Bhubaneswar Director Thursday Said She Would Not Chayat in Koraput District As !#+ #/(% Other Bad Times
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Our target should on Wednesday to 56,286 new would come up with a better ond wave of the pandemic. sent the SOS to the Centre & situation and status of vacci- be to test at least 30 contacts in cases on Thursday. The State ( solution, she said. Stating that there was no seeking sufficient jabs to inoc- !"0 ! 1 nation. 72 hours per Covid positive recorded 376 fatalities during Ardern said she could not shortage of jabs in the coun- ulate the eligible population. 1 Micro containment zones patient. the last 24 hours. New Delhi: The WHO has answer whether the halt on try, Harsh Vardhan said 9.1 “Vaccination centres have 2 3!# in high Covid-19 burden areas, The borders of contain- However, the situation rejected Serum Institute of arrivals from India would last crore vaccine doses have been to close early due to a short- proper testing, tracing and ment zones should be particu- seemed to sharply deteriorate India’s proposal seeking exten- longer than April 28. “We’re utilised, while 2.4 crore are in age of supplies,” Maharashtra vaccination can control the lar and not vague. I want to in Uttar Pradesh (8,474 new sion of the shelf life of Oxford- seeing surges in other places, stock and 1.9 crore vaccines Health Minister Rajesh Tope rising Covid-19 crisis, the appeal to all the CMs to go for cases), Delhi (7,437), AstraZeneca Covid-19 vac- but we just don’t have the are in the pipeline. said adding that stocks would , , Prime Minister said. proactive testing so that we can Chhattisgarh, Karnataka( cine, Covishield, from six to higher number of travellers “Hue and cry by certain run out in three days after the The Prime Minister track asymptomatic patients,” 6,570) and Madhya Pradesh nine months, citing insufficient from those places,” Ardern States about partisanship by daily injection of over requested the States for 100 per he said. The PM said number (4,324 cases). data, sources said. said. the Union Government is just 4,50,000 doses. # O, ) & P ( $ % & P & #R # $ $ 4( ( power of FCI is nothing but to 03/!" )8/)## push them to untold miseries ! Q5( R further, they said. ours after the Election The FCI is the biggest store 7( #45!6#% HCommission served a )8%#( ! ( 6 house of the country that even show-cause notice on Mamata comes to the need of the coun- ven as Odisha is witnessing Banerjee for making alleged ven though the Odisha + (- try and its people during all Ea sharp spike in Covid-19 communal statements, a defi- EGovernment declared two crises like drought, famine, cases, Institute of Life Sciences ant Bengal Chief Minister on villages of Kotia gram pan- $ flood, cyclone, war and all (ILS) Bhubaneswar Director Thursday said she would not chayat in Koraput district as !#+ #/(% other bad times. Ajay Parida on Thursday said be intimidated by such notices Containment Zones, the But instead of developing the situation might worsen … “let them file tens of such Andhra Pradesh Government armers and their organisa- such an organisation, the and become like that of neigh- letters on me.” once again conducted elec- Ftions have strongly protest- Central Government is making bouring Chhattisgarh State if Mamata, who was tions there on Thursday. ed the attempt of the Central all-out efforts to hand over it to people don’t adhere to safety addressing a rally at Domjur in While the Koraput administrative officials to Government to privatise the the private sector, alleged protocols. Howrah, accused the Election Collector had declared allow them to visit the polling Food Corporation of India Pradhan. “This will do nothing “The new strain of the Commission of playing a par- # $ ! ! $%& Phattusuneri and booths. (FCI). The farmers on but end up triggering a food virus is more contagious than tisan role, saying, “Why don’t % % '( " Neredibalasa villages of Kotia Sources said some leaders Thursday organised meetings crisis all over the country,” he the previous one. It is spread- they serve notices on as Containment Zones and from BJD, BJP, and Congress in different places including in warned. ing rapidly, which is a matter of Narendra Modi, who makes there is no division of votes all the Hindu votes and also imposed prohibitory had also camped in Kotia to front of the FCI office here and “When the Government concern. Currently, it is diffi- provocative Hindu-Muslim among Hindus, Muslims, CPI(M)-Congress-ISF all the orders under Section 144 of prevent people from taking warned the Government is speaking of ‘food security’ to cult to estimate as to when the statements every day? Why Sikhs and Christians… I ask Muslim votes then what will I CrPC from April 7 to 10 due part in the elections. But still against the adverse conse- all, why then it thinks of pri- spread of the virus will recede. don’t they send letters to the everyone not to give a single get?” to Covid-19, polling was held some people managed to cast quences of its move. vatisation of FCI,” asked Bibhu We are examining the new BJP leaders in Nandigram vote to the BJP.”The The BJP had also com- in the areas. their votes. Leaders of the Paschim Prasad Patnaik, another farmer strain,” said Parida. who openly call the local Commission had earlier issued plained to the Commission Andhra Pradesh civil and Notably, the Odisha Odisha Krushak Surakshya leader.