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'Janata Curfew' on Sunday c m y k c m y k THE LARGEST CIRCULATED ENGLISH DAILY IN SOUTH INDIA CHENNAI I FRIDAY 20 I MARCH 2020 WEATHER Max: 35OC Min: 26OC Rainfall: Nil WORLD | 11 SPORT | 15 TABLOID Forecast: Hazy Work in the time sunshine; air quality will Game of Thrones star Call on IPL after April be unhealthy for of corona sensitive groups Indira Varma tests positive 15, says Rijiju ASTROGUIDE www.facebook.com/deccannews, www.twitter.com/deccanchronicle, www.deccanchronicle.com Vol. 15 No. 353 Established 1938 | 32 PAGES | ` 3.00 Vikari: Panguni 7 Tithi: Ekadashi/ Dwadashi ALL LEGAL ROUTES CLOSED Star: Thiruvonam Rahukalam: 10.30 am to 12 noon ‘Janata curfew’ on Sunday Yamagandam: Nirbhaya convicts set ● India on Thursday 3 pm to 4.30 pm DC CORRESPONDENT NEW DELHI, MARCH 19 India reports fourth death announced it will not PRAYERS allow any international to hang at 5.30 am Fajar: 5.06 am Prime Minister Narendra India There were more than 20 fresh cases commercial passenger Jumma: 12.23 pm Modi on Thursday urged reported its in last 24 hours with Chhattisgarh New Delhi, March 19: All gangraping a 23-year-old fourth aircraft to land from Asar: 3.38 pm all citizens to observe a and Chandigarh reporting their first March 22 to March 29. legal routes to escape the physiotherapy intern in Maghrib: 6.20 pm “Janata Curfew” on coronavirus Covid-19 patients on early Thursday noose closed Thursday for Delhi on the night of Sunday, March 22, between death on ● The central govern- the four men convicted in December 16, 2012 so savage- Isha: 7.30 pm Thursday 7 am to 9 pm, as part of a Four more persons Tirupati Balaji temple ment said the railways the Nirbhaya gangrape case ly that she died of her SUNSET TODAY 6.20 PM while the social distancing step to have tested positive to be shut for and Civil Aviation who were then just hours injuries a fortnight later, SUNRISE TOMORROW 6.13 AM prevent the spread of coro- total away from being hanged, would have been executed for the coronavirus devotees; Malls, Ministry must suspend MOONRISE TODAY 3.34 AM navirus in India. The PM COVID-19 seven years-three months in Tihar Jail at 5.30 am on affliction theatres closed in AP all concessional travel on MOONSET TOMORROW 3.17 PM also urged people to stay cases rose after brutalising a young Friday. Their death war- indoors as far as possible, to trains and flights, except woman in a Delhi bus with a rants have been deferred by work from home and not to Even World War I and II did not affect as many for students, patients barbarity that shook the a court thrice on the grou- COUNTER POINT indulge in the panic buy- 173 countries as coronavirus has done. — PM Modi and disabled people. nation. nds that they had not exha- ing or hoarding of food ● 14 major ● All citizens above 65 Mukesh Singh (32), Pawan usted all their legal reme- items or other items, say- zens to follow certain mea- ● Indian tested Gupta (25), Vinay Sharma dies and that the mercy peti- ing all essential items will sures to ensure the con- temples to be positive (other than for medical (26) and Akshay Kumar tion of one or the other was be made available. tainment of the fast- closed for assistance) except for Singh (31), held guilty for before the president. — PTI Incidentally, soon after it spreading virus and in Iran died, says public representatives or was announced Wedneday emphasised on the impor- darshan, puja ministry of government servants or that the PM would address tance of not taking the to go on external affairs medical professionals the nation on Thursday at pandemic lightly, and the are advised to SC directs floor test 8 pm, people rushed to the need to be aware and markets to buy food and proactive about the pre- PAGE 2 PAGE 7 remain at home other items in panic, vention of Covid-19. assuming that he will He said on the occasion in MP by 5 pm today announce a complete lock- of “Navratra” he was mak- down in the country, forc- ing nine requests to peo- RABINDRA NATH vote. ing the Centre to issue an ple, adding the patience Good and bad news on treating Covid-19 CHOUDHURY | DC Delivering its verdict on official denial on and resolve of all Indians BHOPAL, MARCH 19 the vexed issue, a division Thursday afternoon. A lot was vital to fight against R. MOHAN | DC in seriously ill patients, res- in India as there may have bench comprising Justices of regular supplies van- the pandemic, which had CHENNAI, MARCH 19 earchers from China report- been encouraging results Delivering a jolt to the 15- D.Y. Chandrachud and ished from the