VIJAYAWADA, SATURDAY, MAY 29, 2021; PAGES 12 `3 RNI No.APENG/2018/764698 Established 1864 Published From VIJAYAWADA DELHI LUCKNOW BHOPAL RAIPUR CHANDIGARH BHUBANESWAR RANCHI DEHRADUN HYDERABAD *LATE CITY VOL. 3 ISSUE 193 *Air Surcharge Extra if Applicable www.dailypioneer.com New DNA vaccine for Covid-19 Raashi Khanna: Shooting abroad P DoT allocates spectrum P as India battled Covid P ’ effective in mice, hamsters 5 for 5G trials to telecom operators 8 was upsetting 12 In brief GST Council leaves tax rate on Delhi will begin AP reports 229 Black unlocking slowly from Monday, says Kejriwal Coronavirus vaccines unchanged n elhi will begin unlocking gradually fungus cases in 1 day PNS NEW DELHI from Monday, thanks to the efforts of the two crore people of The GST Council on Friday left D n the city which helped bring under PNS VIJAYAWADA taxes on Covid-19 vaccines and control the second wave, Chief medical supplies unchanged but Minister Arvind Kejriwal said. "In the The gross number of exempted duty on import of a med- past 24 hours, the positivity rate has Mucormycosis (Black fungus) cases icine used for treatment of black been around 1.5 per cent with only went up to 808 in Andhra Pradesh fungus. 1,100 new cases being reported. This on Friday with 229 cases being A group of ministers will delib- is the time to unlock lest people reported afresh in one day. erate on tax structure on the vac- escape corona only to die of hunger," “Lack of sufficient stock of med- cine and medical supplies, Finance Kejriwal said. He had announced a icine to treat the affected patients Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told lockdown on April 19 after the city has become a cause for concern,” reporters after a meeting of the recorded over a lakh cases five days officials of the Health Department GST Council. on a trot till then. "Today there was a told Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan The GST Council, which is meeting with the disaster management Reddy during a review meeting on headed by the Union Finance authority. Everyone is of the opinion Covid-19 on Friday evening. Minister and comprises represen- Also, the panel decided that the small GST taxpayers through an we must open slowly, slowly. There They said that 3,445 new vials tatives of all states and union ter- Centre will borrow Rs 1.58 lakh amnesty scheme for late return fil- has to be some balance," he said. have reached the State taking the ritories, exempted levy of I-GST on crore and pass it on to the states to ers. stock to 5,200, pointing out that import of Amphotericin-B, which make up for the shortfall in their Meanwhile, Delhi Deputy Chief Actor Hooda removed this was not even 10 percent of the 16 health hubs to come up in AP is used for the treatment of black revenues from the implementation Minister Manish Sisodia said that requirement. PNS n VIJAYAWADA Jaganmohan Reddy on Friday fungus. of the GST. many finance ministers of BJP- as UN ambassador over So far, the Centre sent 5,200 lipo- said that health hubs should be set Currently, vaccines attract 5 per A special session of the Council ruled states strongly protested the somal Amphotericin-B injections Pointing out that people from up at district headquarters and cent GST. will be held soon to consider proposal put up by Delhi to make ‘joke’ on Mayawati to the state, but that was not even Andhra Pradesh are going to corporations to provide such ter- Sitharaman said the Council extending the five-year GST short- essential coronavirus supplies tax- ctor Randeep Hooda has been 10 percent of the requirement, a Bengaluru, Hyderabad and tiary care. decided to continue a waiver of I- fall compensation period to states free. removed as the ambassador release from the CMO quoted the Chennai for tertiary care and 2 GST on free Covid-19 related sup- beyond 2022. 2 A of Convention for the officials as telling the Chief treatment, Chief Minister YS plies imported from abroad. The panel provided relief to Conservation of Migratory Species of Minister. Wild Animals (CMS), United Nation's The Chief Minister said at least Since the injections were not into alternatives. environmental treaty, following the 40,000 injections would be required available in the required quantity, controversy over his derogatory in a week, based on the caseload. he asked the health officials to look 2 comments against Bahujan Samaj Naidu reiterates Party chief Mayawati. Hooda has been under fire since Wednesday when a ‘Bharat Ratna nine-year-old video of him making a "joke", which social media users AP makes PSA plants Task force for to NTR’ demand termed casteist and sexist, went viral PNS n VIJAYAWADA online. The 43-second-clip from an event in 2012 resurfaced when a paediatric TDP national president N