2 3 <=#"8# ($;,$>%#"# #!,$>%#"#> .:+*67.(-5! 4&'&4'! 846/(9 5467 8"#!%B =8 F GC .=' =C.DC ' 5 .C 'C8 '5' 85 =8 B C ' CCBC8 C 5 D ' E 7 D ? # $46;*@"..)- *0A ? #$#( "#$" "' #33 <' R !"# Health expert said the timely lockdown did not only help the Government to break he national Capital may be the chain, it also put all the Tstruggling to get its quota available resources to tackle the of oxygen from the Centre, but disease effectively. timely lockdown seemed to The Delhi Government have saved Delhi from a much has used the lockdown period bigger catastrophe. to strengthen the health ser- When the first lockdown vices to tackle the pandemic. It was imposed on April 26, Delhi has added more than 12,000 had a positivity rate of 35 per beds in hospitals during the Modi came in Delhi, more cent, which come down to period and 1,200 oxygen beds than 50 per cent of its Union 21.67 per cent on Sunday. The will be added by May 10, of and State Cabinets are former lockdown has really worked. which 500 oxygen beds’ facili- imanta Biswa Sarma is Congress leaders, be it Delhi recorded 273 coron- ty will be set up at Ramlila Hthe third former Congress Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh, avirus deaths on Sunday, the Maidan opposite Lok Nayak ! " $%&"" "" " leader to be anointed as the Goa, Tripura, and elsewhere. lowest since April 21. The Hospital. " ' Chief Minister of a BJP-ruled “There will now be three 13,336 fresh cases recorded Further, 500 oxygen beds State in North-East. BJP-ruled States in North-East on Sunday meant a huge dip in will be added in GTB Hospital Arunachal Pradesh CM where Chief Minister are for- the incidence of the Covid-19 while 200 ICU beds will be Prema Khandu and Manipur mer Congressman; viz Assam: infection. added in Radha Soami Satsang / , CM N Biren Singh are the Himanta Biswa, Arunachal: Beas Covid Care Centre. other two former Congressmen Prema Khandu, Manipur: N $% Delhi Chief Minister who are holding the fort for the Biren Singh,” tweeted Congress &'&'(&) Arvind Kejriwal on "- BJP. spokesperson and Rajya Sabha Sunday said, “We have used A senior Congress leader member Abhishek Manu this lockdown period to pointed out since 2014 when Singhvi. # ! strengthen our health resources %% # down will be stricter and the ! and infrastructure. New oxygen Delhi Metro will not be plying " State, Sarma is set to take oath Central Ministry and “maybe him “freedom to outline and beds were prepared in many elhi Chief Minister Arvind from May 10,” he said. as the 15th Chief Minister of elected to the Rajya Sabha suggest a role that suits him”. !! places.” DKejriwal on Sunday “When last month Covid ssam on Sunday saw the Assam at a simple ceremony on from Assam.” Sonowal, who was sports “The biggest problem that extended the ongoing lock- cases rapidly surged in Delhi, Aliteral realisation of the Monday in Gauwhati. The outgoing Chief Minister at the Centre before he #$ ! Delhi faced was shortage of down in the national Capital we witnessed just how dan- BJP’s campaign song “Aahise This is perhaps for the Minister proposed the name of was hand-picked by Prime oxygen. In the past few days, for another week — up to May gerous this particular wave aahise Himanta aahise” herald- first time in the BJP politics that Sarma as a legislative party Minister Modi as Assam CM in the oxygen situation has 17 morning. Metro train ser- was. With an alarming number ing the coming of Himanta a seating Chief Minister who leader. But it was not before 2916, is not inclined to cut his "$ ! improved following the direc- vices will not ply during the of people facing serious con- Biswa Sarma. The wily and led his party to victory has been Himanta Sarma drove to umbilical chord with his home tions by the Supreme Court period. ditions, needing hospitalisa- resourceful troubleshooter for made to make way for a Sonowal’s home amid a report State that would allow an “over- and High Court and Centre’s Kejriwal said the decision tion, ICU beds and many lost the BJP in the North-East new face. that the Chief Minister was ambitious” Sarma to help. Now, we are not facing a was taken based on public their lives. We were thus com- pipped the low-key gentle Sonowal who resigned as unhappy over the treatment undercut his clout in the P situation like only two hours of feedback and under compul- pelled to impose a lockdown politician Sarbananda Sonowal Chief Minister soon after BJP’s meted out to him. State polity, said a State leader oxygen are left in one hospital sion only to stem the spread of on April 20. Cases were on a in the Chief Minister’s race. central observer Narendra “Sonowal may also be who spoke of “unhappiness” in ! and someone dying because of Covid-19. “The Government is steady rise, and owing to the With the blessing of Home