***CORONA VIRUS UPDATES***

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Coronavirus in India: Complete list of 75 districts put under lockdown

Coronavirus lockdown India: The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has notified 75 districts that have reported coronavirus cases and will now be put under complete down to check the spread of COVID-19 disease in the country.

 

• Andhra Pradesh – Prakasam, Vijaywada, Vizag.
• The Union Territory of Chandigarh.
• Chhattisgarh – Raipur.
• Delhi – Central, East Delhi, North Delhi, North West Delhi, North East Delhi, South Delhi, and West Delhi.
• Gujarat – Kutchh, Rajkot, Gandhinagar, Surat, Vadodara, Ahmedabad.
• Haryana – Faridabad, Sonepat, Panchkula, Panipat, Gurugram,
• Himachal Pradesh – Kangra.
• Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir – Srinagar, Jammu.
• Karnataka – Bangalore, Chikkaballapura, Mysore, Kodagu, Kalaburgi.
• Kerala – Alappuzha, Ernakulam, Iduki, Kannur, Kasargod, Kottayam, Mallapuram, Pathanamthitta, Thiruvanthpuram, Thrissur.
• Union Territory of Ladakh – Kargil, Leh.
• Madhya Pradesh – Jabalpur
• Maharashtra – Ahmednagar, Aurangabad, Mumbai, Nagpur, Mumbai Sub-Urb, Pune, Ratnagiri, Raigad, Thane, Yavatmal.
• Odisha – Khurda
• Puducherry – Mahe
• Punjab – Hoshiarpur, SAS Nagar, SBS Nagar.
• Rajasthan – Bhilwara, Jhunjhunu, Sikar, Jaipur.
• Tamil Nadu – Chennai, Erode, Kanchipuram.
• Telangana – Bhadradri, Kothagudam, Hyderabad, Medchai, Ranga reddy, Sanga Reddy.
• Uttar Pradesh – Agra, GB Nagar, Ghaziabad, Varanasi, Lakhimpur Kheri, Lucknow.
• Uttarakhand – Dehradun.
• West Bengal – Kolkata, North 24 Parganas.

[Kool_SRG]

One new case in Andhra Pradesh

The sixth positive case of coronavirus was registered in Andhra Pradesh on Sunday, PTI quotes officials  as saying. The sixth patient is the wife of the person who tested positive for coronavirus in Visakhapatnam on 17 March upon his return from Mecca. She contracted the virus from her husband, they said.

[Kool_SRG]

Jharkhand announces lockdown till 31 March

ANI has reported that the Jharkhand government has announced a lockdown till 31 March. Movement of all public transport has been prohibited. However, essential services, including ration shops, bank/ATM, postal services, hospitals, medical stores, petrol/diesel pumps, will remain exempt.

[Kool_SRG]

Count in India reaches 396 : ICMR

A total of 396 people have tested positive for coronvirus in India, ANI quotes ICMR as saying.

[Kool_SRG]

Three new coronavirus cases in Rajasthan

Three new coronavirus positive cases were reported in Rajasthan on Sunday, taking the total number in the state to 28, according to PTI. One positive case each was reported from Bhilwara, Jhunjhunu and Jodhpur, Additional Chief Secretary Rohit Kumar Singh said.  He said that out of the total 28 cases, 13 are from Bhilwara and four from Jhunjhunu and rest from other parts of the state including the capital city Jaipur.  Singh said that the government is in process if earmarking quarantine facility for 1 lakh people to face any emergency.

[Kool_SRG]

Lockdowns Not Enough to Defeat Coronavirus, Says WHO's Emergency Expert Mike Ryan

Ryan said the the danger currently with the lockdowns is in case effective aren’t put in place, when those movement restrictions and lockdowns are lifted, the danger is the disease will jump back up.

 

Countries can't simply lock down their societies to defeat coronavirus, the World Health Organization's top emergency expert Mike Ryan said on Sunday, adding that there need to be public health measures to avoid a resurgence of the virus later on.

"What we really need to focus on is finding those who are sick, those who have the virus, and isolate them, find their contacts and isolate them," Mike Ryan said in an interview on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show.

"The danger right now with the lockdowns ... if we don't put in place the strong public health measures now, when those movement restrictions and lockdowns are lifted, the danger is the disease will jump back up."

Nearly one billion people around the world were confined to their homes on Sunday, as the coronavirus death toll crossed 13,000 and factories were shut in worst-hit Italy after another single-day fatalities record.

The raging pandemic has forced lockdowns in 35 countries, disrupting lives, travel and businesses as governments scramble to shut borders and unleash hundreds of billions in emergency measures to avoid a widespread virus-fuelled economic meltdown.

More than 300,000 infections have been confirmed worldwide, with the situation increasingly grim in Italy where the death toll spiked to more than 4,800 -- over a third of the global total.

Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced a closure of all non-essential factories in a late-night TV address on Saturday.

The Mediterranean nation of 60 million is now the epicentre of the disease, which first emerged in central China late last year before marching out to the rest of the world.

Italy has now reported more deaths than mainland China and third-placed Iran combined, and it has a death rate of 8.6 percent among confirmed COVID-19 infections -- significantly higher than in most other countries.

Across the Atlantic, more than a third of Americans were adjusting to life in various phases of lockdown, including in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. Other parts of the United States are expected to ramp up restrictions as well.

