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Indian Railways today said rail travel will be "vastly reduced" during the so-called Janata Curfew on Sunday.
While intercity passenger trains will run between 7:00 am and 9:00 pm, suburban rail services in Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai and Secunderabad will be reduced to the bare minimum.
According to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, nine new cases of coronavirus infections have been reocrded in Mumbai and its surrounding areas—increasing the tally of Covid-19 cases in the city to 30.
Of the nine, six patients have international travel history. As many as 306 international travellers are in quarantine facilities, according to the BMC.
According to latest central health ministry data, Maharashtra has 63 positive cases of the virus. One other person has died due to the disease.
Kerala has recorded 12 more positive cases of Covid-19, increasing the state's tally to 49, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has said. According to central health ministry data, the state at present has 40 people infected with the virus.
While six more people tested positive from Kasaragod, three each new cases were from Kannur and Ernakulam districts, Vijayan told reporters. All those who were diagnosed with coronavirus today had returned from Dubai recently, he said.
Three medical students from Wuhan in China, who had tested positive, have been cured and discharged from hospitals earlier.
At least 52,785 people are in home quarantine, while 228 are under observation in isolation wards at various hospitals.
Petrol pumps will remain open in Mumbai and its suburbs on Sunday but operate with minimal staff. From Monday to March 31, they will operate from 7:00 am to 7:00 pm only.
The city is under lockdown till the end of the month.
"The timing will be revised at the end of this month," the Mumbai Petrol Dealers Association said on Saturday. "No employees will lose their salaries for reduced working hours."
The 213-odd fuel pumps in the city normally operate 20 hours a day.
India now has 111 labs to carry out Covid-19 tests, Joint Health Secretary Lav Agarwal said on Saturday. The government is already is discussion with private labs and a detailed order on the same will be issued later today, he added.
According to Consumer Affairs Secretary PK Agarwal,
These are extraordinary circumstances and hence extraordinary measure have been taken, PK Agarwal added.
Sharing the present status of Delhi govt's measures to tackle #Covid19 #DelhiFightsCorona https://t.co/unqEKTUCTb
— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) March 21, 2020
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The Railways Ministry has put out a statement which confirms that four passengers travelling on Godan Express (Train 11055) from Mumbai to Jabalpur on March 16 in coach number B1 have now tested positive for COVID-19.
The passengers had come to India from Dubai last week.
8 passengers who had travelled on AP Sampark Kranti Express from Delhi to Ramagundam on March 13 have also tested positive for COVID-19.
2 passengers marked with mandatory quarantine travelling had also boarded the Rajdhani travelling between Bengaluru & Delhi today. The passengers were immediately de-boarded and the entire coach was sanitised.
The Confederation of All India Traders has decided to keep all major wholesale and retail markets shut in Delhi for the next three days.
The association has pegged the loss of business at approximately Rs 500 crore per day.
Naval K Ram, Dist Magistrate,Pune, Maharashtra: 2 more people have been tested positive for #COVID19 in Pune, taking the total tally of positive cases in Pune to 23. One positive case has travel history to Ireland and the other does not have any recent travel history. (file pic) pic.twitter.com/2SYegg2aqu
— ANI (@ANI) March 21, 2020
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Met all HODs & Secretaries. All non-essential public dealing activities stopped till 31 Mar. Only essential public dealing activities will continue. All non-essential staff are being directed to work from home. All permanent and contractual employees will be paid for this period pic.twitter.com/F9AoCPvwL6
— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) March 20, 2020
Total number of cases in India rose to 195 on Friday - 30 more than the last update by the Health Ministry. This is the largest spike India has seen in a day, so far.
The Delhi government issued an advisory for the private sector to allow their employees to work from home till March 31 in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, an official said on Friday.
In the advisory, the government also asked people, particulary senior citizens, pregnant women and those affected with hypertension and diabetes, to remain at home.
On Thursday, the total number of coronavirus cases in the national capital rose to 14.
According to the Health Ministry data, the Covid-19 cases in India rose to 195 on Friday after 22 fresh cases were reported from various parts of the country.
