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Government on Wednesday the frontline. “It will ensure homes on Wednesday morn- As the news of the clash brought an Ordinance by safety of our professionals. ing. spread, a large number of locals amending the Epidemic There can be no compromise A constable was injured in rushed towards the spot. On Diseases Act, 1897, which will on their safety,” he said. the attack even as there were seeing the mob, the cops called allow imprisonment from 6 Home Minister Amit Shah reports of stone-pelting. for additional force. When months to 7 years along with a and Health Minister Dr Harsh However, DCP (East) Somen senior officers learnt about the fine of up to 5 lakh for those Vardhan on Wednesday inter- Verma denied stone-pelting incident, they rushed a police found guilty of assaulting them. acted with doctors and senior on police team and said the force to the spot to bring the Addressing a Press confer- representatives of the IMA constable sustained bruises on situation under control. The ence here, Union minister through a video conference his nose in a skirmish. police roped in local corpora- Prakash Javadekar said the following which the IMA The police registered a case tor to pacify the people and Government would act “tough” called off their silent protest under sections appeal to the mob to return to against those who would attack planned for 9 pm on 147/148/149/323/ 504/506 and their homes in view of lock- doctors and frontline health Wednesday against the spate of 332/353/188/ 269/270/271 of down. workers. attack on their fraternity. Indian Penal Code against the However, the DCP (East) The Union Cabinet chaired “He (the Home Minister youths for rioting, attacking denied reports of stone-pelting by Prime Minister Narendra has assured that the cops, hindering them from and said the group confronted Modi cleared the ordinance a Government of India will take discharging duty, and violating the police team in which a con- day after the Indian Medical all necessary steps and come lockdown and prohibitory stable suffered bruises on his Association (IMA) demanded out shortly with relevant legis- orders. They were also booked nose. He said the youths were the Centre to bring in a law on lations to address the safety and under Criminal Law crossing the railway tracks in urgent basis to protect medical dignity of doctors and health- Amendment Act, Epidemic violation of lockdown and thus professionals from attack on care givers,” the IMA said in a Diseases Act and Disaster they were stopped. duty. This demand followed statement here. It said it is with- Management Act. The police The locals, however, said rising incidents of violence drawing the protest “to main- were also mulling to slap the youths were going to the against healthcare workers on tain the unity and integrity of National Security Act on the other side of the railway tracks the frontline of the fight against our country.” attackers. to purchase essential com- Covid-19. Allaying all concerns of the The Cantonment SHO said modities and vegetables. Javadekar said the crimes medical fraternity, Shah constable Jagdambika was More police force was against health workers had assured them that the injured in the attack. The police deployed in the area and been made a “non-bailable Government would leave no identified the attackers as patrolling was intensified to offense”. Under the new law, " stone unturned in ensuring Mustaquim, Vikky, Atiullah, avert any untoward incident. investigation in such cases will their wellbeing and security, Bablu and their aides, all resi- There were reports that 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. dents of Hata Baig in Sadar. some local residents had a 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 As per reports, a police heated argument with a police 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 team patrolling the area saw 15- team a couple of days back 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 20 youths crossing the railway when some of them tried to days. Accused can be sen- “Health workers who are it will be implemented after damaged property would be days. UTs to ensure adequate mea- tracks bordering Sadar veg- cross the barricade and were 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 etable market and Mall Avenue stopped. However, the police 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. and asked them to return to did not verify the report. * % ) 3 rored data from China and Italy, which reported that chil- & should be dealt with strictly,” supply chain should be med- ontrary to the general per- dren accounted for about 2 per Yogi said while addressing a ically examined and food qual- Cception that coronavirus is cent of infections. hief Minister Yogi high-level review meeting on ity of community kitchens “rarely fatal” among young If the studies have talked CAdityanath on Wednesday lockdown at his office in Lok should be checked regularly,” he & children and infants, a latest about fatalities of kids due to said the state government will Bhawan in Lucknow on said. The chief minister direct- study by American Centre for the virus, the United Nations, permit other states to take Wednesday. ed the health officials to clear trict enforcement of lock- Disease Control and in a grim assessment of the home their residents stranded The chief minister said pending sample testing and seal Sdown led to police-public Prevention (CDC) on more impact of Covid-19 pandemic in Uttar Pradesh if they wish. that no one should suffer due those private hospitals which confrontations across the state than 2,500 Covid-19 children on children, said that the loom- If other state governments to non-availability of food- did not adhere to COVID-19 on Wednesday. suggested that these groups ing global recession resulting of wish to recall their citizens grain and the supply chain safety norms. In this regard, a group of recorded a higher hospitalisa- from the outbreak could cause stranded in Uttar Pradesh should be maintained during “A medical officer should morning shoppers pelted police tion rate than any other child hundreds of thousands of addi- because of the lockdown, our lockdown. “Any lapse in supply be assigned to inspect facilities with stones after being stopped age group. Of 95 infants, 62 per tional child deaths this year, government will give permis- chain will not be tolerated,” he and other logistics in private in Aligarh, two cops faced cent were hospitalised, it said. effectively reversing recent sion and cooperate, Yogi said warned. hospitals and medical colleges,” action for stopping farmers The study comes amid gains in reducing infant mor- during a review meeting on “Those involved in the he said. from going to fields in reports of deaths of two infants tality, and push millions of chil- coronavirus with senior offi- Bahraich, a cop was injured due to Covid-19. Last week a dren into extreme poverty. cials. He also said the students while calming down two war- one-and-a-half-month-old It said an estimated 42-66 brought from Rajasthan’s Kota ring parties in Saharanpur and baby died at Delhi’s Kalawati million children could fall into should stay quarantined in cops were heckled when they Saran Children’s Hospital, while extreme poverty as a result of their homes through the CM stopped a car occupied by on April 8, 2020 a 14-month- ple suffering from co-mor- ommended that doctors main- the crisis this year, adding to helpline 1076. & three girls on Lohia Path in old child passed away in bidities such as heart disease, tain a high index of suspicion the estimated 386 million mil- Adityanath said he will Lucknow and another was Gujarat’s Jamnagar. diabetes or respiratory prob- for children who could have lion children already in personally contact them and ratapgarh became Corona-free on Thursday taking the total manhandled at Sadar railway In fact, according to the lems. Covid-19, especially for infants extreme poverty in 2019. enquire about their well being.