markets as wreaked havoc all over the ed in The New England after the Drug Controller of month-old Kamal Nath Hemant Gupta asked the Market report well as online stores. world. “Follow the concept There is good news and bad Journal of Medicine. "No India had given the green government, the Supreme Madhya Pradesh 24 ct (1 gm): `4,060.00 “There would not be any of Janata Curfew on news on treatment of the benefit was observed," the signal. Some doctors have Court on Thursday direct- Assembly to reconvene for GOLD 22 ct (1 gm): `3,879.00 shortage of essential items March 22 from 7 am to 9 novel coronavrius - anti- researchers wrote. preferred using the anti-TB ed it to face a floor test by 5 the trust vote and hold it Bar (1 Kg): `39,990.00 like food, milk, medicines, pm, wherein no one apart retroviral drugs like Kaletra Indian doctors are, howev- drug Tamiflu (Oseltamivir), pm on Friday and left it to by 5 pm on Friday. The SILVER etc,” Mr Modi said in his from those involved in that had held promise as a er, continuing with the anti- also an antiviral, as their the 16 rebel Congress Assembly had been Sensex 28,288.23 pts address, while urging peo- essential services is sup- potential treatment for the retroviral combo of HIV dr- medicine of choice in this MLAs, lodged in a resort in adjourned on March 16 for INDICES Nifty 8,263.45 pts ple to not resort to panic posed to venture out of coronavirus did not work in ugs Lopinavir and Ritonavir battle against Covid-19. Bengaluru, to take a call on 10 days “due to the coron- EXCHANGE US$: `75.10 Euro: 81.10 buying. He requested citi- home,” said Mr Modi. one of the first major studies as the first line of treatment ■Turn to P2 participating in the trust avirus outbreak”. ■ P6 CITY DECCAN CHRONICLE | FRIDAY | 20 MARCH 2020 | CHENNAI pg 2 SHORT STORIES 27 air passengers Fighting Covid with fewer testing kits in isolation ward ■ ■ R. VALAYAPATHY | DC No coronavirus test kits made in India Shortage caused by import stuck in airlines lockdown TIRUCHY, MARCH 19 T. SUDHEESH I DC At least 27 air passengers CHENNAI, MARCH 19 who arrived here from Dubai, Singapore and Sharjah were Dearth of testing kits to diag- quarantined and removed to nose coronavirus cases has now an isolated make shift ward become a big challenge in deter- set up in the unused market mining Covid-19 cases in a quick complex of the agriculture manner. So far no companies in marketing department at India sell the kit, and import of suburb Kallikkudi near here kits from abroad has been imped- on Wednesday night, as part ed because of the airlines being of the preventive steps in lockdown and the travel bans against the spread of the imposed by the government for new coronavirus. Official several nations. sources said these 27 air Since the health ministry has a passengers were part of 324 stringent testing policy ending passengers who came by up the country in among the low- two flights from Sharjah and est testing rates in the world Singapore and some of them despite the World Health had boarded the flights of Organisation urging all coun- Philippines, Afghanistan and tries to intensify coronavirus Malaysian airways. After testing to try to reduce the sever- landing, the special medical ity of the pandemic. team screened them with According to the data available thermal scanners and found with Tamil Nadu government, 27 had cold and fever symp- the number of samples tested in toms. All of them were quar- the state is just 320 so far. Out of antined and removed to the which 232 were tested negative isolated ward at Kallikudi, and three cases declared positive. where they were put on The number of samples under A bhajji stall on Marina beach has no takers on Thursday. —DC round-the-clock observance, process is 85. the sources added. The med- The coronavirus, meanwhile, ical team collected blood has so far caused three deaths in samples from them and sent the country and infected at least THE SAMPLE COLLECTION THE PROCESS OF SENDING the same for clinical analysis. 126 people. Many experts fear the The throat or nose swab is col- SAMPLES TO LABS Good and bad news Already,12 persons including number of infected people may lected from suspected per- few college students are be much higher, but the govern- sons with the sterile swab If it is sent to nearby lab equipped under observation at the iso- ment has simply failed to detect stick in Viral Transport with testing facilities, it will be on treating Covid-19 lated ward at the Governm- them because of its limited test- Medium (VTM).
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