Source: PTI
In a bid to meet the increasing demand for masks during the coronavirus pandemic, prisoners at Maharashtra's Nagpur Central Jail have started manufacturing the essential protective gear.
Prisoners working in the jail's stitching department manufacture hundreds of masks every day and these are supplied to several prisons and government departments in the state, jail superintendent Anup Kumre said.
At least 300 masks were supplied to Chandrapur district jail, while 200 were sent to Bhandara Jail and 350 will be delivered to Washim Jail soon, he said.
Source: PTI
The Health Ministry’s reported 195 total coronavirus cases today morning - with 30 new active cases compared to last night’s update - making this the largest single-day spike so far.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday addressed the nation, asking citizens to maintain discipline and patience in fighting coronavirus. He advocated social distancing, self isolation, working from home and announced a ‘Janata Curfew’ on Sunday.
Two positive cases of the novel coronavirus have been found in Gujarat, said health department officials on Thursday.
One of the Covid-19 patients is from Rajkot, while the other is from Surat, said the officials of the Health and Family Welfare department.
Source: PTI
A 23-year-old woman, who returned recently from London, has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, the first confirmed case of the infection in the union territory, an official said on Thursday.
The woman had arrived at the Amritsar airport from London on March 15.
Source: PTI
Rajasthan Chief MInister Ashok Gehlot has called for shutdown of government, semi-government, autonomous institutions till March 31, PTI reported citing an official statement.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is addressing the nation on the coronavirus outbreak.
His speech comes after the confirmed cases of Covid-19 spiked to 169 on Thursday. Four deaths have been confirmed. Yesterday, Modi chaired a high-level meeting to review the steps being taken to control the spread of the virus.
The government is focused on adapting to how things are progressing globally and in the country, Joint Health Secretary Lav Agarwal said when asked about the possibility of a lockdown in India in response to the coronavirus outbreak.
“(We) have always been ahead in terms of preparedness in this infectious disease. Extra efforts have been helping us,” he said. “Whatever steps the government has taken are preventive, only to avoid escalation. It is an evolving situation and we will react accordingly.”
On shortage of masks, Agarwal said N95 masks are available in sufficient quantity.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal says all restaurants in the city will remain closed till March 31, but food deliveries and takeaways are permitted.
There is no evidence of community transmission in India, yet.Lav Agarwal, Joint Secretary, Ministry Of Health
Government of India: No scheduled international commercial passenger flights shall be allowed to land in India from March 22 for one week. #coronavirus pic.twitter.com/cr7txySAhJ
— ANI (@ANI) March 19, 2020
The Indian Council of Medical Research has started monitoring the presence of community transmission of Covid-19 in the country.
Community transmissions are when people without any travel to an infected region or contact history to an infected person start showing up symptoms.
Since Feb. 15, ICMR started setting up sentinel surveillance systems at various sites in the country. As of March 15, they had 51 surveillance sites.
The apex health research body said that 826 samples of people suffering from a severe acute respiratory infection, or influenza-like illness, have been tested at the sites. None of them were found to be positive.
The surveillance systems are now being expanded to specifically include more areas where Covid-19 cases have been reported.
The Food and Drugs Administration personnel raided a hand sanitiser manufacturing unit in suburban Nahur and seized substandard sanitisers worth Rs 25 lakh, officials said according to PTI. The number on the Health Ministry’s website, however stands at six.
The sanitisers were manufactured illegally and were being exported without any valid licence and necessary permissions, officials said on Wednesday.
Source: PTI
The number of coronavirus cases in Telangana reached 13 with a group of seven Indonesians and a youth, who returned from Scotland, testing positive for the virus on Wednesday.
The number of COVID-19 cases in the state stood at six after the Scotland-returned youth tested positive for the virus.
However, it went up to 13 after a special media bulletin on COVID-19 issued by the state government late on Wednesday night stated that seven Indonesians, who came for religious activity, tested positive.
An Indonesian citizen, who is part of the group, had already positive for the virus on Tuesday.
