State home secretary Alapan Bandopadhyay said that the prime focus is on the containment zones where all activities as well as entry and exit have been restricted. DMs have been instructed to closely review and monitor the Corona situation in these zones.
Albeit for different reasons, the violence is reminiscent of the food riots in October 2007 and earlier still in 1966, when foodgrain earmarked for the ration shops had made a round trip to the open market, there to be sold at inflated rates.
He could well have added a supplementary ~ Neither America nor the world are going to be the same again.
At Kalighat, the liquor store near the fire brigade station was one such example where the queue stretched beyond the visual range.
The “old lady,” which lost its last set of teeth recently, was unable to eat because of her old age, it is learnt.
One of the doctors in the bus, an eye specialist, has tested positive for Covid-19, while the remaining have tested negative. However, all the others in question are presently in quarantine.
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee has already announced extending the lockdown in the state till 17 May, in line with the national lockdown.
Officials said the decision has been taken as the government is facing a fund crunch due to the closed economy in the country owing to the ongoing lockdown.
As there was a problem in burying his body there, it had to be transported to Aizawl.
As Darjeeling Member of Parliament Raju Bista and some organisations appreciated the role of journalists, who are especially covering the Covid-19 situation in different parts of the region, including the North Bengal Medical College and Hospital and the Covid hospital in Siliguri, the Siliguri Journalists’ Club (SJC) came up with a slogan that pleaded with people to stay at home and help contain the pandemic.
