Pakistan on Tuesday launched a Chinese Covid-19 vaccine- ‘PakVac’ developed with Chinese help. The Special Assistant to Prime Minister (SAPM) on Health Dr Faisal Sultan announced that the mass production of the vaccine will begin soon.
Thanking China, Sultan said, “China was already a friend and came forward when coronavirus hit Pakistan.” He also lauded the National Institute of Health (NIH) for its pathbreaking development.
“Developing the vaccine from raw materials is not an easy task. (We are) proud of the people that developed the vaccine at the NIH,” Dr Sultan added.
PakVac is the localised version of China’s Cansino vaccine. The vaccine will be filled and packaged in Pakistan and sold under the brand name PakVac.
In order to boost its vaccination programme, Pakistan launched its locally made #covid19 vaccine ‘PakVac. It has been developed with the help of its ally China.@SaroyaHem tells you more pic.twitter.com/daILOo7Yqg
Pakistan will be manufacturing the Chinese vaccine developed by China’s Cansino Bio Inc. Experts and raw materials that were transported by China in early May. Dr Sultan took to Twitter to inform that the PakVac vaccine has passed rigorous internal quality control checks and testing and is fit for production. Faisal Sultan congratulated NIH Pakistan team for successfully taking the vaccine to fill-finish stage from concentrate.
Congratulations to the NIH Pak team and its leadership for successful fill/finish (from concentrate) of the Cansino vaccine with the help of Cansino Bio Inc. China. The product has passed the rigorous internal QA testing. An imp step to help in our vaccine supply line pic.twitter.com/hrkySTJxPX
An overwhelmed Asad Umar chief of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) remarked that it was an “important” day for Pakistan.
Chinese Ambassador Nong Rong, in his address, added that Pakistan is the ‘first country to accept the Chinese vaccine as a gift’. He also said that PakVac’s production is an example of the friendship shared between the two countries.
Meanwhile, the NCOC Chief informed that the Covid-19 situation continues to remain worrisome in the country with a high number of patients needing hospitalization in the third wave as compared to the first. He also added that the number of patients on oxygen support was 60% more than the first wave.
Pakistan reported 1,771 new cases in the last 24 hours, taking the tally of confirmed cases to 922,824, as per the Ministry of National Health Services data.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday announced a new initiative to support children under the ‘PM-CARES for Children’ scheme who have lost both their parents or guardians to the coronavirus pandemic.
An affidavit filed before the Supreme Court on Tuesday by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) revealed that data of 9,346 children affected by the pandemic has been uploaded on the newly created Bal Swaraj portal. This includes data of 1,742 children who lost both parents, 7,464 now in a single-parent household and 140 have been abandoned from March 2020 to May 29, 2021.
However, Lallantop a digital news portal in a deliberate attempt to cast aspersions on the government’s intent, misrepresented data.
The portal attached Union Minister Smriti Irani’s Tweet from May 25 which said, “GOI is committed to support and protect every vulnerable child due to loss of both parents to Covid-19. From 1st April 2021 till 2:00 PM today, the State Governments & UTs across the country have reported 577 children whose parents succumbed to Covid-19.”
GOI is committed to support and protect every vulnerable child due to loss of both parents to Covid-19. From 1st April 2021 till 2:00 PM today, the State Governments & UTs across the country have reported 577 children whose parents succumbed to Covid-19.
While the Minister used the word ‘from’ April 01, 2021 the portal conveniently changed it to ‘till’ April 01, 2021 thereby claiming the numbers to be untrue.
Screenshot of Lallantop’s report
It then went on to say that while the Union Minister claims only 577 children have been orphaned, the NCPCR data reveals over 1700 such children who have been identified which is a clear attempt to misinterpret data and Minister’s Tweet.
To justify, it quoted an unrelated news report by Dainik Bhaskar which unearthed the discrepancy reported in actual Covid-19 numbers in the state of Rajasthan and tried to put the blame of it on Centre.
NCPCR Chairperson Priyank Kanoongo too called out Lallantop for indulging in misinformation and spreading fake news.
