eye THE SUNDAY EXPRESS MAGAZINE AHOT BOWL OF ADMEDABAD,LATECITY COMFORT 10JANUARY,2021 In times suchasthese,what 16PAGES,`5.00 makes certain kinds of food more appealing than others? DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM PAGES 13, 14, 15 JanuaryDATE DECIDED AFTER16PMisMEETINGVaccinationDayOne, 3crorehealthstaffarefirstinline Then over-50 and under-50 with co-morbidities; names to be taken from voter lists KAUNAINSHERIFFM Relativeswith their newborns afterthe fire at BhandaraDistrict General Hospital. PTI NEWDELHI,JANUARY9 THE UNION Health Ministryan- nouncedSaturdaythat the na- Mothers on floors above, 10 tionwide vaccination of priority groups will begin January16to securethem againstCovid-19, babies killed in hospital fire whichhas so farinfected more than 1crore people and killed nearly 1.5lakh. 7rescued; dead between the ages of 3days and 2months This announcement came af- terPrime MinisterNarendra Modi held ameeting to review VIVEKDESHPANDE the status of preparedness for Trucks enter the Serum InstituteofIndia premises in Pune on Saturdaymorning. PavanKhengre BHANDARA(MAHARASHTRA), thevaccination. “Afterthe de- JANUARY9 tailedreview, it wasdecidedthat in viewofthe forthcoming festi- IT WASthe firstchild fortribal vals including Lohri, Makar Power to Rail, Defence Covaxin volunteer dies couple Geeta,20, and Sankranti, Pongal, Magh Bihu, Vishwanath Behere, 22, of the Covid-19vaccination will to Education —all gears in Bhopal, firm says no Bhojapur villageadjacent to startfromJanuary16, 2021,”the Bhandaracity near Nagpur,born Ministrysaid. ayear-and-a-half aftertheir In the initial phase, priority move for the rollout link to vaccine, placebo marriage. Weighing only830 gm will be giventoanestimated 3 at birth, on November 10,their crorehealthcareworkers and daughter nevermade it home, or frontline workers. PRABHARAGHAVAN, IRAMSIDDIQUE got aname. She wasamong the Charredremains of SNCU equipment afterthe fire. PTI This rollout datecomes less PRANAVMUKUL& SUNDAY BHOPAL,JANUARY9 10 infants, aged between three than aweek afterthe drug regu- ANILSASI STORY days and twomonths, killedina lator granted accelerated ap- NEWDELHI,JANUARY9 A45-YEAR-OLD daily-wage fire at the BhandraDistrict Neonatal unit cleared proval fortwo vaccines — PAGE 8 worker,who participated in the General Hospital's SickNeonatal Oxford-AstraZeneca’s Covishield AS MANY as 20 Ministries, from Phase 3trial forBharat Biotech- CareUnit (SNCU) around 1.30 and Covaxin by Bharat Biotech PowertoRailways,Defence and ICMR’s Covaxin in Bhopal at the am on Saturday. The sevenre- without fire audit, appeal and the ICMR, the latter vaccine Labour to Civil Aviation and over People’s Medical Collegeand maining newborns in the unit, in acontrolled“clinical trial twodozen state-leveldepart- Hospital, diedDecember 21,nine all girls, were rescued. mode” giventhat itsefficacy data ments, from police to education: days afterhegot the firstjab, ac- Tears pouring, Geeta,who for equipment pending is pending. an unprecedented official ma- cording to hospital records. lastsaw her daughter on Friday Healthcareworkers and chineryisbeing cranked up for The postmortemreportof evening, sat among relativestoo frontline workers will be fol- the Centre’s Covid-19vaccine Deepak Marawi, afather of dazedtospeak,ortorespond to TABASSUM Latest lowedbythose above 50 years of distribution effort. three, suspected “poisoning” as a effortstoconsole her. BARNAGARWALA hospital ageand those under-50 with co- As Prime MinisterNarendra Needle in cause. Bharat Biotech,inastate- Marawi, 45, wasfather of Vishwanath, who had justone MUMBAI,JANUARY9 E ● fire morbidities —these number Modi meets Chief Ministers ment, said that the “serious ad- three and adailywager. glimpse of his daughter,atbirth, EXPLAINED around 27 crore, the Health Mondaytodiscuss the rollout, the haystack verse reaction” had been “thor- Iram Siddique sawher forthe second time ly- ARS1.52 CRORE proposal to in- Ministrysaid. this pan-government mobilisa- oughlyinvestigated”and was ing dead in the hospital, on rush- stall anew fire safetysystemat THE BHANDARA hospital Morethan 79 lakh potential tion is comparable to the prepa- found “notrelated to vaccine or ing thereat4amfollowing acall, the BhandaraDistrict General fire is the latestinaseries vaccine recipientshavealready ration ahead of ageneral election. to conduct vaccination sessions placebo”. Astate government time of enrolment, “had fulfilled with “twoburn marks”. Hospital, where10babies died of suchincidents, includ- been registeredonthe flagship The Union PowerMinistry at itshospitals, dispensaries and panel, too, ruledout any“lapses.” all the inclusion and exclusion Breaking down, Vishwanath, in ablaze early Saturdaymorn- ing at Covid