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COVID 19 LOCKDOWN Opens – Again a change in Commerce Rules, Only the Essentials to get to be Delivered: Here is, Why?

New Delhi (India): The non-essential goods supplied by the e-commerce companies will be banned till the lockdown period, said by Home Ministry today, days after the permitting the online sale of the goods like the selling of refrigerators, mobile phones, television sets, laptops, and clothes.

The order by the Home Ministry had clarified that the e-commerce companies selling the essential goods are exempted from the lockdown restrictions. However the operation of the vehicles delivering the goods will take a clearance by the administration of states and union territories.

Coronavirus Lockdown India Highlights : COVID-19

The government last week has also announced that include sale of some of the non-essential goods, through the e-commerce platforms, on a list of the services and activities which is to be allowed from April 20, mostly in the areas which are least affected by the pandemic outbreak. This decision by the Home Ministry invited criticism from Confederation of Indian Traders (CAIT).

This criticism by CAIT is because more than 40 lakh traders are supplying the essential goods since the day of lockdown announced and this came into effect. It is because the Home Ministry is side-lining them and allowing the e-commerce companies to deliver non-essential goods from April 20. The Secretary-General of CAIT, Praveen Khandelwal, told news agency ANI.

E-commerce Companies Providing Limited Services

According to Praveen Khandelwal, “When the lockdown was announced, these e-commerce were not in function. We want to know that what kind of necessities has arose for which they have been given permission. Though, we have no objection if those have been given permission to provide the essentials, but why not non-essential goods,” he asked.  

The Defense Minister, Rajnath Singh led a meeting with the concerned to discuss re-starting the selected economic activities and the services in non-containment zones, to boost the economy which was flattering. After the meeting, the government released list of activities and the services will be start function from 20 April in the states and the areas which are less affected by the coronavirus hotspot and not in the areas of coronavirus hotspots, the government cautioned.

The guidelines on re-opening some of the sectors and allow activities in non-affected areas came after 2nd lockdown order from the Prime Minister till 3rd May. After video meeting with 13 Chief-Ministers pointed the impact on economy due to lock down, this decision came.

Although this lockdown is in the good favor side by the government saving lakhs of lives. The center claimed 8.2 lakh could have been infected, otherwise. This certainly hit the economy of the country hard, IMF has said to be expected economy grow by 1.9 percent this year.

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India COVID-19 Peak in May, Lockdown Cut Sources

New Delhi (India): According to the Internal Govt. Assessment suggested that India can touch the highest peak of coronavirus cases in the first week of May, then the number will decline, sources from the Home Ministry said. The sources also added that the states which have implemented hard lockdowns have fared better when it will come to the crisis are seeing the results to be declining.

Punjab, Rajasthan, and Bihar were the first few states which announced the lockdowns earlier to avoid the high jump in the fatal rates cases and went for the partial curbs like Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Gujarat. India is going to ramp up its testing procedure as the next one week is very crucial for the country. In order to implement these functionalities, all the patients having symptoms of Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI) will be tested, a Senior Bureaucrat said to media.

According to the Bureaucrat, the Govt. has expected a continued rise in the cases of COVID-19 in the next few days. The numbers will definitely increase and tests will be done. The tests should also be ramped for the patients who have been isolated, which are increasing everyday.

Since the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi has extended the lockdown to 3rd May from 14th April, the country has added around 2800 positive cases well past 12000. Around 36,000 people have either been isolated in the govt. facilities or are home quarantined. Till date, i.e. Thursday, 16th April, nearly 3.6 lakh people are in isolation zone or home quarantined.

According to the govt. officials, the patients in the isolation zone are tested, but the major challenge is to stop the spread of sporadic disease for the cases who are scattered. The nationwide lockdown is working extensively to stress the fact, the official added by giving the examples of three states.

Rajasthan was the first state to announce the complete lockdown, which has 1,076 infected patients and has 221 recoveries. According to a data collected by Home Ministry that the state has 7,448 patients in isolation till Thursday. Punjab, on the other hand has 188 patients out of which there were 27 recoveries and 13 fatal cases. Around 11,000 people have been given isolation facilities. Bihar reported 72 positive cases out of which 29 recoveries and one death report. Over 12,000 people have been given isolation facilities due to the epidemic coronavirus.

Madhya Pradesh has the highest deaths reports of 53. There are 938 positive cases and 9,198 people have been given the isolation facility.

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Chinese Economy GDP Falls due to Crippling Effect of Coronavirus

A man wearing a protective mask is seen inside the Shanghai Stock Exchange building, as the country is hit by a new coronavirus outbreak, at the Pudong financial district in Shanghai, China February 28, 2020. REUTERS/Aly Song

For the First time, China’s economy shrank since 1992 in the first quarter.

