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China: US Concerned Over New Mutation

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The United States has expressed its concern over the possibility of a new mutation of the Covid-19 virus as numbers continue to regularly increase in the world’s most populous nation China

Washington: The United States has expressed its concern over the possibility of a new mutation of the Covid-19 virus as numbers continue to regularly increase in the world’s most populous nation China, even though many countries have arrested the pandaemic spread.

While addressing the media, US State Department Spokesperson Ned Price said, “First and foremost, any time there is death and illness anywhere around the world, we want to see a situation like that come to an end. When it comes to COVID, secondly, we know that any time the virus is spreading, that it is in the wild, that it has the potential to mutate and to pose a threat to people everywhere.” “We’ve seen that over the course of many different permutations of this virus and certainly another reason why we are so focused on helping countries around the world address COVID, another reason why bringing this to a close in China would be beneficial,” he added.

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Talking on Covid-19 toll Price said he is concerned that “not only does China need to be in a good position” but other countries as well.
He said, “the US is concerned that China might not be fully transparent about the COVID numbers, the cases, and also the deaths that we’re seeing in China right now”.
This development came after China reported two Covid deaths on Monday.
According to the National Health Commission of China, the mainland also reported 1,995 new Covid-19 cases.

As of Sunday, the National Health Commission had received reports of 380,453 confirmed cases and 5,237 deaths in 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps on the Chinese mainland, and in all 339,885 patients had been cured and discharged from hospital.

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AAP Leader Raghav Chadha Seeks Stringent Punishment For Perpetrators Of Sacrilege In Punjab

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Highlighting the increasing incidents of sacrilege in Punjab, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Raghav Chadha moved a Suspension of Business Notice under Rule 267 in the Parliament

New Delhi: Highlighting the increasing incidents of sacrilege in Punjab, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Chadha moved a Suspension of Business Notice under Rule 267 in the Parliament on Tuesday.

In his bilingual letter to the Chairman, Chadha said that Punjabis all across the world are agitated due to the increasing incidents of sacrilege. “Such insult of the holy book Guru Granth Sahib cannot be tolerated,” he added. He further reiterated the incidents of 2015 when Guru Granth Sahib was burnt in Bargari and Shrimad Bhagwat Geeta in Ludhiana and said that several incidents of disrespect of holy books are coming forward.
“The punishments prescribed for such crimes under sections 295 and 295A of the Indian Penal Code are so lenient that the spirits of the ones responsible for it have turned higher,” he said mentioning that there is a need to bring a law that grants the strictest punishments to such offenders.

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Earlier on December 9, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann called on the Union Home Minister Amit Shah and sought Government intervention for getting Presidential assent for two important pending bills of state stipulating harsher punishment for the perpetrators of the serious crime of sacrilege.

The Chief Minister, who called on Amit Shah here at his office, said that the sacrilege of holy books is a major challenge in the state. He said that in this context, it has been felt that the quantum of punishment for the sacrilege of Holy Books as per existing provisions of Sections 295 and 295-A in the Indian Penal Code is too inadequate, a press release by Punjab CMO dated December 9 said.

Bhagwant Mann apprised the Union Home Minister on that day that the Punjab Vidhan Sabha had passed the Indian Penal Code (Punjab Amendment) Bill, 2018 and the Code of Criminal Procedure (Punjab Amendment) Bill 2018, which stipulates punishment up to life imprisonment for injury, damage or sacrilege to Sri Guru Granth Sahib, Srimad Bhagwat Gita, Holy Quran and Holy Bible with the intention to hurt the religious feelings of the people.

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