Top ten Corona updates 10-4-2020 india

1. Punjab has become the second state, after Odisha, to extend the Prime Minister's nationwide "total lockdown". The lockdown had been scheduled to end on April 14 but will now continue, in Punjab and Odisha at least, till the end of the month. Punjab has registered 132 coronavirus cases, as of Friday despite the strict three-week lockdown. Odisha has 44 cases and one person has died due to the virus.
2. Addressing a virtual press conference today the Punjab Chief Minister also flagged concerns the country is "moving into" community transmission. Mr Singh pointed to 27 COVID-19 patients in the state who were, he said, cases of secondary transmission. The centre was swift to deny this claim, with Lav Aggarwal, a Joint Secretary in the Health Ministry, saying: "I reiterate, there is no community transmission yet across the country".
3. Prime Minister Modi is likely to address the nation again - his third address since the lockdown was ordered - to clarify whether the lockdown will end on Tuesday. Sources say the lockdown may be extended but with many changes this time around. Interstate movement will remain restricted, except for essential services. Schools, colleges and religious institutions are likely to stay closed.
4. Meanwhile, amid fears expressed by medical experts that the country has entered Stage 3 - i.e., community transmission of the virus, the World Health Organisation (WHO) admitted an error in its daily report. Earlier today the global health watchdog said India was experiencing "community transmission", something the government has repeatedly denied. When contacted by NDTV the organisation said the error had been fixed and clarified that India had only a "cluster of cases".
5. However, random coronavirus tests on patients with severe respiratory diseases indicates that more and more people with no travel history, or contact with those who have one, are contracting the COVID-19 virus. Data compiled by the ICMR (Indian Council for Medical Research, the government's nodal body in the fight against the virus) shows 38 per cent of such patients had no travel history.
6. Two weeks ago, when asked about the possibility of community transmission of coronavirus, the ICMR had responded in the negative. The ICMR had been conducting random tests on SARI (severe acute respiratory illness) patients to determine whether there was community transmission of the novel coronavirus. ICMR data also shows that in the weeks before March 14 no SARI patient tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
7. Meanwhile, the ICMR has amped up testing in hotspots identified and sealed in Delhi and other states. Now people in the hotspots, whether connected to the patients or not, will be tested if they show symptoms of the disease for at least a week, the medical body has said.
8. Dilshad Garden in northeast Delhi is the first novel coronavirus hotspot to be declared infection-free, Health Minister Satyendra Jain told NDTV today. Under an extensive exercised codenamed "Operation Shield" the Delhi government set up 123 medical teams to screen over 15,000 people living in 4,032 houses in the area before declaring it "coronavirus-free". On Wednesday the Delhi government released a list of 20 hotspots, including Nizamuddin Basti - where the Tablighi Jamaat's religious gathering was held last month.
9. A bipartisan group of top United States lawmakers have urged China to shut down all operating "wet markets" as these could expose humans to health risks through the introduction of zoonotic diseases such as COVID-19. A "wet market" sells fresh meat, fish, produce, and other perishable goods as distinguished from "dry markets" and gets its name because the floors are usually wet from the spraying of fresh produce and cleaning of meat and seafood stalls.
10. Worldwide more than 16 lakh people have been infected by the COVID-19 virus that originated in China's Wuhan district in December last year. Nearly 97,000 others have died. India this week has exported large quantities of hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malarial drug believed effective in treating the virus, to the United States and Israel, while exporting raw material to produce the drug to Brazil.

Here's your ten-point cheat sheet on coronavirus cases in India 7-4-2020

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1. Two more cases have been reported from Mumbai's Dharavi, one of the biggest slum in Asia where million people live within five square kilometres. The new cases take the total in the slum cluster to seven, including one death. Of Maharashtra's 868 coronavirus cases, Mumbai - one of the COVID-19 hotspots listed by the government- has reported 526 cases with 34 deaths. The Wockhardt Hospital in the city was shut yesterday and declared a containment zone after three doctors and 26 nurses tested positive.
2. US President Donald Trump on Monday warned of "retaliation" if India does not lift ban on export hydroxychloroquine, a key anti-malaria drug believed by many to be effective in the treatment of coronavirus. His remarks come nearly two weeks after the government banned export of the drug as experts test its efficacy in helping treat COVID-19 patients. Currently, the US has the most number of coronavirus cases in the world.
3. The salaries of central ministers and members of parliament - starting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi - will be slashed by 30 per cent for the coming year in view of the coronavirus outbreak and the expected economic downturn, the Union cabinet decided on Monday. President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice President Venkaiah Naidu and all state governors have also voluntarily decided to take the pay cut.
4. The government has also decided to suspend the MPLADS scheme for two years, saying Rs 7,900 crore from the MPLADS scheme will go to Consolidated Fund of India. The decision was vehemently criticised by the opposition that said it would not be in the interest of the people.
5. The Assam government is considering issuing entry permits as a temporary measure to regulate the entry of people in the state after the nationwide lockdown ends. This will be a special entry permit and not on the lines of Inner Line Permit, as required in some of the other north-eastern states.
6. In Delhi, which has the second highest number of cases in India, 12 more staff members of the Delhi State Cancer Institute tested positive for coronavirus, taking the number of infected staff members to 18. The number includes two doctors. The chain of infection started a few days ago when a doctor tested positive. The hospital said he had contracted it from a patient who was asymptomatic.
7. India witnessed a surge in the number of cases last week after more than 1,000 people linked to the controversial Delhi mosque event tested positive. At least 17 states have reported COVID-19 cases linked to the gathering. On Monday, the Assam government said members of the Islamic missionary group Tablighi Jamaat, who held the congregation in Delhi last month, will be charged with culpable homicide unless they come forward for medical screening.
8. The Indian Council of Medical Research, which has so far conducted around 90,000 coronavirus tests, said orders have been placed for 5 lakh rapid antibody testing kits.  
9. Worldwide, more than 13 lakh people have contracted infection; over 74,000 have died since the novel coronavirus outbreak originated in China's Wuhan city late last year. China on Tuesday reported no new coronavirus deaths for the first time since it started publishing figures in January, the National Health Commission said.
10. The World Health Organization warned Monday that wearing masks alone would not be enough to defeat the global coronavirus pandemic. "Masks should only ever be used as part of a comprehensive package of interventions. There is no black or white answer, and no silver bullet. Masks alone cannot stop the COVID-19 pandemic," WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual news conference.

Corona virus updates 4-4-2020 india

BREAKING | Increase of 525 Coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, the largest spike in a day. Total number of Covid-19 positive cases has risen to 3,072 in India (including 2,784 active cases, 213 cured/ discharged/ migrated people and 75 deaths): Ministry of Health and Family Welfare