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Page9local.Qxd (Page 1) DAILY EXCELSIOR, JAMMU SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2020 (PAGE 9) Govt taking steps to strengthen Antibodies against coronavirus detectable up to BJP politicising Punjab rape agriculture sector: Modi seven months post COVID-19 onset: Study due to Bihar polls: Cong LONDON, Oct 24: COVID-19 symptoms and, as AHMEDABAD, Oct 24: and farming purposes. "More people will visit (a NEW DELHI, Oct 24: "Your party, your leaders, Hathras, Dev asked if anyone expected, a reduction to inter- The PM also inaugurated place) only when modern facili- your prime minister do not see can accuse the Punjab govern- Antibodies against the novel mediate levels thereafter," he Prime Minister Narendra Paediatric Heart Hospital at the ties are provided to tourists. The Congress today accused beyond elections and that's why, ment of threatening the victim's coronavirus follow a classic pat- added. Modi today said his Government U N Mehta Institute of Tourists want ease of living, the BJP of showing insensitivity all of a sudden, you have decid- family like UP Government did. tern with a rapid increase within Based on the findings, the is taking initiatives to strengthen Cardiology and Research Centre ease of travelling," he said. towards the Hoshiarpur rape vic- ed to make Hoshiarpur an issue," "Another reason why opposi- the first three weeks after symp- scientists said men produce the agriculture sector in the in Ahmedabad, developed at a Modi said the world's tallest tim and said the ruling party was she told reporters. tion leaders felt the need to visit toms, and detectable up to seven more antibodies on average than country so that farmers do not cost of Rs 470 crore by the Statue of Unity attracted more politicising the issue due to Drawing a distinction Hathras and not Punjab is that months post contracting the dis- women, "but levels equilibrate have to face any trouble. state's health and family welfare than 45 lakh tourists before the Bihar elections. between Hathras and Hoshiarpur the additional director general of ease, according to a new study during the resolution phase and His statement comes amid department. pandemic. Congress leader Rahul rape cases, she said while the UP said there is no rape in the which assessed 300 patients are similar between the sexes in opposition to the new farm laws Besides, he launched the "Look at the Statue of Unity Gandhi said that unlike the Uttar opposition parties felt the need to Hathras case. Can anybody say infected with the virus and 198 the months after SARS-CoV-2 by farmers' groups and political recently-completed ropeway dedicated to Sardar Saheb Pradesh government, the Punjab visit the Hathras victim's family that the Punjab Police or any post-COVID-19 volunteers. infection". parties. project on Mount Girnar, a (Vallabhbhai Patel). The world's Gvernment was not denying that due to the insensitivity of the police officer in Punjab is deny- According to the research, In the acute phase of the Modi was speaking after major tourist and pilgrim site tallest statue is becoming a huge the girl was raped and it was not Uttar Pradesh government, "they ing rape? In fact POCSO has published in the European immune response, the inaugurating three projects in near Junagadh city in the state. tourist attraction. Before the blocking justice. may not feel the same need in the been invoked," she said. Journal of Immunology, the par- researchers observed higher Gujarat- one each related to The 2.3-km long ropeway is coronavirus outbreak, over 45 He said if they did, he would case of Punjab". The Mahila Congress chief ticipants had antibodies with antibody levels in subjects with agriculture, healthcare and being touted as the longest tem- lakh people had visited it. It is a go there and fight for justice too. She claimed that the chief said while Uttar Pradesh beat up confirmed neutralisation activity more severe disease. big achievement in such a short "Unlike in UP, the minister and the DGP of Punjab media people, Punjab has not for up to six months post infec- They said age is not a con- time. It has been reopened Governments of Punjab and are personally looking into the tried to hush up this case. tion with the SARS-CoV-2 founding factor for the produc- (recently), and the number (of Rajasthan are not denying that matter and have already invoked "Where were you Nirmala virus. tion of antibodies since no sig- tourists) is increasing fast," he the girl was raped, threatening sections of the Protection of Sitharaman ji, when BJP leaders The scientists, led by Marc nificant differences were said. her family and blocking the Children from Sexual Offenses in Hathras were rallying with the Veldhoen from Instituto de observed between age groups. The Statue of Unity was