LUCKNOW: Strict implementation of lockdown measures last year helped in reducing the transmission of Covid-19 in Uttar Pradesh, suggests a study on UP’s response to Covid-19 management released here on Monday.
“Strict implementation of lockdown measures successfully reduced transmission of the virus affording the state critical time to establish clinical and public health functions,” concluded the study undertaken jointly by the state health department and department of international health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Titled ‘Preparation for and response to Covid-19 in a resource constrained setting A case study from Uttar Pradesh’, the study noted that UP is well-prepared to guide, monitor, and control all operations needed for Covid-19 containment.
Prayagraj: The draw of faith overpowered concern over a raging Covid-19 as devotees swarmed the Maa Kalyani Devi temple here on Sunday to attend the three-day Sheetala Asthami fair. Around one lakh devotees are likely to throng the fair on Monday to offer prayers at the temple, which is one of the 51 Shaktipeeths in the country.
Chief priest of Maa Kalyani Devi temple, Pt Shyam Ji Pathak told TOI that the main fair will be held on Monday, when lakhs of devotees from different parts of the state will come to pay obeisance to the diety.
He said, tradition of holding Sheetla Asthami mela is 200 years old and even Britishers had mentioned the fair in their gazetteer.
Prayagraj: The city police on Sunday issued challans to as many as 773 people for not wearing masks at public places and realised Rs 77,300 in fine from them for violating rules.
Police said, the checking drive was intensified in rural, semi urban and urban areas against the people violating Covid-19 protocols despite surge in cases.
A senior official said, police also inspected 2,908 vehicles and challaned 166 of them for not having valid documents. Two FIRS were lodged in separate police stations for violation of Covid protocols.
IG, Prayagraj range, KP Singh said, checking would further be intensified in view of the sharp spurt in cases. Meanwhile, Covid death toll in UP rose to 8,881 on Sunday with 31 more fatalities, while 4,164 fresh cases pushed the infection tally to 6,30,059.
Yogi also directed the officials to constitute nigrani samitis at the level of every gram panchayat and municipal ward
LUCKNOW: Stepping up preventive measures in the wake of spike in coronavirus cases, chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday directed the state health department to appoint a nodal officer for each Covid care hospital. UP recorded 4,164 cases in the past 24 hours.
Yogi also directed the officials to constitute nigrani samitis at the level of every gram panchayat and municipal ward. For this, members of Yuvak Mangal Dal, chowkidars, civil defence and NGOS will be engaged. He instructed officials to keep a strict vigil in Lucknow, Kanpur, Prayagraj, Varanasi, Ghaziabad and GB Nagar. The CM said that the beds in SGPGI, KGMU and Ram Manohar Lohia should also be increased for Covid patients. He also warned of strict action in case of any callousness.
Prayagraj: Lack of permission and violation of Covid-19 protocol on Sunday evening forced Kaushambi police to stop the annual ‘Gardhabh Mela’ (donkey fair) near the Kada Dham area. The two-day donkey fair, organised near the Sheetla Dham, Kada area, began on Sunday morning where around 1,000 donkeys of different breeds and pedigrees were being brought from different parts of the country for sale and purchase.
However, when Kaushmabi police learnt that the organisers had not sought permission to hold the donkey fair and that Covid-19 protocols were being openly violated in the fair, the police officials rushed to the spot and stopped the fair.