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British PM Boris Johnson was released from the hospital on Sunday,12 April, after battling COVID-19. He said that the staff saved his life and it “could have gone either way”.
Meanwhile, Maharashtra's case tally reached 1,982 with 221 new cases. Tamil Nadu reported 106 new cases and one new death, taking the state total to 1,075. It has seen 50 recoveries so far.
The total number of cases in India climbed to 8,447 according to health ministry data. 273 have died, 764 have been discharged and one has migrated.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, in a press conference on Sunday, said that the government will increase the number of COVID-19 containment zones (red zones) and carry out massive sanitisation drives in those areas from Monday onwards.
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Sixty-five prisoners, including 22 who were arrested under Public Safety Act (PSA), were released to decongest jails across Jammu and Kashmir in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic.
The information was given by the director general of prisons in a written report submitted to the division bench of Jammu and Kashmir High Court in Jammu.
34 deaths and 909 new cases reported in last 24 hours; India's total number of Coronavirus positive cases rises to 8356 (including 7367 active cases, 716 cured/discharged/migrated and 273 deaths), according to the latest figures released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
Three Indian nationals, who were placed under quarantine in Birgunj of Nepal’s Parsa district, have tested positive for COVID-19. Total number of positive cases in Nepal rises to 12, ANI reported quoting Nepal Health Ministry official.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday, 12 April, extended Easter greetings and prayed that the day gives added strength to successfully overcome COVID-19.
"Best wishes to everyone on the special occasion of Easter. We remember the noble thoughts of Lord Christ, especially his unwavering commitment to empowering the poor and needy," the prime minister wrote on Twitter
"May this Easter give us added strength to successfully overcome COVID-19 and create a healthier planet," he said.
Mehrauli Sabzi Mandi has been temporarily relocated around Mehrauli DTC bus terminal to ensure social distancing amid coronavirus outbreak.
Kerala’s houseboats in Alappuzha, which have been abandoned due to the ongoing lockdown, will operate as isolation wards to battle COVID-19 if necessary.
The district administration has identified 5,806 beds with attached toilets in Alappuzha district, from hotels, resorts, hostels and lodges in order to accommodate patients if needed, as there are not many hospitals in the distric.
Maharashtra Police have registered over 35,000 offences across the state against those violating prohibitory orders and quarantine guidelines during the lockdown imposed since last month, a senior official told PTI.
Fifteen new cases were reported from Mumbai’s Dharavi. Total number of cases in Asia’s largest slum stands at 43 with 4 deaths.
Rajasthan has recorded 51 more cases of coronavirus. The state's tally rises to 751, PTI reported quoting officials.
A 30-year-old man, who attended the religious gathering of Tablighi Jamaat in Delhi and later tested positive for coronavirus, allegedly ended his life at a government hospital in Maharashtra'a Akola district, an official said on Sunday, 12 April.
The man, belonging to Nagaon district in Assam, was in Delhi between 6-8 March when he attended the religious congregation organised at Nizamuddin, Akola Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) Dean Dr Apurv Pavde said.
He was admitted to the GMCH in Akola on 7 April and tested positive for coronavirus on Friday, Pavde said.
A 75-year-old coronavirus patient died in Ahmedabad, taking the COVID-19 death toll in Gujarat to 23, a senior health official said on Sunday, 12 April
The man succumbed to the disease at LG Hospital late on Saturday night, state principal secretary (health) Jayanti Ravi said.
He was also suffering from hypertension, she said.
Pakistan's coronavirus cases have reached 5,038 with 254 new infections reported, while 14 more people died due to the disease, taking the death toll in the country to 86, health officials said on Sunday, 12 April.
The Ministry of National Health Services reported on its website that 1,026 patients had recovered while 37 were reported to be in critical condition.
In the last 24 hours, 14 people have died due to COVID-19, taking the total number of dead in Pakistan to 86, it said.
Five more persons have tested positive for coronavirus in Nashik, taking the total number of such cases in the Maharashtra district to 20, an official said on Sunday.
Seventeen more COVID-19 cases have been reported in Karnataka, taking the total number of positive cases in the state to 232, including 6 deaths and 47 discharged. Of the 17 new positive cases, 7 have contact history and 1 has a history of foreign travel, ANI reported quoting Karnataka Government officials.
Three new positive cases have been reported in Bhopal on Sunday, 12 April, taking the state’s total toll to 134. Chief Medical and Health Officer Prabhakar Tiwari, Bhopal said, “We are tracing their contact history.”
Tiwari added, “An 80-year-old asthmatic patient who died before being brought to hospital has tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday night. His contact history has been traced and people in contact with him, kept under home quarantine. With this, death rate toll due to coronavirus in MP stands at two.”
The UAE has offered to fly stranded Indians and citizens of other countries, who wish to be repatriated, if they test negative for COVID-19, the country's envoy to India told a Gulf daily.
The UAE's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MOFAIC) had sent out a note verbale in this regard to all the embassies in the UAE, including the Indian mission, during the past couple of weeks, the country's Ambassador to India Ahmed Abdul Rahman Al Banna told Gulf News over phone on Saturday.
In view of the rising number of coronavirus cases in Ahmedabad, the city civic body has made it compulsory for people to wear masks from Monday, 13 April, failing which they would be fined Rs 5,000 or sentenced to three years in jail, an official said.
