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NOIDA: A 49-year-old man was found dead in his friend’s flat at Ajnara Daffodils highrise society in Sector 137 on Thursday afternoon. Originally from Bihar’s Purnia, Mukesh Jha was estranged from his wife and had been staying alone in the flat for the past one year.
According to Jha’s relatives, his mother had been trying to call him repeatedly for the past three days but he went incommunicado. When his mother expressed apprehensions about Mukesh, his younger brother called up his friend Alakh Niranjan and asked him to go and check on him.
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LUCKNOW/NOIDA/ GHAZIABAD: The Uttar Pradesh government has planned to cover around 1.4 lakh healthcare workers in the second round of Covid-19 vaccination, scheduled on Friday. In the inaugural session on January 16, over 22,000 healthcare workers were inoculated against a target of 31,700.
Principal secretary, health and family welfare, Alok Kumar, said around 1,400 booth sessions will be held. “UP needs to vaccinate 9.06 lakh healthcare workers, including those from the private sector. Around 22,000 were covered in the inaugural session and Friday’s vaccination target is 1.4 lakh,” he said.
Those who missed the shot on the first day can get themselves inoculated on Friday. From next week, the Covid-19 vaccination sessions would be held on Thursday and Friday. The health department has received the second batch of 9.11 lakh doses of vaccine.
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NOIDA: Days after the Muradnagar incident, residents of Dadri’s Badpura have raised concerns over the condition of a newly-built shed at the local cremation ground. A video was widely shared on social media in which a villager can be seen hitting the pillars at the shelter and cement can be seen coming off easily.
According to villagers, the construction of the shelter was completed a little more than a month ago and on Friday, when some people went there for a cremation, one of them found cement was coming off even if someone touches the pillars.
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NOIDA/GHAZIABAD: Very slow wind flowing at a negligible 2km/h has almost brought pollution dispersion to a standstill leading to severe air quality index (AQI) in Noida, Greater Noida and Ghaziabad.
Noida on Thursday registered an AQI of 412, Greater Noida was at 410 while Ghaziabad at 429. “The current AQI situation is the result of the cold weather conditions. Such a low windspeed basically leads to no dispersion of pollutants. This is a typical situation faced by NCR every year around this time and that shoots the AQI up,” Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board officials (UPPCB) explained.
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GHAZIABAD/NOIDA: The wait for the Covid vaccine is finally over, with Ghaziabad and Noida receiving consignments of Covishield on Thursday for the first round of vaccinations.
A total of 27,410 doses of Covishield arrived in Ghaziabad from Meerut on Thursday afternoon amidst tight security. Officials said the first batch has 2,741 vials of 10 doses each, which are being stored in the main vaccine store at MMG District Hospital under police vigil.
District magistrate Ajay Shankar Pandey and chief medical officer Dr NK Gupta, along with other administrative and health officials, received the vaccine amid clapping and jubilation. The DM made a swastika mark on the ice box in which the vaccine was transported and broke a coconut in front of the vaccine van before the consignment was shifted to the vaccine store located adjacent to the IDSP unit.