India coronavirus lockdown: While entire districts in Uttar Pradesh and Delhi will not face such stringent lockdown measures, movement of people will be completely curbed and all shops will be shut.

Police tracked down the guard to his house in Southeast Delhi’s Okhla, and he has been sent to a quarantine centre.

East Delhi MP Gautam Gambhir said he asked the CM to ensure more quarantine centres are readied: “Till now, the CM was late in reacting; as a result Delhi faced shortage of PPEs. I told him to think ahead and communicate with us timely so that we can fight this together...”

The child’s 21-year-old mother and 24-year-old father are from Uttar Pradesh employed as casual labourers with the Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC) in Dared village in the district.

In an interview to a radio station, Chief Minister Vijay Rupani said a sudden rise in COVID-19 cases in Gujarat was because of “mistakes” committed by Tablighi Jamaat members who attended a gathering in Delhi last month.

Speaking to The Indian Express, BMC Commissioner Praveen Pardeshi said: “We have 15,000 PPEs. They are not enough. We have given an order for 80,000 more and, fortunately, private planes from big corporations have lined up to pick them up and bring them here. I don't have a transport problem."

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said migrant workers who wanted to return to the state after the lockdown would be kept in quarantine as a precaution.

On April 4, after Trump made the request for supplies of HCQ in a phone call to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, New Delhi was “considering the request”, The Indian Express had reported.

With the ICMR issuing an advisory for the use of rapid antibody tests in “areas reporting clusters (containment zone) and in large migration gatherings/ evacuees centres”, the serological tests are set to be conducted on a wider scale.

While the demand position of these drugs would be “continuously monitored”, the Ministry of External Affairs Tuesday said the stock position could allow Indian companies to meet the export commitments already made.

Absolute numbers on a particular date of the number of positive COVID-19 cases and recovered cases may still look intimidating. A two-week reflection, however, shows the recovery rate is trailing not too far behind the caseload.

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told the SC that the Union Home Secretary was told in a joint video conference that the states “have agreed to a protocol for facilitating the free movement of patients for medical treatment at the inter-state border at Talapadi”.

The 17-member task force headed by former chief secretary K M Abraham, that submitted the report to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan Monday evening, said large-scale movement of people across international and state boundaries should not be considered till the situation was “under control in every state”.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said the five-point action plan being rolled out by the government involves testing, tracing of contacts, treatment, teamwork and tracking.

There are around 1,300 people under lockdown in three buildings. Two buildings house around 1,000 Tablighi Jamaat members, while the third houses people who came from abroad last month and were sent to quarantine from the airport.

Government sources said there would be clarity on the situation only after April 10, once testing is stepped up and results show the outbreak’s trajectory.

Though the Centre has said that trucks transporting goods should be allowed through state and district borders, across highways in Maharashtra, stranded truckers are now parked in dhabas or at petrol pumps.

Before he left, Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain and hospital staff gathered on the steps to wish him good health.

The 69-year-old’s body was claimed by the district administration and the cremation performed with their assistance after repeated requests to the family to step forward were cold-shouldered.

On paper, there are enough social security schemes and entitlements to see the poor through a 21-day lockdown. But on the ground, these schemes are hobbled by poor implementation, planning or just plain apathy.

A day earlier, the Army had said five militants and three soldiers were killed in a gunbattle. This was the first major operation near the LoC in Kashmir this year.

An analysis of 4,067 COVID-19 cases by the health ministry has revealed that more men than women contracted the disease, and died too. Among the COVID-19 positive cases reported, 76 per cent are men; of the dead, 73 per cent were men.

According to the ordinance to amend the Salary, Allowances and Pension of Members of Parliament Act, 1954, cleared by the Cabinet on Monday, the 30 per cent cut for all MPs will be effective from April 1.

Wockhardt Hospital in Mumbai was shut by Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation after the number of positive cases among its staff members rose to 54 and all its patients were moved out.