Don’t spread fake news on the basis of toolkits,Commission has specifically informed that data has been submitted by states from March 2020 to 29 may 2021. https://t.co/x8Xdbp0YYI
— प्रियंक कानूनगो Priyank Kanoongo (@KanoongoPriyank) June 1, 2021
He specified that the commission had specifically informed that the data submitted by the states is from March 2020 to 29th May 2021.
Lallantop has still not corrected the report
PM CARES for Children Scheme
According to a statement released by the Prime Minister Office, PM CARES Fund will contribute to a specially designed scheme to raise a corpus of Rs 10 lakh for each child when he or she reaches the age of 18.
For children under 10, children will receive free school education in government schools, along with free uniforms, textbooks and notebooks.
The children between the age of 11 to 18 will be provided with an option by the central government. They could either enroll themselves in any Central Government residential school such as Sainik School, Navodaya Vidyalaya etc, or they can take admission in the nearest Kendriya Vidyalaya or in a private school as a day scholar if the child wishes to live under the care of Guardian/ grandparents/ extended family.
For teenagers seeking higher education, the central government will assist them in obtaining education loans for Professional courses / Higher Education in India as per the existing Education Loan norms.
There is also a provision of Health Insurance for children who have lost both their parents or guardians under the new scheme. All children will be enlisted as a beneficiary under Ayushman Bharat Scheme (PM-JAY) with a health insurance cover of ₹5 lakhs. The premium amount for these children till the age of 18 years will be paid by PM CARES.
Peter Daszak, a leading scientist whose organisation had funded the coronavirus research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology, had thanked Dr Anthony Fauci for downplaying the theory that the coronavirus may have leaked from a lab.
According to the reports, Peter Daszak, the president of EcoHealth Alliance, a research group that secured a grant to perform coronavirus research in Wuhan before the pandemic, had written a mail to Dr Fauci to say a “personal thank you” on behalf of his staff and collaborators after the latter had dismissed the idea that the pandemic started due to a lab accident in Wuhan.
Peter Daszak, who was deeply involved both in Wuhan coronavirus research & in misleading the public about the likelihood of a lab leak, thanked Fauci for helping "dispel the myths" around COVID origins and blamed Fox News for targeting his grant. From the @JasonLeopold FOIA batch pic.twitter.com/LgloFVaFZX
Dr. Anthony Fauci serves as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in the United States, who is also the chief medical advisor to the Biden Administration currently. Fauci has been leading the USA’s response against the pandemic and has been instrumental in shaping government policy as well as influencing public opinion regarding the pandemic.
“I just wanted to say a personal thank you on behalf of our staff and collaborators, for publicly standing up and stating that the scientific evidence supports a natural origin for COVID-19 from a bat-to-human spillover, not a lab release from the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” read the letter written by Daszak to Fauci on April 18, 2020.
“From my perspective, your comments are brave, and coming from your trusted voice, will help dispel the myths being spun around the virus’s origins,” Daszak added in his letter. Fauci responded to Daszak’s email on April 19, writing “Many thanks for your kind note.”
In his letter, Daszak referred to comments put out by Fauci on April 17, when a reporter asked him to address concerns that the coronavirus could have leaked from a lab.
“There was a study recently…where a group of highly qualified evolutionary virologists looked at the sequences there and the sequences in bats as they evolve,” Fauci had said at the time dismissing Chinese lab origins of the virus. “The mutations that it took to get to the point where it is now is totally consistent with a jump of a species from an animal to a human,” he had opined.
Daszak’s organisation got a grant from NIH, has been vocally dismissing ‘lab origin’ allegations
Reportedly, Daszak’s organization, the EcoHealth Alliance, funneled $3.4 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health to the Wuhan Institute of Virology to study bat coronaviruses between 2014 and 2019. Some experts believe that the Covid-19 was originated in a lab in Wuhan, and WIV may have been the ground zero of the Chinese pandemic.
While politicians and scientists in the United States have suggested that the novel coronavirus initially leaked from the WIV before spreading across the globe, Peter Daszak had taken an objection and vehemently denied the allegation.
