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COVID-19: Confirmed cases rise to 3,374 with 77 deaths and 266 cured so far

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New Delhi, Apr 05:

Confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in the country on Sunday rose to 3,374, with two fresh reported casualties since Saturday evening.
Around 246 fresh active cases were added to the total number of by the evening with 3,030 active cases at present.
There is a little increase in the number of cured and discharged cases which are now 266, wherein fifty-four people adding up to this number since Saturday evening.
So far, the total number of COVID 19 deaths in the country were 77, as per the government data.
On Saturday evening the health ministry had said that out of the total cases of the deadly virus so far reported in the country, about 1023 were related to those, who either came in contact with or attended the religious congregation, organised by Tablighi Jamaat at the Nizamuddin Markaz last month.
Health Ministry Joint Secretary Lav Agarwal had said that 1,023 positive cases related to Tablighi Jamaat have been reported from 17 states and Union Territories.
These include Delhi, Maharashtra, Jammu and Kashmir, Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Andaman & Nicobar, Rajasthan and Arunachal Pradesh.
Tamil Nadu has again seen a spike in cases since Saturday evening, with the number now at 485, just five numbers lesser than Maharashtra that has the maximum number of confirmed COVID cases in the country that was 490 so far.
Delhi with 445 cases was at number three, which also is amongst some of those states where the numbers have spiked in the past three-four days. UNI

Kashmiri students in Jaisalmer quarantine want to be sent back home

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Srinagar, April 05:

Kashmiri medical students in Iran who arrived in India on March 15 now in the Jaisalmer quarantine facility say their quarantine period is over but there is still no clarity when they can return home to Kashmir to reunite with their families.
One of the students at the Army wellness centre in Jaisalmer who did not want to be named told IANS over the phone that they want to return home in Kashmir.
She said they have already completed their quarantine period from Iran and there is no reason for them not to be released.
She said there is no segregation of low risk, moderate risk and high risk patients at the facility.
“We want to go to our homes we are here for more than 20 days now and we will be here for another 10 days, which is totally unfair, we know the precautions, but staying here for more than 30 days is not good,” she said. “We don”t know whether we have been held up because our quarantine period has been extended or this has something to do with the lockdown.”
After the outbreak of coronavirus Iran became one of the worst hit countries with more than 3,000 deaths.
The government has evacuated nearly 300 students after March 14 from Iran who have been put in the Army wellness centre in Jaisalmer and are under medical supervision.
Kashmiri students in Iran were brought back from Iran after Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar met with their parents in Srinagar last month. There are over 170 Kashmiris in Jaisalmer of which more than 100 are students in Iran.
The parents back home in Kashmir are desperate to meet them.
“We are worried about our children who are in quarantine for the last 50 days, they have completed 25 day quarantine in Iran and 25 days in India, this is being very harsh on them,” one parent said in Srinagar.
Perhaps it is time to give out right information to end the confusion of the students at the quarantine facility at Jaisalmer and their parents in Kashmir.–IANS

Johns Hopkins University reports 1.2 mn COVID-19 cases worldwide

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Washington, Apr 05:

The number of COVID-19 cases worldwide has topped 1.2 million, according to a new tally from Johns Hopkins University.

A total of 1,204,782 people have been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus across the world, with a death toll of 64,849, showed the tally updated by the university’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering.

The United States has reported the world’s highest number of cases, which stood at 311,301, followed by Spain with 126,168 cases and 11,947 deaths.

Italy has reported 124,632 cases with the world’s highest death toll of 15,362. UNI

COVID: J&K Police working 24X7 to make protective gears for jawans to fight pandemic

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Jammu, Apr 05:

To fight the COVID-19 pandemic, Jammu and Kashmir Police has started making protective gears round the clock at all welfare centre in its district headquarters.
J&K Police in view of lockdown is not only maintaining the law and order situation but also reaching out to people for all kind of help and cooperation so that the masses do not face problems in getting the essential commodities.
The protective gears comprising masks, gowns and bouffant caps (head covers) are being made at welfare centres under the supervision and guidance of expert doctors of Jammu & Kashmir Police.
The jawans of J&K Police are engaged in providing ration, essential commodities, helping quarantined people following which, they are much prone to get infected of the virus.
“Keeping safety to our jawans in mind, making of protective gears has been intensified at all our district headquarters,” said an official adding that teams of expert doctors, are supervising the exercise of manufacturing this protective material.
In Jammu, the protective gears are being made in Gandhi Nagar located Welfare Centre.
“The protective gears we are making are not competing N-95 level masks in quality but still, these three layered masks can help our jawans in protecting from the infection,” said a doctor.
“The masks, bouffant caps, gowns are being made under specialized and expertise of our teams of doctors,” they said.
“Our team of around 15 men, are working round the clock to make these protective gears and the material is being provided by the department,” Rimpy Kumari, Incharge, Police Welfare Centre, Gandhi Nagar, Jammu said. UNI

Army soldier shoots self dead in Bandipora of north Kashmir

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Bandipora, April 05:

An army soldier allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself dead with his service rifle in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Sunday.

