‘49 North body employees died due to virus from April till now’
The Hindu
North Delhi Mayor Jai Prakash on Tuesday said 49 employees of the civic body died due to COVID between April and May.Mr. Prakash made the comment while visiting the Ghaziabad residence of Dr. A.K. Bah
North Delhi Mayor Jai Prakash on Tuesday said 49 employees of the civic body died due to COVID between April and May. Mr. Prakash made the comment while visiting the Ghaziabad residence of Dr. A.K. Bahl, who was serving at the civic body’s Hindu Rao Hospital in the Anesthesia Department before contracting COVID and losing his life in the line of duty, to pay his last respects. “The North body is doing every possible bit for the families of those who died due to COVID while performing their duties. As many as 49 employees in different categories of sanitation, engineering, health, education and other departments of the corporation died from April till now,” he said. The families of such employees, he said, will be offered jobs and compensation out of the fund created for the purpose as per policy and such cases will also be sent to the Delhi government for compensation of ₹1 crore each.“Spider wasp,” says ecologist and nature educator Vena Kapoor, narrating the fascinating but macabre tale of the spider wasp and its victims. While adult spider wasps mostly feed on flower nectar, making them excellent pollinators, they are also what are known as “parasitoids.” Unlike parasites, they kill their host. In the case of spider wasps, females hunt down spiders, inject them with venom and lay eggs on them. Once they hatch, the larvae eat these spiders alive, inevitably killing them, she tells the huddle of women cloistered around this tree.
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