Daszak had published in Lancet calling ‘lab origin’ theories baseless, hidden conflict of interest
At the beginning of the pandemic, Daszak had published a letter in a leading medical journal Lancet, signed by several scientists, rejecting the idea of a lab accident based on little evidence. Daszak had also failed to disclose his conflict of interest when signing the letter.
Daszak had also been a part of the WHO team that had gone to Wuhan to study the origins of the pandemic and came up with ‘inconclusive’ reports. In a recently published report by former NYT science editor Nicholas Wade, it was reported that Daszak had not only funded ‘gain of function’ research into coronaviruses in Wuhan, but he had also even boasted in the past about how they have made coronavirus variants in the Wuhan lab that are resistant to existing antibodies and have no vaccines yet.
The exchange between Daszak and Fauci was part of more than 3,200 pages of Fauci’s emails that media outlets obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and posted online on Tuesday.
In his email to Fauci, Daszak has blamed Fox News for targeting his coronavirus research as the media outlet was the first one to question regarding reports that an infected intern at the lab had spread the virus. It was one of the earliest high-profile mentions of the experiments Daszak’s group had facilitated at the Wuhan lab.
Fauci has since publicly shifted his tone, acknowledging in recent days that the virus may indeed have come from a lab. Until recently, Fauci said it is “highly likely” that the coronavirus has a natural origin. However, a few days back, Fauci finally admitted that he was “not convinced” that coronavirus developed naturally.
On June 2, Assam Police arrested 24 people, including main perpetrators and conspirators, for attacking a doctor at a Covid care centre. A video of the incident went viral on social media platforms that triggered a strong protest. Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma quoted the viral video and called it a barbaric attack. He said, “Such barbaric attacks on our frontline workers won’t be tolerated by our administration. Assam Police and DGP GP Singh ensure that the culprits brought to justice.”
— Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) June 1, 2021
Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma further released names of rest of the perpetrators.
18. Alimuddin 19. Jamil Ahmad 20. Sarifuddin 21. Safiquddin 22. Mofizur Rahman 23. Matibur Rahman 24. Miss Misba Begum
— Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) June 2, 2021
According to the reports, Dr. Seuj Kumar Senapati, who was posted at Udali CCC in Hojai district of central Assam, was attacked by the relatives of a patient including. The patient was admitted on June 1 at 11 AM and died at 2 PM of Covid related complications. In the viral video, security personnel and other staff members were seen trying to stop them, but no one listened.
The Police identified the main perpetrators as Md. Kamaruddin, Md. Jainal uddin, Rehanuddin, Saidul Alam, Rahim Uddin, Rajul Islam, Tayebur Rahman and Sahil Islam. By 4 AM, Tuesday, the Police had arrested 24 people in the case.
Names of perpetrators picked up till now – 1) Md.Kamaruddin 2) Md. Jainal uddin 3) Rehanuddin 4) Saidul Alam 5) Rahim uddin 6) Rajul Islam 7) Tayebur Rahman 8) Sahil Islam.
Assam Medical Service Association condemned the attack
Assam Medical Service Association wrote a letter to the deputy commissioner of the district and informed him about the incident. The letter said that the mob damaged the building and instruments besides “brutally assaulting” the doctor. The letter said, “These type of incidents demoralises our serving attitude. They are not the only enemy to doctors but also to the entire community.” They demanded the culprits be arrested in 12 hours and strict action to be taken against them so that such incidents do not happen again.
AMSA’s letter to Deputy Commissioner. Source: Twitter/dwivedikaustuv
Indian Medical Association also wrote a letter to the Home Minister Amit Shah condemning the attack. In the letter, the association said, “Doctors and healthcare staff is finding it difficult to work under the stress of violence.” They further added, “We request for immediate strict action on culprits in Assam incident.”
IMA’s letter to HM Amit Shah. Source: Twitter/dwivedikaustuv
All culprits arrested, said DGP
In a series of tweets, Gyanendra Pratap Singh, Director General of Police, Assam, said that by 4 AM Tuesday, 24 persons, including main perpetrators and conspirators, have been arrested. This includes the woman seen in the video.
