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Arunachal Pradesh imposes stricter restrictions as double mutant coronavirus detected in state
The Arunachal Pradesh government on Saturday imposed stricter restrictions, including the extension of curfew hours, after double mutant coronavirus was detected in the state, an official said. As per the new decision taken in a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Pema Khandu, a curfew would be clamped from 3 pm to 5 am across the state and all shops and business establishments have been asked to down their shutters by 2 pm, Principal Secretary, Health, Dr Sharat Chauhan told reporters.
At present, a curfew is imposed from 6 pm to 5 am across the state.
Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan
BHUBANESWAR: Union petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday said the public sector undertakings (PSUs) should procure vaccines from the open market and vaccinate its employees along with people above 18 years from the civil society. He said this while reviewing the Covid-19 management and emergency preparedness in Odisha.
“I encouraged all our PSUs to take the lead in procuring vaccines from the open market under the liberalised and accelerated Phase 3 for inoculating their human capital as well as people above 18 in the civil society to further speed up the vaccination drive in Odisha,” said Pradhan.
The review meeting was attended by senior management of all the PSUs operating in Odisha, captains of healthcare and financial institutions and senior officials of the Odisha government. Besides, Rajya Sabha MP Ashwini Vaishnaw, directors of ICMR-Regional Medical Research Centre (RMRC), AIIMS Bhubaneswar and ILS Bhubaneswar also attend
Meanwhile, the State government has rushed senior government officials to the affected districts to monitor the situation.
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BHUBANESWAR: Odisha is expected to witness a steep rise in coronavirus cases between April 15 and 25, and hit the peak of second wave by end of the month. As per a preliminary projection by three organisations, including ICMR, IIT-Bhubaneswar and Johns Hopkins University of the US, a health official said the daily caseload could touch 5,000 at its peak and the number may be sustained for a period of three weeks.
“The cases have been projected in view of the rising trend in the last one week. It may vary as the actual data comes in. The projection made by the same model closely matched the last year’s actual outcome,” he said and maintained that it will be difficult to predict the fatalities as the infection is spreading fast with less or no deaths in the State.