Reports reaching GNS said Sepoy Satendra Kumar Tomar of Murena MP shot himself while he was on duty at 14 RR camp in Bandipora at wee hours of Sunday.

Soon after the incident, his colleagues rushed to the spot and found him lying in a pool of blood, they said.

A police officer also confirmed the incident to GNS and said a case has been registered in this regard and further investigation have been taken up.

The officer said it was not immediately known what forced the soldier to take the extreme step. (GNS)

He reminded me of Inzamam in his early days: Yuvraj recalls Rohit’’s first impression

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New Delhi, Apr 05:

Former India cricketer Yuvraj Singh has said that Rohit Sharma reminded him of Pakistan batting legend Inzamam-ul-Haq in his early days.
The flamboyant India vice-captain made his ODI debut in June 2007 while his maiden T20 game came during the World Cup later that year against England, where unfortunately Rohit didn’’t get a chance to bat.

Asked about his first impression of Rohit, Yuvraj said the swashbuckling batsman seemed like somebody who had a lot of time to play his strokes.

“I think when he came into the Indian team, he looked like somebody who had a lot of time,” Yuvraj Singh said during a YouTube chat show.

“He reminded me of Inzamam-ul-Haq, because, when he batted, Inzi had a lot of time (to play the bowlers),”

Inzamam, a veteran of 120 Tests and over 300 One-day Internationals, is known to remain calm under pressure situations. He captained Pakistan from 2003-07. PTI

Strauss admits poor handling of KP saga but maintains IPL can’’t gain precedence over Test cricket

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London, Apr 05:

Former England captain Andrew Strauss admitted that he didn’’t handle Kevin Pietersen well during his time at the helm as the flamboyant batsman should have been given some space despite not exactly adhering to the team ethos.
However, Strauss maintained that while he understands why IPL is necessary for players, he still doesn’’t agree that one should play the cash-rich Indian Premier League at the cost of Test cricket as it would set a dangerous precedent.

Strauss and Pietersen had a major fallout due to their difference of opinion with regards to ECB policy on IPL.

“I always had sympathy with KP over the IPL,” Strauss said on a Sky Sports podcast.

“I understood what a big event it was with all the best players playing there together and huge amounts of money on the table as well.”

It must be mentioned that when Strauss became ECB’’s ‘’Director of Cricket’’ he created a window for England players to play IPL, something Pietersen advocated for the longest time.

“Long term my view was that we had to find a window for the IPL. I told the ECB we couldn’’t compete against each other as it is going to create massive issues within our team.”

“But I thought it was incredibly dangerous to allow players to miss Test cricket to play in the IPL. The message you’’d be sending and the precedent you’’d be setting is that the IPL is more important than Test cricket,” he added.

Strauss said that he repeatedly tried to make Pietersen aware why Test cricket is more important.

“I was saying to KP at the time, ‘’listen, mate, this is the situation. You can’’t opt in or out of international cricket. You’’ve got obligations to England and hopefully there are gaps where you can play in the IPL as well’’.”

After being dropped for good in 2014-15, Pietersen had hit out at some of his teammates like Matt Prior and Stuart Broad in his autobiography, which also included criticism of Strauss for not supporting him.

In hindsight, Strauss feels he could have cut a little slack with the maverick batsman.

“I think instead I just let KP be KP. In retrospect that was a mistake and might have sowed the seeds for what was to come down the track,” Strauss admitted.

Strauss made it clear that Pietersen wasn’’t exactly the team-man but the England dressing room should have been more accepting.

“I don’’t think he would have been in the engine-room of the team in that sense but I’’ve always felt a good team environment embraces difference and finds a space for everyone. I think we did that for large periods of time but possibly through neglect, KP became increasingly isolated,” Strauss said.

“Often KP wanted to be the guy who was slightly separate from the team. On any given day it didn’’t feel like an issue but over time it became an issue.”

Some of the controversies related to Pietersen included sending text messages to South African players during the 2012 Test series between the two sides and allegedly insulting Strauss in them.

He was dropped after the ‘’Text-gate’’ scandal and although he was later brought back into the side, Pietersen’’s England career came to an end after the 2013-14 Ashes after Alastair Cook’’s side had lost 5-0.

“Would I do things massively differently if I had my time again? Probably not. The worst thing you can do for players like KP is to straitjacket them and say ‘’you have to abide by x, y and z. You can’’t go and play in a flamboyant way, you have to grind it out like Jonathan Trott’’.”

