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The Punjab Police lathicharged unemployed teachers on Sunday to foil their march towards Chief Minister Amarinder Singh’s residence in Patiala, resulting in injuries to five of them.

One of the teachers jumped into the Bhakra canal. He was rescued immediately.

Police said some members of the force were also injured.

The protesters were demanding jobs, saying they had cleared the elementary teacher training (ETT) and qualified the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET), but they were still jobless.

The protesters included women teachers.

The Opposition Shiromani Akali Dal has condemned the lathicharge.

“The SAD condemns the brutal lathicharge by police on unemployed teachers in Patiala,” said party spokesperson and former state Education Minister Daljit Singh Cheema in a tweet.

He said the way women teachers were manhandled and assaulted was a matter of shame for the whole state.

“Instead of listening and assuring them, the Cong govt is suppressing their voice,” the SAD spokesperson said in the tweet.

A group of tourists from Italy, who were screened on arrival in India, have tested positive for coronavirus, the country’s media reported citing health authorities. The news comes as India struggles to avoid the outbreak.
Some 15 Italians have been kept in preventive quarantine since Tuesday, New Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences confirmed to the media. Another Italian tourist and his wife had previously shown initial symptoms of Covid-19 in the city of Jaipur.

India has introduced some pre-emptive measures in an effort to keep the epidemic at bay. It suspended visas issued to nationals from Italy, Iran, South Korea and Japan – four locations outside China where the number of confirmed cases is the largest – and ramped up thermal screening of travelers at airports.

Nearly 91,000 people have been infected with the virus worldwide, with most cases located in China. There have been 3,112 deaths globally, according to the latest WHO data.

An Irishman believed to have contracted the coronavirus has escaped from medical isolation at a hospital in India, prompting local authorities to lodge a case with police, who are now searching for the escapee.
The man was admitted to the SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack after landing at the nearby Bhubaneswar International Airport with a fever, according to local media. Placed into quarantine at the medical facility, he escaped from its isolation ward late on Thursday, hospital official B Maharana told the Hindustan Times.

Authorities at the Mangalapur police station have been informed of the escape, and are now on the lookout for the man.
India has confirmed at least 30 cases of the lethal illness gripping Asia, Europe and North America – including a group of 15 Italian tourists – with a number of additional suspected infections and some 30,000 people under medical supervision. Worldwide, the virus has sickened over 98,000 people and killed nearly 3,400.