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UNEXPECTEDLY BIDEN URGED TO RELEASE 60 MN SAYS ‘VALUES NOT IN CONSONANCE’ BENGAL TO SUPREME COURT SO’: SONIA GANDHI ON ELECTION RESULTS ASTRAZENECA VAX DOSES TO INDIA ne of the lawyers in the Election amata Banerjee's government in West ongress chief Sonia Gandhi on Friday top American civil rights leader has Commission's panel of counsels for Bengal told the Supreme Court today described the party's performance in last urged President Joe Biden to release Othe Supreme Court has resigned Mthat there should be a uniform Cmonth's Assembly elections as "very A60 million AstraZeneca vaccine saying his values "are not in vaccination policy and the new diffe- disappointing" and added that it was doses for India, which is battling a dev- consonance" with the poll body at this rential pricing mechanism in the latest "unexpectedly so". Sonia said the CWC - astating second wave of the coron- point. Mohit D Ram, who had been on phase of inoculations must be scrapped. the party's highest decision-making body - avirus pandemic. The AstraZeneca vac- the Election Commission's counsel The Centre must take immediate steps to would meet soon to review the results. "... cine has not been approved by the US panel since 2013, said in his resignation ensure vaccines are given to states free of but it goes without saying that we, as a and is unlikely to be used by the Biden letter: "I have found that my values are cost, Bengal says. "States cannot made to party collective, must draw appropriate administration. Joe Biden had recently not in consonance with the current negotiate and bargain individually on vaccine lessons from this setback in a spirit of humility," said that he intended to give AstraZeneca functioning of the ECI; and hence I withdraw prices. States will be compelled to allocate funds she said. "Unfortunately, our own performance in all vaccines to other countries. At a news confer- myself from the responsibilities of its panel counsel before for vaccines, which will have a crippling effect on an already the states was very disappointing and if I may say, unexpectedly so. ence in Chicago, American civil rights activist Rev Jesse Jackson the Supreme Court of India." He described representing the stretched health infrastructure," the state said in its affidavit The CWC is meeting shortly to review results..." she said at a virtual said he would speak to Biden to immediately release 60 million Election Commission "a cherishing milestone" of his career. ahead of a SC hearing on vaccine policy next Monday. meet of the Congress Parliamentary Party. doses of AstraZeneca vaccines to India. Covid peak soon, then HC junks GO taking over Sangam Dairy 20K a day by June-end PNS n VIJAYAWADA The High Court suspended the GO issued by the state government The Andhra Pradesh High Court taking over Sangam Dairy saying PNS n NEW DELHI on Friday struck down a GO seek- that it has no legal standing. It ing to take over ruling YSRCP gov- directed that the present board of A mathematical model prepared ernment’s attempt to take over the directors could continue to run the by advisers to Prime Minister Sangam Dairy Sangam Dairy and dairy on a day-to-day basis. Narendra Modi suggests India's hand it over to the AP Dairy However, the court said the Why does time coronavirus outbreak could peak Naidu's ignorance Development Corporation Ltd Dairy cannot indulge in sale of in the coming days, but the group's (APDDC). properties or purchase of addition- pass so slowly in a projections have been changing hurting AP image, The GO, taking control of the al properties. pandemic? and were wrong last month. dairy, headed by senior TDP leader It this is to be done, the manage- The team's most recent forecast Dhulipalla Narendra in Guntur ment has to take permission from puts them more in line with at alleges Sajjala district, was issued soon after the the court. least some other scientists, who PNS n VIJAYAWADA police arrested the former MLA on have suggested a mid-May peak April 23 on charges of irregularities. 2 2 for India. Government Adviser (Public India reported a record 412,262 Affairs) Sajjala Ramakrishna new infections and 3,980 deaths Reddy on Friday lashed out at on Thursday, with experts saying TDP supremo N Chandrababu that the reported figures likely Naidu, accusing him of taking up underplay the real toll because the a malicious propaganda against nation's crematoriums and hospi- the State on the new strain of tals have been overwhelmed. That virus, due to which the govern- makes the assessment of any 49 hospitals to get O plants post-haste ments of Delhi and Odisha have peak particularly complicated. 