Barun Purkayastha, SP Hojai, said, “A critically ill Covid-19 patient succumbed to the disease at Udali Covid Care Centre on Tuesday afternoon. Immediately after that, the relatives and a group of people known to the victim arrived there and started beating up the doctor. After getting the information, our team reached there and arrested three persons. Further investigation is on. The doctor has been referred to Nagaon for better treatment.”
Covid-19 in Assam
On June 1, Assam reported 4,682 cases of Covid-19. There are 51,333 active cases in the state. 4,992 patients recovered from the disease on Monday, and 51 lost their lives. The current test positivity ratio in the state is around 4%.
The Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), the Congress party’s ally in Kerala, has moved the Supreme Court challenging the decision of the Modi government to grant citizenship to persecuted minority refugees from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
According to the reports, the Islamic political outfit IUML has filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking a stay on the recent notification issued by the centre that had invited applications from persecuted Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Parsis, Jains, and Buddhists belonging to Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan.
In its petition, IUML termed the order an attempt by the Centre to implement its “mala fide designs envisaged under CAA.” The petition further claimed that if the applicants are granted citizenship and the Supreme Court strikes down the CAA, it would be a “herculean task” and “near-impossible” to take back the citizenships given.
The IUML has reportedly called the decision ‘back-door’ CAA. It is despite the fact that refugees in India are naturalised under existing laws and they become eligible to apply for Indian citizenship after fulfilling the requirements. District magistrates will have the power to grant Indian citizenship to eligible applicants.
“Therefore since the Amendment Act is pending adjudication before this court, it would be in the interest of justice, that the operation of the Amendment Act, including such procedures under the Amendment Act for granting citizenship to illegal migrants be stayed until the matter, is decided by the court, the petition noted.
It is worth mentioning that Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), which claims to be born after the Indian Independence in 1948, is an off-shoot of Pakistan founder and Islamist Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s All India Muslim League (AIML). The All India Muslim League was succeeded by the Muslim League in Pakistan and the Indian Union Muslim League in India.
The Muslim League had strongly advocated for the establishment of a separate Muslim-majority nation-state named Pakistan that had eventually led to the partition of British India in 1947 by the British Empire. The birth of Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) in December 1947 was a part of that intention to keep these spirit of the All India Muslim League.
In Kerala, IUML is an alliance partner with the Congress party and has been part of its United Democratic Front (UDF) for decades now. In the run-up to the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Rahul Gandhi had enlisted the support of IUML to secure his victory in the Muslim-majority Wayanad Lok Sabha seat.
Modi govt to grant citizenship to six persecuted minorities from three countries
On May 28, in a significant decision, the Modi government invited applications from persecuted minority refugees – Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Parsis, Christians, and Buddhists who had come from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan for granting of Indian citizenship. The said refugees are currently living in 13 districts of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, and Punjab and the citizenship grant will be under existing rules of the Citizenship Act.
In the notification, the Union Home Ministry had asked people belonging to six persecuted communities to apply for a certificate of naturalization under the Citizenship Act 1955 and the citizenship rules framed under the law in 2009.
Only those people who are currently living in the districts of Morbi, Rajkot, Patan, and Vadodara districts of Gujarat, Durg, and Balodabazar districts in Chhattisgarh, Jalore, Udaipur, Pali, Barmer, and Sirohi districts in Rajasthan, Faridabad in Haryana and Jalandhar in Punjab, are eligible to apply for Indian citizenship.
The notification said that the application for registration as a citizen of India through naturalisation under the said rules (Citizenship Rules, 2009) would be made by the applicant online. Under naturalisation rules, a person can acquire citizenship by naturalisation if he/she is ordinarily resident of India for 12 years and fulfils all qualifications in the third schedule of the Citizenship Act.
Citizenship to these persecuted minorities will be granted under naturalization rules and not under the recently passed Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019. Even though the centre passed the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in 2019 to grant citizenship to these persecuted non-Muslim minorities belonging to three neighbouring Islamic countries, the centre is yet to frame the rules. The fresh order is in no way connected to the Citizenship Amendment Act enacted in 2019.
