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Angry vaccinated labourer bangs his head on road after being forced to undergo Covid test in Jalandhar

News Bureau — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 17:14:24 +0000

Jalandhar: A labourer has created chaos near Nakodar Chowk after authorities reportedly coerced him to underwent a Covid-19 test and he banged his head over five times on the road in protest against alleged forceful coronavirus sampling here.

The man has been identified as Mahinder Rawat, a resident of Avtar Nagar in Jalandhar.

As per the information, around 12 noon near Lal Ratan Cinema at Nakodar Chowk, a joint team of the police and the Health Department was conducting covid tests of the commuters and team stopped a man and asked him go for an RT-PCR test before crossing the checkpoint. The man was not wearing mask.

He, however, refused to undergo sampling citing that he has been fully vaccinated. As per eyewitnesses, authorities, however, pressurised him to submit his swab sample to the health team.

Annoyed over the behaviour of the authorities, the man banged his head on the road and injured himself in anger. The daily wage labour was riding a bicycle when the police stopped him.

Later, he, also sat on the road as mark of protest and dared the policemen to move him from the spot. He blamed police of beating him and following this angry crowd beat a duty doctor on the spot.

The video of the incident also went viral on the spot.

Health officials and police took him to local civil hospital for first aide treatment.

ASI Gurjit Singh, who was part of the team, said the man was not wearing a mask and when team asked him to undergo test, he refused it and later banged his head several times on the road.

SHO, Police Division-4, Inspector Rajesh Kumar said that authorities did not force anyone to undergo Covid test and further investigations into the matter is underway and action will be taken against those who have taken laws in their hands.

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Maharashtra records third death due to Delta Plus variant

News Bureau — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 11:33:51 +0000

Mumbai: Maharashtra has recorded its third death due to the Delta Plus variant here on Saturday.

He is the third person to die of this variant in Maharashtra. An 80-year-old woman from Ratnagiri was the first person in the state to succumb to the variant followed by a 63-year-old woman from Mumbai, the Hindustan Times reported.

Deceased had taken both doses of Covid-19 vaccine before testing positive on July 21. She was a resident of Ghatkopar. As per the report, she was rushed to the hospital on July 23 and passed away three days later on July 27.

Later, authorities found that two of her close contacts also carried this variant.

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India records over new 40k Covid cases, 585 deaths

News Bureau — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 07:13:02 +0000

New Delhi: In a single day spike, India witness a rise of 40,120 coronavirus infections, taking the tally of Covid cases to 3,21,17,826, while the recovery rate increased to 97.46 per cent, the highest recorded so far, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday.

The country recorded a total of 4,30,254 with 585 new fatalities, the data updated at 8 am showed.

The number of active cases had declined to 3,85,227 or 1.20 per cent of the total cases, the lowest since March 2020, the ministry said.

Meanwhile, 19,70,495 tests were conducted on Thursday, taking the cumulative tests carried out so far for the detection of Covid in the country to 48,94,70,779.

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Both doses mandatory for teachers to attend duty in schools; Jalandhar DC

News Bureau — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 08:37:19 +0000

Jalandhar: Following Covid-19 cases in government schools in Punjab, Deputy Commissioner Ghanshyam Thori has asked the health and education department to ensure complete vaccination (both doses) of entire teaching and non-teaching staff in all government and private educational institutions by the end of this month.
“Any kind of laxity in this task would be dealt with heavy hands as safety of children cannot be compromised at any cost,” he said while issuing orders to all schools.
Chairing a joint meeting with the officials of the health and education department, the DC directed that a special drive be launched in both government and private schools and colleges to ensure that no one left without the vaccination.
He asked the district education officer to prepare a list of teaching and non-teaching staff who have taken either one or both doses adding that no one should be allowed to attend duty in schools unless they have taken both doses of their vaccines.
During the meeting, DEO Secondary and DEO Elementary have been asked to compile information of pending teachers for vaccination in two days through Google sheets and share it with district immunization officer for necessary camps in respective schools.
Meanwhile, the deputy commissioner also directed the education and health department to ensure strict adherence to Covid appropriate behaviour in schools including social distancing, masking, hand sanitizing, and others. He further asked health officials to ensure random RT PCR testing in schools so that virus spread could be kept under check.

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