All 21 including eight children in the age group of 2 and 12 years in Haradag Khurd village have been admitted to Sadar Hospital, Garhwa and their contacts have been isolated.
As there is a decrease in the COVID cases in Delhi, the Delhi Government has started the process of unlocking.
The national body has observed that the issues that arose during the pandemic have led to "adverse mental health outcomes, particularly among the vulnerable groups," it said.
The Supreme Court said the benefit of schemes can be extended to migrant workers after they are identified and registered by authorities.
Sunny Leone has joined hands with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) to feed 10,000 migrant workers in the city.
Maharashtra Minority Development Minister Nawab Malik reacted to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's address to nation on April 20. He reacted to PM's 'States to consider lockdowns only as the last option and focus creating on micro containment zones' statement and said the entire country is reeling under the threat of COVID-19 and a situation has come where imposing lockdown is the only option. Malik also pointed out that various courts in the country have given directives for lockdown. "The people were hopeful that a relief package would be announced by the PM for migrant workers, poor, small traders but he didn't talk about the help that the Centre is providing," Mallik added.
Hours after Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced a week-long lockdown in the national capital, it triggered panic among migrant workers who rushed to Anand Vihar Bus Terminal in Ghaziabad on Monday evening to return to their homes. Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal announced a six-day lockdown from 10 pm on Monday till 5 am on April 26 which he said was necessary to deal with the rising number of COVID-19 cases as the city's health system was stretched to its limits.
Workers of Delhi Youth Congress wing on April 20 distributed food and water to migrant workers at New Delhi Railway Station. They were seen carrying their belongings as they started their journey from the national capital towards their hometown.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and UP minister Siddharth Nath Singh has slammed the Delhi government decision to impose a six-day lockdown in the national capital to arrest the spread of Covid-19. Singh said that the lockdown decision was taken in a haste by the Arvind Kejriwal government. He said that Kejriwal is trying to cover up his government's gross failures in dealing with the situation.
Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday tweeted, "Migrants are again moving back, so this is the responsibility of the union government to transfer money to their accounts. Will the government, which is blaming the public for the spread of the Covid, take such a public welfare work."
CM Kerjiwal said that the decision to impose lockdown was not an easy one for the AAP government as it hurts the poor, daily wagers the most.
Announcing the weeklong lockdown in Delhi which will commence from tonight, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has appealed to migrant workers not to leave the national capital. Kejriwal in his Covid-19 briefing pointed out that the present lockdown is of short duration, being only six days, and the government will help the migrant workers in all possible manner.
Amid an exponential rise in Covid-19 cases, Delhi has been placed under lockdown from tonight till next Monday morning (April 26), Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced on Monday. The restrictions will remain in place from 10 PM tonight till 5 AM next Monday. Kejriwal said that city's health system is under stress, adding that hospitals are facing shortage of oxygen and ICU beds.
Delhi Lockdown: The lockdown will be imposed from 10 pm on April 19, and will remain in place till 5 AM next Monday
As India continues to battle with second wave of COVID, several migrant workers in Gurugram were seen leaving for their native places due to COVID lockdown fear.
After Uttar Pradesh government imposed Sunday lockdown amid sharp rise in COVID infections, migrant workers were stuck at the bus stand in Kanpur.
Similarly, govt has also ramped up surveillance at airports, railway stations and bus stops. Those with symptoms are being tested while others are being asked to quarantine at home.
As of Wednesday, the Railways had approved 9,622 special trains, including weekly ones, which translated into an average of 7,745 trains daily. The pre-Covid average was 11,283 trains
In an exclusive talk with IndiaTV former chief minister of Maharashtra Prithviraj Chavan said that at present mass exodus of migrant workers is a serious issue and for this state govt and Centre should work together to solve their problems.
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