As COVID-19 has paralyzed the production and the spending.
Beijing (China): Due to the outbreak of coronavirus, the production and spending have been paralyzed that raises an extreme pressure on the concerned authorities to do something to stop job losses. GDP of the country has fell to 6.8 percent in Jan-March year by year, an official report showed on Friday which is 6.5 percent decline reported by the forecaster analysts in Reuters poll and the expansion is reversed.

Understanding the Economic Shock of Coronavirus

This contraction in the growth is also the first time in world’s second largest economy since 1992 when the official GDP record started quarterly. According to the analyst, the policymakers have faced an uphill battle to revive the growth as this pandemic has ravages the global demand, while China has managed to set large part of the economy and running from the standstill in February.

Beijing has to deliver a stimulus package in the coming near-term and could be financed by central bank through the various channels, “Nomura” expected. They said in a note that this time we have expected that most of the credit would be used to help relief the enterprises, banks and the households to survive the COVID-19 outbreak, unlike the previous new credits went to the financial expenditure, infrastructure, the property and the consumer durable goods.

China GDP contracts 9.8% in first quarter due to coronavirus

According to the National Bureau of Statistics, on a quarter-on-quarter basis, GDP has fall 9.8 percent in the first three months as compared to 1.5 percent growth in the previous year. According to a separate data, the industrial output of China falls less than expected 1.1 percent in March a year earlier, Retail sales fall 15.8 percent in the same period and the Fixed Asset Investments converges to 16.1 percent in the month of January-March.

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Big News : China Raised COVID-19 Fatal Report by 50%, Admit to the Missed Cases

hina Raised COVID-19 Fatal Report

Wuhan (China): China’s coronavirus emerging city Wuhan on Friday abruptly increases its deaths tolls by 50 percent, said that many of the fatal cases were “mistakenly reported” or has been missed entirely in amid growing global doubts about the Chinese transparency.

The city govt. reported to the social media that 1,290 deaths have been added to tally in Wuhan, from where the global pandemic has emerged. Due to this vast majority of China has suffered fatalities from COVID-19. This has bring to the total death counts in the city to 3,869. Based on the official national data that has been released earlier on Friday that this change pushes the nationwide death count to nearly 39 percent which is approximately 4632.

China’s Wuhan abruptly raises coronavirus death

China has comes under extreme pressure over the coronavirus from the western powers by the United States, which raised doubts about the Chinese transparency, probing that the virus was actually originated in Wuhan laboratory. China said that the virus has emerged from the Wuhan food market whose merchandise included the exotic wild animals sold for human consumption.

The epidemic control and prevention department of China gave several reasons for the missed cases, including the fact that the medical staffs were overwhelmed in the early weeks where the infections topped, leading to “late reporting or mis-reporting”. They also said that the testing and the treatment facilities were insufficient and some patients died at home and thus their reports of deaths were not properly recorded and reported.

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Chief Minister of Bengal Promises Money for the Migrants Outside Bengal due to Lockdown

Kolkata: Nearly thousand villagers including children blocked the road at Domkal in Murshidabad District, West Bengal complaining about the hunger from last 25 days due to COVID-19 lockdown. This protest awoke after a day when the hundreds of migrants spilled on the street of Bandra in Mumbai, protesting about the lack of food and also demanding to sent back to the home-town.

The Chief Minister of West Bengal, Mamta Banerjee promised some money for the Bengali Migrants who has stranded outside the state for their petty expenses. The road blocking in Domkal began at 10:30 AM and continued for 5 hours before the police came into action to disperse the crowd.

We talked to one of the protestors “Mehrana Bibi” said that they have no work, no rice, no daal, no money and they are boiling leaves feeding their children and they are crying. Another protestor from the crowd “Subho Das” said that the govt. had promised for free ration but they are not getting any single ration from the ration shops. These protestors belong to ward no 10 of the Domkal Municipality, 240 Kms North of Kolkata.

The Govt. of Bengal has promised to give free ration, including 5 kilos of rice and wheat to all the ration card holders till the month of September.

“I am deeply ashamed that our people have to sit on the streets demanding for food. I am going to plan and organize supplies for them. But firstly we have to find out that why these ration shops are not delivering the ration and basics to them”, Chairman of the Domkal Municipality Rafiqul Islam said.

Mamta Banerjee said that about the Mumbai incident that non is responsible either the Central Govt. or the State Govt., but the one who has spread the fake news that the transport will start from 14th of this month. She added that “we can’t transfer money, but will definitely contact the locals of the state to give some pocket to the migrants to bare the expenses.”

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Trump Halts WHO Funding for Spread of Coronavirus

President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the Rose Garden of the White House, Tuesday, April 14, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Washington (USA): Donald Trump, President of USA has ordered a freeze on the funding for World Health Organization for mismanaging the crisis due to the pandemic coronavirus.
He also added that the lockdown have threaten the global economy into the second sense of Great Depression.

