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Total 273 deaths have been Health Ministry Joint Secretary reported so far.” Lav Agarwal said that on March About the preparations, 29, India had 979 positive cases Agarwal said the Government and 196 needed critical care and *+ +$ , has identified 14 institutes, oxygen. That time, 41,900 ded- including AIIMS and +,- .,/ icated Covid beds were avail- NIMHANS, to mentor medical able in 163 State-run hospitals. colleges and expand Covid-19 ll eyes will be on Prime “On April 4, when we testing capacity. AMinister Narendra Modi required 580 beds, we had Agarwal said as on Sunday patients need oxygen support and number can be exponen- Agarwal said AIIMS Delhi when he outlines various !! " $ 67,500 beds, on April 9, 1,100 India has 8,356 positive cases and critical care treatment, tial. Our effort is to take is now equipped with 250 beds aspects that will regulate the beds were required but there and of these 20 per cent cases and we have 1,05,000 dedicat- advanced steps, he said. including 50 ICU beds, and two-week extension of the ongoing lockdown as agreed in second phase of the lockdown were 8,5000 beds available in need ICU support. ed Covid beds available in the India, which is into the high dependent units attached the meeting with Chief may witness graded opening up the country,” he said. “That means today 1,671 country in 601 hospitals. This world’s biggest lockdown to with beds, and 70 ventilators. Ministers on Saturday. of activities in other sectors figure is important to show that combat spreading of the high- In Safdarjung Hospital, one Now that the two-week such as construction, road and the Government is planning ly contagious pathogen, on complete block has been con- extension is a mere formality, industrial activities. Thw ) ( $ things in advance and is over Sunday reported an increase of verted into Covid block and has people will anxiously wait for Government has already * 0 prepared, he said. 909 cases, taking the country’s 500 beds. the PM’s announcement to see allowed fishing activities on the $ " In addition, the total number of coronavirus “We have provided 1,680 what sort of sectoral “opening sea side in certain States.The $ K 7 %% Government is also increasing cases to 8,356 by Sunday morn- beds to Andhra Pradesh. As on up”, if any, is facilitated by the Prime Minister has already $ 8 7 K the number of dedicated Covid ing. The number rose to 900 today there were 148 ventilators Government to keep the econ- suggested specific measures - N O / hospitals and isolation facilities plus by late in the evening and available, we provided 444 omy going. Opening up farm for agriculture and allied sec- ; * as per the evolving situations States were still reporting. additional ventilators. One spe- sectors to allow harvesting and tor, including the modification $ < 3 . and precautionary measures Agarwal said, “This is a cial medical officer is appoint- storage of standing crops and of Agriculture Produce Market " . > because this is a pandemic pandemic and numbers can be ed in every State.” incentivising sowing could fig- Committee (APMC) laws to ure in the PM’s speech. There facilitate sale of farm produce. ) $ ?@.*%A is also speculation about lim- He said the crisis was an oppor- $ ) + ited opening up of civil aviation tunity to become self-reliant $ A' ! " #" in some sector as well. and turn the nation into an ( B8* * $ A positive interpretation of economic powerhouse. On ! 2 + his remark “Jaan bhi, jahan bhi” Saturday while interacting with C " / has led to optimism that the CM’s via video conferencing in . 0 < !$$ % " 0 &"-1 & +,- .,/ have been classified as red as orange. zones, areas where movement In both these areas, the ahavir Enclave in of people is strictly prohibited. Government will launch a mas- P Chawl, PMGP colony, MSouthwest Delhi was on Areas which are seen as high- sive sanitisation drive to min- Murugan Chawl and Rajiv Sunday identified as the new risk zones are being classified imise spread of the infection. Gandhi chawl. COVID-19 hotspot by the Not wanting to take any Delhi Government, which chances, health workers con- ordered its sealing. It has 010( sons have tested positive in ducted door-to-door screening taken the total number of Janata Cooperative Housing of all the Dharavi residents. such