!"# *+, !"#! !&'('!() !"#$% &!"*+, 1*"3 % $% 33 &)% % & &% '( ) $ 7 78% & & $ 4 5 6 4 +&+ '- './ !" #$%$&$&'($% 0 1,+ ## epidemic Diseases (Amendment) Ordinance, ending a clear message that 2020 manifests our commit- Sthere will be no compromise ment to protect each and every on safety of the health workers healthcare worker who is fighting corona pandemic, the bravely battling Covid-19 on Government on Wednesday the frontline. “It will ensure olicemen came under attack brought an Ordinance by safety of our professionals. Pat several places across the amending the Epidemic There can be no compromise country in West Bengal, Uttar Diseases Act, 1897, which will on their safety,” he said. Pradesh, Gujarat and Madhya allow imprisonment from 6 Home Minister Amit Shah Pradesh and other places over months to 7 years along with a and Health Minister Dr Harsh enforcing the lockdown and fine of up to 5 lakh for those Vardhan on Wednesday inter- improper distribution of food found guilty of assaulting them. acted with doctors and senior grain. Addressing a Press confer- representatives of the IMA In Aligarh, vegetable ven- ence here, Union minister through a video conference dors pelted stones at policemen Prakash Javadekar said the following which the IMA at a market on Wednesday ! Government would act “tough” called off their silent protest when they went there to against those who would attack planned for 9 pm on impose the lockdown against "# doctors and frontline health Wednesday against the spate of coronavirus, injuring one of $ workers. attack on their fraternity. them. According to Aligarh The Union Cabinet chaired “He (the Home Minister District Magistrate Chandra and started pelting stones at the by Prime Minister Narendra has assured that the Bhushan Singh, the trouble police team, which was out- Modi cleared the ordinance a Government of India will take began when the policemen numbered, he said. day after the Indian Medical all necessary steps and come intervened in a tiff between two Aligarh is not the only Association (IMA) demanded out shortly with relevant legis- vegetable vendors just before place where some locals are the Centre to bring in a law on lations to address the safety and the daily four-hour lockdown resisting the lockdown that is urgent basis to protect medical dignity of doctors and health- relaxation was to being enforced by the local professionals from attack on care givers,” the IMA said in a end. police. duty. This demand followed statement here. It said it is with- Some people were trying to Another incidence of vio- rising incidents of violence drawing the protest “to main- spread such rumours and the lence against the police was against healthcare workers on tain the unity and integrity of police have identified two such reported from West Bengal the frontline of the fight against our country.” persons who will be prosecut- after the police objected to a Covid-19. Allaying all concerns of the ed, Singh said. One policeman road blockade put up the locals, Javadekar said the crimes medical fraternity, Shah was injured in the stone pelt- who alleged improper distrib- against health workers had assured them that the ing here. ution of food grains. The been made a “non-bailable Government would leave no Additional District police, however, have claimed offense”. Under the new law, $ stone unturned in ensuring Magistrate RK Maalpani said that the locals blocked a road investigation in such cases will their wellbeing and security, the incident took place in the and when they objected, they be completed in a time-bound to 2 lakh,” Javadekar said. ly facing attacks. No incident of age was done to vehicles or ings would now be reduced to said a statement here. Bhojpura locality in the old city attacked them. manner. “Such crime will now In extremely violent cases, violence or harassment, against clinics of healthcare workers, a four days a week, while Press The Union Health areas when policemen were The incident took place in be cognizable and non-bailable. accused may get six months to them will be tolerated. An compensation amounting to releases and Cabinet briefing Ministry recently directed all imposing the lockdown mea- Baduria, North 24 Parganas. In Investigation will be done in 30 seven years in jail. Ordinance has been brought in, twice the market value of the would be held on alternate Chief Secretaries of States and sures after the 6 am to 10 am a viral video, locals are seen days. Accused can be sen- “Health workers who are it will be implemented after damaged property would be days. UTs to ensure adequate mea- relaxation. Despite the police attacking police personnel, tenced from 3 months-5 years trying to save the country from President’s sanction,” he said. charged from the accused. Soon after the approval of sures for the safety of health order, the vegetable vendors while the police are also seen and penalised from 50,000 up this epidemic are unfortunate- The Minister said if dam- He also said health brief- the Ordinance, Modi tweeted, workers for Covid-19 services. continued to sell their items, beating people. ( of Rs 78.54 crore. 