The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Friday said three strains of the virus have been detected in the country so far.

Despite the lockdown, the three had managed to cover a distance of 120 km, till they were stopped by a sentry of the forest department near Gadchinchle village, which is close to the border that Maharashtra shares with the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli.

The Indian Express traced around 40 coronavirus cases or their contacts to the hospital from Agra, while at least a dozen belong to the surrounding districts of Kannauj, Mainpuri, Firozabad and Mathura.

The students will not be charged for transportation. “We will provide masks, food packets as well as water,” Gupta said.

Officials from the district administration also insisted the 35-year-old was “mentally disturbed”.

The officials of Ahmedabad division of Western Railways claimed that they used a parcel train which was travelling from Ahmedabad to Delhi to make a last minute courier order to Ajmer railway station.

Following this, the superintendent along with his wife and his daughter in-law have been home quarantined.

Coronavirus (COVID-19): Indicating that more testing kits are on the way, Vikram Misri, India’s Ambassador to China, tweeted: “A total of 650,000 kits, including Rapid Antibody Tests and RNA Extraction Kits have been despatched early today from Guangzhou Airport to India.”

“Zoom is a not a safe platform and advisory of Cert-In on the same dated Feb 06, 2020 and March 30, 2020 may kindly be referred. These advisories are available on Cert-In website,” the MHA advisory said.

The study, published in Nature Medicine on April 15, looked at 94 patients with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 admitted to Guangzhou Eighth People’s Hospital.

First time since the outbreak began March, 5-day compounded daily growth rate in single digits: 9.65%

On Thursday, Meghalaya’s first COVID-19 patient — a 69-year-old physician and founder of one of the first big private hospitals of the state — was buried at a church cemetery, almost 36 hours after he died.

Coronavirus (COVID-19): According to experts, despite the government’s fresh guidelines that selectively lift restrictions on economic activities from April 20, business is likely to stay crippled because of the high impact of the pandemic in these 170 districts.

Officials said 24 such families had approached them in Surjamata alone, a village of 150 families. Most people here work as daily wagers, owning no land and barely any possessions.

Five family members of Congress MLA and corporator Imran Khedawala, who tested positive on Tuesday, too were among the new cases on Thursday.

"I've been speaking to a large number of experts from both India and abroad. A lockdown is in no way a solution to the outbreak. It's like hitting a pause so when we come out of it the virus will begin spreading again," Rahul Gandhi said.

Amartya Sen, Raghuram Rajan, Abhijit Banerjee write: The unexpected loss of income and savings can have serious consequences, even if the meals are secured for now: farmers need money to buy seeds and fertilizer for the next planting season; shopkeepers need to decide how they will fill their shelves again

Coronavirus (COVID-19): A close reading of the guidelines indicates the government’s keenness to support the rural poor and urban migrant workers who have suffered the most due to stringent lockdown curbs.

Coronavirus (COVID-19): Some half-a-million restaurants across the country are hoping the Centre and the state governments announce quick relief measures — otherwise, many fear they could be forced out of business altogether.

Additionally, continued restrictions on hotspots across 170 districts, including those with substantial manufacturing presence such as pockets in Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, etc would translate into slower-than-anticipated ramping-up of industrial activity.

Coronavirus (COVID-19): In a letter dated April 7, Sumant Singh, a director at the MHA, requested all NGOs that are allowed to receive funding from overseas under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA), 2010, to fill a form online to report their COVID-19 related activities by the 15th of every month.

Coronavirus (COVID-19): On Tuesday, hours after the Prime Minister announced that the national lockdown would be extended, ABP Majha journalist Rahul Kulkarni had cited an internal Railways document to report that special trains would transport stranded migrant workers back home.

Coronavirus (COVID-19): With 1,118 new cases being reported in the last 24 hours, the total number of cases touched 11,933 (1,344 recovered) on Wednesday.

The extension prompted several migrant labourers who had hoped of reuniting with their families to go on hunger strike at the government school turned shelter home, housing around 60 of them.