COVID in rural India poses parallel health care crisis
Millions of people living in underdeveloped areas outside India s cities are contracting COVID without access to treatment. Villagers have been flocking to stuffed city hospitals, raising transmission risks.
A makeshift crematorium in a rural area in India s West Bengal
India s coronavirus crisis is spreading outside major cities, with rural districts in at least 10 states recording a surge of cases and deaths in April.
Rural districts recorded more COVID-related deaths than urban districts for the first time last month, despite urban areas having higher overall cases, according to the How India Lives data repository.
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
30 April 2021
India: Bangalore sanitation workers protest for personal protective equipment
Sanitation workers in Bangalore, the Karnataka state capital, protested on Tuesday to demand personal protective equipment, such as masks and gloves, whilst at work. The sanitation workers, popularly known as pourakarmikas, are frontline employees, daily exposed to possible infection from COVID-19 and its variants.
Workers said they were forced to handle dangerous and hazardous medical waste with their bare hands and that many households did not separate their waste. The highly exploited, mainly female employees complained that they do not have access to toilets, sanitisers or canteens during working hours.
Uttar Pradesh, M.P. and Rajasthan get maximum grants in last three years
April 30, 2021
The Centre has released ₹79,403.73 crore to the States under mission
In the last three years (2017-18 to 2019-20), the Central government has released ₹79,403.73 crore to the States under National Health Mission (NHM) and Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan are the top three States to get maximum grants followed by Maharashtra and Assam.
These top five States received 41 per cent of the total NHM grant during the period. However, Uttar Pradesh got the highest allocation of ₹12,603.21 crore, which is 16 per cent of the total allocation to all the States.
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People should follow SoPs to avoid lockdowns: Div Com
Jammu Tawi, Apr 07: Jammu Administration Wednesday termed the resurgence of COVID-19 cases as alarming saying that there is a huge spike in regular cases and that the authorities are increasing the testing facilities while people need to follow the SoPs in spirit.
Divisional Commissioner Jammu, Raghav Lahnger said that in the past three weeks, there has been a spike in the number of COVID-19 cases in the Jammu division particularly in the Jammu district and few other districts. “The daily number of 10-15 cases has gone up to around 350 of which the highest figures are from Jammu district only which is an alarming situation,” he said.
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