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Unaisi Ratubalavu
20 May, 2021, 1:45 pm
Colo-i-Suva forest park
attendant Netava Buke
points to the spot where
the body of Samabula
taxidriver Rabindra Singh
was found. This picture
was published in The Fiji
Times on February 14,
1983. Picture: FILE
THE front page of The Fiji Times of February 14, 1983 reported that the body of a taxidriver was recovered by police from a pool in Colo- i-Suva forest park.
The headline read, ‘Body Found In Pool’. The report said police found the deceased after a 24-hour search by about 50 officers from three stations.
Officers from Samabula, Nasinu and the Mobile Police Taskforce in Narere combed the forest in search of 32-year-old Rabindra Singh after his taxi was discovered by a forest ranger at Colo-i-Suva, which is about 11km from Suva CDB.
War against COVID to be fought collectively, with public participation: Jitendra Singh
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Jitendra Singh suggested that each district should have multiple telephone helplines, which should be vibrant and always available to respond and guide the needy.
Union minister Jitendra Singh (File Pic)
Union minister Jitendra Singh on Saturday said the war against COVID has to be fought collectively as the optimum results cannot be achieved without people s participation.
He stressed the need to address the issues of social concern with a human and sensitive approach.
For example, even a single patient requiring an oxygen bed but not getting it, will cause greater disenchantment and panic in the society compared to hundred other patients who have been cured, recovered and gone home, said Singh, the Minister of State in the Prime Minister s Office (PMO).
NEW DELHI: Working from quarantine, after being discharged from the hospital following COVID -19 infection, Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh today reviewed On-line his constituency’s COVID management status with the officers of the respective district administrations and public representatives.
The meeting was held through video conference because Dr Jitendra Singh is yet to test negative for COVID after the recent episode of infection and he is still not physically meeting or interacting with anybody. Incidentally, he was in his constituency till 19th of this month when he returned to the national capital and had to be hospitalised with COVID the very next day, which suddenly interrupted his routine of regular weekly trips to the constituency, as he had been doing for the last seven years.
COVID-19: Punjab govt provides 809 ventilators to districts ANI | Updated: May 02, 2021 22:10 IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], May 2 (ANI): Amid a second surge of COVID-19 pandemic, the Punjab Government has provided 809 more ventilators to the districts in the state.
After chairing a high-level meeting to review the current COVID situation and vaccination status in the state here on Sunday, Chief SecretaryVini Mahajan directed all the Deputy Commissioners to install the new ventilators today itself and ensure that not even a single oxygen concentrator and ventilator remain unutilised. She also ordered to impose work from home for private offices so that the chain of COVID transmission could be arrested, according to an official statement.