Truth in true form RNI Regd NO: ODIENG/2019/77780 BHUBANESWAR www.aroundodisha.com VOLUME - 2 ISSUE - 297 PRICE- Rs.2/- SATURDAY 22 MAY 2021 Mamata Banerjee To 2 Take over ODCL for 3 ...............Jannik Sinner shows 6 Arjun Kapoor, Parineeti Chopra- 7 Contest From COVID vaccine shades of the Big starrer Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar is Bhawanipur Seat production: BJP Three now streaming on Amazon Prime CM Inaugurates 150 Bedded Dedicated Covid Hospital At Puri PM Modi gets emotional as he pays tribute: Bhubaneswar, May 21: occasion, Chief Minis- with oxygen pipeline, and our general on Video Conferencing, Chief Minister Naveen ter Patnaik said that the and oxygen beds would wellbeing, he added. He Health Minister Naba ‘Coronavirus snatched many loved ones from us’ Patnaik today dedicated hospital will be helpful in be further increased if further said that last Das highlighted the steps a 150 bedded District providing better medical required. He thanked year in the first wave, taken by the govern- Covid Hospital in the care to critical Covid the Institute of Medical despite the economic ment to contain the pan- premises of Shri patients of the district Sciences & Sum Hos- impact, we contained demic. School & Mass Jagannath Medical Col- and they would not have pital Bhubaneswar for the virus with greater education Minister lege at Puri through the to look for hospitals in coming forward to team success. This year in the Sameer Ranjan Das, virtual platform. Built in Bhubaneswar or up with the State Gov- second wave, we have Sports & Youth Ser- collaboration with Sum Cuttack. The entire ex- ernment for this Covid- so far been able to con- vices Minister Tushar Hospital Bhubaneswar, penditure for the opera- care facility. Saying that tain it largely. The re- Kanti Behera thanked covery rate is also im- the Chief Minister for proving, he added. Chief the Covid hospital in Minister said that we Puri. Deputy Chairman have a robust Covid in- of State Planning Board frastructure and are Sanjay Das Burma said working to improve it people of Puri will be further. The government greatly benefited by this New Delhi, May 21: Prime Minister Banaras, and even some parts of is making every possible facility. Puri MP Pinaki Narendra Modi Friday broke down Bihar. So the pressure on the health effort to provide best Mishra spoke on the dy- while expressing condolences to the system here has come up as a great treatment facilities and namic leadership of Chief families of those who died of Covid challenge,” he said. Hailing the tire- save precious lives, he Minister in providing oxy- during the second wave of the virus. less job done by the health workers, informed. Appealing the gen support to different With the country grappling with the he said, “We are meeting this chal- people to follow all States. The function was crisis, PM Modi got emotional while lenge with the hard work of doctors, Covid norms to beat the attended by WODC virtually reviewing the Covid situation health workers.” Remarking that the pandemic, Patnaik said Chairman Asit Tripathy, in Uttar Pradesh’s Kashi with doc- fight against the virus is still far from that the success in con- Chief Secretary Suresh tors and frontline workers working being over, he pointed out that the taining this pandemic Chandra Mohapatra and there. “Corona has snatched many of rural areas of Banaras and Purvanchal lies in checking the vi- ACS Health PK our loved ones from us. I pay my re- need a lot of attention. “By creating a the facility has 90 Gen- tion of the Covid hospi- this is a very challenging rus and breaking its Mohapatra, and Super- spects to all those people, express my micro-containment zone on the prin- eral Oxygen Beds, 40 tal will be borne from time for all of us in the chain. The Chief Minis- intendent Sum Hospital condolences to their families,” the ciple of ‘where there is sick, there is HDU beds and 20 ICU Chief Minister’s Relief country, the CM said ter appreciated the Dr P Samantasinghar. prime minister said, his voice chok- treatment’, the way medicines are beds. It is also equipped Fund, the Chief Minis- that this pandemic has people of Odisha for the Puri Collector gave the ing. He added that the second wave being distributed in the cities and vil- with a high-quality labo- ter announced. He created a huge humani- cooperation in the fight welcome address and of coronavirus has built huge pressure lages is a very good initiative. This ratory and diagnostics added that all the beds tarian crisis. It’s a threat against the pandemic. ADM offered the vote of on the country’s health system. “Kashi campaign has to be further expanded,” facility. Speaking on the have been connected to our lives, our health, Joining the programme thanks. is the centre of healthcare in the