After some harrowing weeks, a glimmer of hope maybe finally emerging in India’s war against the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The graph of daily new cases as well as the more reliable graph of seven-day moving average of new cases is now showing a sustained dip. The new cases versus recoveries is also now in the green with daily recoveries now overshooting the new cases.
An important question, that has especially raged in the international media, is what has the response of the Government of India been in tackling the pandemic? The response can be summarised in eleven brackets.
The Department of Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs has started distributing an additional free 5 kg of foodgrains per person for the months of May and June, through its PDS (ration ghats) among the 66.26 lakh Antyodaya Anna Yojana .
Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and Textiles Minister Smriti Irani also made similar references on Twitter to the tweets by Mishra.
Mishra had claimed that the joint letter by 12 Opposition leaders to Prime Minister Narendra Modi contradicted the stands taken by the political parties earlier. He said Rahul Gandhi and several Congress leaders had asked the Centre to allow state governments greater say in the procurement of vaccines, including the open market sale of vaccines at marginally higher prices.
“Problem with the joint letter by opposition politicians is that no one knows when to take these leaders seriously? For they recommended one thing one day and do a complete U-turn the next day. So which suggestion to accept? And when,” said Mishra, who was associated with Modi’s 2014 Lok Sabha election campaign.
PM chairs meet of Empowered Groups: Insurance scheme for frontline workers extended by 6 months
PM chairs meet of Empowered Groups: Insurance scheme for frontline workers extended by 6 months
During a meeting of the Centre s Empowered Groups tasked with Covid-19 management, PM Modi approved the extension of the insurance scheme for healthcare and frontline workers by six more months.
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File photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo Credits: PTI)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a virtual meeting of the central government s Empowered Groups on Friday to review the Covid-19 situation. With India recording an unprecedented surge in coronavirus cases, the central and state governments have swung into action in an attempt to break the chain of transmission.
n this election, Mamata Ji tried to create false narratives. But I salute the electorate of Bengal who rejected these narratives and gave their support and blessings to BJP: JP Nadda, BJP president
KOLKATA: Bharatiya Janata Party president JP Nadda said that the BJP s success in every phase of polling has made Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee frustrated and she started getting angry with the people of the state.
Virtually addressing the voters of the Jorasanko constituency in Kolkata, Nadda said, The seventh phase of elections in Bengal will end today. With the blessings of the people of Bengal, BJP has got success in every phase, BJP has been blessed. All these things have made Mamata ji frustrated. She has started to get angry with the people of Bengal.