhan said these reports are the research underway across Hour, he said the Government dard” facilities under “unhy- said that around 60 accredited It also states that appropri- 200,000 kits have been ordered. supplementaries during exceptions. “I can agree with the world in finding treatment has banned tourist visit and gienic” conditions. He said private laboratories are likely to ate biosafety and biosecurity According to the current Question Hour. His remarks you that the facilities may not of the virus. even Archaeological Survey of many of these people, most of be given permission to conduct precautions should be ensured testing protocols, only those were lauded by all members, be good. It is quite possible that Fielding questions on India (ASI) monuments and whom were quarantined fol- the tests soon. Confirmatory while collecting samples from with history of travel to high- including those from the at some places bathrooms may impact of the pandemic on temples are shutdown. lowing their return from tests for COVID-19 are cur- a suspect patient. Alternatively, risk countries affected by the Opposition. not be 5-star type. We are acti- tourism sector, Tourism Taking a view contrary to abroad, have the wherewithal rently being done free-of cost a disease specific separate col- respiratory virus and those The Minister also urged ing in strongest possible man- Minister Prahlad Singh Patel his former party president for self-isolation and should be at Government set-ups. lection site may be created. who came in contact with pos- MPs to visit quarantine facili- ner on such complaints. These said in the Upper House the Rahul Gandhi, Congress MP allowed to do so. As per the guidelines All the private testing lab- itive patients have been asked issued by the Government for oratories have been asked to to be quarantined for 14 days. private labs, test should be ensure immediate/real-time Others with symptoms of the only offered when prescribed reporting to the State officials infection are being tested. & () *+,-+ by a qualified physician as per of IDSP (Integrated Disease The official said the deci- ICMR guidance for testing. Surveillance Program of sion to allow anti-HIV drug Since the guidance evolves Government of India) and combination on case-to-case $+ / 0/ $1-(' 2R the Assembly approached the top court The court also allowed 16 rebel periodically, the latest revised ICMR HQ for timely initiation basis follows the success in the on Monday after the Speaker cited coro- Congress lawmakers, who have pur- version should be followed. of contact tracing and research treatment of an Italian elderly direction for rebel MLAs to participate navirus concerns and adjourned the portedly tendered their resignations to The guidelines state that activities. couple at Jaipur’s SMS hospital. in the Budget session. The trust vote House till March 26 without taking the the Speaker, to file an application seek- the ICMR will share the SOPs Raman R Gangakhedkar, Continued on Page 4 fter the Supreme Court on Tuesday should be held only in the presence of floor test apparently defying the direc- ing impleadment as parties to the plea Aasked the Kamal Nath-led Congress MLAs, said the plea by Govind Singh, tions of Governor Lalji Tandon. filed by Chouhan. Government in Madhya Pradesh to party chief whip in MP. “We have heard Mukul Rohatgi, Senior advocate Maninder Singh, *+ # &' ( respond by Wednesday 10.30 am to a Earlier, a bench comprising Justices senior counsel, along with Mishra appearing for the rebel Congress MLAs, # -'. plea by senior BJP leader Shivraj Singh DY Chandrachud and Hemant Gupta Saurabh, Advocate-on-Record, appear- said that the resignations of six law- ) Chouhan seeking immediate floor test issued notices to the MP CM, the ing on behalf of the petitioners makers, out of 22, have already been Lucknow: To contain the coro- in the Assembly, the MP Congress Speaker and Assembly Principal (Chouhan and others). In view of the accepted and there was no reason for navirus spread, the Uttar New Delhi: Union Minister V ' # moved the SC seeking direction to the Secretary and said it will hear the plea urgency of the situation, the notice is not accepting the resignations of the 16 Pradesh Government on Muraleedharan, who visited a Centre and the Karnataka Government of the BJP at 10.30 am on Wednesday. made returnable at 10:30 am on 18 MLAs. Tuesday extended the closure Kerala-based medical institute New Delhi: In a bid to dis- to grant it the access to its rebel MLAs. “In view of the urgency of the situation, March 2020,” the bench said in its order. “Maninder Singh, senior counsel, of all educational institutions, whose hospital later reported a courage gathering of large The Congress urged the SC to the notice is made returnable at 10:30 The top court allowed Chouhan to states that he would be filing an appli- cinemas, mulitplexes and coronavirus case, has placed crowds in view of the coron- declare as illegal the action of the am on March 18,” the SC said. serve the notice on the State cation for impleadment on behalf of the tourists places in the State till himself under home quarantine avirus, some zonal railways Centre, the Karnataka Government Former Chief Minister Chouhan Government and others “through e- sixteen MLAs who, it is submitted, have April 2 and implemented work- as a precaution even as he have hiked the platform tick- and the BJP’s State unit of confining its and nine BJP MLAs, including the leader mail in addition to the usual tendered their resignations. from-home protocol to the tested negative for the et charges from 10 to 50, MLAs in Bengaluru. It also sought a of Opposition and BJP’s Chief Whip in mode of service”. Continued on Page 4 extent possible. infection. officials said on Tuesday. !"$%& eturning Officer AP Singh on ' (" RTuesday rejected the objec- $ &$ ( tions raised by the Congress &%" against nominations of two * '$ BJP Rajya Sabha candidates, $+'$$&,(, including Jyotiraditya Scindia, '--%" after a hearing. + Two Congress candidates for $+ the March 26 Rajya Sabha elec- !"$%-&&. tions from Madhya Pradesh, ( ++/+( Digvijay Singh and Phool Singh +& * ( Baraiya, on Monday had filed +"+, written objections against BJP %"- nominees Scindia and Sumer '$ Singh Solanki, seeking that their $&, nomination papers be rejected on certain grounds.