The order has been issued under the Epidemic Diseases Act in a bid to contain the spread of the deadly disease, Ahmedabad Municipal Commissioner Vijay Nehra said on Sunday.
Union HRD Minister ‘Nishank’ has launched a web-portal, YUKTI (Young India Combating COVID with Knowledge, Technology and Innovation), to monitor and record the efforts and initiatives of the HRD ministry, taken in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak, DD news reported.
Spain's daily COVID-19 death toll has risen again with 619 deaths, according to the AFP news agency.
96 new COVID-19 cases have been reported in Rajasthan today, including 35 from Jaipur and 11 from Tonk. Total positive cases have risen to 796, according to the state’s health department.
The number of COVID-19 cases rises to 179 in Haryana after 14 new infections, including 7 from worst-hit Nuh district, were reported, PTI reports, quoting the state’s health department.
Novel coronavirus cases have risen to 420 in Andhra Pradesh, PTI reports. 7 deaths have been reported.
The Centre has enough grains in godowns for nine months of PDS supply to over 81 crore beneficiaries, according to Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan.
One more COVID-19 hotspot will be sealed in Delhi - Lane 5 and 5A, H-2 block at Bengali Colony, Mahavir Enclave. The total number of sealed hotspots in the national capital is now 34, ANI reports.
A 45-year-old woman died of COVID-19 in Chennai taking the death toll in Tamil Nadu to 11, according to the state’s health department, PTI reports.
Briefing the media on Sunday, 12 April, the health ministry said that 909 COVID-19 cases and 34 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours. “We are extra prepared in case of an exponential rise in COVID-19 cases,” it added.
It said it was working on an urgent basis to expand the capacity for COVID-19 testing in government and private medical colleges across the country.
Over 40 candidate vaccines under development but none of them have reached the next stage, an ICMR official said during the briefing.
The Andhra Pradesh government will distribute 16 crore masks to state people and expedite the third survey. The Chief Minister has instructed officials to distribute 3 masks each to the 5.3 crore people in the state.
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22 health workers of state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata have been placed under quarantine after 2 patients admitted there test positive for COVID-19, according to a health department official.
Total 32 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Himachal Pradesh till date, of which 18 are active cases, 9 have recovered, 4 are migrated cases and 1 has died, according to the health department.
First COVID-19 patient of Manipur was discharged from the hospital today after no symptoms were detected for many days and he was found negative three times, according to All India Radio News.
Odd-even rules to be applied at Azadpur mandi in Delhi for maintaining social distancing, PTI reports. There will also be staggered timings: 6-11 am for sale of vegetables and 2-6 pm for sale of fruits.
“There are 194 active COVID-19 cases in the state now. So far, 179 coronavirus patients have recovered,” Kerala Health Minister KK Shailaja said.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, in a press conference on Sunday, 12 April, said that the government will increase the number of COVID-19 containment zones (red zones) and carry out massive sanitisation drives in those areas from Monday onwards.
Tamil Nadu has reported 106 new cases and one new death, taking the state total to 1,075. It has seen 50 recoveries so far.
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Parliament House Reception Catering Unit will be closed from 15 April in view of COVID-19 outbreak, according to the Lok Sabha Secretariat.
UP CM Yogi Adityanath, addressing a press conference, said that all ministers have been asked to sit in their offices from 15 April and supervise the departmental work. Officers of rank special secretary and above will also report to work.
He appealed that the officials maintain social distancing.
“We have constituted a committee under Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya which will look at how development work can begin amid #COVID19 lockdown while following social distancing norms among labourers,” he added.
British PM Boris Johnson was released from the hospital on Sunday,12 April, after battling COVID-19. He said that the staff saved his life and it “could have gone either way”.
The death toll due to COVID-19 in West Bengal has increased to 7. 95 active cases have been reported in the state.
221 new COVID-19 cases and 22 deaths were reported in Maharashtra on Sunday; the total number of cases in the state now stands at 1982, according to the state’s health department.
The West Bengal government has made wearing masks mandatory in public places to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
Liquor shops, bottling plants and breweries in Assam and Meghalaya to open for limited hours from Monday, PTI reported, quoting a government order.
Italy on Sunday reported its lowest COVID-19 death toll in over three weeks, AFP reported, quoting officials.
A thirty-two-year-old man jumped to death from quarantine facility in Greater Noida, officials told PTI.
156 foreigners who travelled to Maharashtra after attending Tablighi Jamaat event in New Delhi last month have been booked on charges of violating Foreigners Act, 1946, according to State Home Minister Anil Deshmukh.
Two COVID-19 deaths were reported in Telangana, taking the death toll to 16, according to the state government, PTI reported.
1,454 people were arrested across Assam in last 19 days for violating Lockdown restrictions to contain COVID-19, according to the police.
A 56-year-old Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) of Delhi Police has tested positive for COVID-19 today. He last came on duty on 8th April. He is the third personnel of Delhi Police who has tested positive, Delhi Police told ANI.
France reports lower coronavirus daily death toll. The total number of cases is almost 14,400, AFP reports.
The Ministry of Home Affairs directs states to implement lockdown guidelines to ensure smooth movement of inter and intrastate cargo, trucks, workers and the functioning of warehouse/cold storages.