: Tuesday, May 4, 2021, 9:32 PM IST It is your legal responsibility : Smriti Irani urges people to inform police, CWCs about children orphaned due to COVID-19
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As India battles a raging second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, there have been several cases of children losing their parents to the deadly infection. Meanwhile, Union Minister for Women and Child Development Smriti Irani has on Tuesday urged people to inform the police or Child Welfare Committees about children who have lost both their parents to COVID-19 and have no one to take care of them.
Taking to Twitter, Irani said, If you come to know of any child who has lost both parents to COVID and has no one to take care of her/him, inform Police or Child Welfare Committee of your district or contact Childline 1098. It is your legal responsibility.
The MHA order shall be effective till May 31
New Delhi:
The centre directed the states and Union Territories on Thursday to go for intensive and local containment measures in districts with a high number of COVID-19 cases to check the spread of the viral disease.
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), however, did not mention anything about the imposition of a lockdown anywhere in the country in the fresh guidelines issued in view of the pandemic for May.
It asked the states and Union Territories to identify the districts where either the COVID positivity rate was more than 10 per cent or the bed occupancy was over 60 per cent in the last one week. The districts fulfilling any of the above two criteria should be considered for taking intensive and local containment measures, a statement issued by the MHA said.
In a letter to states and Union Territories on Monday, Bhalla said that three sectors ampules and vials; pharmaceutical and defence forces have now been exempted from the ban order.
In a letter to states and Union Territories, Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla said that three sectors ampules and vials; pharmaceutical and defense forces have now been exempted from the ban.
New Delhi, April 26
A day after putting a ban on the use of liquid oxygen for non-medical purposes, the government on Monday allowed three sectors—ampules and vials, pharmaceutical and defence