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Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Aam Aadmi Party today demanded that the Health Minister make public through a health bulletin the availability of beds in private and public hospitals for covid patients in view of the increasing number of cases and growing complaints from people of non availability of beds. AAP Goa Convener Rahul Mhambre said it pains to see the Chief Minister being more interested in politics by canvassing for candidates in Mapusa and Margao rather than being concerned about people’s health and having meetings with health officials to deal with the situation specially since he belongs to the medical fraternity.…

Goemkaponn Desk PANAJI: Goa Police today has detained around 40 odd students along with NSUI Goa Chief Ahraz Mulla for protesting outside CM Sawant’s official residence demanding postponement/cancellation of board exams. The students protested by displaying placards with some of them reading ‘Exams in Covid is suicide,’ ‘Exams should be postponed, students lives matter’, ‘Students fighting two pandemics Covid and Stupidity. A student said that 69,000 people comprising students, parents and fellow Goans have signed an online petition demanding that the exams be cancelled. While they are also okay with it being held online, they said they are protesting against…

Goemkaponn Desk PANAJI: Goa Legislative Assembly Speaker Rajesh Patnekar is all set to pass final order on pending disqualification petitions of Congress and MGP tomorrow. The Apex Court had told the Speaker of Goa Legislative Assembly to pass order on April 20 on the petition filed by a Congress leader seeking disqualification of 10 MLAs, who had joined BJP in July 2019. A bench of CJI SA Bobde & Justice AS Bopanna & Justice V Ramasubramanian posted the matter for further hearing on April 21 after it was told by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta that the Speaker has agreed to…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI:  Stunned by Maharashtra government declaring Goa as a “Sensitive Origin”, Goa Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant has urged the Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray to withdraw the circular. The Chief Minister said that COVID is a global pandemic and he must not single out the States. “COVID19 is a global pandemic. Let us put up a combined fight against this pandemic under the leadership of PM @narendramodiji. I urge @CMOMaharashtra not to single out states as ‘Places of Sensitive Origin’, and withdraw the said order in public interest,” Sawant tweeted. The Maharashtra government has put out a…

Goemkaponn Desk PANAJI: The state government has requisitioned additional oxygen manufacturing plants in Verna, Madgaon and Cuncolim for supply seamless supply of oxygen to COVID Hospitals. Health Minister Vishwajit Rane had conducted joint inspection at South Goa District Hospital with CM Sawant, South Goa Collectorate Dean GMC Dr. Bandekar, Nodal Officers SGDH & others to resolve the issue of continuous oxygen supply. Health Minister Vishwajit Rane also thanked Kerala Health Minister Shailaja Teacher for the state with movement of 20,000 litres of liquid oxygen for COVID patients in the state of Goa. “With the increasing number of admissions at SGDH,…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI:  As Goa hit an unprecedented record of over 900 fresh COVID-19 positive cases in one day yesterday, Goencho Avaaz Party hit out at the government and requested them to stop playing with the lives of Goans. In a succinct message directed at the government Swapnesh Sherlekar, President of Goencho Avaaz Party said: ‘’ Our message to the government is very clear – close the borders, shut down casinos and rave parties and postpone board exam during the second wave. Do it now! The longer the government takes to do this, the more misery they are going to…

Goemkarponn Desk MUMBAI: The Maharashtra government has put out a new SOP for those travelling to the state particularly by train from six of the worst affected states. If you are travelling to Maharashtra from Goa, Kerala, Delhi, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan or Gujarat by train, then you will have to undergo a compulsory home quarantine time for 15 days after arrival in the state. Public will be allowed to board the train only if you have a negative RT-PCR report. Unreserved passengers will not be allowed to board trains coming from these States to Maharashtra. “All passengers shall be compulsorily screened…