New Delhi (NVI): Bangladesh today saw the highest number of single day new cases and deaths. A whopping 3,117 new cases were reported, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 71,675.
The country also recorded a total of 45 deaths due to the novel coronavirus during this period, raising the death tally to 975, according to United News of Bangladesh.
So far, a total of 15,336 people have recovered from the deadly contagion, after 777 more patients made recovery.
Against the total number of detected cases, the recovery rate is 21.4 per cent and the mortality rate is 1.36 per cent in the country.
Altogether 7,021 policemen have been infected with coronavirus across the country so far.
New Delhi (NVI): The coronavirus cases in Afghanistan saw a rise of 542 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the total number to 21,459, according to Afghan media reports.
The death toll due to the virus rose to 384 with 15 new fatalities being reported in the last 24 hours.
Among the fresh cases reported, Kabul was at the top of the list with 213 new cases, followed by Herat with 142.
Other provinces reporting cases were Paktia (22), Nangarhar (92), Ghazni (36), Logar (4), Laghman (12), Kunduz (8), Kunar (1), Kapisa (5) and Panjshir (7).
The Afghan Ministry of Public Health said 2,651 people have recovered from the respiratory disease in Afghanistan.
So far, 49,530 people have been tested for COVID-19 in the country, as per media reports.
Meanwhile, the deputy public health minister Wahid Majroh said, “The number of infected people is more than what we announce. So far we have announced the number of positive cases that have been tested, but many people are not coming to health centers who have mild symptoms.”
“Those people who outside their homes must wear masks,” he added.
New Delhi (NVI): A natural-gas producing well of Oil India Limited (OIL) in upper Assam’s Tinsukia district caught fire this afternoon. The oil well had been leaking for the last 14 days, according to media reports.
The blaze may also spread to adjoining areas, reports said, adding that the Assam Government has requested the Indian Air Force and Army to extinguish the fire.
Large plumes of smoke were seen emanating from the well, located at Baghjan. According to a senior OIL official, the fire broke out at 1.40 pm at the site. Three experts from Singapore have also reached the site to douse the fire, reports said.
The Baghjan oil well of OIL (Oil India Limited (OIL) in Tinsukia district has been leaking gas uncontrollably.
Administration has evacuated 1000’s of people living nearby due to natural gas sweeping.
The oil well is near to Dibru-Saikhowa National Park. #Assam#gasleak#firepic.twitter.com/TbxlPDGrwK
The blowout was reported at the Baghjan well on May 27 while work was underway to produce gas from a new oil and gas-bearing reservoir at a depth of 3,729 meters.
Since the May 27 incident, around 2,000 people living near the site have been shifted to four relief camps.
New Delhi (NVI): Pakistan has now surpassed the 1 lakh mark in coronavirus cases after nearly 7,000 new cases were reported in the last 24 hours, taking the overall tally to 1,10,065 with at least 2,189 fatalities.
Looking at the breakdown of cases, Sindh province has reported 41,303 coronavirus cases, highest among all the provinces, while Punjab has 40,819 positive cases.
On the other hand, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa has recorded 14,006 cases, Balochistan is at 6,788, Gilgit-Baltistan at 952, Islamabad at 5,785 and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir is at 412 cases so far, according to Geo News.
Ministry of National Health Services stated that 35,018 patients have fully recovered from the coronavirus.
Meanwhile, Pakistan Muslim League-N spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb was tested positive a day after she confirmed that former Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi was tested positive.
New Delhi (NVI): 323 new positive coronavirus cases have been reported from Nepal, taking the toll in the Himalayan nation to 4,085, according to local media reports.
The country’s Ministry of Health and Population said, “Of the infected, 3,792 are males and 293 are females.”
In the last 24 hours, 286 males and 37 females from Ilam, Nawalpur, Banke, Dhanusa, Mahottari, Sarlahi, Banke, Jumla, Salyan, Darchula, Kanchanpur, Dadeldhura, Kailali, Kapilvastu, Rupandehi, Mahottari, Nuwakot, Rautahat and Siraha, said Dr Gautam.
At present, 72 of the 77 districts and all the Provinces have witnessed the transmission of COVID-19 virus, as per media reports.
Apart from this, 96 people have been discharged following recovery, which means the total recovery cases stand at 584 across the country, of which 507 are males while 77 are females.
Meanwhile, Nepal has recorded one more coronavirus related death, which has taken the national COVID-19 death toll to 15 in Nepal.
New Delhi (NVI): If you want to know where in the world you can find a place that has not yet been transformed by agriculture, infrastructure, or settlements, then this newly published map by a team of researchers may help you.
The map, published on June 5 in the journal Global Change Biology, knits together four independently developed models for determining where humanity leaves its fingerprints, each using different indicators of activity, according to a report by the National Geographic.
According to scientists, the newly created map reveals the “wildest” places on Earth—places where humans have the lowest impact. The findings could be used to support the push to set aside half of Earth for nature to flourish and keep it protected from human imprints, as per the researchers.
The four independently developed models used for creating the map use human population, built-up areas, and cropland as inputs, but then they start to specialize, reports the National Geographic.
Based on the findings, all of the maps agreed that about half of Earth shows “low” human impact, and about half of that — a quarter of the ice-free surface of the planet — could be described as “very low” human impact.
Lead author Jason Riggio, a spatial ecologist at the University of California, Davis, hopes the map can bolster the case for making the goal of protecting half the planet by 2050 official at the next meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity, scheduled for 2021.
Furthermore, while preserving largely untouched “wilderness” is an important goal for many, it isn’t always where the most plant and animal species are.
Globally, the tropics have many more species than the ecosystems closest to the poles, but the tropics also have a lot of people, according to Maria Dornelas, an ecologist at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.
