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  • Cara Delevingne: Growing up queer was isolating

    By IANS

    LOS ANGELES:Actress-model Cara Delevingne has opened up about the challenging time she had navigating her sexuality.Speaking to The Sunday Times newspaper, Delevingne said, “Growing up as a queer child was isolating and hard to navigate at times. My sisters did their best to be there for me but it was something I had to go through myself to truly know who I was. I’m still on that journey and will continue to be for the rest of my life.”She signed with Storm Management straight out of school and admits she was naive when she first started out in the modelling industry, but she has since come to “cherish” the fashion world, reports femalefirst.co.uk.She added, “When I had my first modelling job at 10, I wasn’t aware of what I was doing or the fashion and artistry that I now understand and cherish. With any job or path there’s always a way to make some sort of change.”The ‘Carnival Row’ star also shared she’s always had a rebellious side and wants to “question” everything.She said, “First and foremost I have always seen myself as a rebel, not as someone who wants to break rules but as someone who wants to question them. I love the word ‘naughty’, but only as an adult. To me naughty means someone who questions what they’re told.”

    ALSO READ | Chennai’s LGBTQIA+ community has a tough case for a queer date”I think at this point I might be the naughtiest of the three of us.”She previously shared that she felt “suicidal” while struggling with her sexuality when she was a teenager.The actress spent her youth battling with internalised homophobia as she grew up thinking same-sex relationships were “disgusting”.The ‘Life in a Year’ star even confessed there is “still a part” of her that “wishes” she was straight because of her “complicated” relationship with her sexuality.She added, “There is still a part of me where I’m like, ‘Oh, I wish I could just be straight’. There is still that side to it. It is really complicated.”

  • Delhi reports 3,674 fresh Covid cases, 30 deaths

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI:  Delhi on Sunday logged 3,674 fresh Covid cases with a positivity rate of 6.37 per cent, while 30 more people succumbed to the viral disease, according to data shared by the city health department.

    With this, the national capital’s caseload increased to 18,27,489 and the death toll climbed to 25,827, the bulletin stated. A total of 57,686 Covid tests were conducted in the city a day ago, it said.

    The number of daily cases in Delhi has been on the decline after touching the record high of 28,867 on January 13. The city had recorded a positivity rate of 30.6 per cent on January 14, the highest during the ongoing wave of the pandemic.

    It took just 10 days for daily cases to drop below 10,000. On Saturday, Delhi recorded 4,483 Covid cases with a positivity rate of 7.41 per cent and 28 deaths.

    On Friday, 4,044 cases with a positivity rate of 8.60 per cent and 25 deaths were recorded. The city logged 4,291 cases with a positivity rate of 9.56 per cent and 34 deaths on Thursday.

    The Delhi Disaster Management Authority on Thursday decided to lift the weekend curfew and the odd-even system of opening shops selling non-essential items besides allowing restaurants, bars, and theatres to reopen at 50 per cent capacity, given the improving Covid situation.

    The number of Covid patients under home isolation stood at 16,165 on Sunday, down from 18,536 on Saturday. There are 38,853 containment zones in the city, the bulletin said.

    There are 15,428 beds for Covid patients in Delhi hospitals and 1,567 (10.16 per cent) of them are occupied. A total of 1,772 patients are in hospitals, the health department’s bulletin on Saturday stated.

  • Install CCTVs at quarantine centres in Nagpur, says Bombay HC 

    By PTI
    MUMBAI: The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court has expressed its displeasure over institutionally quarantined COVID-19 patients not following isolation norms, and directed for CCTVs to be installed in all such facilities in Nagpur.

    A division bench of Justices Sunil Shukre and Avinash Gharote in its order on April 8, a copy of which was made available on Monday, said the installation of CCTV cameras would be useful to check the movements of quarantined patients in and out of their rooms.

    The CCTVs shall be installed at the Maharashtra government’s expense and proposals for the same shall be prepared by the Nagpur collector and commissioner of the Nagpur Municipal Corporation, the court said.

    The bench was hearing a petition taken up suo motu (on its own) last year on the issue of the COVID-19 pandemic and the condition of hospitals.

    On April 8, the court was informed that in several institutional quarantine centres, COVID-19 patients were not following the isolation and social distancing norms and were seen roaming freely in the facility.

    “It has been reported to us that because of such reckless and dangerous behaviour of some quarantined COVID-19 patients, those entrusted with the duty to look after these patients have started contracting COVID-19,” the court said.

    “Such behaviour of quarantined COVID-19 patients is highly deplorable and needs to be dealt with in a very stringent manner by the authority concerned,” the HC said.

    The court directed the Nagpur collector to take immediate steps to ensure quarantined COVID-19 patients are kept in strict isolation.

    “We also direct for regular inspection of all institutional quarantine centres in Nagpur by an appropriate team with a mandate to take action then and there,” the high court said.

