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The government announced Wednesday it would be banning its citizens from visiting Muslim holy sites in Mecca and Medina.
Although our sources from Kingdom of Saudi Arabia didn’t agreed with cancellation of Hajj – 2020, they told final decision is pending. There’s no official statement regarding the same.
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The Saudi government has indicated that this year the Hajj – 2020 may be cancelled.
They conveyed all Hajj Facilitating Companies to wait for sometime and not to make any deal with any hotel, trainer or ticket agencies. Untill any official decision made.
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Srinagar: Former J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah likely to be released today after almost 8 months in detention. Farooq Abdullah, his father, was released few days ago in Srinagar, Kashmir.
NEW DELHI: State-run telco BSNL has also introduced a promotional standalone broadband plan ‘Work@Home’ for free of cost to all the existing its landline customers that don’t have broadband in all the circles. The move comes at a time when people increasingly start to work from home to contain the spread of Covid-19 or coronavirus.
The move could also help BSNL in converting its landline users to broadband users and to better compete with private players like Airtel and Jio and other internet service providers.
“Amid various mechanisms being adopted by Govt for containing the spread of Coronavirus COVID-19, BSNL has announced its program to promote work from home initiative,” said Vivek Banzal, Director CFA, BSNL Board.
He added that the broadband service is being offered free of charge for one month to all citizens across the country, who have BSNL land line and do not have any Broadband, so that they can use this service either to work from home, educate from home , buy grocery online from home or anything that can minimize the need to move outdoor for availing essential needs.
“After expiry of promotional period, existing customers under above plan shall be migrated to regular Broadband plan as per their usages,” the telco said in a circular.
The plan is offering up to 10 mbps down speed and the data has been capped at 5 GB per day and once the data limit has been exhausted, data speed will be capped at 1 mbps.
The plan is valid across all circles, including the Andaman and Nicobar circle. The plan offers free email access with 1 GB of free storage.
BSNL said that no installation and security deposit charges will be levied to existing landline connections under this plan.
BSNL said that its Bharat Fiber partners will be given an option to offer above plan in their jurisdiction under Fibre category.
“Customer premise equipment (CPE)/Modem shall be customer owned for existing BSNL’s landline (i.e. not having Broadband) customers only,” it added
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday denied the claim made on social media that the Covid-19 could be airborne.
In a statement, Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director, WHO (Southeast Asia), said, “Airborne spread has not been reported for Covid-19. Based on the information and on our experience with other coronaviruses, Covid-19 appears to spread mostly through respiratory droplets, for instance produced when a sick person coughs, and close contact.”
“This is why WHO recommends maintaining hand and respiratory hygiene.”
The Chinese authorities had reported that there could be a possibility of aerosol transmission in a relatively closed environment with prolonged exposure to high concentration of aerosols, like in ICUs and CCUs in hospitals, but more investigations and analysis of epidemiological data was needed to understand this mode of transmission, the WHO official said.
Addressing the media at WHO headquarters on Monday, Maria Van Kerkhove, Infectious Disease Epidemiologist and Covid-19 Technical Lead of WHO, said Covid-19 was not airborne. “It spreads via droplet and contact transmission,” she said.
For healthcare workers, WHO had always recommended droplet precautions, except when performing aerosol generating procedures, where we recommend airborne precautions, she said.
When diseases and viruses are transmitted as very small particles by air currents, it’s called airborne germ transmission. In this case infection is transmitted from one person to another by droplets of moisture expelled from the upper respiratory tract through sneezing or coughing. It’s known as droplet infection.
28 girls from Islamic University of Science & Technology, Awantipora were undergoing internship at CIPHET, Ludhiana. A mandatory training period in their University Academic Course.
Due to the pandemic COVID-19 and Health Emergency Alert across the nation, students were informed to leave the CIPHET, Ludhiana campus.
During their journey back to Valley they were frisked at Lakhanpor Checkpost.
Although didn’t possess any foreign travel record and passed the thermal screening test very well, but still they being kept under quarantine at “Gujar Bakarwal Girls Hostel, Kathua” which the students complaint is in shambles.
Speaking with Kashmir Today students complained that they couldn’t even enter the alloted unhygienic rooms and preferred to stay in Buses only.
Students request Srinagar administration to look into the matter and get them safely back into the Valley were they are ready to stay in Quarantine if so required.
By: Peter Sullivan | The Hill
Tom Bossert, a former homeland security adviser to President Trump, warned Monday that the United States could soon have the highest number of coronavirus cases of any country in the world.
“Sadly, the numbers now suggest the U.S. is poised to take the lead in #coronavirus cases,” Bossert wrote on Twitter.
“It’s reasonable to plan for the US to top the list of countries with the most cases in approximately 1 week,” he added. “This does NOT make social intervention futile. It makes it imperative!”
Tom Bossert, a former homeland security adviser to President Trump, warned Monday that the United States could soon have the highest number of coronavirus cases of any country in the world.
“Sadly, the numbers now suggest the U.S. is poised to take the lead in #coronavirus cases,” Bossert wrote on Twitter.
“It’s reasonable to plan for the US to top the list of countries with the most cases in approximately 1 week,” he added. “This does NOT make social intervention futile. It makes it imperative!”
Sadly, the numbers now suggest the U.S. is poised to take the lead in #coronavirus cases. It’s reasonable to plan for the US to top the list of countries with the most cases in approximately 1 week. This does NOT make social intervention futile. It makes it imperative!
