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Under the e- 200 liquor shops run by civic Idevastating Bhopal gas plants across the affected areas token system, customers would bodies but only 50 opened tragedy, at least 11 persons died invoked haunting memories be given specific time for pur- due to overcrowding, the and nearly 250 others were hos- of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy. chasing liquor. statement said. pitalised following the leak of Scores of people fell like The system will help main- Meanwhile, the Delhi toxic styrene gas in LG logs, listless and unconscious taining social distancing and Police has also urged the Polymers’ plant at on roads and sidewalks, as the cut down on waiting time in Government to extend the tim- Gopalapatnam on the outskirts gas spread from the plant to the long queues by specifying time ings of the sale of liquor, hiring of Visakhapatnam in Andhra human habitations. Many peo- for each e-coupon holder to of private volunteers for crowd Pradesh on Thursday. ple, who developed pneumo- buy liquor at a shop. control, if needed, and opening The gas started leaking nia-like symptoms after inhal- According to an official of private liquor shops — around 2.30 am from a plant ing the gas, are on statement, the Government except those located in markets, that was reportedly being ventilators. released a web link — malls and commercial com- restarted following relaxation of On the request of Andhra ! www.Qtoken.In — where peo- plexes. Currently, the shops are the Covid-19 lockdown. The Pradesh Chief Minister ple will be designated specific allowed to open from 9 am to leak was plugged and the plant Jaganmohan Reddy, his Gujarat time for purchasing liquor after 6.30 pm. brought under control some counterpart Vijay Rupani gave they fill personal details. The e- Delhi has 864 liquor shops three hours later. But by then, orders to chemical companies tokens will be sent on the while only 172 Government- the gas spread across at least in Vapi to send 500 kg of para- mobile phones of the registered owned shops have been five nearby villages, within a tertiary butyl catechol (PTBC) persons, it said. allowed to operate following radius of five kilometres, affect- chemical by road to Daman. The people will require to the MHA guidelines. ing thousands of people, most The PTBC will be used to of them in deep sleep. neutralise the gas leakage. & 1&')&1! The incident took place on 60 poverty-hit families. A team which is based in village Tetla, A night shift maintenance Wednesday night at Shakti of forensic experts are exam- had been closed since late worker had discovered the # + $, even workers fell ill, three of Papers Mill in a rural pocket, ining the site to ascertain the March this year when a nation- leak from a tank. Sthem seriously, after inhal- about 250 km from Raipur. exact cause of the accident. wide lockdown was enforced in According to officials, at )- R ing poisonous gas while clean- However, the factory owner did “Seven workers of the the wake of Covid-19. But the least 25 of those who have been ing up waste at a closed paper not inform the administration paper mill who were taking workers were undertaking hospitalised are in a critical Visakhapatnam: In a state- mill in Chhattisgarh’s coal-rich about the incident, which came paper waste out of an open cleanliness work without wear- condition and the possibility of ment, South Korea’s LG Chem Raigarh district on Wednesday, to light after the hospital tank complained about diffi- ing safety masks in a bid to the death toll increasing is not Ltd’s owner LG Chem said, “We officials said on Thursday. authorities alerted the police on culties in breathing and were resume operation at the unit. being ruled out. Unconfirmed are currently assessing the They fell unconscious and were Thursday, said Superintendent rushed to a local hospital. Chhattisgarh Chief reports said around 3,000 per- extent of the damage and are rushed to hospital. One work- of Police Santosh Kumar Singh. Three of them were taken to Minister Bhupesh Baghel took sons, including those admitted taking all necessary steps to er has been put on ventilator at A case has been registered Raipur for urgent medical serious note of the incident and in hospitals, have fallen sick protect residents and employ- Raipur’s MMI Hospital and against the mill management. attention,” the SP told The directed the local administra- due to the poisonous gas. ees,” said. The company said it his condition was stated to be The gas leak sparked panic Pioneer over phone. tion to provide all possible # ! Its impact on cattle and is investigating the leak. critical. in nearby areas housing about He said the paper mill, help to the workers. $ % & ' 2 +3 4 &'( )& % #"( has made it mandatory of 20 ' ' $ 8/(/:!' * days quarantine for returning migrant labourers and stu- wo BSF jawans and one & 1&8!' dents. Also, the migrant labour- TCISF man died of Covid-19 # $% ers and students are thorough- even as paramilitary forces harkhand is said to be among ly checked at railway stations. A battled to contain the spread of Jthe safer zones in comparison health official requesting coronavirus in their ranks. The % to other States in terms of anonymity said, “Thermal number of positive cases in the spread of coronavirus. So much scanner of every returning per- Central paramilitary forces &''()* so, that only one per cent of son is being done. Also those increased by 100 during the last total samples tested here has returning from outside state 24 hours, taking the total to & 8/(/:!' found to be positive. In have been put on 20 days quar- nearly 500. Jharkhand till date, 15,926 sam- antine, however, still we can’t The BSF on Thursday he deadly coronavirus caus- ples have been tested and out of ignore the risk as there are reported 41 new cases, taking Ting Covid-19 continue to which 15,799 samples report is )*+, chances that infection can the total count of active cases spread its tentacles across the negative. spread from them as there is no in its ranks to 193. country infecting over 56,325 State Health Secretary, Dr resources to man them round The two deaths that it persons while claiming over Nitin Madan Kulkarni said, behind them, people who may Jharkhand are in the “Orange the clock.” reported are the first in the BSF 1,846 lives till Thursday night. “Out of total samples tested have been exposed to the virus Zone” of novel coronavirus. The Jharkhand government ranks due to corona virus The country added 3,318 new ( )*+,! only one per cent samples are to be followed for 28 days The rest 14 districts are in the to check the spread of virus has infection. cases and 61 more death dur- ! report is positive. “ However, from the date of the probable Green Zone. provided 10 days ration to A Head Constable of the ing the day. - ' the health secretary said that last exposure/arrival from However, despite rosy pic- every migrant labourers return- CISF deployed in Mumbai died However, the worst is yet to most of samples which were affected place. tures for Jharkhand the State is ing. Moreover, every individual on Thursday morning. There come with AIIMS-Delhi time only we will know how ber of positive cases to 3,427 tested are through contact trac- Moreover, Jharkhand’s dou- on alert mode as with influx of is monitored through modern are 32 active cases in the CISF Director Dr Randeep Guleria much they are effective and the while 6 deaths took the death ing. Contact tracing is an inte- bling rate is also much better migrant labourers the virus is technology and traditional across the country. on Thursday ringing alarm effect of extending the lock- toll to 99. gral part of fighting the epi- than nation average. ‘likely’ to spread. In last five social policing. Those returning “A critically ill patient died bell as he said that as per the down,” said Dr Guleria. Telangana reported 15 new demic on the ground. Contact Jharkhand’s virus doubling rate days, 20600 migrant labourers are registered to Sahayata App. who had contracted Covid modeling data and the way Maharashtra has the high- cases on Thursday, taking the tracing is the process of iden- is 27.8 days which is better than and students have returned to Those returning back location while visiting clinics for his India’s Covid-19 cases are est number of cases — 17,914 tally to 1,122 including 400 tifying, assessing and managing national average. The state to the State from across the coun- is also traced whether they treatment.

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