    It directed Nagpur city police commissioner and Nagpur rural superintendent of police to ensure police personnel deputed at such centres “perform their duty diligently and sincerely”, and refrain from using their mobile phones for the purpose of entertainment and recreation while on duty.

    The court had last week directed for a special ‘Nagpur COVID-19 Committee’ to be set up to address the problems being faced by hospitals, doctors and staff and the general public in the wake of a surge in COVID-19 cases.

    The HC on April 8 asked the committee to consider setting up of day care centres for those COVID-19 patients who only require a few hours of treatment and do not need to be admitted.

    “This would help as many people fail to get admission in hospitals due to unavailability of beds,” it said.

    The bench said such day care centres could be set up in sports complexes, public schools, sports clubs and other such places.

    On April 8, the committee headed by Nagpur divisional commissioner told the court that it has taken a decision that if any person wishes to undergo COVID-19 test, then he or she will be first made to take the antigen test.

    “If the antigen test result is positive, then the person will be considered as COVID-19 positive and advised further treatment.

    But, if the antigen test result is negative, then the person will be required to undergo the RT- PCR test,” the committee told the court.

    As per the committee, even if the antigen test comes out negative, the possibility of the person having coronavirus infection persists.

    “This would reduce the load on RT-PCR laboratories as the patient found positive in the antigen test would not be required to undergo the RT-PCR test,” the committee said.

    The panel further told the court that it would take the help of social organisations to ensure mobilisation of people for taking the COVID-19 vaccine.

    The bench has posted the matter for further hearing on April 20.

  • 383 infected, 10 killed in state: Coronavirus

    There have been 383 new cases of corona infection in the state. At the same time 338 have become healthy and 10 people have died. Among those recovering, 59 have been discharged from hospital, while 279 have completed home isolation period. According to the health department, patients have been found in other districts including 52 in Raipur, 42 in Durg, 33 in Bilaspur, 32 in Raigad, 26 in Rajnandgaon. Samples of 21,859 suspects have been collected in the last 24 hours. At the same time 39 lakh 27 thousand 978 people have been investigated. Out of this, two lakh 94 thousand 355 coronas have been found infected. Two lakh 84 thousand 848 people have become healthy so far. Treatment of 3,575 active patients is underway, while 3,575 people have died so far.

    Two more centers for corona vaccination have been extended in the capital. With this, vaccination will now be done in seven centers. Actually Collector Dr. S. A meeting of officials was held on Tuesday under the chairmanship of Bharatidasan. He inquired from the health department officials about the updated status of the vaccination that started from January 16. Organize camps to spread awareness about vaccination and to promote health facilities.

  • Andhra Woman Who Escaped Isolation Tests Positive For New UK Strain Of Coronavirus

    An Anglo-Indian woman, who had returned from the United Kingdom to Delhi and later reached Andhra Pradesh by a special train after escaping from an isolation centre in Delhi, has tested positive for the new UK strain of Coronavirus, said Katamneni Bhasker, Commissioner of Health and Family Welfare Department of Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday. Speaking further, Bhasker said that there is no evidence of the spread of the new UK strain in the state. 

    According to the official data, Andhra Pradesh administration so far has traced 1,406 people out of 1,423 who came from the UK to the state. The Commissioner of Health and Family Welfare Department said that a total of 12 people were tested positive out of 1,406 people who underwent RTPCR test. It also mentioned that 6,364 primary contracts of 1,406 were tested and 12 were positive.

  • Uttarakhand CM Trivendra Singh Rawat tests positive for COVID19

    “Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat tested positive for COVID19”, tweets Uttarakhand CM. The Chief Minister also urged people who came in contact with him in last few days to isolate themselves.

    “Today I had the corona test done and the report came back positive. My health is fine and I do not have any symptoms. Therefore, on the advice of doctors, I will be in home isolation. I request everyone, whoever has come in contact with me in the last few days, please isolate yourself and get yourself checked,” Rawat said in a tweet (roughly translated from Hindi).

  • Six players of Pakistan team arrived on New Zealand tour, Corona positive

    Six members of the Pakistani cricket team who arrived in New Zealand have been found positive in the Corona virus test, which have been kept in isolation in Christchurch. The New Zealand Cricket Board itself has given information about this. Out of these six results, two are considered old, while four have been confirmed as new. Simultaneously, the relaxation of practice given to Pakistan during isolation has also been banned.

    New Zealand Cricket issued a statement saying, “Out of these six players, the symptoms found inside two players were already present, while four players have recently been hit by the virus. The Pakistan team has been put on hold till the completion of the investigation on the relaxation of practice received during isolation. It is very disappointing for the Pakistan cricket team that the players of their team have been found positive in the Corona Test. Earlier, the test results of all the members of the Pakistan team had come negative four times before leaving from Lahore.

    Before leaving for New Zealand, team batsman Fakhar Zaman also had symptoms of corona, due to which he was dropped from the tour of New Zealand. However, the names of these six players have not been given yet. Along with this, New Zealand Cricket also informed that some members of Pakistan team have violated the isolation protocol.