Srinagar (NVI): Jammu and Kashmir reported two more deaths due to Covid-19 as two elderly men who were tested positive for the deadly pandemic breathed their last in two separate hospitals today.
With this, the number of Covid-19 causalities in the Union Territory has jumped to 48, including a non-local resident and a CRPF trooper. Of the total deaths, Kashmir has recorded 43 and Jammu has witnessed five deaths so far.
Health officials said that a 50-year-old man from Panzath area of South Kashmir’s Qazigund and a 52-year-old man from Sopore died at GMC Anantnag and Srinagar’s CD hospital respectively.
Principal GMC Anantnag, Showkat Jeelani said that a man from Panzath, who was very sick died at GMC this morning.
“He was tested positive for COVID a few days ago and was suffering from Pneumonia besides other ailments,” the doctor said.
A doctor at SMHS hospital Srinagar said that a man who was an auto driver by profession met with an accident on May 19 and was admitted in SMHS hospital.
“Just two days ago, he had tested positive for the virus, after which he was shifted to CD hospital. His condition deteriorated today morning after which he succumbed,” the doctor said.
Srinagar (NVI): The Cyber Cell of J&K police today cautioned people in the Valley for “one-ring phone scam” urging the citizens not to return missed calls or to respond to the calls from unknown international numbers.
The scam has entered Kashmir at a time when the Valley is under a tight grip of Covid-19 pandemic that has claimed over 45 lives and infected over 4000 people so far.
The Cyber wing termed it as “global scam, which has got active in Kashmir also.” Talking to NVI, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Cyber Police Cell Kashmir, Tahir Ashraf said that just a day after “one ring phone scam” stepped into Kashmir, they got active and started taking measures to counter the same.
“We have issued an advisory for the people how to deal with the scam,” he said. The advisory issued by the Cyber wing read: “If your phone rings once and then stops. If this happens to you and you don’t recognize the number, do not return the call. You may be target of a one ring phone scam.”
The advisory further reads that one ring call may appear to be from the international number. For countering the scam, the advisory states that “don’t answer or return any calls from number you don’t recognize, report that number as a spam. Before calling unfamiliar number, check to see if the area code is international. Always be cautious, even if a number appears authentic.”
SSP Cyber Cell said that it is a global scam active across the world where scammers engage people for long durations to make easy money. “Since international calls are costly, the scammers engage people and earn money. By engaging people for long durations over phone, they can access bank accounts and steal the money as well as phone numbers are linked with the banks of the people across Kashmir,” he said.
He said if people encounter this issue, they should immediately contact their service providers to ensure that the number is marked as a spam. “People of Kashmir should also follow Twitter handle and Facebook account of Cyber Cell J&K police for regular updates about how one ring scam can be countered effectively,” the police officer said and asked people not to panic and “just follow updates on official accounts of cyber wing’s Twitter and Facebook for dealing with the scammers.”
“We will be updating the ways and means of countering the scammers on our official accounts on social media,” the SSP said.
New Delhi (NVI): Before the Covid-19 pandemic, France was the world’s most visited country, according to the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO).
Although some countries are considering easing coronavirus lockdowns to reopen their borders, international tourist numbers could fall by up to 80% in 2020, says the World Tourism Organization.
With lockdowns beginning to ease, many countries are starting to think about how to restart an engine vital to their economies: tourism, reports World Economic Forum.
The European Union is exploring how it can safely open its internal borders to welcome summer visitors. While Australians may be allowed to travel to New Zealand from July, some Caribbean islands, like Saint Lucia, will begin to reopen in June, according to WFP.
However, in a normal year, these are the most visited destinations:
The most recent figures from the UNWTO show that France is the world’s number one destination for international tourists, Almost 90 million people visited the country in 2018.
Spain isn’t far behind, with over 82 million visitors. The United States, China and Italy complete the top five.
Park Güell is a public park in Barcelona, Spain
According to UNWTO, these countries are also among the hardest-hit by COVID-19, with the US, Italy, France and Spain (along with the United Kingdom and Brazil) to date recording the world’s highest number of confirmed coronavirus deaths.
The tourism industry accounts for 10% of GDP and jobs, globally.
Countries reliant on travel and tourism have seen “particularly large” disruptions, according to the International Monetary Fund, as lockdowns caused havoc in these economies, as they have in many others around the globe.
Rialto Bridge is a Arch bridge in Venice, Italy
Of the top five most visited nations, Spain in particular will be feeling the heat in this respect – international tourists spend about $81 billion in the country annually. That’s over 16% of its total exports, while the same figure is under 10% for France and Italy.
However, those numbers pale in comparison to Saint Lucia, though, where international tourism receipts make up more than 81% of total exports.
New Delhi (NVI): Delhi’s Lt Governor Anil Baijal has called an all-party meeting at 3 PM today to review the current Covid-19 situation in the national capital.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is unlikely to attend the meeting as he is unwell and has undergone a coronavirus test today.
LG Anil Baijal yesterday overruled Delhi government’s order reserving all beds in state-run and private hospitals only for city residents until COVID-19 pandemic crisis is resolved.
Baijal, who is also the chairperson of Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA), directed the authorities in the NCT to ensure that Covid treatment is not denied to patients on grounds on not being a resident of Delhi.
After the LG’s order yesterday, CM Arvind Kejriwal said that allowing treatment of people from outside Delhi in all hospitals will create a problem and challenge for people living in Delhi.
“LG’s order has created a big problem and challenge for people of Delhi. It is a big challenge to arrange for treatment of people coming from all over India amid the corona pandemic. Perhaps, it is God’s will that we serve the people of the whole country. We will try to arrange for treatment of all,” he tweeted.
Meanwhile, coronavirus cases in Delhi have surged past 29,000 while the death toll rose to 874.
