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Indian labourers stuck in pandemic camps long to go home – Lockdown News

19 April 2020 By Port Elizabethan

Indian labourers stuck in pandemic camps long to go home: Tens of thousands of stranded labourers have been herded into camps and shelters across India like the Yamuna sports complex in Delhi where their suffering has been forgotten amid the world’s biggest …
Source: “Coronavirus Lockdown” – BingNews.

PM’s lockdown dilemma — risk killing the economy or thousands of people?: Ministers say reopening schools has become the symbolic first step in a gradual lifting of the coronavirus lockdown: a decision that only Johnson can make when he returns from his convalescence. The …
Source: “Coronavirus Lockdown” – BingNews.

UP Govt to Form Committee for Enabling Job Opportunities for Labourers Returning to State Due to Lockdown: The Uttar Pradesh government on Sunday decided to constitute a committee to look into generating employment opportunities for the state’s labourers who are coming back from other parts of the country …
Source: “Coronavirus Lockdown” – BingNews.

AFTER COVID-19 group on Facebook: Amidst all the panic over the COVID-19 Novel Coronavirus Pandemic we need to also plan for what happens AFTERWARDS. This group is a platform to share some positive suggestions about what we personally, as business, community leaders and politicians can do to ensure a better life for all ONCE this pandemic has ended. Post your suggestions and advice freely and with a better, faster recovery in mind.
Source: AFTER COVID-19

Gogglebox star Jonathan Tapper recovering from coronavirus: Gogglebox star Jonathan Tapper has been fighting the coronavirus (COVID-19), his wife and co-star Nikki has revealed. Jonathan, who is diabetic, reportedly became ill almost a month ago and didn’t …
Source: “Coronavirus Lockdown” – BingNews.

S.African writer Deon Meyer looks back at his 2016 virus thriller: South African novelist Deon Meyer wished the deadly virus wrecking havoc in his 2016 thriller “Fever” had not turned into an eerily accurate depiction of the coronavirus pandemic ravaging the world. ” …
Source: “Coronavirus Lockdown” – BingNews.

Ministers downplay talk of early easing of coronavirus lockdown: Ministers have poured cold water on reports the Government has drawn-up a graduated plan to start easing the coronavirus lockdown within weeks. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Michael Gove denied …
Source: “Coronavirus Lockdown” – BingNews.

Virus outbreak threatens Germany’s tradition-laden breweries: The Werneck Brewery has survived a lot: world wars, economic crises and decades of declining beer consumption. But after 400 years in existence it has finally met a …
Source: “Coronavirus Lockdown” – BingNews.

Maharashtra allows some economic activity as national coronavirus cases top 15,000: Maharashtra, India’s largest regional economy, will allow a limited number of sectors to resume business on Monday, after a weeks-long shutdown to slow the spread of coronavirus left millions out of …
Source: “Coronavirus Lockdown” – BingNews.

Europe Slowly Emerges From Coronavirus Lockdown: For a look at how hard it is to press ‘play’ on a Western economy still battling the new coronavirus, turn to Europe, which is freeing its shops and small businesses in stages, easing a continentwide …
Source: “Coronavirus Lockdown” – BingNews.

CLICK HERE to join the AFTER COVID-19 group on Facebook and tell us what you have planned for AFTER the Coronavirus Lockdown.

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Port Elizabethan

This author is a 'catch-all' for occasional articles and letters written to MyPE. The Author of each article can be found in the signature at the bottom of each individual article.

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