Did The Civic Polls Turn Kangra Into Himachal’s New Covid Hotspot?
7 deaths in past 36 hours and 164 positive cases could have resulted from the hectic fortnight-long campaigning for the civic polls PTI Ashwani Sharma 2021-04-07T21:20:25+05:30 Did The Civic Polls Turn Kangra Into Himachal’s New Covid Hotspot? outlookindia.com 2021-04-07T21:24:26+05:30
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With nine deaths, five of them in Kangra district alone and 709 new cases in the past 24 hours, Himachal Pradesh finds itself in a tight spot over Covid-19 spread, especially after Wednesday’s four municipal corporation elections.
Of the total 14 deaths in the past 36 hours, seven took place in Kangra, the state’s biggest district which has witnessed a hectic two-week-long campaign at Dharamshala and Palampur municipal corporations. Also among the total 709 cases, Kangra alone accounted for 164 positive cases.
outlookindia.com 2021-03-19T13:40:06+05:30
Panic gripped Tibetans and other residents of Dharamshala, abode of the Dalai Lama in Himachal Pradesh, when 160 of the 350 monks at Gyuto Tantric monastery tested positive for Covid. The first case was reported on February 14, soon after Losar, the Tibetan new year. Medical teams are probing how the infection reached the monks who rarely step out. The 86-year-old Dalai Lama too had quarantined himself and came out only for the first dose of the Covid vaccine. Kangra deputy commissioner Rakesh Prajapati says Tibetans will be vaccinated “as per guidelines and protocols framed for the local population”. Some monks who checked in at the monastery a fortnight back had travelled to Delhi and Karnataka, but tested negative on arrival in Dharamshala. They are being tested again. According to a report by Dharamshala’s chief medical officer, the monastery in-charge and a nurse had visited a bank in McLeodganj. They are being
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Tibetan Buddhists Ask India to Vaccinate Dalai Lama
3 Mar 2021
Members of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), the government of Tibet in exile, requested that the Indian government aid in vaccinating the Dalai Lama, the top authority in Tibetan Buddhism, against the Chinese coronavirus.
Indian media reported on Wednesday that New Delhi is considering the request.
The CTA describes itself as the legitimate and democratically elected government of the Tibetan people. The Chinese government occupied Tibet in 1950 and continue to control most of the territory. The Communist Party has repressed ethnic Tibetan people for decades and lately intensified programs to control Tibetan Buddhism. Beijing has considered the Dalai Lama an enemy of the state for years.
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