The death count due to the pandemic has topped 125,000 with nearly 20 lakhs have been infected by the disease that has ended the society and changed the life of billions across the globe. The world leader on the other side are agonizing over to lift up the lockdown to jump-start the devastated economy. The whole world is battling to get on to this pandemic, the US President fired at WHO and restricts the payments that nearly amounted to $400 million last year.

This funding has been frozen to have a review on WHO’s role in mismanaging the spread of coronavirus, said “Trump”. It is an organization who accused Geneva-based body by putting political awareness above the life-saving measures.

Social Distancing

Trump charged that the outbreak could have contained only little death counts if WHO had accessed accurately the situation in China, where the disease has originated.

According to Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, “Zhao Lijian”- The current situation due to the epidemic is grim and it is a critical moment. The decision by US President will definitely weaken WHO’s capacity o=in cooperation against the pandemic.

According to John Hopkins University, the presidents controversial attach on WHO came as the infections counts in US recorded of 2,228 victims over the past 1 day. Donald Trump also earned a rebuke from the UN Head and the entrepreneur Bill Gates who recently tweeted that freezing the fund is “as dangerous as it sounds”.

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COVID-19: Clothes are at health risks

There is no related documentation of cases for the risk of transmission of novel coronavirus through clothes and shoes. If one is taking care in close proximity of COVID-19, doing laundry is an important part of personal preventive hygiene. This include risks to health workers as most of the detergents are sufficient enough to kill the virus while laundry.

If you are best at self-quarantine situation in keeping yourself safe, then how would you restrict SARS-COV- 2, from getting in?

You are just making an essential trips to groceries, going out by practicing social-distancing. You also wash your hands frequently and disinfect the “high-contact” surfaces like the countertops and the doorknobs, when you get at home. But, there is a feeling of nag that even you are maintaining a good hygiene, you are worried about the things which you have brought home with you. There is a question in your mind that “are the groceries safe”? What about your shoes and clothes?

It is an inevitable truth that clothes and shoes must be taken care off while shopping.

Clothes at Low Risks:

There is a lot of things which we don’t know about this pandemic coronavirus and day-by-day we are learning more about it. If you are having a quick visit to grocery store, it is highly unlikely that you will be getting infected by the COVID-19 via your shoes and clothes. Clothes and shoes are not a significant source of transmission of COVID-19, by “Dr. Vincent Hsu”, MPH, a certified board of internal medicine, infectious disease, and the preventive physician at AdventHealth in Orlando. According to Hsu, there has no documentation of this pandemic which has been transmitted through clothes and shoes.

COVID-19, is a respiratory illness is spread by the respiratory droplets in the form of sneezing and coughing. It is a kind of direct transmission of the disease and most of the death tolls recorded in the extreme is by direct transmission.

Extra Precaution with Clothes:

The average visit to grocery stalls should not necessitate doing the laundry of your clothes, if you are following the preventive measures by keeping social-distancing. But the situation can become worse if someone has sneezed or coughed in your direct vicinity, then washing the clothes would be a great idea. But in general, one should take care on the other areas of hygiene that is keeping your hands clean by washing at certain intervals and not touching your face and nose will be more effective than laundry.

What About the Shoes we Wear?

Shoes by their nature are dirtier than clothes and are more likely to carry the bacteria with them. Most of the health workers agree that the shoes are unlikely source of transmission of the disease. What we do is actually protective. We keep our shoes outside and we don’t put our socks to the kitchen shelf or drawer. Shoes are also very far away to get touches by our mouth or nose.

But you can take an additional measures of safety by keeping your shoes clean, by disinfecting the areas safely away from the social areas and out of the reach of kids. For latest updates, stay tuned. 

Death Tolls surpasses 10,000 in USA

Death Tolls surpasses 10,000 in USA

US reported the third-highest maximum death reports due to COVID-19 in the world. The death tolls has topped 10,000 on Monday according to John Hopkins University stats. The death reports have exceeded Italy with 15,887 and Spain with 13,055. White House Medical Experts have forecasted that the result of deaths in US will be between 100,000 to 240,000 due to COVID-19 respiratory disease, even the orders of home-stay are followed.

The US has entered “peak death week” according to the officials due to the pandemic on Monday. The reports of watchdog said that the hospitals are struggling to expand and maintain the capacity of care for the infected patients. This is going to the peak hospitalization, peak intensive care units (ICU) week and unfortunately, the peak death week by “Admiral Brett Giroir”, a physician by profession and a member of Whitehouse corona virus task force. He told ABC’s Good Morning Programme on this coming Monday. He reaised the situation of alarm for the states of New York, New Jersey and the city of Detroit, Michigan.

On NBC’s Today Programme, Girior said: “Whether you live in the small town of United States or in the Big Apple, each and every one is though susceptible and each should understand the need to follow the precautions which we have laid out.

