Workers headed to tense China border

nNEW DELHI: The defence ministry has sought 11 special trains to move workers from Jharkhand to Jammu and Chandigarh from where they will be taken to areas close to the China border for building roads, three officials familiar with the matter said on condition of anonymity.

The move comes even as Indian and Chinese soldiers are eyeball to eyeball at four locations along the Line of Actual

Control in Ladakh.

“There is no question of halting work on the road projects because of the standoff that could go on for weeks,” said one of the officials cited above. He said some work has already started on the strategic Darbuk-shyok-daulet Beg Oldie road in Ladakh.

A second official said 11,815 workers will be transported on the 11 trains, and then be ferried to border areas in Ladakh and J&K, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, where the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) is constructing important roads.

NEW DELHI: The attack rate of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in India is 0.00332%, which means that only 33.2 people per million population are infected, according to an analysis of laboratorysurveillance data by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). This is considerably lower than the attack rates in other countries; in the US it is 0.2523%, in France 0.3364%, in the UK 0.1962% and in Canada 0.0899%, according to the US National Library of Medicine.

ICMR’S -National Institute of Epidemiology scientist Dr Tarun Bhatnagar said: “...we assessed that by dividing the number of positive cases by the total population, where it is assumed that everyone is at risk...we have used data from more than a million samples that were tested between a particular period in various ICMR labs, making it the most comprehensive surveillance data so far.”

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