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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The situation has worsened from bad to worse due to the Corona virus epidemic across the country.  Health services are beginning to collapse in many states.  &#160;If someone is not getting a bed, then some patient is getting lack of oxygen.&#160; In the midst of all this, assembly elections are also going on in West [&#8230;]</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The situation has worsened from bad to worse due to the Corona virus epidemic across the country.  Health services are beginning to collapse in many states. </p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">&nbsp;If someone is not getting a bed, then some patient is getting lack of oxygen.&nbsp; In the midst of all this, assembly elections are also going on in West Bengal.&nbsp; During the elections, records of Corona have started coming up in Bengal.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The condition of Kolkata, the state capital, has become worse.&nbsp; Here, one out of every two people who are undergoing RT-PCR examination of Corona is found to be positive.&nbsp; At the same time, when it comes to the state level, the corona report of one in four people is coming out positive.&nbsp;</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">&nbsp;This number is five times higher than the previous month.&nbsp; A month ago, only one person&#8217;s report was found positive in 20 Corona investigations.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;According to the Times of India report, a doctor from the lab who performed the RT-PCR test says, &#8220;Labs in Kolkata and its surrounding areas, which are being tested by Corona, have a positive rate of 45-55% in their tests.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;At the same time, in other cities of the state, this level is around 24 per cent.&nbsp; It was only five per cent a month ago. ”The senior doctor further said that the positivity rate is actually much higher.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">There are many people who have mild or no symptoms at all and are infected with corona, but they have not yet been tested.&nbsp; We are not investigating according to need.&nbsp; We should not back down from Corona&#8217;s investigation at this time.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">&nbsp;Corona testing of 25,766 people took place in Bengal on April 1, in which only 1274 people were found positive.&nbsp; This positivity rate was 4.9 percent.&nbsp; 55,060 people were screened on Saturday, of which a record 14,281 people were found positive.<br>&nbsp; This rate is 25.9 percent.&nbsp; Microbiologist Bhaskar Narayan Chaudhary of Peerless Hospital said that the reason behind the rapid infection is mutant virus, which is infecting more and more people in a very short time.&nbsp;</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">&nbsp;Another reason is that among those who have symptoms, only a few people are going to get corona examined.<br>&nbsp;Positiveness rate rises to 55 percent&nbsp;At the same time, the chairman of another hospital said that the positivity rate in our lab has increased to 50%.&nbsp; The pressure on testing samples is very high.&nbsp; But it is good that people are coming forward to get testing done.&nbsp;</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">&nbsp;The sooner we can find corona infects and isolate them, the better it will be for us.&nbsp; Another official also said that the positivity rate in his lab has gone up to 55 per cent.&nbsp; Explain that the total number of infected people has increased to 7,28,061 in West Bengal on&nbsp;<br>Saturday after the maximum number of 14,281 cases of corona virus infection were reported in a single day.&nbsp; After the death of 59 more patients due to infection, the total number of dead has gone up to 10,884.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">&nbsp;Assembly elections are going on in West Bengal these days.&nbsp; The Election Commission is conducting elections in eight phases this time.&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;Voting for the seventh phase will be held on 36 seats tomorrow (Monday).&nbsp; During the West Bengal assembly elections, the leaders of various parties kept organizing rallies continuously.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">&nbsp; Although a large number of general public also demanded cancellation of the election rallies, the Election Commission and leaders of parties took decisions on it after more than half the phase of voting had passed.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>On Thursday, seven days before the last phase, the Election Commission has banned road shows and vehicle rallies in West Bengal with immediate effect.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">&nbsp; Along with the ban, the Election Commission also said that many political party candidates are not following the safety norms in public events.&nbsp; The Election Commission has allowed a maximum of 500 people to attend the election.