The coronavirus pandemic is these small investors’ first introduction to “severe market risk” and, experts hope, to opportunity as well.

Under the expanded testing protocol, “asymptomatic direct, high-risk contacts of confirmed cases should (also) be tested once between day 5-14 of coming in contact”.

Nearly a dozen people were injured in the clash, including officials. Several are critical and hospitalised. There was no official confirmation on the death of an inmate.

PM Modi’s appeal came as West Bengal and Jharkhand asked the Railways to stop trains entering their states from outside.

The 14 patients had to be quarantined because another person they were travelling with in Jaipur tested positive for the coronavirus.

The discovery of Kanika Kapoor testing positive for coronavirus sent ripples from Lucknow to Parliament and Rashtrapati Bhavan in Delhi

Earlier, testing was limited to symptomatic patients with travel or contact history, and symptomatic health workers with contact history. As part of sentinel surveillance, only random samples of pneumonia cases were being tested.

While Maharashtra, which has reported the highest number of cases, imposed a complete shutdown — barring essential services — in some cities including Mumbai and Pune, the Delhi and Uttar Pradesh governments ordered closure of all malls.

On Friday night, the Lucknow police registered an FIR against Kanika under sections dealing with disobedience to orders promulgated by a public servant, and acts likely to spread disease dangerous to life.

The slowdown has hit these workers the hardest. Faced with the prospect of not being able to earn any money until the end of the month, most decided it was better to return to their homes.

The strength of the 230-member House came down to 205 Friday following the acceptance of 23 resignations (one of the BJP) and two vacancies caused due to the death of members — the BJP had a strength of 107.

The strength of the 230-member Assembly has come down to 206 because of the 22 resignations and two vacancies due to the death of members. The BJP has 107 members.

In a nearly 30-minute telecast, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the March 22 ‘Janata Curfew’ would be a test of people’s “self-discipline” in fighting the virus.

The Ministry of External Affairs also confirmed the death of an Indian patient in Iran. The government said on Wednesday that 255 Indians in Iran were infected.

Over the last one month, the government pulled out all stops to contain the spread of the Covid-19. During this period, economic ministries including Commerce and Industry, Heavy Industries, Road Transport, Civil Aviation, Pharmaceuticals and Consumer Affairs met and heard stakeholders.

Coronavirus in Mumbai: Every day, the city's suburban train network, known as the locals, transports 7.8 million passengers, taking them to their workplaces and back.

On his part, Subhash Chandra cited his commitment to attendance in the ongoing session of Parliament. He is a member of Rajya Sabha and was present in the House on Wednesday during a discussion on two pieces of legislation dealing with Unani medicines and homoeopathy.

The Indian Express reported Wednesday that cellphone operators had red-flagged ‘surveillance’ after local units of the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) sought call data records of all mobile subscribers across several pockets of the country for specific days over the past few months.

The government also ordered the CBSE, National Institute of Open Learning and all higher education institutions to postpone ongoing examinations for 10 days.

Sources said there was no change in the government position that they will bring back only those Indians who test negative for COVID-19.

Safdarjung and RML are the two main hospitals where those landing in the country are taken for testing if an infection is suspected.

All states, barring Assam, found their revenue receipts plummet through the current financial year. Bihar, for instance, saw its revenue receipts fall by around Rs 25,500 crore — roughly a fall of 14 per cent over the Budget Estimates.

While Maharashtra has seen 45 cases of infections and a death from coronavirus, there has been no evidence of community transmission. But in slums such as these, with population densities among the highest anywhere in the world, social distancing is an impossibility.

The ICMR had picked 1,020 random samples of people with severe acute respiratory illness pneumonia and influenza-like symptoms for testing for Covid-19.