Singh Tomar announced the given a significant role in the the Sonowal camp over side- shortage of oxygen. We have extending the lockdown for lockdown and many other rea- Minister Amit Shah at the “unanimous” election of Sarma North-East affair,” said sources lining of a Chief Minister who made several attempts during another week. We must sons, on April 26 the positivi- Centre and the support of the as BJP’s legislature party leader who were quick to add that the led party to a successive the lockdown to improve our remember that ‘Jaan Hai Toh ty rate increased to 35 per cent,” majority of the MLAs in the is expected to be moved to the the central leadership has given victory. " !! own system,” he added. Jahan Hai’, therefore, this lock- he said. ) & ' ( ) # " #%#$" &()*+,-.+0 * !"!# !$"%#%% ! * kept them in their homes as a ities registered across Punjab in Barnala, Faridkot, Kapurthala, &'!%!( precaution”. the past 24 hours. and Mansa; and two each from !%!##( #%&*+ isting a host of complaints The Minister asked that ecord 191 people suc- With 22 deaths and whop- Fatehgarh Sahib, Moga, and !#((#$#"!#" Lagainst Covid-19 manage- such people who are “hoarding Rcumbed to the deadly ping 1729 fresh cases, Ludhiana Tarn Taran, as per the health !#%, ment in Uttar Pradesh, Union cylinders unnecessarily” and Covid-19 contagion in Punjab not only reported the highest bulletin. + Minister Santosh not allowing on Sunday, with five districts number of casualties, but also The state’s active cases also "1 2" Gangwar on Sunday needy to use reporting half of the total casu- the highest ever single day rose up to 74,343 — accounting ##3# wrote a letter to them, must be alties. cases reported by any district. for 16.82 percent of the total 4,54,%#-.! 1 ment at the Base Hospital here. Chief Minister Yogi “identified”. Recording a positivity rate Ludhiana is closely fol- confirmed cases — of which a &"$%!(% Co-morbidities were present in Adityanath and “People are of 14.81 percent on Sunday, the lowed by Amritsar with 20 massive number of 9384 patients (!$%(# most cases of deaths, sources spoke of official apa- selling cylinders State registered 8,531 fresh deaths; Patiala with 18; are on oxygen support while #!$"!!#"# . said here on Sunday. thy, hoarding of at arbitrary cases pushing the infection Bathinda and Mohali 17 each; another 296 critical patients are !(//,0$!! They, however, clarified oxygen cylinders, prices”, he fur- tally to 4,42,125. The state’s Ropar 14; Sangrur and on ventilator support. 11,2$#"$# ) that no serving personnel and plight of ther said in his death toll currently stood at Jalandhar 12 each; Fazilka and No less than 10 districts !$"!$%, undergoing treatment for patients. letter. 10,506 at the case fatality rate Muktsar with nine deaths each. reported a higher positivity Covid-19 in the national In his letter, Gangwar also Gangwar said ventilators of 2.38 per cent. Besides, seven deaths were rate than that of the state with $" # 3%# %' ( Capital succumbed to it in the mentioned that his home con- and monitors are being sold Eight of the state’s total 22 recorded from Gurdaspur; six Bathinda registering 812 fresh "% "#" last few weeks. Incidentally, stituency Bareilly is facing a “one and half times more the districts reported deaths in each from Hoshiarpur and cases at the positivity rate of --6(7$$!#! more than 98 per cent of the “huge shortage of empty oxy- rate” and demanded that “this two-digit figures and account Ferozepur; four from 23.48 percent. ("#($##(%# serving soldiers and officers of gen cylinders” as “people have needs to stop”. for 69 per cent of the total fatal- Pathankot; three each from Continued on Page 2 #%&*+#!# rmed forces are also falling the three Services have under- $""%%#!% Aprey to corona with veter- gone the two-dose vaccina- "%#!#$# ans among them reporting tion course. 4 56!("#( alarming fatalities while the Keeping in view the per- *+, $%( !#% serving lot battling it out in sisting tense situation at the %, %#!#"! hospitals and home isolation. Line of Actual Control (LAC) !#%("#($##" At present, nearly 200 per- in Eastern Ladakh, the Army (($!" sonnel from the three Services has ensured that all its troops -. + , ! %#$#%$!# are testing corona positive deployed at the frontline are #"#(##" every day all over the country. vaccinated, they said. According to the latest data !, Moreover, these numbers per- As many as 119 armed fragile supply chain and such a ufacturing faster,” Bourla wrote available from the Union tain to the last few weeks force personnel died due to measure would even slow in a dear colleague letter post- hile many States have Health Ministry, the Union ##% "# when the second wave of the corona while 44,766 contract- ushing against the proposed down the vaccine production.