Telangana, Mar 21 (ANI): Disaster Response Force under GHMC spray disinfect as preventive measures against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Hyderabad on Saturday. (ANI Photo)
-
- Published: March 24, 2020 10:07
The total number of active COVID-19 cases reported so far in the country stands at 446 while the number of people who have been cured or discharged stands at 36, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
Nine people have died from the disease while one case has migrated, the Ministry further informed. The Central government has taken several steps to contain the rapid spread of the virus, including stoppage of all incoming passenger traffic on 107 immigration check posts at all airports, seaports, land ports, rail ports, and river ports.
There is a complete lockdown in as many as 548 districts of the country affecting several hundred million people.
Coronavirus live updates:
# All shops in the state to remain shut. The government will make arrangements for the distribution of essential commodities. Goa dairy will supply milk&collector will take the decision regarding grocery distribution: Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant
# Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman briefs the media in Delhi
# About Rs 52,000 crores is available as cess fund and about 3.5 crore construction workers are registered with these construction welfare boards.
# Santosh Kumar Gangwar, MoS Ministry of Labour and Employment has issued an advisory to all states & UTs to transfer funds in the account of construction workers through DBT (Direct Benefit Transfer) mode from the cess fund collected by the Labour Welfare Boards.
# Two persons, who had tested positive for COVID-19 in Ladakh, have been completely cured and now the total count for patients infected with the infection in the Union territory has reduced to 11.
# ICMR
#CoronaVirusUpdates: We can defeat #Corona, if we strictly follow #CoronavirusLockdown and other precautionary measures. @ICMRDELHI #CoronaPandemic – https://t.co/KFPujXRZqK pic.twitter.com/VZeLQiqG9Z
— Newsroom Post (@NewsroomPostCom) March 24, 2020
# Message from Coronavirus infected Doctor.
#Rajasthan| #Bhilwara | Message from the #CoronaVirus positive Dr. Niyaz. He got infected while treating patients. Takes things seriously. #Corona is no Joke. #CoronavirusLockdown #CoronavirusLockdown #CoronaVirusUpdates – https://t.co/KFPujXRZqK pic.twitter.com/3nObIpA72B
— Newsroom Post (@NewsroomPostCom) March 24, 2020
# Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath holds meeting via conference with health officials in the state.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath holds meeting via conference with health officials in the state. #Coronavirus pic.twitter.com/OLG277Cmic
— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) March 24, 2020
# Even as we are readying an economic package to help us through the Corona lockdown (on priority,to be announced soon) I’ll address the media at 2pm today,specifically on statutory & regulatory compliance matters,via video conference: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman
# Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan: National Centre for Disease Control has been keeping an eye on all potential Coronavirus patients. Today, more than 1,87,000 people in the country are being monitored by the way of community surveillance.
# Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan: National Centre for Disease Control has been keeping an eye on all potential Coronavirus patients. Today, more than 1,87,000 people in the country are being monitored by the way of community surveillance.
# Action will be taken against all those who are found violating the prohibitory order under Section 144 Cr PC that is in place in Delhi. However, the response to the order has been good till now: Delhi Police Commissioner SN Shrivastava
# The tally of COVID-19 cases in Maharashtra reached 101 on Tuesday with three new cases in Pune and one in Satara, the state’s health department said.
# Two more people test positive for coronavirus in West Bengal; number of afflicted goes up to eight: Officials
# We are surveying 27,000 people in the state who have recent travel history: Gujarat Principal Secretary
भारत सरकार ने #COVID2019 प्रकोप के मद्देनज़र राज्यों और केंद्रशासित प्रदेशों से प्रिंट और इलेक्ट्रॉनिक मीडिया के संचालन को निरंतर जारी रखने के लिए कहा#IndiaFightsCorona #coronaupdatesindia pic.twitter.com/MhChHHCXof
— पीआईबी हिंदी (@PIBHindi) March 24, 2020
# Total number of positive Coronavirus cases in Maharashtra rises to 101 including 3 new cases in Pune and 1 in Satara: Health Department, Maharashtra
Active case-446 including 41 foreigners
#Cured/discharged-36
#Death-9
#Migrated-1 at 9am on 24-03-2020
# ‘Govt will have to find Rs 5 lakh crore to support the poor’
Former finance minister P Chidambaram, who has been vociferously demanding a complete country-wide lockdown to prevent the spread of thecoronaviruspandemic, says that though the economic cost of the lockdown will be enormous, the government should loosen its purse strings to fight the epidemic.
WATCH
#CAA : शाहीन बाग में पुलिस का एक्शन पुलिस ने प्रदर्शनकरियों को हटाया#ShaheenBagh
Read-https://t.co/yGH7Jxq532 pic.twitter.com/JJNFMuUD6d— Newsroom Post (@NewsroomPostCom) March 24, 2020
