-NDTV.com A senior Aligarh official expressed "surprise" over the fact that the family members had neither a ration card nor Aadhar cards. Aligarh: A 45-year-old woman and her five children are in hospital in western Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh town after battling intense hunger for over two months. They were able to get medical help after a local NGO stepped in to help after it was informed of the family's condition.The family members...
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Almost 50% informal workers didn’t receive full wages in the second wave lockdowns, finds a survey
-GaonConnection.com Over 47 per cent of the workers have not received their full wages after COVID restrictions were announced in several states of India. Nearly 60 per cent had only two days of ration left, shows a survey of 8,000 workers across the country. After COVID19 induced lockdowns and restrictions were imposed this year, nearly half (47 per cent) of the interviewed workers did not receive their full wages or were paid...
More »92% of workers stopped receiving payment from employers: Report
-The Hindu SWAN, which relaunched its helpline in April, releases findings based on over 8,000 callers Bengaluru: Migrant workers, one of the more vulnerable groups left in lurch during the national lockdown called by the Centre last year, are facing another crisis during the second wave of COVID-19. This time around, the problem is compounded by a lack of savings, which they used up last year. Around 92% of the country’s workforce who...
More »Karnataka recorded 1.02 lakh ‘excess’ deaths in 2021, 5 times the COVID-19 toll -Soumya Chatterjee
-TheNewsMinute.com Bengaluru city alone has registered 87,082 deaths from all causes from January to June 15, 2021, as per BBMP data. Karnataka has recorded 3,37,580 (3.37 lakh) deaths from all causes between January 1 and June 15 this year, according to its civil registration system (CRS). This is many more than the deaths recorded between January and June in pre-Pandemic years. While in 2019 there were 2.35 lakh deaths in this six...
More »95% of vaccinated staff got protection against Covid: Apollo study
-PTI/ Business Standard The findings of the study are under consideration for publication in a peer-reviewed medical journal A multi-centre study on a cohort of over 31,000 vaccinated healthcare workers of a leading private facility, spanning across the country, has found that Covid vaccine provided protection against infection in "95 per cent" of the beneficiaries, hospital authorities claimed on Wednesday. The study by Apollo Hospitals took place over four and a half months,...
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