British journalist Raheem Kassam on Wednesday shared a few screenshots of Twitter user ‘Sarah Joe’ who had called for genocide of Israelis. He asked the porn star Mia Khalifa is she is aware who this Sarah Joe lady is.
In first tweet, @sarahjoe93 had called ‘Israeli propaganda’ disgusting and called for Hamas terrorists in Palestine to target schools and kill some of their children. ‘Save the world from future Zionist scum,’ she had tweeted. The tweet was from August 3, 2014.
In another tweet, Sarah Joe had claimed she is ‘disgusted’ by the Jewish race.
Wow the same account tweeted about being "disgusted" by the Jewish race. Sure hope @miakhalifa finds out who has been tweeting these things. pic.twitter.com/buxRgy9c3t
Turns out, Mia Khalifa’s real name is believed to be ‘Sarah Joe Chamoun’ and she was born in February 1993. She was an active porn star from 2014 to 2019. It is believed that the Twitter account @sarahjoe93 is her account before she shot to fame as a porn star. In a video shared by Khalifa in July last year, she shared image of her ex-husband whom she accused of mental and sexual abuse.
Khalifa had shot to fame in porn industry in early 2014 when her then husband (who looks quite similar to the person with whom ‘Sarah Joe’ is posing in last picture) posted her pornographic images on Reddit. She entered professional porn industry in October 2014, months after ‘Sarah Joe’ called for genocide of Israelis on Twitter.
Sarah Joe
Sarah Joe has since protected her Twitter account.
Further, Jack Posobiec of Human Events revealed that there is an account of @sarahjoe93 on @theCHIVE but all the tweets it has posted are by Mia Khalifa.
That's so weird because there is an old @theCHIVE account with the name @sarahjoe93
47-year old cleric was arrested for raping a 10-year old girl inside a mosque.
A 47-year-old cleric has been arrested on the charge of sexually molesting a 10-year-old girl inside a mosque in Delhi. The incident took place on Sunday: Delhi Police
As reported by news agency ANI, the incident took place on Sunday. As per reports, the girl had gone inside the mosque to fetch water at 10 PM. The cleric allegedly stopped her and then raped her. Once she reached home, she informed her parents who then approached police. The girl has undergone medical examination.
Following the incident coming to light, local people were agitated and hence police force was deployed outside the mosque. An FIR has been registered and Delhi court has sent him to a 14-day judicial custody.
Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Monday came down strongly against 60 ex-civil servants, referring to them as ‘Padhe Likhe Murkh’, for endorsing an open letter that called for the halting of the Central Vista revamp project. The list of the ex-civil servants who signed the letter includes Harsh Mander, Ajai Kumar, Jawhar Sircar, Julio Ribeiro, Jawhar Sircar, along with 55 other former bureaucrats.
The open letter that Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri trashed yesterday was first published in May 2020. In the letter, over 60 retired IAS and IPS officers, including two former secretaries in the environment ministry, exhorted the Modi government to not go ahead with its Central Vista Project, highlighting that there were “major flaws” in the planning and execution of permission required for the Rs 20,000 crore project.
Source: Times of India
The former civil servants had also alleged that the Modi government had given its approval for the Central Vista project because of a “superstitious belief” that the present Parliament building was too ‘unlucky’.
In the letter, the bureaucrats had said, “There is a great deal wrong with the conceptualization of the project. Rather than establishing the necessity of the project with sound prior studies on environmental and technical parameters, this project began, if reports are to be believed, because of a superstitious belief that the present Parliament building is ‘unlucky’, as well as with the thought of leaving a particular government and its leader’s impress on the architecture of Delhi.”
This contention had raised the hackles of the Union Minister, who laid into the former bureaucrats and called them a bunch of uneducated fools. He said being retired civil servants with decades of experience, these former bureaucrats should not have believed the reports in the first place and should have looked for the facts. He said, “These are not educated fools but a disgrace to the country.” He further added, “I will not put my signatures on a letter that talks about superstitious belief.”
