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Lockdown, Day 17: Death toll hits 200-mark
There has been no sign of community transmission yet, the Health ministry said even as India's Covid numbers inched closer to the 7,000-mark on Day 17 of the three-week lockdown. 678 new cases and 33 casualties were reported in the last 24 hours, taking the total tally to 6,761.
Here are the latest updates...
COUNT SO FAR
LIFE & HEALTH
ECONOMIC UPDATE
AROUND THE WORLD
Here are the latest updates...
COUNT SO FAR
| New case in Jharkhand's Bokaro takes state tally to 14 |
| 21 new cases takes Vadodara total to 39 |
| 3 new cases reported from Mumbai's Dadar area; 5 more in Dharavi |
| Two doctors among 14 test positive in Bhopal |
| Bihar now has 60 cases |
| UP reports 21 more cases; Total 431 infected |
| 10 new cases reported in Karnataka |
| Cases rise to 161 in Haryana |
| 5 linked to Tablighi Jamaat test positive in Agra; District tally now 89 |
| 132 confirmed cases in Punjab |
| 4 test positive in Udhampur; Cases in J-K climb to 188 |
| 4 more cases in Odisha; State tally now at 48 |
| 46 new cases in Gujarat in past 12 hours |
| Woman dies in Rajasthan; 57 new cases reported |
| 65-yr-old becomes Assam's first casualty |
| Two more deaths in Gujarat; State toll now 19 |
| World | India | Global Death Count |
| 1,611,981 | 6761 | 96,783 |
LIFE & HEALTH
| ICMR approves use of diagnostic machine used for drug-resistant TB |
| Sanofi will donate 100 million doses of hydroxychloroquine to 50 countries |
| Haryana govt doubles pay of Covid-19 fighters |
| Punjab extends lockdown till April 30 |
| IndiGo to fly planes half-full with no meal service for some time, whenever flights restart |
| Complete lockdown of 5 prisons in Mumbai & Pune region |
| Rs 10L compensation to next of kin of Uttarakhand officials, staff who lose lives to virus |
ECONOMIC UPDATE
| Fiscal deficit at 5.07% in Feb, likely to go up in March |
| ADB assures $2.2 billion support package to India |
AROUND THE WORLD
| Italy eyes lockdown extension to May 3 |
| 605 deaths in Spain; lowest daily toll in 17 days |
| Total of 81,907 cases in mainland China reported as of end-April |
| Death toll crosses 16,000 in US, infected cases surge past 460,000 |
| Germany's cases rise by 5,323, deaths by 266 |
| Pakistan's cases reach 4,601; Death toll at 66 |
| Pakistan extends suspension of all flight operations till April 21 |