zones in the city to 34, an n what is turning out to be a society,” a Brihanmumbai Simultaneously, a team of local official said. Inightmare for the health Municipal Corporation (BMC) private doctors of Dharavi On Sunday, the total num- authorities, 15 more persons official from G/North Ward in and BMC medical staff ber of COVID-19 cases in the tested positive for coronavirus north central Mumbai said. checked the temperature and national Capital climbed to in Mumbai’s Dharavi on Of the new cases, two are enquired the residents about 1,154, with 166 fresh cases Sunday, taking the total num- women aged 20 and 24 years. their travel history. Over 150 and five deaths being reported ber of infected cases to 43 in The remaining 13 are male doctors, working under the in a day. Asia’s largest slum. patients in the age group of 18 auspices of Indian Medical A Government order Of the 15 new infected per- years and 66 years. Council and Maharashtra expanding the list of contain- sons, nine have been quaran- There have been four Medical Council, have been ment zones came hours after tined at the Rajiv Gandhi Covid-19 deaths in the most % ! % $ P assisting the BMC in the Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Sports Complex. “All these densely populated slum. Of % " $&' screening drive. announced the city nine cases are high-risks con- the fatalities, two deaths have The medical teams will Government’s decision to seal tacts of Social Nagar patient been reported from Dr Baliga The break-up of 43 infect- Madina Nagar, five cases from report to the BMC on the num- every locality that reports a who died at KEM Hospital and Nagar, while one person suc- ed cases reported so far includ- Muslim Nagar, 6 cases from ber of persons who have shown Covid-19 case. those who tested positive in cumbed to Covid-19 in Social ed: Five cases from Dr Baliga Social Nagar, four cases from symptoms for coronavirus. “All The Delhi Government’s Madina Nagar. Four new pos- Nagar. The remaining one Nagar, two cases from Vaibhav Janata Housing Society, two those who have symptoms are “Operation SHIELD” will come itive cases have been reported death has been reported from Apartments, nine cases from cases from Kalaynwadi and being kept in quarantine,” a into force in these areas. $ () ! " $&' in Shastri Nagar, while two per- Kalayanwadi. Mukund Nagar, two cases from one case each from Dhanwada BMC officer said. All the containment zones P *+, - ! # # && 1 #2 (+2R .%/.- /(+.2(3/4()(( As many 11 people, ing guns and petrol bombs, including a woman, were have also been recovered from +,- .,/ country grapples to check the crore masks besides other safe- group of “Nihangs” (Sikhs arrested from a local the hideout,” said Patiala’s deadly contagion. There are ty gears. Aarmed with traditional Gurdwara after exchange of Senior Superintendent of Police round 88,000 Self Help approximately 690 lakh women These are various cate- weapons and dressed in loose fire in connection with the (SSP) Mandeep Singh Sidhu. AGroup (SHGs) women members of around 63 lakh Self gories of masks, including 2-3 blue top) chopped off an police attack on the police party at Video clips regarding the across the country have Help Groups (SHGs) across the ply woven and non-woven sur- officer’s hand and injured three Patiala vegetable market in the incident have been doing the emerged as community war- country. gical masks, cotton masks etc, other Punjab Policemen after morning, where the group rounds on the social media, riors to help contain the spread As the masks are the first which adhere to the advisories being stopped from violating fled after the 6.15 am incident attracting criticism from all of deadly Covid-19. These line of defence against COVID- of Union Health Ministry and the lockdown in Patiala district, in Sanaur town. over the country, cutting across “unsung” warriors are doing 19 and the Government has Ministry of Consumers’ Affairs. triggering a police operation in One of the arrested men party lines. their bits by producing masks, made mandatory wearing SHG members have now Jharkhand SHGs were among which shots were fired and 11 suffered gunshot wound, while Strongly condemning the Personnel Protection masks in public places, 78,373 also started making PPE like the first to respond and have people arrested at a gurdwara.