While the Times of India report did talk about the letter signed by 60 ex-civil servants against the Central Vista project, it did not mention the list of the signatories. Another report about the same letter was published in The Hindu on the same day on which the Times of India report was published, that is, on 17 May 2020. The article published in The Hindu talks about the 60 former bureaucrats who called the Modi government to stop its ambitious Central Vista project. In addition, it also included the list of signatories who had endorsed the letter.
Source: The Hindu
Here’s the complete list of signatories who signed the open letter asking the central government to stop the Central Vista project
Anita Agnihotri, V.S. Ailawadi, Shafi Alam, K. Saleem Ali, S.P. Ambrose, Vappala Balachandran, Gopalan Balagopal, Chandrashekhar Balakrishnan, Sharad Behar, Aurobindo Behera, Madhu Bhaduri, Sundar Burra, Tishyarakshit Chatterjee, Anna Dani, Vibha Puri Das, P.R. Dasgupta, M.G. Devasahayam, Sushil Dubey, K.P. Fabian, Arif Ghauri, Gourishankar Ghosh, Suresh K. Goel, Meena Gupta, Ravi Vira Gupta, Kamal Jaswal, K. John Koshy, Ajai Kumar, Sudhir Kumar, P.K. Lahiri, Subodh Lal, Harsh Mander, Amitabh Mathur, Aditi Mehta, Sonalini Mirchandani, Avinash Mohananey, Deb Mukharji, Nagalsamy, P.G.J. Nampoothiri, Amitabha Pande, Alok Petri, R. Poornalingam, C. Babu Rajeev, Julio Ribeiro, Aruna Roy, Deepak Sanan, S. Satyabhama, A. Selvaraj, Abhijit Sengupta, Aftab Seth, Ashok Kumar Sharma, Navrekha Sharma, Raju Sharma, Tirlochan Singh, Jawhar Sircar, Narendra Sisodia, Parveen Talha, Thanksy Thekkekera, P.S.S. Thomas and Hindal Tyabji.
Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri blasts at former bureaucrats for opposing Central Vista Project
On May 31, Minister for Housing & Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri held a press conference on the Central Vista project. Towards the end of the conference, the minister marked his objection on one of the statements that were made in an ‘open letter’ by former bureaucrats last year that has been making rounds on social media platforms.
He urged those who are raising questions over the central vista project to at least visit the parliament once and see how difficult it is to sit there due to lack of space. He said, “The parliament was designed for fewer people. We are making a bigger parliament building for the people of India.” He further said, “I think some of these guys need to have their head examined before they sign letters like this.”
Puri said they are saying that it was an open letter but he was never made aware of the letter before. It was only on May 31 when he came to know about the contents of the letter. However, it has been making rounds on social media. He further raised question over the alleged news portals that have popped up recently and said, “I do not know what agenda they have but they need to get their facts right.”
Referring to them as ‘vidvaans’ (intelligent, learned folks), he said that their contention that the new Central Vista will deprive people of the open space which works as an inexpensive place for recreation is misplaced. “Once the Central Vista Avenue redevelopment is complete there will be even more space for recreation & for Mummy, Daddy & Pappu to have ice cream there,” he said.
A huge controversy erupted when a video of Baba Ramdev declaring allopathy as a hollow practice went viral. The country’s largest professional council of healthcare Indian Medical Association (IMA) jumped into the fray, taking a strong objection to his remarks. It threatened the Yoga Guru with a police complaint and a Rs 1000 crore defamation suit.
The association wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Union Health Ministry to take cognizance of the remarks made by Ramdev. The council had demanded that the Yoga guru be booked under sedition charges.
The Health Ministry promptly expressed its disapproval over Ramdev’s remarks, issuing a letter to the Yoga Guru to retract his statements. Ramdev complied with the request made to him by the Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan and withdrew his statements against allopathic medicines.
This too did not satisfy IMA which went on to demand that Ramdev withdraw his comments in its entirety.
Now, the association has once again gone into a mindless rant calling the Yoga Guru a “traitor” and an “anti-national”, who does not deserve mercy.