course of justice. If they do, I Act (POCSO), besides standing accused and victim-shaming Medicina Molecular (IMM) in While there was a reduction inaugurated in October 2018. will go there to fight for justice," with the victim's family. Hathras' daughter who was killed Portugal, monitored the anti- in the levels of antibodies over Lauding the state govern- he tweeted. She said the chief minister so brutally? Where were you, body levels of over 300 COVID- time, the team found that there ment over the Kisan Suryoday Asking top BJP ministers has insisted on exemplary pun- why were you silent," she asked, 19 hospital patients and health- was "robust neutralisation activ- Yojana (KSY), Modi said India Nirmala Sitharaman, Prakash ishment. asserting that she was "appalled, care workers, 2500 university ity" for up to the seventh month has become a leading country in Javadekar and Harsh Vardhan The Punjab State Women's disgusted and disheartened to see staff, and 198 post-COVID vol- post-infection in a large propor- both solar production and con- where they were during the Commission and the SC the finance minister spend a lot of unteers. tion of previously virus-positive sumption. Hathras incident, Mahila Commission have taken cogni- time to raise the issue. They setup an in-house sen- screened subjects. "Gujarat was the first state in Congress chief Sushmita Dev sance and asked for a report from Separately, Rahul Gandhi sitive specific and versatile "Our work provides detailed the country that framed a said they were only raking up the the SSP in the case, she said, attacked the government on eco- COVID-19 serology test. information for the assays used, detailed policy for solar energy a Punjab rape case for political claiming that the UP government nomic issues and tweeted, "Our The study revealed that 90 facilitating further and longitu- decade ago. In 2010, when a gains in Bihar. did not even register an FIR for PM teaches India how to run per cent of subjects have dinal analysis of protective solar power plant was inaugurat- "I hope that Nirmala the offence of rape and intimi- from the truth. Millions of peo- Prime Minister, Narendra Modi addressing at the inaugura- detectable antibodies up to immunity to SARS-CoV-2," ed in Patan, nobody had imag- Sithraman ji will stop displaying dated the victim's family in the ple have lost their dignity and tion of three key projects in Gujarat, through video conferencing, seven months post contracting Veldhoen said. ined that one day India will insensitivity towards a sensitive Hathras case. livelihoods as a result." in New Delhi on Saturday. COVID-19. "Importantly, it highlights a show the way to the world for issue like this. Don't politicise it. Speaking after the BJP He cited media reports quot- It also found that age was not continued level of circulating tourism development- via video ple ropeway in Asia. 'One Sun, One World, One The nation understands that you attacked the Congress asking ing the RBI Monetary Policy a confounding factor in levels of neutralising antibodies in most conference from New Delhi. Modi held the opposition Grid'," he said. have suddenly woken up from why Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Committee meeting saying that it antibodies produced, but disease people with confirmed SARS- "In order to double the farm- responsible for the delay in com- "Today, India is a leading your deep sleep because Bihar is Gandhi Vadra had not visited may take years to regain the lost severity is. CoV-2," he added. ers' income and to reduce the pletion of the Girnar ropeway country in both solar production in election mode. Hoshiarpur like they had GDP. (PTI) "Our immune system recog- The researchers believe the production cost and their trou- project. and its use. In the last six years, nises the virus SARS-CoV-2 as next months will be critical to bles, we will have to increase The project was proposed in the country has become the harmful and produces antibodies evaluate the robustness of the our efforts with the changing 1983, and was delayed due to fifth-ranking nation in the world in response to it, which helps to immune response to SARS- Delhi's air quality continues times," he said. various reasons, most important- in solar energy production," the fight the virus," Voldhoen said. CoV-2 infection, and to find "Whether granting freedom ly due to the environmental con- PM added. "The results of this six clues for questions such as the to farmers to sell their produce cerns, before the UPA govern- He said the KSY will change months cross-sectional study duration of circulating antibod- to be ‘very poor’ anywhere in the country or cre- ment granted it conditional the lives of lakhs of farmers in a show a classic pattern with a ies and the impact of reinfection.
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