More than 90% of the Americans are under the stay at home orders which has been issued by the state governor while eight states are still under imposing such restrictions.

According to the reports, based on the national March 23-27 survey has showed severe shortage of testing the supplies and long wait till the test results limited to the ability of the hospitals to keep in track of the health staff and the hospitals, the Inspector General of US department of Health and Human Service Office said.

50,000 Deaths: Corona Virus-Latest Updates

50,000 Deaths Corona Virus

From the US report, the confirmed cases of Corona Virus globally crossed One Million and reports also confirmed more than 1,100 deaths in a single day.

50,000 of deaths due to the pandemic has topped around the world. Which was recorded on Friday and reached more than One Million of confirmed infections globally. According to the reports, US has suffered with nearly 1200 deaths in single day and more than 6,000 fatalities because of the contagion spreads. On the other hand, Spain reported with 950 deaths in single day with a total troll of 10,000. Italy recorded nearly 760 deaths with a total troll of 13,900.

Globally, reports say that 1,013,000 have been diagnosed and the death tolls have surpassed 53,000 due to COVID-19 quoted by Johns Hopkins University on early Friday Morning.
More than 210,000 have been recovered globally including 9,000 in US.

Here are the latest updates:

Friday, 3rd April: Spain deaths tolls increased by 932

The health ministry of Spain said that the death due the pandemic Corona Virus has increased to 10,932 from 10,903 on Thursday.

Saudi King give $2.4 Billion for support of citizens- state news agency

King Salman ordered disbursement an amount of 9 Billion Riyals ($2.4 Billion) to support the financial system more than 1.2 million citizens who work in private sectors due to the out-break of Corona and the economic fallout. This is reported by the State Press Agency.

Italy’s Civil Protection Chief forecasted the lockdown continuing beyond May 1

Italy’s national lockdown to control the spread of the pandemic will continue beyond the month of May, according to “Angelo Borrelli”, the chief of Civil Protection Agency. Certain measures and restrictions on the movement and closing of all the firms, but not deeming the essential supply-chain have been taken.

Israel seals Ultra-Orthodox town hit hard by Corona

The police of Israel have put up metal barricades and road is blocked to enforce the lockdown the Orthodox Jewish Town, which has been badly hit by the pandemic. The emergency regulations have been approved by the cabinet on late Thursday declared Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv, a kind of “restricted zone” due to the high rate of infections damaged by the pandemic. This enforcement allowed the authorities to tighten the curbs on the public movements.

Israel Lockdown: Violation of Rules

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The Deadliest Day of Spain: As Corona Virus Lockdown

The Deadliest Day of Spain

Madrid, Spain: As the pandemic Corona killed a count of 849 in Spain in one day. There were the signs of unrest as the crack-down aimed at reducing the death occur and binding the limitations of the infection spreading in the country. It a matter of immense tension to the government. The Health Authority announced that “Tuesday” is the deadliest day of Spain, since the pandemic disease began. This has been bringing the frim tally of the fatalities to a count of 8,189.

Milan. Green Cross volunteers and health workers intervene with the 118 emergency calls on the cases of COVID19 coronavirus preparation and transport to hospital. In the photo the long dressing and preparation of disposable materials and anti COVID19 coverall.

Another 9,222 people in the country have been tested positive for the virus and confined the cases to 94,417. This count of people who have been tested positive is more than that of China’s 82,240 but less than Italy’s 100,000.

For the advancement of grief, Spain is on its third week of lockdown. The police has arrested hundreds and fined for flouting the orders. The police were also accused of using violence in order to enforce the strict restrictions on mobility. This is done because under the Spain’s State of Emergency Regulation, the citizen can go out to buy food alone, seek the medical care or if one has to work in the essential industries.

Why are death Count Rising Quickly in Spain:

Granada, Spain: Since the coronavirus state of alert ordered by government on March 14, the citizens applaud the country’s medical workers. But the hopeful image of the people seemed not to dim the pain and the Death Troll reached to 769 on Friday. Thus bringing the total number of fatalities to 5000.

Fresh Cases Report: The coronavirus pandemic has dropped from the record total on Thursday from 8,578 to 7,871 on Friday. But when looking at the scenario, both the numbers are worse than a week ago when the count was around 2,833. When checking the fact, comparing with Italy where more than 8 percent of the health workers are infected, that tally stood at 16.5 percent in Spain.

Now the question arises why the death count are progressive in Spain?

There are Multiple Factors for this issue which has been arised. First is the medical facility which is uneven and depleted resources for tackling this problem. Secondly, as recent on Wednesday, The Center for Disease Prevention and Control in Europe has pointed that the pandemic COVID-19, depends on the level of preparation of the country and the protective measures taken according to Silvia Carlos Chilleron, a professor in Public Health department.

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