India

Over a dozen villages have been sealed after Baldev Singh returned from a trip to Italy and Germany and then went preaching to villagers.

Ten new cases were detected since last evening to this morning, nine among them are contacts of patients who have already tested positive and undergoing treatment for COVID-19.

Provision for temporary accommodation, food, clothing medical cure would be applicable to homeless people, including migrant labourers, stranded due to lockdown.

Of these six new COVID-19 patients, five are from Mumbai and one from Nagpur, health department officials said.

A police team found Phool Devi, Sahil, Shekhar, Ashok and Satish were mining sand in Katgaon area and tried to stop them. But the five attacked the policemen with shovels, sticks and stones.

It would monitor calls received on the centralised helpline number 139 and the decentralised helpline number 138, in addition to monitoring trends on social media, especially Twitter, to communicate and alleviate any difficulties.

The government has also exempted farm workers as well as manufacturing and packaging units of fertilisers, pesticides and seeds from the lockdown order, according to the latest directive issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs.

The state government has decided to allow restaurants and eateries to keep only their kitchens open, to ease the burden on people during the curfew, Pawar said.

As of Friday, Indian authorities had confirmed 691 positive cases among 26,798 people tested, according to the Indian Council of Medical Research.

A serological test can determine if a person was infected even after he has recovered, based on identification of antibodies.

The amount of increase in dearness allowance (DA) for the period from July 1, 2019, to February 2, 2020, shall be credited to the general provident fund account of the employees in April 2020.

The breakdown in the supply chain is especially hurting hundreds of millions of rural and urban poor in India, which is facing a spike of coronavirus cases with more than 700 infections and 17 deaths.

Dr Rajah Vijay Kumar said the device would not cure a Covd-19 patient, but claimed that it can prevent the coronavirus from spreading. Its efficacy is yet to be tested.

The 65-year-old man from Hyderpora in Srinagar had visited Deoband along with a group of five and had stayed at a mosque.

During his telephonic conversation with the crown prince, the prime minister thanked him for his personal attention to the health and safety of Indian expatriates in the present situation, an official statement said.

The agriculture ministry is in constant touch with state governments in charge of agriculture marketing or wholesale mandi boards to take proactive measures to ensure supply of essential vegetables and fruits is not hit during the lockdown period.