centres in Co-WIN IT platform, whichwill has been instructedto coordinate other premises, will do “vaccine Bharat Biotech said it could- criteria” and wasreportedtobe who worksasalabourer,says ing, has been pending with the Gujarat. Afterevery such provide real-time information of with statediscomstoensureun- branding” on railway tickets n’t confirm if Marawireceived healthyinall the “sitefollowup theywereexpecting her to re- stategovernment forseven incident, thereare prom- vaccine stocks and will trackin- interruptedelectricity supplyat while the Labour Ministrywill the vaccine or the placebo since calls postseven days of dosing.” turn home in around aweek. months. Meanwhile, setupin ises of action. Families dividual recipients. vaccine storagepointsand ses- conduct vaccination sessions it wasadouble-blind study.It “Thereare severalfactors that “She wasborn underweight at a 2015,the SickNeonatal Care who losttheir newborns CONTINUEDONPAGE2 sion sites. The Railways,whichis CONTINUEDONPAGE2 addedthat the volunteer,atthe CONTINUEDONPAGE2 private hospital, and had to be Unit (SNCU) wherethe babies will hope that this time, it rushedstraight to the District diedhad had onlyone mockfire will go pastlip-service. Hospital. She had been gaining drill, backin2016-17, as per a weight and was1.3 kg now. She district official. wasset fordischarge on attain- Bhandaradistrict authorities DRIVERS, GUARDS ing 1.5kg.” Vishwanath adds that were also yettoget afireaudit PITCH IN FOR RESCUE Chinese soldier crosses SC hearing tomorrow: Punjab theyhad even arguedwith the done at the hospital, despitea PAGE 10 LAC south of Pangong ready to challenge farm laws CONTINUEDONPAGE2 CONTINUEDONPAGE2 WORLD Gujarat records its first Tso, in Army custody tionedinListII(StateList) of the KANCHANVASDEV& Constitution of India and fall un- tigated.Further details are ANANTHAKRISHNANG der the exclusive domain of the confirmed case of avian KRISHNKAUSHIK awaited,” the Armysaid. CHANDIGARH,NEWDELHI, stategovernment,the NEWDELHI,JANUARY9 South Pangong Tsoisone of JANUARY9 Government of India had en- the areas whereonlyafew hun- acted the three farm laws under flu, nine more birds dead ACHINESE soldier,who had dred metres separatetroops of WITH TALKSbetween the provisions related to agriculture crossedthe Line of Actual the twocountries. Centreand farmer unions op- marketing mentionedinListIII Control south of Pangong Tsoin In Augustlastyear,Indian posedtothe newagriculture (Concurrent List). EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE eastern Ladakh, wasappre- troops surprisedthe Chinese by laws failing to makeany head- Being acentral legislation, INDONESIA JET WITH RAJKOT,JANUARY9 hendedbythe Indian Armyin occupying dominating heights way, and the Supreme Court Adharna at Reliance Mall in the stategovernment,hesaid, 62 GOES MISSING ON the early hours of Friday. on the south bank of Pangong scheduledtohear Mondaya Ludhiana. GurmeetSingh had limited options under DOMESTIC FLIGHT GUJARATRECORDED itsfirst In astatement Saturday, the Tso, and in the largerChushul clutchofpetitions related to the Article 254(2) of the confirmedcases of birdflu as Armysaid the “PLAsoldier had sub-sector. matter,the Punjab government Constitution and it had exercised MUTED, ISOLATED, samples of afew of the 55 birds transgressedacross the LACand Indian troops positioned said Saturdayithad finalisedpe- Amarinder Singh said state that with the Punjab assembly TRUMP FACES that were found dead at Kharo wastaken intocustody by Indian themselvesonGurung Hill, titions to challengethe newly AdvocateGeneral Atul Nanda passing Bills to amend the cen- IMPEACHMENT dam in Junagadh district earlier troops” deployedinthe area. Magar Hill, Mukhpari, Rechin La enacted laws. had already prepared and fi- tral laws.Asper the lawofthe PAGE 12 this month tested positive forthe “Troops from either side are and Rezang La. Theynow have Also Saturday, the nalisedpetitions to challengethe land, anyBill passedbythe state infection, government officials deployedalong the LACsince direct viewofChina’s Moldo Consortium of Indian Farmers three central Acts. assembly, he said, aremandato- said Saturday. Aworkersprays disinfectants friction eruptedlastyear due to Garrison, and the strategic Associations (CIFA) approached “Since these Acts impact the rilyrequired to be sent to the While therehas been no re- at agovernment-run poultry unprecedented mobilisation and Spanggur Gap, whichcan be the Supreme Court, seeking to be livesand futureofour farmers, Governor who, afterstudying it, EXPRESS NETWORK portofinfection in poultrybirds, farm at Makarba. File forwardconcentration by usedtolaunchoffensives—as heardagainstthe challengeto all decisions will be takencare- CONTINUEDONPAGE2 so far,