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PoK residents urge India to send food amid shortages

By Dipanjan Roy Chaudhury
Last Updated: Apr 17, 2020, 08.52 PM IST

No medical facilities are available in parts of PoK. Besides a bag of 20 kg flour which was under Pakistani Rupees 700 (Indian rupees 350 approx) per bag before Corona virus struck the region is now being sold at more than Pakistani Rupees 1200 a bag. Flour mills from Pakistan’s Punjab province are selling flour to PoK at extraordinary rates.
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NEW DELHI: Residents of parts of PoK have appealed to the Indian government to send food via Rajouri and Jammu due to acute shortage of food in the region.

No medical facilities are available in parts of PoK. Besides a bag of 20 kg flour which was under Pakistani Rupees 700 (Indian rupees 350 approx) per bag before Corona virus struck the region is now being sold at more than Pakistani Rupees 1200 a bag. Flour mills from Pakistan’s Punjab province are selling flour to PoK at extraordinary rates.

Besides in Gilgit-Baltistan, the local government is struggling to deal with the coronavirus for want of financial support and medical infrastructure. “Chief Minister” of Gilgit-Baltistan Hafiz Hafeezur Rehman recently blamed Prime Minister Imran Khan's government for not providing sufficient technical and financial support to deal with the coronavirus pandemic.

He has demanded Rs 1.75 billion from Islamabad to handle the coronavirus outbreak. The region, bordering China's Xinjiang province, has registered 234 corona cases and three deaths.

Earlier, president of the Gilgit-Baltistan chapter of Pakistan People's Party also blamed the government for holding back Rs 2.5 billion (Pak currency). Amjad Hussain said that this fund could have been diverted to cope with the emergency situation in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

He said the government had not yet spent a single penny from the development fund to provide relief to common people. Hussain said that even during the crisis priority of the government was not the people, but political projects.

The NGOs in Hunza area of Gilgit Baltistan also allege negligence in the distribution of relief materials to the needy.

PoK residents urge India to send food amid shortages
 
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ED files money laundering case against Tablighi Jamaat leader Maulana Saad

By Abhishek Sharma
Updated: Apr 16, 2020, 10:35 PM IST

It is alleged that the money received by Saad for the Tablighi Jamaat came through hawala.
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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday filed a money laundering case against Tablighi Jamaat leader Maulana Saad Kandhalvi and other accused persons. The case was filed under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), based on a predicate offence registered by Delhi Police, reports said.

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It is alleged that the money received by Saad for the Tablighi Jamaat came through hawala, and it will be investigated by the ED.

The Crime Branch of Delhi Police will also question Nizamuddin Markaz chief Kandhalvi in connection with the FIR against him and his outfit for violating government's lockdown orders that banned gatherings.

As per the reports, Crime Branch had earlier interrogated three sons of Maulana Saad. Saad has so far evaded arrest and put himself in home-quarantine. He was earlier issued notices in connection with the gathering organised in Delhi.

Including Saad, at least 17 people have been charged with culpable homicide not amounting to murder for holding a gathering in the Nizamuddin Markaz last month that authorities say led to a big jump in coronavirus infections in India.

The congregation of the Tablighi Jamaat in Nizamuddin became an epicentre of coronavirus spread after several attendees the event tested positive and infected hundreds across the country.

The headquarters of the Jamaat in Delhi were sealed and thousands of followers, including foreigners, were taken into quarantine.

Initially, a case was registered against Muhammad Saad Kandhalvi, the chief of the centre, for violating a ban on big gatherings but later invoked the law against culpable homicide. “Delhi police had filed a first information report earlier against the Tablighi chief, now section 304 has been added," the officer informed.

ED files money laundering case against Tablighi Jamaat leader Maulana Saad
 
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‘Look To Tirupur, Not China For PPE Suits’

Shanmugam has drawn the attention of officials from the Union Ministry of Textiles in this regard

Published: 16th April 2020 09:57 AM
By Binita Jaiswal
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CHENNAI: The Central government’s decision to procure millions of Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) suits from China has not gone down well with the Tirupur garment cluster in Tamil Nadu, which manufactures textile worth Rs 60,000 crore a year for exports and domestic markets.

The textile manufacturers and exporters in Tirupur, who are facing tough times due to massive cancellation of export orders, strongly feel that the Centre, instead of importing PPE kits from China, should support them in mass manufacturing of kits and masks. The units are capable of producing PPE kits and masks at par with Chinese products, but all they need is a little support from the government in the form of technical know-how and guidance on the standard operating procedures, they feel.

