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The other essential commodities. that all its outlets will be oper- easy by weekend. mad rush made a mockery of Meanwhile, the Home Ministry ational at full capacity. he Delhi Police on Mandeep Singh the theme of social distancing. has asked State Governments to Officials of Agriculture TWednesday issued passes to Randhawa, the Public Relation A day later, the Government’s check the spread of rumours Produce Marketing e-commerce portals for deliv- Officer (PRO), Delhi Police, focus shifted to providing about shortage of food and Committees (APMCs) claimed ery of essential goods through- had a meeting with e-com- essential items, including food, other essential commodities. that there was no shortage of out the 21-day nationwide lock- merce website representatives dairy products, medicine, etc, While Union Food fruits and vegetables. In Delhi, down period after BigBasket where they to millions of people across the Minister Ram Vilas Paswan trading at the Azadpur Mandi, and Amazon claimed disrup- shared the problems faced by country. said the Government is moni- Asia’s biggest wholesale fruits " # $ tions in their services due to them in the movement of Things looked far stable on toring the availability of essen- and vegetable market, has come restrictions put by the author- essential goods. Wednesday. Grocery stores, tial commodities in the market, down by 50 per cent in the last Whereas, Amazon will serve several States, including chart of various essential com- ities. The police representative “We have issued passes to sabji mandi, milk booths, HRD Minister Prakash two days in the absence of cur- only products of high priority. Bengaluru, Delhi, Mumbai and modities after reports of a also said the delivery agents of them and assured that their chemist shops, ATMs, banks, Javadekar said the Centre is few passes to traders. Grocery startup Grofers too Gurgaon, Ranchi, Ghaziabad, few ration shops providing these companies will be helped delivery agents are helped by petrol pumps and supply of committed to ensure smooth Meanwhile, top e-com- suspended operations due to Faridabad, Noida and States, commodities at a higher price by them. Curfew passes will be the police,” said Randhawa. LPG cylinders were open in supply of essential commodi- merce sites Flipkart and lack of clarity in their listing as such as Uttar Pradesh, while some others selling them issued to all delivery persons Earlier, e-commerce portals most of the States and there was ous and asked people not go for Amazon have temporarily sus- an essential service provider Haryana, Punjab, Uttarakhand, in the back market taking and all warehouses will be like BigBasket and Amazon no shortage of supply. hoarding. pended their services. Flipkart while supermarket chain Big Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat. advantage of the lockdown opened. Police personnel at were claiming disruptions in Amid reports of panic pur- In a several cities, includ- has listed all products as “out of Bazaar is continued to offer In Jharkhand, the prompted by the coronavirus border checks are being sensi- their services. chase of essential commodities ing Delhi and NCR, vendors stock” on the search page. doorstep delivery services in Government has released rate pandemic. ! "# ! %" & ! ! !"#$5" Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal '() *"+, said on Wednesday evening. 56 5" - N O 0- n the first day of the three- 5" Kejriwal did not give any details Oweek countrywide lock- $!%" about the new patients, but he ! 12 12 * ! down, the count of confirmed 5" &!%" did say that only one of the five ! '-3 coronavirus cases shot up from 5" &'$%" had a history of foreign travel. ! !! 519 on Tuesday to 606 on The remaining four were either ! Wednesday while death toll ( ) * ) + * family members of coronavirus touched eleven in the country %+ #% " patients or had come in close with Maharashtra reporting &!% 7 %%+ contact with them. the highest number of cases at The Government said of 2Q" R )!'% " % 69 128, followed by Kerala with the 64,000 people who arrived 109 cases. Delhi registered five $!%6" "!$%"# in the country since March 21, fresh cases. Of the total 606 % 6# $'% 6: as many as 8,000 are under -*+ .56 cases, 42 are cured ones. So far % %# )!'% ; quarantine and 56,000 have authorities have denied com- !"#$% 6 ,-%; gone for home isolation. munity spread of the disease. %7" %"6 After the Group of 7 Madhya Pradesh registered $%"8+ *% 6; Ministers meeting, Union its first death when a 65-year- % "7 *%7 Health Minister Dr old woman from Ujjain suc- %"%# &'$% + Harshvardhan assured the '- 3-1 As many as 94,000 NRIs cumbed to the virus on !%% Centre is making efforts to and foreign returned persons Wednesday afternoon. In its ensure personal protective unjab Government has have reportedly landed in updated figures released on equipment and N-95 masks are Pdecided to weed out Punjab, since March 1. While Wednesday morning, the the second death reported in Five more persons tested available in adequate numbers COVID-19 by seeking help at the government maintains that Health Ministry stated that Delhi was Covid-19 negative. positive for COVID-19 in Delhi, for medical fraternity. grassroot level. To track the most of these had been tracked nearly 64,000 “missing” NRIs and 30,000 placed under home who landed in Punjab in the quarantine, efforts to trace the recent days, and those who remaining are being made. attended Holla Mohalla, the Chief Minister Capt State Government has directed Amarinder Singh on the sarpanches or nambardars in Wednesday also maintained that ! " villages to provide information. giving highest importance to The sarpanches and nam- tracing all international pas- bardars have been asked to pro- sengers who arrived after March ##$ vide detailed information of all 10, 2020, direction shave been residents in their respective vil- issued that work should contin- New Delhi: India is likely to The package, which could lages, who would have travelled ue unbated. agree an economic stimulus be announced by the end of the abroad after March 1 or who The Chief Minister also package of more than 1.5 week, will be used to put would have received relatives directed the Health Department lakh crore ($19.6 billion) to money directly into the person of foodgrains to 80 from abroad. and the Police to ensure further fight a downturn in the coun- accounts of more than 100 crore people under the PDS, That was not all! They have monitoring of those already try that is currently locked million poor and to support day after Prime Minister which is the world’s largest been asked to also find out the traced and placed under home down to stem the spread of businesses hit the hardest by ANarendra Modi declared a food security system,” said number of persons who visited quarantine. For this, the revenue coronavirus, two sources famil- the lockdown, the sources said. 21-day lockdown to prevent the I&B Minister Prakash Hola Mohalla festival at Sri department staff and panchay- iar with the matter told Reuters. The Government will also coronavirus spread, the Union Javadekar, detailing the Anandpur Sahib, where the at staff were being asked to trace The Government has not increase its borrowing plan for Cabinet on Wednesday Cabinet decision. Banga-based COVID 19 patient, such persons. yet finalised the package and the fiscal year 2020/21, which announced world’s largest food He said PDS wheat provid- who died on March 18, had “This information is very discussions are ongoing starts from April 1, from the security scheme to benefit 80 ed at 7 per kg earlier is being stayed for three days. important to curb the spread of between Prime Minister current planned gross bor- crore people across the given at 2 and rice at 3/kg. Till date, total of 22 corona corona virus in Punjab. If any- Narendra Modi’s office, the rowing of 7.8 lakh crore, both country. Detailing the logistics of positive cases, out of 31 report- one is found to be hiding this Finance Ministry, and Reserve sources said. Briefing media, Union supply of wheat, rice and other ed from Punjab, have been information, the Government Bank of India (RBI), said both The sources added that Minister Prakash Javadekar items to 80 crore people, reported which came in contact can register cases under rele- the sources, who asked not to the Government had asked said that every person coming Javadekar said that all States with 70-year-old Nawanshahr vant sections, against such per- be named as the matter was still the RBI to buy some of the under this scheme will get 7 kg have been asked to take food- resident Baldev Singh. sons,” stated the government under discussion. Government securities being ration per month for the next grains from the Centre in “We have asked them to official.