Scrub Typhus: Mysterious Fever Spreads in Uttar Pradesh

 The News Cover: A strange fever is spreading across Uttar Pradesh killing 40 children and 11 adults. In UP's Firozabad area the sickness has killed more than 80 people. This strange fever has been spreading rapidly. Families living in Firozabad fearing the fever have decided to leave to escape the illness. The Union Health Ministry sent a team of experts from the National Centre for Disease Control to go to Firozabad to investigate the matter. The team confirmed that the fever is called ‘Scrub Typhus’ and it spreads through Mites. A fever is the first sign of the sickness. It then causes headaches, fatigue, muscle ache, and joint pain. A black, scab-like patch develops at the site of the bite. If the condition worsens, it can cause mental impairment or even coma. Failure of organs such as the heart, kidney, liver, etc. is also possible. 

This sickness is rapidly spreading. This new infection has now spread to Varanasi, Agra, Prayagraj, Mathura, etc. There is no vaccine to protect against this illness. The drug doxycycline is most effective when taken shortly after symptoms appear. If the condition worsens it can be very dangerous. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath from 7th to 16th September has ordered health officials to go door-to-door checking citizens for coronavirus & Scrub Typhus. Health officials have been instructed to ensure there is no scarcity of medicine & medical equipment for Scrub Typhus and COVID-19. The ministry has assured help in case of shortage to ensure safety. UP is also reporting over 100 cases of dengue and Scrub Typhus every day.

17-year-old UP Girl Killed for Wearing Jeans

News Cover: In Deoria, Uttar Pradesh at the Savreji Kharg village, Neha Paswan who was 17 years old, was brutally thrashed by her family for wearing jeans and a top. The incident occurred on 19 July 2021. Let me tell you what happened. Her mother Shakuntala Devi Paswan said, “Neha had kept a day-long religious fast. In the evening, she put on a pair of jeans and a top. Her grandparents objected to her attire but Neha retorted that clothes are meant to be worn not kept in the cupboard. 

Her furious grandparents and her uncle beat Neha with sticks" Shakuntala Devi said as her daughter lay unconscious, her in-laws called an autorickshaw and said they were taking her to hospital. However, they did not let her accompany them and said they would care for Neha. The worried mother requested her relatives to go see her daughter in the hospital. However, the relatives were not able to find Neha in the hospital. The next morning, Shakuntala Devi said, she heard that the body of a girl was hanging from the bridge over the Gandak river. When she and her relatives went to investigate, they discovered it was Neha’s body. Police have lodged a case of murder and destruction of evidence against the family. 

10 people have been booked. They include Neha’s grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins, and the auto driver. The grandparents, an uncle, and the auto driver had been arrested and were being questioned. Police said the rest have run away and the police are looking for them.
 

Deaf Man & Interpreter Arrested By ATS

The News Cover: Uttar Pradesh's ATS arrested Mufti Qazi Jahangir Qasmi and Mohammad Umar Gautam and interrogated them as they were the mastermind of the conversion racket. During interrogation, they revealed 3 other individuals were involved in the racket. Based on their inputs, on 28th June 2021, UP's ADG Prashant Kumar said, their individuals were arrested from different locations. Manu Yadav who changed his name to - Abdul Mannan, after conversion was arrested from Gurugram in Haryana. Irfan Khan was arrested in Maharashtra & Rahul Bhola was arrested in Delhi. According to a News18 report, Irfan was an expert interpreter working with ISLRTC and had strong contacts with the Deaf. 

Rahul Bhola was helping Irfan in identifying gullible students for converting them to Islam. Irfan then put them in touch with Mufti Qazi Jahangir Qasmi and Mohammad Umar Gautam who would then issue them conversion certificates. The ADG said that during investigations they found that between 2010 and June 2021, huge foreign funds were pumped into Jehangir & Gautam’s accounts. They found that Rs 1.70 crore, in cash and cheques had been transferred. He added, of this Rs 50 lakhs was deposited from Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, and Jeddah.
 