“The move will serve multiple purposes as the government will get PPE suits timely and at economical prices. At the same time, the manufacturing units in Tirupur, which are struggling for survival, will get some business as well. This will help Tirupur to get exposure on medical textile sector,” said Raja M Shanmugam, president of Tirupur Exporters’ Association (TEA).

Shanmugam has drawn the attention of officials from the Union Ministry of Textiles in this regard.

Over 100 manufacturing units in Tirupur have started manufacturing masks and PPE kits and are supplying it to different state governments. They started on humanitarian grounds initially, supplying to the local administration. But now, the units have started selling it commercially, following the huge demand.

“With hand-holding from the government, the Tirupur cluster can transform itself into a medical textile hub and it is much-needed at the moment as the battle against coronavirus is going to be a long one. We need millions of different grades of PPE suits, as everyone from doctors to sanitary workers need it. We cannot depend on China, as importing the products from that country will consume more time,” added Shanmugam.

‘Look to Tirupur, not China for PPE suits’
 
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_Anonymous_ said:
Negative pressure means you exhaust the air from the room.
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Negative pressure means that the air is evacuated from the room. The room is not air tight :)


Always that is the standard.

Virus works through droplet spread here. So, a size below 5 microns is known as droplet nuclei, which remains suspended in air longer than a droplet above 5 microns, which tends to settle down on floor. In case of a positive pressure, wherein the air is pumped into the room, the recirculation of air by the HVAC will result in increased concentration per cm3 of air volume within a ward/ICU where COVID patients are. In case of a negative pressure, where air is evacuated from room, the likelihood of high concentration of suspended droplets persistent in air (droplet nuclei) reduces to negligible.
 
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hellbent said:
Chinese virus contact / anchor points have a affinity for negatively charged bodies

If one can generate large volumes of negatively charged bodies ie electrons at a steady rate inside a contaminated room ( which is easy ) the moment a corona positive patient sneezes or the virus comes out of its host either in micron size or droplet size or football size , it will be dead on arrival.

The charged electrons will engulf all the attachment / anchor points of virus the moment it comes in contact with the near ionized air . Thus rendering the virus harmless.

The important point is the device needs to be proved , otherwise it's all theory. Will need to wait for that.

As for the exhaust fans , I am not too sure

Exhaust fan effectiveness depends on the thermal convection cycle ( reason why smoke gets vented easily by exhaust fans ) , at ambient room temperatures exhaust fans will be relatively ineffective . The air we breathe out is warm but when we sneeze the respiratory droplets and droplet nuclei are at ambient temperatures and lower . Also the respiratory droplets will drop down very fast under the effect of gravity and the droplet nuclei due to negative affinity will adhere to any free surfaces at every possible chance .

If a very powerful exhaust system capable of creating a near vaccum condition which displaces the entire volume of air inside the room and pumps it out at steady rate then it might work . A word of caution though such conditions runs the risk of venting the virus as well as the patient out the room , if the patients are the MF SoB tablighi jamaati then I don't mind giving the idea a try .:p
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I basically need air being circulated out of the room. To negate build up of droplet nuclei with in air which is recirculated, as is a case with positive pressure set up in the ICU/Ward where HVAC recirculates air.

Exhaust I mentioned as a measure to suck out the air, reducing the suspended droplet nuclei to negligible.
 
Falcon said:
Negative pressure means that the air is evacuated from the room. The room is not air tight :)


Always that is the standard.

Virus works through droplet spread here. So, a size below 5 microns is known as droplet nuclei, which remains suspended in air longer than a droplet above 5 microns, which tends to settle down on floor. In case of a positive pressure, wherein the air is pumped into the room, the recirculation of air by the HVAC will result in increased concentration per cm3 of air volume within a ward/ICU where COVID patients are. In case of a negative pressure, where air is evacuated from room, the likelihood of high concentration of suspended droplets persistent in air (droplet nuclei) reduces to negligible.
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Negative pressure rooms save lives. Why aren’t there more of them?
 
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I was just thinking.. Now that substantial resumption of economic activity is a long way off.. and Rapid blood serum kits have started arriving... Mumbai Government should start testing migrants in camps, with Rapid test kits.. this would give an approximate idea of infection among the migrants.. Then move the negative ones in batches by train to UP Bihar, and then home quarantine them there.. This would reduce their suffering.. and also the risk of infection.. Also, these people would be able to work during the harvest season in their village.. and the burden on BMC would reduce..
 
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