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Twenty-five districts across 15 states which had detected COVID-19 infections earlier have contained the spread and reported no new cases in 14 days, the Union Health Ministry said on Monday. The ministry asserted that the government has enough stocks to conduct tests for up to six weeks and over two lakh samples have been tested so far. Addressing a press briefing here, Health Ministry Joint Secretary Lav Agarwal said 796 new COVID-19 cases and 35 deaths have been reported in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of cases…

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The nationwide lockdown to contain the deadly coronavirus looks set to be extended by two more weeks till April-end after a consensus emerged among states on Saturday for continuing the curbs amid the tally of confirmed infections crossing 8,000 with a record increase of over 1,000 cases within 24 hours. While Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked state governments to take steps to curb the lockdown violations and ensure adherence to social distancing, he also announced a shift in focus from ‘Jaan hai to jahaan hai’ (health is wealth) to ‘Jaan…

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The death toll due to the novel coronavirus rose to 239 and the number of cases to 7,447 in the country on Saturday, according to the Union Health Ministry While the number of active COVID-19 cases is 6,565, as many as 642 people were cured and discharged and one had migrated, it said As many as 33 new deaths have been reported since Friday evening, the ministry said Seventeen deaths were reported from Madhya Pradesh, 13 from Maharashtra, two from Gujarat and one from Assam, it said Maharashtra has reported…

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The death toll due to the novel coronavirus rose to 199 and the number of cases to 6,412 in the country on Friday, according to the Union Health Ministry While the number of active COVID-19 cases is 5,709, as many as 503 people were cured and discharged and one had migrated, it said The ministry said at least 30 new deaths have been reported since Thursday evening Twenty-five deaths were reported from Maharashtra, three from Delhi and one each from Gujarat and Jharkhand Maharashtra has reported the most coronavirus deaths…

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The death toll due to the novel coronavirus rose to 166 and the number of cases to 5,734 in the country on Thursday, according to the Union Health Ministry. While the number of active COVID-19 cases is 5,095, as many as 472 people were cured and discharged and one had migrated, it said. As many as 17 new deaths have been reported in the last 24 hours across the country, the ministry said. Eight deaths were reported from Maharashtra, three from Gujarat, two from Jammu and Kashmir and one each…

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The Karnataka government is in favour of lifting the coronavirus lockdown in districts which remained free of the virus infection, subject to approval from the Centre, Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa said on Wednesday. Noting that the state’s revenue collections have stopped, he said the legislators would take a 30 per cent salary cut and only important budget proposals would be implemented. In an interview to DIN here, he also said the state intended to relax liquor sales, stopped since the 21-day lockdown was imposed to contain the spread of…

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The death toll due to novel coronavirus rose to 109 and the number of cases in the country climbed to 4,067 on Monday, according to the Union Health Ministry While the number of active COVID-19 cases stands at 3,666, as many as 291 people were cured and discharged, and one has migrated, it stated. The total number of cases include 65 foreign nationals According to the ministry’s data updated at 9 am, 21 fresh deaths were reported from Maharashtra, two each from Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu and one from…

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The number of confirmed novel coronavirus cases in the country climbed to 3,374 on Sunday while the death toll rose to 77, according to Union Health Ministry data. While the number of active COVID-19 cases stood at 3,030, as many as 266 people were either cured of the disease and discharged, and one had migrated, it said. In its updated data around 9 am, the health ministry reported two new fatalities — one each from Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. According to the ministry, Maharashtra has reported the most coronavirus deaths…

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The number of COVID-19 cases in the country climbed to 2,902 on Saturday while the death toll rose to 68, according to the Union Health Ministry. The number of active COVID-19 cases stands at 2,650, while 183 people were either cured or discharged and one had migrated to another country, it said. As per the ministry’s updated data on coronavirus cases Saturday morning, six fresh deaths were reported — three from Maharahtra, two from Delhi and one from Gujarat. Thus, Maharashtra has reported the most deaths (19) so far, followed…

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The Gujarat government has roped in primary school teachers to trace migrant workers and provide them free ration during the unprecedented lockdown in view of the coronavirus outbreak. Teachers from government-run schools were called-in on Wednesday for door-to-door survey of villages to find the migrant workers there and inform about their whereabouts to the authorities concerned. Lockdown to contain the spread of coronavirus has turned into a humanitarian crisis as it resulted in exodus of migrant workers, who have lost their jobs and have been walking to their native places…

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