coronavirus news: Uttar Pradesh rural Villages Cope With Covid Crisis

The News Cover: tonight we turn our focus to Uttar Pradesh emerging. as one of the worst-hit, centers of the coronavirus over 13 lakh cases adding over 30,000 cases every day. and so far has clocked close to 14,000 deaths. and all of this is with low testing, which means the actual numbers would be much higher. 

what makes Uttar Pradesh all the more worrying, is that the virus appears to have entered small towns and villages. where healthcare networks remain very poor, from the interiors of western Uttar Pradesh. where the virus has made a deadly entry into a village in Muzaffarnagar. taking multiple lives but first here is his report from a village in merit. where six have been killed in just the past seven days.

right now, I'm standing at ikri village of merit day before yesterday district administration of merit organized a covid testing camp, in this village. and that was anti-gen covid testing, and then they have tested 40 villagers, and out of those 40 villages, 21 villagers were tested positive. it means that almost 50 percent of the population is covid affected in this particular village in last one week six people died due to covid and those six people who died. 

they were tested positive, in the report they died in hospital. and few died in a home because they did not get support from foreign. who died due to covid this morning. he was a resident of ikri village of merit according to official figures in the last seven days, six villagers in this equity village died due to covid. according to villagers, there are two more villagers. 

who have died and they were having symptoms of covid but they could not get tested the scenes like these are common in several villages of Muzaffarnagar, Meerut, Baghpat, kerana, and other cities. of western up according to villagers, the testing is not happening in the villages, no sanitization, and in fact the there are several villagers who are covid positive officially. they are not provided with the medicines by the district administration.

 

Uttar Pradesh Village Man Cuts Off Daughter's Head & Walks Around

 

The News Cover: Residents of a village in Uttar Pradesh's Hardoi district were in for a shock, as they spotted a man calmly walking down the road with a severed head. People were stunned looking at this. The severed head was that of his daughter. 

A villager saw the man and immediately called the police. Two officers came to intercept him and started filming the approach on one of their phones. The man did not break a sweat and calmly stood up to the cops' interrogation. When the police asked what he was doing the man said, "My name is Sarvesh Kumar. I am from Pandetara village. This is my daughter’s head. I cut off her head because,

 she was having an affair with a man and I did not agree to it. I caught the two of them in a compromising position and decided to teach her a lesson. So I locked the door of my house and beheaded her with a sharp tool. Her body is still in the room. I was actually on my way to the police station to turn myself in.” This was the man's straightforward reply.

The man has been arrested. A video surfaced on social media, wherein a police constable was seen insensitively holding the victim’s chopped head and strolling in the police station. Kapil Deo Singh, who is a police official posted in Hardoi, said, the constable has been suspended for his actions. National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) records the number of crimes against women.

 In September 2020 it showed that in 2019, Uttar Pradesh had the highest number of crimes against women.

Another Dalit Girl Raped in Uttar Pradesh | News Cover

 

News Cover: Only a few days after the Hathras gangrape and death of a 19-year old woman another 22-year-old Dalit woman died after she was raped, in Uttar Pradesh’s Balrampur. Let me tell you what happened. 

The victim worked in a private firm in Balrampur. The police have arrested two men for her rape. Balrampur Superintendent of Police Dev Ranjan Verma said, "The girl’s family members said they waited for the girl to reach home and she is always home on time. On that day she was late. They were extremely worried. The girl arrived in the auto. The family was shocked to see her unconscious, with a glucose drip injection attached to her hand. 

The family members took the woman to the hospital but she died on the way." The police immediately filed complaint and have arrested both the boys.” He also said that strict action will be taken against all those involved. The victim's mother has said that when her daughter arrived in the rickshaw, she said she was given an injection and then raped. 

She was in extreme pain. Her waist and both legs had been broken. Her mother said, "The only thing my daughter could say was: "I will not survive." However, the Balrampur Police in a tweet said reports about her limbs and waist being broken are not true. Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav in a strongly worded Hindi Tweet said, “After Hathras, now a girl has been gang-raped in Balrampur and she has now succumbed. 

This pains me. The BJP government is not doing anything over these traumatics incidents." Superintendent of Police Juhie Singh in a tweet said: “After Hathras, now it’s Balrampur. The legs of the victim were broken, she finally lost her life also. Where is the government?”