2 already imposed restrictions on Still, estimates may become PNS n VIJAYAWADA already been placed for the pur- people travelling from Andhra crucial because PM Modi has chase of 25 tankers. It is estimat- Pradesh. been avoiding a national lock- Oxygen plants would be set up in ed that these will cost Rs 46 cro- Addressing a press conference down, choosing instead to allow at least 49 district and area hospi- re. Thus, a total of Rs 309 crore has here, Sajjala said that Naidu had states to implement their own tals across the state within three been sanctioned,” Singhal said. come up with an absurd idea of restrictions to curb the spread. month at a cost of Rs 309 crore. The State government has spreading rumours on N440K Covid-induced ‘black "Our predictions are that the According to Anil Kumar spent Rs 45 crore for purchase of strain, to defame the govern- peak will come within a few Singhal, principal secretary, state 9,91,000 doses of Covishield and ment and take revenge on people Bombay HC on masks: days," Mathukumalli Vidyasagar, medical health department, the 3,34,000 Covaxin vaccines, he for rejecting him in the elections. People unable to professor at the Indian Institute of Government has decided to buy said. Apart from the allocated With these restrictions, people fungus’ cases in Delhi discipline Technology in Hyderabad, said by oxygen plants at a cost of Rs 180 vaccine doses, the state govern- from AP will be sent to quaran- email Thursday, referring to a mo- crore, spend Rs 25 crore on civil ment has made arrangements for tine for 14 days in States like Delhi PNS n NEW DELHI Dr Manish Munjal, senior ENT themselves del prepared with Manindra Agr- works, Rs 50 crore for 10,000 addi- additional 3.5 lakh vaccine doses and Odisha, causing them incon- surgeon at the Sir Ganga Ram awal, a professor from IIT Kanpur. tional oxygen pipelines and 50 in the third week of May. venience, he said. Doctors at a leading private facil- Hospital, said: "We are seeing a rise cryogenic tankers. “Orders have Sajjala said that Naidu has no ity in Delhi are witnessing a rise in again in this dangerous fungal 2 2 basic knowledge on Science or the number of Covid-triggered infection triggered by COVID-19. Medicine but has been speaking mucormycisis cases, according to In the last two days, we have admit- 5 about the virus with the sole agen- a statement from the hospital. ted six cases of mucormycisis. da of defaming the government. Mucormycisis is a fungal infection Last year, this deadly infection Cops trace ‘missing’ O tanker, soothe nerves of 400 patients triggered by COVID-19. Black fun- caused a high mortality with many 2 2 gus or mucormycosis has been a patients suffering from the loss of PNS n VIJAYAWADA the ‘radar’, sending pulses of doc- cause of disease and death of pat- eyesight and the removal of the tors, administrators and patients ients in transplants, ICUs and nose and the jaw bone." Tension prevailed for some hours at the hospital racing. immunodeficient patients since long. for around 400 patients and their Within minutes of the tracking Tests must for 2 families in Vijayawada on Friday system failing to locate the tanker, after a tanker carrying 18 tonnes Vijayawada Police Commissioner Covid- of medical oxygen went ‘missing’ B Srinivasulu alerted all the SPs while on the way to the under whose jurisdiction the suspected Can prevent Government General Hospital Odisha to Vijayawada route falls. in the city, before the police Alarmed at the gravity of the sit- deaths stepped in and traced the vehicle uation the cops fanned out and third wave, carrying the precious gas. medical oxygen tanker was on its began a frenetic search. The Vijayawada-bound, 18 MT way to the GGH before falling off 2 2 says Centre PNS n NEW DELHI India to breach India may manage to dodge a fiscal deficit Jagan’s jibe at Soren for ‘criticising’ Modi deadly third wave of the coron- target: fitch avirus if necessary steps are taken, PNS n NEW DELHI counterpart to not "indulge in pol- nation. In this war against en the hands of our Prime Minister the government's top scientific itics that would only weaken Covid-19, these are the to effectively combat the pandem- adviser said on Friday, two days Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS our nation" and asked times not to point ic,” Jagan wrote.