— Thomas P. Bossert (@TomBossert) March 23, 2020
Bossert and other experts have been calling for actions meant to stop gatherings of people to slow the spread of the virus. Several of the hardest-hit states have now closed businesses like restaurants and bars and called on people to stay home in an effort to slow the spread of the virus.
The United States currently has more than 35,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus, according to a tracker from Johns Hopkins University, the third-highest of any country, behind China, with 81,496, and Italy, with 59,138.
Part of the reason for the climbing U.S. numbers is that testing is ramping up somewhat after an extremely slow start, so more existing cases are being identified.
Another factor is that recent actions to close businesses and slow the spread of the virus take time to show up as having an effect in the numbers, as it takes time for people to notice symptoms and get tested.
Tom Bossert, a former homeland security adviser to President Trump, warned Monday that the United States could soon have the highest number of coronavirus cases of any country in the world.
“Sadly, the numbers now suggest the U.S. is poised to take the lead in #coronavirus cases,” Bossert wrote on Twitter.
“It’s reasonable to plan for the US to top the list of countries with the most cases in approximately 1 week,” he added. “This does NOT make social intervention futile. It makes it imperative!”
Sadly, the numbers now suggest the U.S. is poised to take the lead in #coronavirus cases. It’s reasonable to plan for the US to top the list of countries with the most cases in approximately 1 week. This does NOT make social intervention futile. It makes it imperative!
— Thomas P. Bossert (@TomBossert) March 23, 2020
Bossert and other experts have been calling for actions meant to stop gatherings of people to slow the spread of the virus. Several of the hardest-hit states have now closed businesses like restaurants and bars and called on people to stay home in an effort to slow the spread of the virus.
The United States currently has more than 35,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus, according to a tracker from Johns Hopkins University, the third-highest of any country, behind China, with 81,496, and Italy, with 59,138.
Part of the reason for the climbing U.S. numbers is that testing is ramping up somewhat after an extremely slow start, so more existing cases are being identified.
Another factor is that recent actions to close businesses and slow the spread of the virus take time to show up as having an effect in the numbers, as it takes time for people to notice symptoms and get tested.
Still, Surgeon General Jerome Adams warned Monday morning that the numbers are getting worse.
“The numbers are going to get worse this week,” Adams said on “CBS This Morning.”
“Things are going to get worse before they get better. And we really need everyone to understand this is serious, to lean into what they can do to flatten the curve,” he said.
“Unfortunately, we’re seeing New York is approaching Italy,” Adams added. “Why? Because the numbers that you see of cases reflect what happened two weeks ago. Too many people are waiting too long to really take these 15 days to stop the spread initiative seriously.”
(This story has not been edited by Kashmir Today staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
Srinagar, Mar 23: While the government has suspended international flights in India in wake of coronavirus pandemic, scores of Kashmiri students in Bangladesh say they have been asked to leave. They appealed External Affairs Minister to intervene and also issued an appealed to west Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to open borders for them and let them to India so that they can go home.
“We are around 80 students from different colleges, stuck here (in Bangladesh) and have been asked by the administration to evict the hostel with immediate effect,” a student of Eastern Medical College Comilla told GNS over phone.
“We urge the Government of Jammu and Kashmir and Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Government of India to take immediate measures in bringing us back to Kashmir,” the student said, flanked by others, said.
The students said that in wake of suspension of international flights in India, they must be allowed to enter India through border. “We urge Chief Minister of West Bengal to let us in through border.”
When contacted, Advisor to LG Baseer Khan said he will look into the matter.
“I will take up the issue with the Government of India as well as authorities in Bangladesh and will put in all efforts to bring these students back at the earliest,” Khan said. (GNS)
Ask essential service customers to maintain social distance
Srinagar, Mar 23: The Kashmir Economic Alliance (KEA) and the Kashmir Traders and Manufacturers Federation (KTMF) Monday welcomed the government decision of lockdown in Jammu and Kashmir till March 31 in the wake of coronavirus pandemic.
According to wire service—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), in a joint statement, the KEA Media Head Farhan Kitab said: “Amid this global crises, the JK government has taken the right decision and the right moment and we as responsible citizens not only need to welcome it but help in its successful implementation to keep the deadly coronavirs away.”
Kitab appealed the organizations affiliated with the KEA to adhere to the government order in letter and spirit. “The lockdown is for the collective cause of humanity and we need to respect its enforcement.”
Kitab appealed that only the shops selling essentials remain open and observe safety protocol like use of sanitizers. The KTMF acting President Manzoor Bhat has appealed the customers coming to shops selling essentials to maintain social distance.
Bhat also appealed Advisor Baseer Khan to make administration ensure that shops selling essentials remain open throughout the day so that there’s no undue rush of shoppers in the evening hours.
Bhat appealed the people to every precaution to stay away from this deadly disease. The KTMF and KEA have hailed the Lieutenant Governor GC Murmu and Chief Secretary in particular for implementing the lockdown
Srinagar March 23 : Police has registered a case against a resident of Tral in Pulwama district for keeping non locals in his house without screening.
Sources said the Tral resident had kept 31 non locals in his house without proper screening.
A police official told Kashmir Indepth News Service that he had transported them to Valley without screening or medical formalities.
Police on Monday carried out a raid. He was arrested and booked under sections 188 for violating 144 crpc section in the subdivision Tral and 34 Disaster Management Act.