Source: PTI
PM Shri @narendramodi will address the nation on 19th March 2020 at 8 PM, during which he will talk about issues relating to COVID-19 and the efforts to combat it.
— PMO India (@PMOIndia) March 18, 2020
All ongoing examinations, including that of CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education) & university exams, may be rescheduled after March 31: Ministry of Human Resource Development pic.twitter.com/83Rb6NQzMn
— ANI (@ANI) March 18, 2020
BMC has put out a list of all the isolation facilities available across Mumbai. As per the municipal body, isolation beds are available at these hospitals:
Talks are on between the government and the private healthcare sector to assist in scaling up coronavirus testing, according to Apollo Hospitals’ Joint Managing Director Sangita Reddy.
"The private sector will get involved in testing because it is important to scale up capacity. As for, which laboratories, how they will scale up, pricing, etc - these are all functions of the Covid-19 partnership between government and private sector," Reddy told BloombergQuint.
Number of novel coronavirus cases in Mumbai remained constant and no new case was recorded on Wednesday morning, a senior civic official said.
Additional Municipal Commissioner Suresh Kakani said the number of Covid-19 cases remained constant in the metropolis with no fresh case being detected till 11 a.m.
Until now, 15 Covid-19 cases have been found in Mumbai and the Mumbai Metropolitan Region.
Source: PTI
Students of classes one to eight of all government primary schools in Uttar Pradesh will get promoted without having to appear in examinations in view of the coronavirus outbreak, an official said on Wednesday.
Examinations in primary schools were scheduled between March 23 and 28.
Source: PTI
Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediuyurappa on Wednesday called an emergency cabinet meeting to discuss the coronavirus outbreak and indicated the lock- down in the state will continue.
"I have called an emergency cabinet meeting this afternoon; Speaker (of legislative assembly) has also called a meeting. We will discuss and will take what more stringent measures that needs to be taken," he said.
Responding to a question on whether the lock-down in the state would continue, the Chief Minister said, "most probably it will continue."
Source: PTI
The Western Railway and Central Railway on Tuesday hiked platform ticket rates from the present Rs 10 to up to Rs 50 to discourage unnecessary crowding at stations in view of the coronavirus scare.
A man, who recently returned from England, on Tuesday tested positive for the novel coronavirus, making it the first case in West Bengal, a health department official said.
The man was admitted to Beleghata ID Hospital in Kolkata after he showed symptoms of Covid-19.
Source: PTI
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— माझी Mumbai, आपली BMC (@mybmc) March 17, 2020
As on 17-March, 5:30pm
*️⃣2.52 Lakh Travellers screened at Airport
*️⃣Till Date at Kasturba
⬛ 600 | # Admitted
🟢 540 | # -ve
🔴 15 | # +ve
(7: Mumbai + 8: Outside)
⏺ 1 | # Demise
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🟢 130 | # -ve
🔴 1 | # +ve#NaToCorona https://t.co/3ngqxCaQxR pic.twitter.com/IUXmnZHXbq
To contain the coronavirus spread, the Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday extended the closure of all educational institutions, cinemas, multiplexes and tourist places in the state till April 2.
Competitive and other examinations too have been postponed till April 2.
The Rajasthan government also banned all gatherings at public places exceeding 50 people till March 31 to fight the coronavirus outbreak, said an official statement.
The ban will be in force till March 31 after which the situation will be reviewed and appropriate decision taken, it added.
#WATCH live from Delhi: Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) briefs media. #Coronavirus https://t.co/DOPPJXFhqs
— ANI (@ANI) March 17, 2020
Cracking the whip on misinformation being spread about novel coronavirus infection, the Maharashtra Medical Council has issued a notice to a Mumbai-based doctor who had termed the virus as a "Chinese fad" which will not survive in the Indian summer.
The MMC has sought explanation from Dr Anil Patil from Dadar in central Mumbai whether he has any study to substantiate his claims. "The notice has been issued to Dr Anil Patil about whether he has any study or database to substantiate his claims about the virus," MMC president Dr Shivkumar Uttekar said on Tuesday.
