A 10-month-old girl has died at the Chaurasi village primary school quarantine centre in <keyword id="6740487" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Siddharthnagar-district">Siddharthnagar district</keyword> of <keyword id="6357713" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Uttar-Pradesh">Uttar Pradesh</keyword>. The girl's father Rajendra Prasad said that on Thursday evening his daughter was restless and developed measles-like <keyword id="44308" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Symptoms">symptoms</keyword> on Friday and died the following day. This is the first quarantined infantile death in the state. According to reports, the baby fell ill on Thursday and when her condition deteriorated, she was rushed to the district hospital in Uska Bazar area in an ambulance on Saturday where the doctors declared her brought dead. The family members later buried her in the village. "The family members had come from Mumbai and they were instructed to stay at the quarantine centre in Chaurasi village primary school since March 29. They were scheduled to leave the quarantine centre on Saturday," said District Magistrate Deepak Meena. There has been five Covid-19 deaths in Uttar Pradesh -- Basti (died in Gorakhpur), Meerut, Varanasi, Agra and Bulandshahr (died in delhi's Safdarjung during treatmet). SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/data-of-coronavirus-patients-state-wise-in-india/articleshow/74669748.cms">Coronavirus cases in India state wise</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/health/news/coronavirus-myths-and-facts-here-are-some-rumours-about-covid-19-that-arent-true/articleshow/74487962.cms">Coronavirus myths and facts</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/health/news/coronavirus-dos-and-donts-for-protection-against-convid-19/articleshow/74475858.cms">Do’s and Don’ts for protection against COVID-19</a>

A 10-month-old girl dies in a quarantine centre in Siddharthnagar, Uttar Pradesh

Amravati, Jul 9 () At least 31 persons, including a nurse from the district general hospital, tested positive for coronavirus in Maharashtra's Amravati district on Thursday, an official said. With 31 new infections, the case count in the district has reached 781, including 28 deaths and 531 recoveries, the official said. The district now has 222 active cases, he added. As per a release issued by the civil surgeon's office, nine persons tested positive for the deadly virus in the rural areas on Thursday. While five cases were reported from Ashok Nagar in Amravati city, three were reported from Siddharthnagar and two from Vrindavan Colony, it was stated. COR ARU ARU

Maha: 31 new COVID-19 cases detected in Amravati; tally at 781

Amravati (Maha), Jun 22 () A 20-year-old woman who tested positive for coronavirus on June 14 and her child who was born on June 15 were discharged on Monday from a COVID care centre in Amravati in Maharashtra, officials said. The woman, hailing from Siddharthnagar, was among the 13 who were discharged after recovery, they added. "The woman was refused admission by several private hospitals since she was detected with coronavirus infection. We set up a maternity ward at a COVID care centre since she was the first pregnant patient. Staff from district women's hospital helped in ensuring a safe delivery and she gave birth to a healthy girl," an official said. On June 19, another COVID-19 patient, hailing from Rohankheda village in Morshi tehsil, gave birth to a boy while under treatment for the infection. "Both mother and child are healthy and improving," a doctor said. COR BNM BNM

Maha woman who gave birth in COVID centre, newborn discharged

New Delhi, Apr 18 () State-owned Power Finance Corporation (PFC) has provided another financial assistance of Rs 1 crore to fight the coronavirus outbreak. It is in addition to the Rs 50 lakh assistance provided to the Red Cross Society in Rajasthan for arranging medical equipment and Rs 200 crore donation to the PM-CARES Fund made last month, the non-banking financial company (NBFC) said in a statement. "PFC has provided financial assistance of Rs 1 crore to combat the COVID-19 spread -- 50 lakh each to district collectors of Bulandshahr and Siddharthnagar," it said. The financial aid will be used for distribution of masks and hand sanitisers to prevent the spread of the highly contagious virus, PFC said. Power Finance Corporation, under the administrative control of the power ministry, is the largest NBFC in the power sector. ABI HRS

PFC gives another Rs 1 cr financial assistance to support fight against coronavirus pandemic