"This is a time of shared national sacrifice, but also a time to treasure our loved ones," US President Donald Trump said. "We're going to have a great victory."

As world leaders have vowed to fight the pandemic, the number of deaths and infections has continued to rise, especially in Europe -- now the main coronavirus hotspot.

Spain reported a 32 percent spike in new deaths on Saturday, with Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez warning that the nation needs to prepare for "very hard days ahead".

Fatalities in France jumped to 562 as police officials said helicopters and drones were being deployed to boost the government's attempts to keep people in their homes.

The unprecedented measures to counter the spread of COVID-19 have shredded the international sports calendar, and pressure is mounting on Olympic organisers to postpone the 2020 Tokyo Games.

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1 hour ago, Kool_SRG said:

Count in India reaches 396 : ICMR

A total of 396 people have tested positive for coronvirus in India, ANI quotes ICMR as saying.

Damn. Not many cases initially today. Thought may be it's started getting flat. But raised by the end of the day. 

[Kool_SRG]

Coronavirus in India: Here's what stays open during a lockdown

LISTED HERE IS WHAT WOULD REMAIN OPEN DURING A LOCKDOWN, ACCORDING TO GOVT SOURCES:

Groceries, fruit and vegetable shops
Milk supply booths
Cooking gas supplies
Telecom services
Food home-delivery
E-commerce
Banks and ATMs
Hospitals and pharmacies
Limited public transport

[Kool_SRG]

No print edition of newspapers in Mumbai

Due to local trains closure and lockdown in Mumbai, there will be no print editions of newspapers. Only e-paper and online editions will be available from tomorrow.

[johnydanylee]

11 minutes ago, Kool_SRG said:

Coronavirus in India: Here's what stays open during a lockdown

LISTED HERE IS WHAT WOULD REMAIN OPEN DURING A LOCKDOWN, ACCORDING TO GOVT SOURCES:

Groceries, fruit and vegetable shops
Milk supply booths
Cooking gas supplies
Telecom services
Food home-delivery
E-commerce
Banks and ATMs
Hospitals and pharmacies
Limited public transport

inkaa lockdown enduku?

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[johnydanylee]

49 minutes ago, Kool_SRG said:

Lockdowns Not Enough to Defeat Coronavirus, Says WHO's Emergency Expert Mike Ryan

Ryan said the the danger currently with the lockdowns is in case effective aren’t put in place, when those movement restrictions and lockdowns are lifted, the danger is the disease will jump back up.

 

Countries can't simply lock down their societies to defeat coronavirus, the World Health Organization's top emergency expert Mike Ryan said on Sunday, adding that there need to be public health measures to avoid a resurgence of the virus later on.

"What we really need to focus on is finding those who are sick, those who have the virus, and isolate them, find their contacts and isolate them," Mike Ryan said in an interview on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show.

"The danger right now with the lockdowns ... if we don't put in place the strong public health measures now, when those movement restrictions and lockdowns are lifted, the danger is the disease will jump back up."

Nearly one billion people around the world were confined to their homes on Sunday, as the coronavirus death toll crossed 13,000 and factories were shut in worst-hit Italy after another single-day fatalities record.

The raging pandemic has forced lockdowns in 35 countries, disrupting lives, travel and businesses as governments scramble to shut borders and unleash hundreds of billions in emergency measures to avoid a widespread virus-fuelled economic meltdown.

More than 300,000 infections have been confirmed worldwide, with the situation increasingly grim in Italy where the death toll spiked to more than 4,800 -- over a third of the global total.

Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced a closure of all non-essential factories in a late-night TV address on Saturday.

The Mediterranean nation of 60 million is now the epicentre of the disease, which first emerged in central China late last year before marching out to the rest of the world.

Italy has now reported more deaths than mainland China and third-placed Iran combined, and it has a death rate of 8.6 percent among confirmed COVID-19 infections -- significantly higher than in most other countries.

Across the Atlantic, more than a third of Americans were adjusting to life in various phases of lockdown, including in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. Other parts of the United States are expected to ramp up restrictions as well.

"This is a time of shared national sacrifice, but also a time to treasure our loved ones," US President Donald Trump said. "We're going to have a great victory."

As world leaders have vowed to fight the pandemic, the number of deaths and infections has continued to rise, especially in Europe -- now the main coronavirus hotspot.

Spain reported a 32 percent spike in new deaths on Saturday, with Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez warning that the nation needs to prepare for "very hard days ahead".

Fatalities in France jumped to 562 as police officials said helicopters and drones were being deployed to boost the government's attempts to keep people in their homes.

The unprecedented measures to counter the spread of COVID-19 have shredded the international sports calendar, and pressure is mounting on Olympic organisers to postpone the 2020 Tokyo Games.

china ni em peekaledu UN ...malli salahaalu

[TOM_BHAYYA]

Odiyamma 40k almost in us

[TOM_BHAYYA]

Full tests chesthunnaru ny lo one week lo it looks like ny alone will cross China numbers .. not sure how state is going to handle these many people.13k cases added eeroju in ny. China numbers offcourse nammadam kastame

 

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27 minutes ago, TOM_BHAYYA said:

Full tests chesthunnaru ny lo one week lo it looks like ny alone will cross China numbers .. not sure how state is going to handle these many people.13k cases added eeroju in ny. China numbers offcourse nammadam kastame