A 22-member expert group has recommended 6-to-10-week lockdowns in the districts hit hardest by the second Covid-19 wave, urging far longer closures than the 14-day “local containment” prescribed by the Centre.
The group has called for the closure of all indoor public spaces barring those providing essential services, consultations with local community groups and measures to support the poor and vulnerable who are likely to bear the brunt of the closures.
Global observations on lockdowns suggest that such closures need to be in place for 6 to 10 weeks for Covid-19 cases to fall significantly, The Lancet Covid-19 Commission India Task Force has said in a report it has shared with the Centre’s Covid-19 advisers.
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WASHINGTON In the dying months of his administration, President Donald Trump removed from the United States terrorist list a little-known paramilitary organization called ETIM, an acronym that stands for either the East Turkestan Independence Movement or the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, depending on whom one asks. The group is also sometimes known as the [East] Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP or ETIP).
Explaining the decision, the State Department said that “ETIM was removed from the list because, for more than a decade, there has been no credible evidence that ETIM continues to exist.” The move was hailed by a wide range of Uyghur groups in the United States, who saw it as a step towards blocking China’s actions against Uyghurs in Xinjiang Province.
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