(Eds: Adding details) Lucknow, May 5 () The novel coronavirus deaths in Uttar Pradesh rose to 56 on Tuesday with six more fatalities and the number of cases climbed to 2,880 after 118 people tested positive, a Health Department official said. The active coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases rose 1,836 and 987 patients have recovered, said Vikasendu Agrawal, joint director/state surveillance officer, Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme. Out of the six new COVID-19 deaths, Mainpuri, Jhansi and Bijnor districts reported their first fatality, while two patients died in Agra and one in Firozabad, Agrawal said in a statement. As many as 118 new cases were reported in the state, taking the number of people infected with the deadly pathogen to 2,880, Agrawal said. Of the new cases, Amethi and Kushinagar districts reported their first case. Twenty-four new cases were from Meerut, 13 from Gautam Buddh Nagar, 12 from Agra, 10 each from Ghaziabad, Siddharthnagar and Kanpur Nagar, and seven from Firozabad districts. Out of the total 56 deaths, 16 are in Agra, seven each in Meerut and Moradabad, five in Kanpur Nagar, four in Mathura, three in Firozabad and two in Ghaziabad districts. A fatality each was reported in Lucknow, Varanasi, Aligarh, Kanpur Dehat, Bareilly, Jhansi, Bulandshahr, Mainpuri, Bijnor, Amroha, Basti and Shravasti districts. "With a cumulative testing of 1,05,234 patients, the state has crossed the 1 lakh COVID-19 test landmark today," Agarwal said. "Three new laboratories started testing for novel coronavirus today. These are Birbal Sahni Inistitute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow; Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow; Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow," Agarwal said. The official added that the total COVID-19 cases in the state were from 66 out of the 75 districts. Till now, 1,152 people of the Tablighi Jamaat, people related to them and those who came in contact with them have tested positive for COVID-19, the statement said. Earlier briefing reporters here, Health Department Principal Secretary Amit Mohan Prasad said: "As many as 20 laboratories are working and pool testing is also going in the state." Pooling of samples involves testing them in batches and when pooled sample tests positive, then individual samples are assessed. Pool testing reduces the number of test kits used, therefore, increases testing capacity. "On Monday, 300 pools were tested, in which there were 1,440 samples. Of the 300 pools, 34 pools were found positive," he added. NAVHMB

6 more COVID-19 deaths in UP, 118 new cases

Taxmen conducted searches on bureaucrats in <keyword id="6357713" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Uttar-Pradesh">Uttar Pradesh</keyword> and Uttarakhand and found undisclosed income worth over Rs 20 crore. Raids were conducted during the last two days against four government functionaries in these states including against a general manager of the <keyword id="490422" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Uttar-Pradesh-Rajkiya-Nirman-Nigam-Ltd">Uttar Pradesh Rajkiya Nirman Nigam Ltd</keyword> (UPRNN) in Dehradun for alleged "misuse of official position" and subsequent charges of tax evasion. "Documents showing undisclosed investments in farm houses spread over hundreds of bighas and immovable properties in other cities have been seized," a senior official told PTI. Apart from income, tax officials also detected costly assets and luxury vehicles such as Range Rover, an Audi and a BMW car from the premises of the official and his family. They said the I-T teams were surprised to find 15 large LED television sets fitted in the farm house which was constructed on a land earmarked to setup a factory. A well- equipped gym, a guest house and an under-construction swimming pool were also found there. "The department is probing tax evasion to the tune of a few crores against the official and his associates based in <keyword id="47181" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Rishikesh">Rishikesh</keyword>," they claimed, without elaborating further. In an another search operation against a local body chairman in UP's Siddharthnagar district, the department detected tax evasion to the "tune of Rs 10 crore as per preliminary estimates." "The Chairman owns two petrol pumps and a gas agency and has been found to be allegedly diverting development grants for personal benefits," the official said. The department also raided the premises of a senior official in Noida and that of a UP road transport department officer based in Kanpur. "The Noida officer was found to have made unaccounted cash payments for purchase of immovable properties worth more than Rs 2 crore in the name of his spouse," the official said, adding he will soon be issued summons to join investigation. Investigation against the Kanpur-based officer is ongoing, the official added. The department, the official said, will undertake similar action against few more bureaucrats who are on its radar for quite sometime now. Over Rs 540 crore <keyword id="6356023" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Black-Money">black money</keyword> has been detected by the department in the last 15 days as part of its nation-wide operations to check tax evasion. These actions come after the closure of the <keyword id="3990808" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="pradhan-mantri-garib-kalyan-yojna">Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojna</keyword> (PMGKY) black money window on March 31. In the first fortnight of the new financial year that began on April 1, the taxman has conducted multiple search and survey operations on entry operators (agents using banking channels to launder funds), shell firms, government officials, real estate players and other sectors. As per an official data compiled till April 15, the department has carried out "over 250 searches and survey operations where the taxman raided at least 300 shell firms and detected more than Rs 540 crore of black money."

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A 10-month-old girl dies in a quarantine centre in Siddharthnagar, Uttar Pradesh

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