20. shall be allowed a rebate of 10 Tthe transmission tariff of The Gridco will purchase paise per unit for the units con- t is good news for power con- OPTCL for 2019-20 shall 29,018.76 MU power during sumed in excess of 70% of load rored data from China and Isumers in the State as there remain unchanged for 2020-21 2020-21 and sell 28,090 MU to factor and up to 80% of load Italy, which reported that chil- will be no change in power tar- at 25 paise per unit. four Discoms -- Cesu, Nesco, factor and 20 paise for the units ontrary to the general per- dren accounted for about 2 per iffs for 2020-21. However, the OHPC tariff, Wesco and Southco -- and 60 consumed in excess of 80% of Cception that coronavirus is cent of infections. The retail supply for 2019- which was 86.10 paise per unit MU to CGP. The average the load factor per month. “rarely fatal” among young If the studies have talked 20 would remain unchanged in 2019-20 has been revised to power purchase cost will be Rs The industrial consumers children and infants, a latest about fatalities of kids due to for 2020-21, informed the 90.11 paise per unit for 2020- 278.57 per unit for 2020-21 drawing power in EHT shall be study by American Centre for the virus, the United Nations, Odisha Electricity Regulatory 21. against Rs 259.88 in 2019-20. eligible for a rebate of 10 paise Disease Control and in a grim assessment of the Commission (OERC) on Similarly, the OPGC tariff The gap allowed in Gridco’s per unit for all the units con- Prevention (CDC) on more impact of Covid-19 pandemic Wednesday. for stations-I and II has been ARR is Rs 660.15 crore as sumed in excess of 80% of load than 2,500 Covid-19 children on children, said that the loom- In view of COVID-19 sit- revised to Rs 248.97 crore as against Rs 172.94 crore in factor. suggested that these groups ing global recession resulting uation, the commission has fixed charge and Rs 153.91 2019-20. However, 2% rebate shall recorded a higher hospitalisa- from the outbreak could cause allowed a positive gap in the paise per unit as energy charge The industrial consumers be allowed to all pre-paid con- tion rate than any other child hundreds of thousands of addi- Annual Revenue Requirement against Rs 240.96 and Rs 150.68 having CD of 1 MW and above sumers on pre-paid amount. age group. Of 95 infants, 62 per tional child deaths this year, (ARR) of Discoms to the tune per unit respectively for 2019- and drawing power in 33 KV cent were hospitalised, it said. effectively reversing recent The study comes amid gains in reducing infant mor- reports of deaths of two infants tality, and push millions of chil- due to Covid-19. Last week a dren into extreme poverty. ! one-and-a-half-month-old It said an estimated 42-66 baby died at Delhi’s Kalawati million children could fall into Saran Children’s Hospital, while extreme poverty as a result of on April 8, 2020 a 14-month- ple suffering from co-mor- ommended that doctors main- the crisis this year, adding to old child passed away in bidities such as heart disease, tain a high index of suspicion the estimated 386 million mil- Gujarat’s Jamnagar. diabetes or respiratory prob- for children who could have lion children already in In fact, according to the lems. Covid-19, especially for infants extreme poverty in 2019. recent Government data as on In fact, the Illinois and kids with underlying con- Children are not the face of " !# April 8, 2020, at least 8.61 per Department of Public Health ditions,” according to the this pandemic. But they are at cent cases were those of age (IDPH) had claimed that new- Science Alert. risk of being among its biggest The BMC, however, stated between 0-20 years while 41.88 borns, babies and young chil- The study did find, though, victims. While they have that the active surveillance in per cent cases fell between 21 dren seemed to be mostly that children are less likely to thankfully been largely spared he Bhubaneswar Municipal these containment areas would ! "!# paddy, and eyes and nose are to 40 years group, 32.82 per unaffected and any symptoms develop coronavirus symptoms from the direct health effects of TCorporation (BMC) on continue till next seven days as # marked with sandalwood, cent cases between 41 to 60 in children have only been than adults.