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  • Unlock Day 1. A traffic jam was seen on the Delhi-Haryana border after CM Kejriwal’s announcement

    Unlock Day 1. A traffic jam was seen on the Delhi-Haryana border after CM Kejriwal’s announcement

    Unlock Day 1: Cities come alive with eased curbs even as total coroanvirus cases cross 1.90 lakh

    Several cities across the country saw the lockdown restrictions being eased with even traffic snarls returning back on roads on day 1 of the government’s Unlock 1 as the nationwide tally of confirmed Covid-19 cases crossed 1.9 lakh.

    Life returned to near normal in many parts of the country as several restrictions were eased in the fifth phase of the lockdown that began on Monday.

    Roads bustled with traffic as people came out in large numbers to visit markets, which are now open for longer hours.

    After the Centre allowed lifting of restrictions on inter-state movement of people, several states also began allowing various activities that have been restricted since March 25, when the nationwide lockdown came into effect to fight the coronavirus pandemic.

    DELHI OPENS BARBERSHOPS, CLOSES BORDER

    In the national capital, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced the reopening of barbershops and salons, among various other relaxations, but said spas will remain closed for now. A complete lockdown in containment zones will continue till June 30.

    Kejriwal also said there will be no restrictions on the number of people travelling in four-wheelers, two-wheelers, auto-rickshaws, e-rickshaws and other vehicles in the city.

    A traffic jam was seen on the Delhi-Haryana border after CM Kejriwal’s announcement.

    Now, all shops in the markets will be permitted to function, Kejriwal said.

    He, however, said Delhi’s borders with Haryana and Uttar Pradesh will be sealed for a week in the wake of rising coronavirus cases in the city and sought suggestions from the people by Friday to reopen them.

    GUJARAT OPENS UP AGAIN

    In Gujarat, life returned to near normal in many parts including in Ahmedabad, the state’s worst coronavirus-hit district, as several restrictions were eased.

    In Ahmedabad, a limited number of city buses began plying with 50 per cent seating capacity to maintain social distancing, while autorickshaws hit the roads for the first time in ten weeks, though the reduced number of passengers they have been permitted to ferry was a dampener.

  • Storms Like Amphan Have Made A Deal With The Natural World

    On May 20, it was the phase of the waning crescent, just one day to the new moon…the time for very high natural tides! So the threat from Amphan was extreme—the tidal surge would have swallowed more and more high ground. And seawater did indeed push 25 km inland. Shrinking high ground would mean no ‘social distancing’. Putting prey within reaching distance of predator, with no escape route, sounds like nature playing a cruel joke on one species. But again, a tiger is not a wanton killer. It only kills when hungry. This writer has seen tigers pass by bait without making any attempt to kill them. Under Amphan, the universe of both predator and prey was equally threatened. No one would have been thinking of just a meal, literally.

    Talking of meals, the day after, the fast receding waters of the estuary leave ample fish in the eddies created on the shoreline and on the large cavities on the forest floor left by uprooted trees. It happens in the cities too. In an incident reported to the BBC on May 21, 2020, a unique sight had been spotted near the gates of Presidency University on College Street, Calcutta. A small catfish, marooned as the street waters receded back to the Hooghly, was being preyed on by a street dog. So imagine places where nature is bountiful! Tigers, fishing cats, otters having the time of their life; free meals literally, with no workload on their shoulders. The Amphan holds no bias, like a herd of elephants passing through a forest, and pulling down the high branches to the ground, scattering succulent leaves on the forest floor that would otherwise have been out of reach for the herbivores. As fresh rainwater trickles down the trunks of trees and drips off the tips of cupped palms of leaves, all take turns to sip at the nectar, for they had been drinking saline water till then.

    Why should humans be left out of their share of nature’s bounty? The huge cache of freshwater received by coastal river systems offers a chance for a sizeable influx of the dream fish of Bengal, the Hilsa! Wait for it to happen.

  • India has now become the world’s seventh worst-hit country in terms of coronavirus cases with its tally of 1,82,143, according to the World Health Organization’s Covid-19 tracker

    On the last day of lockdown 4.0, India registered its highest single-day spike of Covid-19 cases with 8,380 new infections reported in the last 24 hours, taking the country’s tally to 1,82,143, while the death toll rose to 5,164, according to the Union Health Ministry’s Sunday morning tally.

    India has now become the world’s seventh worst-hit country in terms of coronavirus cases with its tally of 1,82,143, according to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Covid-19 tracker.

    The number of active Covid-19 cases stood to 89,995, while 86,983 people have recovered and one patient has migrated.

    Several states released guidelines for the fifth phase of lockdown, or ‘Unlock 1.0’, starting Monday, June 1.

    After the Centre allowed lifting of restrictions on inter-state movement of people, states like Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, which have reported the highest number of coronavirus cases, and those in the Northeast on Sunday decided to continue with the curbs after the end of the fourth phase of the lockdown.

    Others like Rajasthan and Telangana announced they are allowing inter-state movement as part of easing of restrictions under the Unlock 1.0, after such travel was banned for over two months due to the coronavirus lockdown.

    The UP government said there is no ban on interstate travel but left it to the district administrations of Ghaziabad and Noida to take a call on the movement of people from adjoining Delhi.