BJP Leader from West Bengal Chandra Kumar Bose said that they have failed as a nation and as a political party to adhere to the COVID-19 norms.
While speaking on a debate on NDTV about COVID-19 protocols being flouted in the election-bound states, Bose said, ”We have failed as a nation, we have failed as a political party to adhere to COVID norms,”
adding that all political parties should be on same page and fight the virus together.
The Election Commission has banned rallies and public meetings in West Bengal from 7pm to 10 am amid the surge n COVID-19 cases in the country. It has also extended the silence period from 48 hours to 72 hours.
As the cases of COVID-19 continue to surge in the country, the sports fraternity in India is getting hit badly with more campers, elite athlete, coaches getting infected with the virus in Bengaluru, Delhi and Patiala.
While Olympic-bound rifle shooter Deepak Kumar tested positive in Delhi, a high number of athletes and coaches got infected at the South Centre.
Among the others, infected were a top athletics coach, who is hospitalised, a walker, jumper and a top middle and long-distance runner.
Hours after Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced a six-day #lockdown in the national capital, hundreds of migrant workers crowded the Anand Vihar Bus Terminal to board buses for their native places.
The lockdown has been imposed from 10 am on April 19 till 5 am on April 26.
Several videos and pictures of the workers waiting for buses to return home are being shared on social media.
The scene looked similar to the one we saw last year when the nation-wide lockdown was announced in the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The @DelhiPolice organised a Green Corridor on April 19 to clear the way for two oxygen tankers heading to a hospital in Paschim Vihar that had almost run out of oxygen.
@DelhiPolice The Action Bajaj hospital with 235 COVID patients had no oxygen to meet the requirements until the tankers arrived.
@DelhiPolice The two tankers, one carrying 14,000 litres of oxygen and the other, 5,500 litres, were stuck in Noida and Faridabad due to the night curfew in Delhi. The Police had previously helped to send more oxygen to other hospitals that faced a shortage.
Eight Police officers and special rangers were held hostage on April 18 by supporters of a racial Islamist party in Pakistan, said the officials after days of violent anti-France Protests.
The country has been witnessing rioting since the last week as the leader of now-banned Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) was detained in Lahore after calling for the expulsion of the French ambassador.
The protests have paralysed cities and led to the deaths of six policemen, prompting the French embassy to recommend all its nationals temporarily leave the country.
Two men were killed in a car crash in Texas while riding in a @Tesla car. The police said that no one was behind the wheel during the crash. The vehicle was driving at a high speed late on April 17 in the north of Houston when it slammed into a tree and burst into flames.
@Tesla “Our preliminary investigation is determining -- but it's not complete yet -- that there was no one at the wheel of that vehicle,” said Harris County Constable Mark Herman, adding that they were almost 99.9 per cent sure.
@Tesla When police arrived, one of the two victims was sitting in the front passenger seat and the other in the rear seat.
While India is witnessing a surge in COVID-19 cases, the Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) has set up a facility in New Delhi with all basic requirements, free of charge.
The COVID facility with all oxygen beds, a large number of ventilators and air-conditioning is set up by DRDO complying with the World Health Organisation (WHO) standards.
If a patient suffers a neuro or cardiac case then the patient will be referred to the All India Institute Of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).