He said Dr Patil had made several claims in his interviews that are prima facie violative of advisories issued by the Central government.
Source: PTI
A 63-year-old Covid-19 patient died at Mumbai's Kasturba hospital, according to the Health Ministry. The patient was admitted in a private hospital for five days being shifted to Kasturba hospital. He had recently travelled to Dubai, which he did not disclose at the time of his admission to the private hospital. His wife has also tested positive for Covid-19 and is stable.
This takes the total number of deaths caused by the virus in India to three. The number was confirmed by the Health Ministry website dedicated to tracking cases.
The other two deaths took place in Delhi and Kerala last week. Both patients were more than 60 years old.
In a bid to protect police personnel from novel coronavirus infection, Maharashtra Highway Police has suspended breath-analyser tests needed to check drunk driving, a senior officer has said. A circular in this regard was issued by Vinay Kargaonkar, Additional Director General of Police, Maharashtra Highway Police, on Monday.
"Outbreak of coronavirus has been reported in the state. To contain the spread of the virus, the police personnel need to take precautionary measures accordingly. Hence, Traffic Police personnel in all police units should not conduct breath-analyser tests for alcohol consumption by motorists," the circular stated.
Source: PTI
After banning visitors from Europe and U.K. last night, the Indian government has applied the same limitations on entry of passengers from Philippines, Malaysia, Afghanistan till March 31.
Tamil Nadu govt: Sports arenas, bars, clubs and other recreational facilities to remain closed till 31st March. Resorts shouldn't take booking till 31st March. People are advised to avoid travelling to other states for 15 days. #coronavirus https://t.co/E2GaCvwR4r
— ANI (@ANI) March 16, 2020
Tourism Minister Prahlad Patel to ANI: All the national monuments and museums under Archaeological Survey of India to remain closed till 31st March. (file pic) #Coronavirus pic.twitter.com/1p35E9JwKD
— ANI (@ANI) March 16, 2020
India has barred airlines from boarding passengers from European Union countries, U.K. and Turkey, according to a circular by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation.
#LimitContacts#SecondLineOfDefence
— माझी Mumbai, आपली BMC (@mybmc) March 16, 2020
After Seven Hills Hospital, BMC now activates Mirage Hotel (near Airport) to turn it into quarantine facility for travellers coming from abroad, & choosing to pay for it.
After 24 Hrs, guests will be asked to be Home Quarantined.#NaToCorona https://t.co/dNe1dZ0sEe pic.twitter.com/7orDDcXa9f
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Reserve Bank of India governor Shaktikanta Das is holding a press conference at 4 pm on Monday as market mayhem continues due to concerns coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. There are speculations that Das may announce a rate cut.
If it happens, this will be first inter-meeting rate reduction since the monetary policy committee was instituted in February 2016.
The hurried presser comes amid widespread call for a rate cut following similar steps by the world's leading central banks.
The U.S. Federal Reserve has cut the policy rates to near zero levels in a span of 10 days.
Several steps taken today to deal wid Corona. pic.twitter.com/9GgeRxOEED
— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) March 16, 2020
Four new cases of novel coronavirus infection have been detected in Maharashtra, taking the state tally to 37 on Monday.
Of the four cases, three were reported from Mumbai and one from Navi Mumbai, a state government official said. "The total number of coronavirus positive cases increased to 37," he said.
Source: PTI
Three people of the 236 who were evacuated from Iran on Sunday were checked for coronavirus and the tests were found to be negative, officials said.
Only three people were checked as they were showing some symptoms.
Two Air India flights carrying 236 Indians from coronavirus-hit Iran landed in Jaisalmer on Sunday morning and the passengers were quarantined at the Indian Army Wellness Centre.
Two Air India flights carrying 236 Indians from coronavirus-hit Iran landed in Jaisalmer on Sunday morning and the passengers were quarantined at the Indian Army Wellness Centre.
"Preliminary screening of the people was undertaken at the airport upon arrival. Thereafter, they were moved to the Army Wellness Centre at Jaisalmer," Defence Spokesperson Colonel Sombit Ghosh said.
Source: PTI
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