South Africa all-rounder
Dwaine Pretorius tested positive for the
deadly COVID-19 ahead of the T20I series against West Indies and had tobe replaced.
While all the other South Africa squad members arrived safely in Grenada, Pretorius tested positive and did
not travel with the T20I squad .. .. a stroll outside
today in Chennai suggested that people have overcome Corona and have sort of
forgotten that there was one ! .. .. so
when will it officially end, and when will the World return back to normalcy !!
The World Health
Organization was the first to announce that the world was in the midst of a
pandemic in March of 2020. Sometime in the future, the WHO will be the body to
announce when it's officially over. However, there isn't a set standard to mark
the end of the pandemic, either. Healthcare and medical experts point to
vaccination rates as a guide to when the COVID-19 pandemic might end. If a very high % of populace gets vaccinated against the coronavirus, it may
soon end.
Hospital wards across
Uganda are filling with COVID-19 patients as the country faces an aggressive
surge in cases. One of the biggest issues have: a serious shortage of
oxygen. Greenslade says inadequate
supplies of oxygen have been a problem in many parts of the world during this
pandemic but the shortages in Africa are acute. While countries like Brazil and
India have industrial plants creating oxygen, much of Africa does not. Sierra
Leone, for instance, has only two plants for the entire country ! .. it may sound
similar – there was a time, when one could replace Uganda with any Indian State
.. .. but the Central Govt has certainly handled the oxygen crisis very well.
Kim Jong un has sacked
senior officials over what he called a 'crucial' lapse that had caused a 'great
crisis with grave consequences,' in an apparent reference to a Covid-19
outbreak. The North Korean dictator recalled the country's Politburo and
berated high-ranking Communist officials on Tuesday, signalling that the
country's Covid defences had been breached. He lashed them for neglecting their
duties and 'creating a great crisis in ensuring the security of the state and
safety of the people and entailed grave consequences.' The official Korean
Central News Agency did not elaborate on what the dictator was referring to and
it is not known how many senior officials have been sacked or what has happened
to them.
North Korea
has so far claimed to have had no coronavirus infections, despite testing
thousands of people and sharing a porous border with China - the source of the
disease. Experts say the claim is highly dubious and have warned that any
outbreak could easily overwhelm the isolated country's poor health
infrastructure.
There was a
time last year when everyone was singing and heaping praises on Kerala model of
handling Covid – the Health Minister got UNESCO award while the CM kept
speaking of his achievement. Now that bubble has burst all over as Maharashtra
and Kerala continue to contribute a lion’s share of India’s reduced Covid-19
cases. While Maharashtra has remained one of the worst affected states right
from the beginning of the pandemic, Kerala reportedly had controlled the outbreak during the first wave, only for cases to
skyrocket over the past couple of months. Kerala on Wednesday logged 13,658
fresh Covid-19 cases and 142 deaths, pushing the tally to 29,24,165 and 13,235
respectively.
Tamil Nadu added 4,512 fresh Covid-19 cases on
Tuesday, and number of deaths crossed the 100-mark to 118 after reporting 91
deaths on Sunday and 98 on Monday. After discharge of 6,013 patients, the state
had 39,335 people undergoing treatment for the viral infection. Cumulative case
tally touched 24.75 lakh while the toll reached 32,506. Director of public
health Dr TS Selvavinayagam said fresh cases and positivity rate have been
steadily dropping across Tamil Nadu. “The state has
relaxed lockdown restrictions in several areas, but it is still important for
people to stay at home unless it is required to step out. Wear masks and
maintain social distance,” he said. It appears
that there is no fear in people and there is no lockdown of any sort in the
capital Chennai.
Moving away
a glance in Money Control provided some interesting news. Domestic carrier SpiceJet
has posted a net loss of Rs 235 crore in the fourth quarter of financial year
2020-21. The airline, similar to other carriers, have been hit due to the
stringent travel restrictions imposed due to the COVID-19 crisis.
Another report stated that
Cricketer Rohit Sharma has sold a property worth Rs 5.25 crore located in the
hill station of Lonavla, documents accessed by Zapkey.com show. The property is
spread across 6329 sq.ft. The sale deed was registered on June 1. The per sq ft
value of the property works out to be around Rs 8,300 per sq ft. A stamp
duty of Rs 26 lakh was paid by Sharma, the vice-captain of the Indian cricket
team, the documents said. The buyer is a woman named Sushma Ashok Saraf, the
documents said. – sounds too much of
intrusion in to the privacy of the Cricketer … but are people buying properties
in the midst of such severe Corona ?
Despite the Maharashtra
government deciding not to extend the stamp duty waiver on property
registrations in March this year, the collections in the month of June 2021
stood at Rs 420 crore which was at 93 percent levels of June 2019 when Rs 450
crore was collected by the exchequer, an analysis by Propstack has indicated. This
data clearly indicates that homebuyers are gradually trickling back into the
market as vaccination picks up and the second wave appears to be waning. In May
2021, Rs 268 crore worth of stamp duty was collected due to the onset of the
second wave. This was almost half of the collections in May 2019 (Rs 534
crore), the analysis said.
30th June 2021.
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