&nbsp;</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">&nbsp;The Commission&#8217;s decision came a few days ago when the Calcutta High Court expressed its displeasure with the Election Commission over the implementation of the anti-covid-19 rules during the election process.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>In West Bengal, the high voltage election campaigning of both the claimants of power i.e. Trinamool Congress and BJP came to a halt on Thursday before the first phase of voting on Saturday.  But during this period, during the campaign of both the parties, the issues related to the common people remained marginalized in the [&#8230;]</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In West Bengal, the high voltage election campaigning of both the claimants of power i.e. Trinamool Congress and BJP came to a halt on Thursday before the first phase of voting on Saturday.  But during this period, during the campaign of both the parties, the issues related to the common people remained marginalized in the noise of &#8216;Khela Hobe&#8217; and allegations and counter-allegations.<br> In the first phase, voting is being held for 30 seats in Bankura, Purulia and Jhargram districts apart from East and West Medinipur.<br> Even on the last day of campaigning, where Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh to Mithun Chakraborty held rallies on the one hand, on the other hand, TMC&#8217;s star campaigner Mamta Banerjee addressed four rallies using helicopters and wheelchairs.<br> Among the seats to be voted on in the first round, there are 23 seats in the notorious area known as Jungle Mahal.<br> The remaining seven seats are in East Medinipur.  Voting on the remaining seats of the area will be held on April 1 in the second phase.  These include the high-profile seat of Nandigram where Mamata Banerjee is competing with Shubhendu Adhikari, the closest she ever had.<br>Apart from Purulia, the most important seats of this round include Chhatna seat of Bankura and Kharagpur in West Medinipur district and Medinipur seat of East Medinipur.<br> The importance of Purulia and Chhatna is more because the margin of victory here in the 2016 elections was less than five thousand votes.  The Purulia seat was then won by Congress&#8217;s Sudeep Mukherjee and the Chhatna seat was occupied by the Left&#8217;s ally RSP.<br> In 2016, state BJP President Dilip Ghosh won Kharagpur seat.  But in the by-election held here after TMC won the Lok Sabha elections in the year 2019, TMC took this seat.<br> The TMC has fielded Dinesen Rai, the candidate who won the by-election this time.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">&nbsp;Where does the Left that ruled Bengal for decades stand today?<br>&nbsp;Instead of former MLA Mrigendra Nath Maiti on Medinipur seat, actress Jun Malia&#8217;s contest on the TMC ticket has become interesting here.<br>&nbsp;In the first phase, polling will be held in seven out of 16 seats in East Medinipur, six out of 15 seats in West Medinipur and four out of 12 seats in Bankura, while all nine seats of Purulia and all four seats of Jhargram will be voted in this round.<br>&nbsp;At present, 191 candidates are in the fray for the 30 seats of this round.&nbsp; There are 21 women among them.&nbsp; Among these candidates, criminal cases are registered against one-fourth, while 19 millionaires are also included in the race.<br>&nbsp;The average assets of the candidates in the first round are around 43.77 lakh rupees and about half of them are graduates.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>India has sent 58 metric tonnes of emergency humanitarian aid, including crucial medical and food supplies, to Lebanon whose capital Beirut was rocked by a deadly explosion. &#8220;India demonstrates solidarity with the people of Lebanon in the aftermath of the tragic explosions in Beirut. 58 MT of emergency humanitarian aid, including crucial medical and food [&#8230;]</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">India has sent 58 metric tonnes of emergency humanitarian aid, including crucial medical and food supplies, to Lebanon whose capital Beirut was rocked by a deadly explosion.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">&#8220;India demonstrates solidarity with the people of Lebanon in the aftermath of the tragic explosions in Beirut. 58 MT of emergency humanitarian aid, including crucial medical and food supplies, is on its way to Beirut in IAF C17 aircraft,&#8221; external affairs minister S Jaishankar said in a tweet on Friday.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The August 4 blast, which killed more than 170 people, wounded thousands and left tens of thousands homeless, is believed to have been caused when a fire touched off a stockpile of 2,750 tonnes of highly explosive ammonium nitrate, according to reports. The ministry of external affairs had said last week that India has sought from the Lebanese government an assessment of damage caused by the blast, based on which it will decide on the nature of assistance it will extend to the West Asian country. </p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">&#8211; <strong>PTI </strong></p>
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