Twitter user shared it. The video has must for pvt hospitals Chandrababu Naidu paid rich Hooda cracking a joke and then Covid cases tributes to party founder and laughing along with the audience. PNS n VIJAYAWADA former chief minister late NT Rama Rao on the occasion of The Andhra Pradesh government constituted the latter's 98th birth anniver- Take care of on Friday made it mandatory for PNS n VIJAYAWADA sary. children orphaned by private hospitals and nursing Naidu appealed to the Central homes to instal Pressure Swing The State government on Friday Government to confer Bharat Covid: SC to States Adsorption (PSA) technology oxy- constituted a task force to deal with TDP resolves to offer Ratna on NTR in recognition of he Supreme Court today came to gen plants in proportion to their Covid cases among kids. his outstanding contributions to the rescue of children orphaned bed strength. The AP Paediatric Covid-19 the country's political space T during the COVID-19 lockdown, Principal Secretary (Health) Task Force Committee will be and the film industry. both national and state level, saying Anil Kumar Singhal issued an headed by APMSIDC chairman Dr ‘issue based’ support Making his opening remarks their basic needs must be taken care order, amending the Andhra with regulators in equal numbers. B Chandrasekhar Reddy who is an after garlanding NTR's photo on of by the state governments. It Pradesh Allopathic Private Medical "During the ongoing Covid-19 expert in neurosurgery. the second day of 'digital directed them to identify children who Care Establishments (Registration crisis, the government supplied Keeping in view the number of to NDA Government Mahanadu', Naidu asserted that have lost their parents or the family and Regulation) Rules, 2007, and oxygen even to private hospitals. paediatric Covid-19 cases being “conferring Bharat Ratna on breadwinner following the nationwide prescribing the minimum stan- But they charged their own rates reported in various hospitals in the PNS n VIJAYAWADA NTR would be like honouring lockdown imposed in March 2020. dards for equipment and furniture from the patients. Now we are state and to deal effectively with ourselves”. "Children in need must be taken care for hospitals based on the bed making it mandatory for them to such cases, the government had The Telugu Desam Party on Friday PAGE 2 He recalled how NTR had left of...Understand their agony and strength. instal their own PSA plants so that decided to constitute a Task Force resolved to extend issue-based an unforgettable impression on address their needs immediately," a Every hospital with more than they will be self-sufficient," a sen- to look into the issue in detail and support to the Central YSRCP has the Telugu speaking people all bench of Justices L Nageswara Rao 100 beds will have to instal a 1,000 ior health official said. suggest preventive and preparato- Government in the best interests over the world with his great and Aniruddha Bose, hearing a case Litres Per Minute (LPM) PSA The Industries Department of ry measures. of the nation and its people. betrayed farmers achievements. Born in an ordi- taken up suo motu said today. oxygen plant and those with 50 the state government is working The Committee will advise the On the concluding day of the nary family, NTR rose to the beds, a 500 LPM plant, according out a plan to extend a 30 per cent Government on all technical /med- party’s two-day annual conclave, greatest heights in film and to the order. subsidy to the private healthcare ical matters related to paediatric age organised this year as ‘Digital of AP: Naidu political careers and became a India abstains from voting The hospitals should also have establishments for installing the groups and also prepare various Mahanadu', the TDP also decided 'Yugpurush' for the people. on UNHRC resolution to oxygen concentrators equal in PSA oxygen plants. protocols including treatment pro- to adopt an intelligent strategy to Government would get the Special The TDP Mahanadu unani- number to the oxygen-supported "The Chief Minister approved tocol and conduct extensive train- make coordinated and cooperative Status for the State. Jaganmohan mously passed a resolution on probe Gaza conflict beds. this proposal and the modalities ing programmes to medical, nurs- efforts with like-minded opposi- Reddy spoke of Special Status as the occasion urging the Centre ndia was among 14 countries that The private hospitals are also are being worked out," the official ing and paramedical personnel. tion parties in Andhra Pradesh. a panacea for solving all the prob- to confer the highest civilian abstained from voting on a required to have oxygen masks added. 2 Delivering his valedictory lems of AP people but after com- award on NT Rama Rao.