Karnataka allows COVID positive students to write CET; Ambulances to transport them to exam centres
Bengaluru: Despite the clamour against the Karnataka CET examination 2020, the government has come out with protocols, to ensure that even COVID positive candidates are not denied a chance.
Students have to inform officials well in advance and get a physician's letter. While a 108 ambulance will transport these candidates between hospital and exam centre.
The health department's standard operating procedures which were released on Saturday stated that those tested positive with COVID will be given a special hall to write the CET exam.
Halls will be sanitised after the exam. Precautionary measures for staff handling such students have been informed about their protocols.
For those who come from containment zone, their halls should be cleaned with 1 percent sodium hypochlorite within 30 minutes of their departure and the room can be used only after 24 hours, it added.
Students who are coming from other states and countries are relieved from the mandatory two weeks quarantine. A special exam hall has to be given to them and preventive measures have to be taken.
The health department has sought coordination of various levels of officials from the departments to enforce this under their respective deputy commissioner.
The examination remains scheduled for July 30 and 31. Students are expected to be present two hours in advance and are allowed to carry their tiffin boxes along.
Three feet distance is mandated in the exam hall, ensuring only two students per bench, and the strength of the hall should not exceed 24 students.
Students have to be informed about their seats arrangement well in advance, to avoid gathering at the notice board, noted the notification by the health department, that highlighted basic hygienic practices. All students are expected to wear a mask.
At Least one additional centre is to be identified in each district and kept as a backup. And in Bengaluru, four such centres should be reserved. In case a centre falls in the containment zone, the students will be shifted to the reserve centre after consultation with the DC.
50 surgical masks should be given to every exam centre, and are to be bought using the natural disaster management fund.
Students from containment areas will be kept in special rooms, given surgical masks and supervisors of the hall will be given gloves and surgical masks. The room should be chemically disinfected after the exam of the day.
Those officials and staff of the CET should be trained by the deputy commissioner, ZP CEO and Superintendent of Police and district health officer
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Real Madrid fines Valverde and Tchouaméni half a million euros each for altercation
Barcelona (AP): Real Madrid slapped players Federico Valverde and Aurélien Tchouaméni with half-a-million-euro ($588,000) fines on Friday for their altercation during practice.
The massive fines came a day after the midfielders tussled when the team trained. Valverde said in a post on social media on Thursday that no punches were thrown. But Valverde knocked his head on a table and he suffered a small cut that required a brief hospital visit.
On social media, Valverde initially called it a “meaningless fight” with a teammate and said “everything has been blown out of proportion."
His employers, however, considered it a significant enough breach of team discipline to nail both Valverde and Tchouaméni with fines that bite even the bank account of a top soccer player. The half-a-million euro penalties reflect the reputational damage the club was enduring in a chaotic end to a disappointing season.
In a statement, the 15-time European champion said its disciplinary action was concluded after both players expressed to the club “their complete remorse for what happened and apologized to one another.”
Madrid added they also apologized to their teammates, the coaching staff and club supporters, as well as showing their willingness to accept whatever disciplinary action the club deemed “opportune.”
Tchouaméni was back training with Madrid on Friday, two days before they play at Barcelona in a clasico. Madrid has to win otherwise Barcelona will be crowned La Liga champion.
After being notified of the fine, he posted a public apology to the club and its fans on social media.
“What happened this week in training is unacceptable,” Tchouaméni wrote. "I say this while thinking about the example we are expected to set for young people, whether in football or at school.
“Above all, I am sorry for the image we projected of the club.”
Valverde was not at practice due to the head knock.
Both players are set to play in the World Cup next month, with Tchouaméni playing for France and Valverde for Uruguay.
Chaotic end to a poor season
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The run-in between the players, who for seasons have played side by side in Madrid's midfield, came after they argued this week in previous training sessions. But tempers boiled over on Thursday. Spanish media was rife with reports that the players previously disagreed over the club's decision to let coach Xabi Alonso go after just months on the job.
It was not the only altercation involving Madrid players during training this week. Álvaro Carreras confirmed he was in a “minor” incident with a teammate. Spanish media said he and fellow defender Antonio Rüdiger got into a scuffle.
Álvaro Arbeloa, the coach who was promoted from Madrid's reserve team when Alonso was fired in January, will face tough questions on what went wrong inside the changing room when he gives a press conference on Saturday ahead of the clasico at Camp Nou.
Madrid is facing a second consecutive campaign without a major trophy amid rumors in the Spanish media that club president Florentino Pérez is considering bringing back Jose Mourinho to straighten out his underperforming team.
