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Five pilots succumb to

COVID-19 in May

fter five senior Air India pilots lost their lives to COVID-19
last month, the Indian Commercial Pilots Association
A(ICPA) has urged the airline to vaccinate not only the
members of the flying crew but also their family members.
In a letter on Tuesday, the ICPA said that their immediate fami-
lies were at risk of contracting the virus and requested that the provi-
sion of vaccinating employees be extended to them. “We draw your
attention to government policy allowing private and state entities to A nine-foot-tall statue of Telangana Chief Minister K
vaccinate not just their employees but even dependent family mem- Chandrashekhar Rao was unveiled at Palle Prakruthi Vanam at
bers... Pilots are being quarantined, testing positive, and succumbing
to COVID at an alarming frequency,” the letter said. Chilpur village in Jangaon on Thursday. (ANI)
“We fear infecting our family members on returning home after
operating VBM flights. With this backdrop, we need support from cal Association lawyer added.
the company to keep performing our duties and keep our families DMA lawyers further submitted, “Baba Ramdev, who has huge
safe,” it added. followship has made very derogatory statement against us. We are
The five senior Air India pilots who have succumbed to the the front warriors. We have lost many doctors and medical staff
coronavirus are Captain Harsh Tiwari, Capt Gurpratap Singh, Capt during pandemic. Statement made by him directly insulted the
Sandeep Rana, Capt Amitesh Prasad and Capt Prasad M Karmakar. doctors. Lakhs of people have died due to allopathy. He says we
Air India had in April decided to set up a mass vaccination camp are stupid.”
for its employees aged 45 years or above on priority. Camps were set
up to vaccinate over 6,000 of its employees aged above 45 years. cOViD-19 wave
One of the Airline’s vaccination camps, scheduled to be held at
GSD Complex, Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi in May 624 doctors lost their lives
was cancelled due to the nationwide COVID-19 vaccine shortage.

Baba ramdev during, says IMA

s many as 624 doctors lost their lives during the second
Delhi HC seeks response on suit AAssociation’s (IMA) latest data has revealed. As per the
wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Indian Medical

filed by DMA IMA’s COVID Registry, the highest number of deaths have been
reported in Delhi (109), over a sixth of the total fatalities.
he Delhi High Court on Thursday sought response from all it is followed by Bihar with 96 deaths, and Uttar Pradesh with 79.
defendants including yoga Guru Baba Ramdev and others According to the IMA, 748 doctors had died of the infection
Tin a suit filed by the Delhi Medical Association (DMA). across the country in the first wave of the pandemic.
The Court has also sought response from social media platforms Meanwhile, India reported 1,34,154 fresh COVID-19 cases in
including Twitter, media channels and other unnamed defendants. the last 24 hours, taking the country’s infection tally to 2,84,41,986,
The Petitioner association also sought restraining Baba Ramdev according to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on
from disseminating false statements and false information about Pa- Thursday. India’s active caseload has further declined to 17,13,413,
tanjali’s Coronil. The bench of Justice C Harishankar, after issuing a decrease of 80,232 in the last 24 hours.
summons to defendants in the suit, fixed the matter for next hear- The daily positivity rate also declined to 6.21 per cent, remain-
ing on August 12 before joint registrar and July 13 before the court. ing below the 10 per cent-mark for the tenth consecutive day, while
The Court after conclusion of the submissions made by law- the weekly positivity rate stands at 7.66 per cent. The positivity rate
yers, said that summons have been issued to unnamed defendants declined by two per cent as compared to yesterday’s 8.21 per cent.
as well. It would be advisable that responses are not restricted to The death toll due to the virus climbed to 3,37,989 with 2,887
maintainability, said the court. fatalities being recorded in 24 hours.
Senior Advocate Rajeev Dutta representing Plaintiff DMA Meanwhile, recoveries continue to outnumber the daily new
during processing submitted, “Baba Ramadev’s statement in public cases for 21 successive days, as India witnessed 2,11,499 recoveries
is damaging the reputations of science and doctors. This is a suit for in the last 24 hours, the ministry said. The recovery tally of India
civil rights of doctors. He has used derogatory words for allopathy.” has reached 2,63,90,584 and the recovery rate increased to 92.79
Advocate Dutta further said, “Baba Ramdev’s statement against per cent.
medical science is affecting the members. He has said science is According to the Indian Council of Medical Research, a total
fake. At this juncture during pandemic when doctors are working of 35,37,82,648 samples tested up to June 02 of which 21,59,873
hard round the clock to save people, it’s really demoralizing.” samples were tested yesterday.
“It is hitting the whole science in the country,” the Delhi Medi- (with ANI reports)

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