Todays Corona Updates
Death toll due to Covid-19 rises to 16 in India; cases soar to 694: Health ministry
G20 nations to inject $5 trillion into global economy: Statement
Covid-19 lockdown: Rights groups demand immediate social security measures for women
No 4G restoration in J&K, 2G to Continue till 03 April 2020
43 new cases and 4 deaths have been reported in the last 24 hours, says health ministry official
COVID-19 does not spread through mosquitoes: Health Ministry
When we can’t trace the contact of around 20-30% of total cases, then, in layman terms, it can be called community transmission: Official
When we are unable to trace any contact with an infected person or a foreign travel history for one or two cases out of 600 odd-cases, we can’t call it community transmission,” says health ministry official
Govt is taking steps to ensure that production, supply or distribution of essential goods & services do not get affected during coronavirus lockdown: Punya Salila Srivastava, Joint Secretary, MHA
Direct Benefit Transfer Scheme: Poor widows poor pensioners and poor disabled will be given ex-gratia an additional amount of Rs 1000 over the next three months: Finance minister
Cash transfer based on DBT: Farmers who get Rs 6,000 annually under PM-Kisan will get first installment of Rs 2,000 in addition which will be given immediately in the first week of April.
80 cr poor people will to get 5 kg wheat or rice and 1 kg of preferred pulses for free every month for the next three months: FM
People can take the extra free grain in two installments: Finance minister
PM Garib Anna Yojna: Each poor will get 5 kg grains per person per month for the next three months for free, one kg of pulses for each household for free. This will be over and above the current 5 kg they get under NFSA.
Economic stimulus finalised to deal with impact of corona lockdown, says FM Nirmala Sitharaman
Coronavirus live: Nirmala Sitharaman announces Rs 1.7 lakh crore relief package
Finance minister: Health insurance cover of Rs 50 lakh per person for frontline warriors (sanitation, Asha or government workers)
Finance minister announces economic package of Rs 1.70 lakh crore, to help especially migrant workers, poor.
FM to announce economic package soon to deal with Covid-19 impact
Kashmir: 48 people who came in contact with Covid-19 patient put in quarantine
Coronavirus: Delhi govt orders all health care staff involving in the care of Covid-19 patients or suspects to undergo test. Patients admitted with acute respiratory distress will also be tested for the disease.
2 more positive cases in Navi Mumbai
A 70 year old man died due to Coronavirus in Bhavnagar. He got infected from Delhi. He died soon after he tested positive today morning. Total death in the state is 3
A 65-year-old woman from Mumbai who tested positive for Coronavirus, passes away: ANI
Another death of 70 year old man in Gujarat. Total deaths 3. Number of positive cases in Gujarat now 43.
Coronavirus suspect dies at Indore hospital; test result awaited: Official
Death toll due to Covid-19 rises to 13 in India; cases soars to 649: Health Ministry
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath holds meeting with senior officials over Coronavirus; Social distancing seen during the meeting: ANI
Will conduct special flight from Delhi to Jodhpur on Sunday to take Indians who have returned from Iran to govt quarantine facility: SpiceJet
Karnataka: A 56-year old man, who suspected that he had contracted coronavirus infection, committed suicide in Udupi district: Police sources
Ram Janmabhoomi Teerath trust postpones it’s scheduled meeting on April 4 indefinitely
Pakistan army forcibly moving Covid-19 positive patients to PoK and Gilgit Baltistan
First COVID-19 death in Kashmir
Tolling suspended across NH network till April 14
BREAKING : Terror attack reportedly underway inside a Sikh Gurudwara in Kabul, Afghanistan