“Effectively you’’d be asking him to be someone he’’s not, so you had to cut him some slack and allow him to be himself.”

“At times, though, what worked for KP almost undermined what the team was trying to do. It felt like there were two completely separate agendas there and that became a problem for me, the rest of the team and [then head coach] Andy Flower.

“We were all tired, emotional and had spent so much time in each other’’s pockets. Probably if we had a bit more space to think clearly it might not have got to that stage and we might have managed it better.”

But Strauss doesn’’t have any regrets for the reprimands that the stylish batsman got for his alleged off-field misdemeanours.

“But I don’’t look back and think ‘’we were wrong to call KP out over some of the things he did’’. I think we had to do that.” PTI

4 Army Men, 2 BSF Personnel Injured In Shelling Along LoC In Sunderbani

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Rajouri/ Poonch, April 3: Six government forces personnel were injured after Pakistani army resorted to “unprovoked firing” along the Line of Control (LoC) in Sunderbani sector of Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir.

A police official told GNS that the Pakistani troops resorted to firing of small arms and shelling with mortars in Dadal, Malla area of Sunderbani sector early morning today.

“In the shelling, four army soldiers and two BSF personnel manning the fence suffered injuries,” the officer said, adding that the Indian army retaliated befittingly.

Sources said that the injured men were taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. Among the injured, sources said that four army soldiers were shifted to the army’s command hospital in Udhampur for specialized treatment.

Meanwhile, the armies of India and Pakistan trade fire in Krishna Ghati sector of Poonch district today evening.

Pakistan resorted to unprovoked ceasefire violation in Krishna Ghati sector of the Poonch district today at around 5:00 pm by firing of small arms and shelling with mortars, an army officer said, adding that the soldiers manning the fence retaliated strongly. (GNS)

COVID-19: DGP Prisons Authorized To Grant Special Parole

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Says Process Started, Figures To Start Emerging In Next Few Days
Srinagar, April 03 (GNS): A day the Jammu and Kashmir Government authorized him to grant special parole for at least eight weeks to a category of convicts with certain exceptions, the Director General of Police (Prisons) J&K, on Friday said that process has been started and may take few days.

“We are considering cases. It will take some time because reports from District Magistrates and SPs are coming. There needs to an application by the inmate also. We are on the job. May be by Monday, certain figures will start emerging,” the top prison officer told GNS.

The DGP has been authorized by the government to be ‘competent authority’ to grant the special parole excluding those involved in militancy-related cases, or sentenced under POCSO Act or for the offence against the woman.

“In exercise of the powers conferred under sub-section (5) of section 432 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, the Government hereby authorizes the Director General of Police (Prisons), J&K, to grant special parole for eight weeks, extendable for another eight weeks if the lockdown by the Government continues, subject to good conduct, in respect of the following categories of convicts,” reads an order issued by the J&K’s Home department.

The DGP has been authorized to grant parole to all those who have been convicted in one case only and have spent more than ten years (eight years in case of women) in jail, except those involved in militancy-related cases, convicted for intermediate or large quantity recovery under NDPS Act or convicted under POCSO Act or for an offence against women or convicted for the offence of acid attack or foreign nationals.

The officer has been also authorized to grant parole to all those who have been sentenced to imprisonment for three years with or without fine and the conviction has been upheld by the Appellate Court but revision against the judgment is pending before the High Court.

Also, he has been authorized to grant parole to all those who have completed their sentence but are still in prison due to non-payment of fine.

“Matters pertaining to prisoners with advanced age, suffering from any illness may be examined on case to case basis,” reads a government order issued here.

The benefit of parole earlier extended, if any, to any prisoner shall not be an impediment to the grant of special parole, it added.

The order was issued a day after a High Powered Committee, formed on the directions of Supreme Court of India directions, met to take a call on release of prisoners to de-congest the jails following the spread of Coronavirus Pandemic.

The Committee comprised Executive Chairman J&K SLSA, Justice Rajesh Bindal, as its Chairman with Principal Secretary, Home Department Shaleen Kabra and Director General of Police(Prisons) J&K, V K Singh, as its members.

On the basis of nature of offense, the number of years and severity of the offence, the Committee had proposed to release convicted prisoners and under trials.

While the DGP has been authorized to grant parole to convicted persons, in case of under-trial prisoners, the committee had proposed that the category of such prisoners maybe considered for 60 days interim bail, extendable for another period in case the circumstances so demand, on furnishing surety and personal bond.