whole he added. IAS Officer Venugopal Sarma Appointed As Cyclone Yaas Likely To Make Landfall Between North Odisha, Bangladesh Coast Bhubaneswar, May Disaster Management areas ensuring that Member Of Board Of Revenue In Odisha 21: The possible cy- Authority (NDMA) none of the boats re- ficer CJ Venugopal is clonic storm over the held a discussion with main in the sea by to- allowed to remain in Bay of Bengal is likely various states today morrow evening, said additional charge as the to make landfall in and reviewed the pre- Jena. All other prepa- Chief Resident Com- between north Odisha paredness, the SRC ratory measures re- missioner, Government and Bangladesh coast informed that Odisha quired for evacuation, of Odisha, New Delhi on May 26, informed has taken up several shelter management, in addition to his own Special Relief Com- preparatory measures post-cyclone restora- duties, a release by missioner (SRC), in association with the tion are in full swing. General Administration Odisha, Pradeep district Collectors and Odisha Disaster & Public Grievance Kumar Jena on Fri- Bengal. It is likely to May 26. Jena how- SPs, line depart- Rapid Action Force Department said today. day. Jena said that as intensify into a de- ever said that the ex- ments, telecom op- (ODRAF), National With the new reshuffle, per the latest informa- pression by May 23 act path, location of erators, electricity de- Disaster Response Bhubaneswar, May 21: replacing CJ the additional appoint- tion received from the and into a cyclonic the landfall, speed, in- partment, distribution Force (NDRF), and In a bureaucratic re- Venugopal. Further, ment of IAS Officer India Meteorological storm by May 24. It tensity, and likely im- companies, and other Odisha Fire Services shuffle in Odisha, the IAS Officer CJ Sudershan Pal Thakur Department (IMD), a is expected to move pact of the cyclonic stakeholders. The personnel are being State Government to- Venugopal has been ap- (RR-1986) as Chief Low Pressure Area is northwestwards and storm, including rain- State Government is mobilised and they day appointed IAS Of- pointed as the Chief Administrator shall going to evolve by to- may touch the land- fall, have not yet been in touch with the will be deployed to ficer GV Venugopal Administrator of KBK. stand terminated from morrow in the north mass in between the predicted; it is still un- Coast Guards. They vulnerable areas in the Sarma as the Member The 1988-batch the date CJ Venugopal Andaman sea and north Odisha coast der assessment. Stat- are now patrolling the appropriate time, he of Board of Revenue Odisha cadre IAS Of- takes over. east central Bay of and Bangladesh on ing that the National deep and shallow sea added. Odisha’s Global Vaccine Tender: Cabinet Approves Changes In T&Cs 11 Black Fungus Cases Detected In Odisha; 1 Dead Bhubaneswar, May 21: bal e-tender was floated positive signal to the sell- der who has quoted the der excluding GST. All Bhubaneswar, May 21: The Odisha Cabinet in its on May 14 while the pre- ers. Relaxation in EMD, lowest basic price in Bills bidders will be treated in- Black fungus or mucor- meeting today approved bid meeting was held on bid security and liquidated Of Quantity (BOQ), out dependently. In terms of mycosis has become an- the amendments made to May 19. Basing on the damage has been pro- of the rest bidders for that award of contract, it was other cause of concern the terms & conditions of queries of bidders and to vided to attract the bid- item. Since each vaccine previously stipulated that amidst the devastating state government’s global make the participation of 50% of the total tender second wave of tender for procurement of bidders more flexible, quantity shall be allocated COVID-19 pandemic 3.80 crore doses of amendments were incor- to the L1 bidder and the with 11 cases of the seri- ported from different fungus as a notifiable dis- COVID-19 vaccine. To porated as suggested by balance 50% to be split ous fungal infection de- parts of the state, all are ease under the Epidemic facilitate the participation the designated committee among L2, L3, L4 and so tected in Odisha so far. being treated in Diseases Act. “Mucor- of manufacturers of vac- of Odisha State Medical on at negotiated rates. To As per the Health De- Bhubaneswar. “The state mycosis or black fungus cines in the bidding, the Corporation Limited make the participation partment sources, 11 Government has sought has been included as a storage condition has (OSMCL). Keeping the flexible, a potential bidder cases of black fungus health documents of these notifiable disease by ex- been revised up to minus overall view of vaccinat- will be allowed to apply have been detected in the patients from the con- ercising the power con- 20°C, subject to the con- ing the targeted population ders.