Mr. Ramdev thought it fit to launch his tirade against National COVID-19 treatment. People creating confusion regarding the National Treatment Protocols and National Vaccination Programme are traitors and anti-nationals. They deserve no mercy: Indian Medical Association pic.twitter.com/dmN6A7ZEYx
The letter from the collective leadership of the Indian Medical Association read: “Anti-national elements have surfaced during every challenging moment in the history. Mr Ramdev thought it fit to launch his tirade against the National Covid-19 Treatment Protocol and National Cowid-19 Vaccination Programme looking for an opportunity to market his commercial products”.
In a letter signed by 17 present and past members of the association, IMA said that Ramdev’s remark against allopathy is a “totally different criminal Act”. It castigated the Yoga guru for causing irreparable damage to the efforts of the government of India in containing the pandemic. It said that Ramdev has created confusion in the mind of people against the National Covid protocol and National Vaccination Programme which the association said was “an anti national act of henious proportion”.
The copy of the letter written by IMA
The copy of the letter written by IMA
IMA said that it has demanded that Ramdev remarks be deemed as sedition and that the Yoga guru is prosecuted under the Disaster Management Act.
Coming down hard on Ramdev’s supporters, the association rebuked them for “attempting diversionary tactics of malicious attacks” on IMA and it’s National President JA Jayalal.
It is pertinent to note here that on May 27, a complaint had been filed with the Ministry of Home Affairs against Johnrose Austin Jayalal, the National President of the Indian Medical Association, seeking action against him for abusing his power and resorting to proselytization during the pandemic.
Legal Right Protection Forum, a legal-activism group, has written a detailed letter to the centre demanding strict action against John Rose Austin Jayalal, accusing him of using the Covid-19 pandemic to convert patients to Christianity. Jayalal had expressed his desire to use hospitals to convert people to Christianity.
Nevertheless, continuing its tirade against the Yoga guru, the Indian Medical Association insinuated that Baba Ramdev remarks was an assault on those thousands of doctors who have sacrificed their lives in the line of duty. “To trivialise these martyrs and the warriors is a sacrilege”, said IMA, urging the people of the nation to draw its own conclusion.
Barkha Dutt reported from inside the ICU of a hospital amidst the second wave of the Coronavirus pandemic, which has shocked people across the board. People on social media are wondering how a ‘journalist’ was permitted to enter the ICU when in Covid-19 cases, even families are not allowed to enter.
Barkha Dutt had earlier come under criticism after the death of her father with netizens accusing her of sensationalizing his death in order to further her personal agenda.
Relatives can’t go inside Covid ICUs to see their loved ones, but tamashbeens with their camera crew can, of course…. pic.twitter.com/7DZRJAPryp
Reporting inside ICU. 1. How and why is she being allowed inside ICU? Thats endangering everyone's life. 2. She is worse than a vulture. feeding on dead bodies couldn't quench your thirst @BDUTT ? Now u want to endanger lives of sick patients. Shame! pic.twitter.com/ACIoZzZvwS
The hospital management was also criticised for allowing Dutt to enter the ICU.
Hospitals always restrict entry to safeguard critical patients. Only family members are allowed but during specific hours. You can't just walk inside an ICU where all patients are critical. How can a hospital management decide to allow Barkha Dutt? Isn't this a blatant violation? pic.twitter.com/LLPtyVspuY
Who has give @BDUTT permission to risk the life of ppl in ICU ward Dr.Taha shud also be charged for this knowing that how dangerous it cud be for the patients. Is this even allowed ?? @drmonika_langeh pls guide never seen this in any hospital though @PIBBengalurupic.twitter.com/FTWwHBu3Rd
— Vandana ? Get Vaccinated India ? (@im_vandy) June 1, 2021
Barkha Dutt had claimed after her father’s death that the oxygen in the ambulance had run out. However, Sonu, the ambulance driver, said that the oxygen cylinderwas full and Barkha Dutt herself had checked the supply.
“She interrupted me during the journey and repeatedly asked me to check the oxygen supply. I assured her that it was working fine. We had reached the hospital without any issues. We were accompanied by two of her vehicles. The patient’s caretaker was also with him. I had even stood outside the emergency department for 15-20 minutes. The patient also got down from the ambulance without any difficulty,” Sonu had said.