5 new cases today,Total Positive Cases 75 in JK:Kansal

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COVID 19 Awareness and Monitoring Committees shall be set up at Panchayat and Block levels
Masks, immune building materials also to be part of new strategy
JAMMU, APRIL 03: Principal Secretary Planning, Information and Government Spokesperson, Rohit Kansal informed that with the addition of 5 new cases today the number of positive COVID 19 cases have risen to 75 in J&K. Giving breakup of the figures at a press briefing, Kansal said out of 75 cases 70 are active cases (54 in Kashmir Division and 16 in Jammu division.) and a total of 22,993 cases are under surveillance so far.

He said that out of 75 positive cases 3 (2 from Jammu Division and 1 from Kashmir Division) have recovered and there is every likelihood that one more case will recover very soon.

Kansal revealed that Jammu and Kashmir has also been testing cases aggressively and so far 1218 tests have been conducted which is 6.5% of total under surveillance.

The government spokesperson said that nearly 2000 contacts of positive cases have been identified of which 975 have been traced and tested. He reassured that all the identified contacts will be traced and tested for Covid 19. He said, “We plan to test every single one of the 2000 contacts that we have identified.”

Kansal said that in all 34 hotspots/red zones have been identified in J&K of which 24 are in Kashmir Division and 10 in Jammu Division. These include 7 in Pulwama, 4 in Bandipora, 4 in Budgam, 5 in Srinagar, 2 in Shopian, 1 each in Ganderbal and Baramulla in Kashmir Division. 4 in Jammu district, 5 in Rajouri and 1 in Udhampur district of Jammu Division.

Kansal informed that steps have been initiated to enhance and upgrade the health infrastructure in UT and said that 68 new medical professional including doctors/specialists/paramedics/medical officers/nurses have joined their respective duties. The UT Government is also procuring masks, PPEs and ventilators to augment the existing health infrastructure and every possible effort is being made to ensure that there is no shortage of manpower in the health sector.

He assured that adequate arrangements have been made to ensure sufficient supply of essential commodities. The NH 44 Highway has been reopened and made functional and nearly 800 trucks and tankers have crossed Jawahar Tunnel carrying essential goods to the Valley. He informed that supply of fruits and vegetables and POL has also reached the Valley. The downward movement of material from the Valley such as apples from cold stores has also started.

He informed that since the beginning of lockdown upto 8 AM in the morning, 5037 trucks carrying essential goods containing foodgrains (1579), LPG (384), POL tankers(123), fruits and vegetables (1530), medicines and health supply (180), milk (180), cattle feed /fodder 372 have entered J&K from Lakhanpur. In order to augment the supply lines, he said that 248 local industrial units have been made operational. These include units manufacturing animal feed, pharmaceutical products, surgical bandage, masks, hospital gowns besides eatables like flour,rice and edible Oil.

Government Spokesperson said that in his previous briefing he had already informed about 24X7 dedicated Helplines set up by the Resident Commissioner’s Office in New Delhi and the Labour Department to assist the migrant labourers and other citizens. He said that 27,000 residents of J&K stranded in different parts are being reached out and provided support through these Helplines. So far over 150 calls have been received on these Helplines and about 30,000 interstate migrant labourers with in J&K are being taken care of in every possible way.

Deputy Commissioners in all the districts have also set up individual Control Rooms to provide assistance to these stranded migrant labourers.

Kansal said that the Government is aware of the hardships being faced by the old and vulnerable sections of the society due to the ongoing lockdown. The Social Welfare Department is reaching out to nearly 30 lakh people including pensioners, residents of Bal Grehs, old age homes, Juvenile Homes and nearly 30,000 children belonging to the disadvantaged section of the society.

Kansal informed that the JMC has already started preparing disinfectant tunnels. To begin with he said that they will be installed in the Hospitals and later the facility will be extended to other public places and buildings.

He thanked the public for the cooperation extended to the Government machinery in implementing the lockdown and informed that the COVID 19 Awareness and Monitoring Committees shall be set up at Panchayat and Block levels and services of the elected representatives, PRIs, religious leaders, ULBs will be actively sought for imparting awareness.

Deliberating on the Advisory issued by the Principal Scientific Advisor regarding the importance of masks in containing the spread of Covid 19, Kansal said that J&K Government has decided to educate the public about the usage of masks. He said that different categories require different kinds of masks. Health Workers and Frontline Professionals including people dealing with essential services require specialised masks while others may not require such specialised masks. We will ensure that required quantity of masks is supplied to each category. The Rural development Department has been assigned the responsibility to prepare cotton masks through the engagement of Self Help Groups, NGOs and others who are willing to volunteer.

Kansal said that AYUSH Ministry has also issued advisory regarding use of immunity boosters to fight Covid 19 effectively. He said that Government will ensure that all these immunity boosting products are made available to the people.

Dr. Syed Sehrish Asgar, Director Information and Public Relations and Sh. Bhupinder Kumar, Director NHM were present during the Press Briefing.

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