WEDNESDAY YOUR NEWSPAPER IS TOTALLY SAFE 01 APRIL, 2020 morningstandard.in facebook.com/TheMorningStandard twitter.com/TheMornStandard instagram.com/themorningstandard APEX COURT PSU BANKS BEGIN LOAN MORATORIUM ‘PUBLISH OFFICIAL EMI deductions are system-generated at a prefixed date. For next three COVID NEWS’ months, banks will deactivate the automatic deduction of EMIs, Centre had urged for the though the process differs from bank to bank. SBI, PNB, IDBI Bank, direction from the SC Canara Bank, Andhra Bank, Indian Bank and Indian Overseas Bank and many others will freeze EMIs. PAGE 8 A CAPITAL VIEW OF NEWS l NEW DELHI l J6.00 l PAGES 12 DELHI ADDRESS FOR MOTHER OF ALL INFECTIONS FIR against head of Tablighi Jamaat for MARCH 21 Action begins to isolate and TABLIGHI JAMAAT’S FOOTPRINT religious gathering in violation of prohibitory quarantine Tablighi Jamaat activists orders; hundreds across the country after positive cases found in ‘Cases spiking due to suspected to have been infected; 7 dead Telangana TOTAL 115 FOREIGNERS lockdown violation’ EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE the subsequent nationwide By then, Haryana @ New Delhi lockdown left a large number of visitors stranded in the EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE @ New Delhi WITH the Tablighi Jamaat premises. 824 headquarters in Delhi becom- Police sealed the headquar- 824 WITH nearly 230 new cases of DELHI ing the biggest hotspot for coro- ters on Tuesday. Around 800 foreign Tablighi Uttar Pradesh COVID-19 being confirmed in navirus in India, the police on people were moved out in buses Jamaat workers were the country in last 24 hours, Tuesday registered an FIR and quarantined in different in different parts of the government blamed non- Rajasthan against the head of the organi- parts of the city. the country for 13 132 complying citizens for violat- sation Maulana Saad Kandh- On Monday, the police had missionary work ing lockdown norms saying it lawi, and other management evacuated 200 people suspected Madhya Pradesh JharkhandWest Bengal has led to the spike in cases. staff for flouting orders against with the symptoms of Covid 19. Around The Union Ministry of gatherings. According to police, between Health and Family Welfare said At least seven people who 10 March to 15 March, around Odisha 38 70 that as the number of hotspots participated in the congrega- 4,000 people including foreign 2,100 of the disease has increased, it A medical team examines people tion in mid-March died after nationals from Indonesia, Jor- is implementing rigorous con- during the nationwide Lockdown in contracting the virus. Many dan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Chi- Indian Tablighi Jamaat tact tracing and cluster contain- Jaipur on Tuesday | members, too, were touring 11 PTI others have tested positive and na, Ukraine, Malasia, Sri Lan- Telangana 49 ment strategies. The number of are under quarantine. ka, Afganistan, Bangladesh different parts of the country confirmed cases at the time of urging those with symptoms THE INDIAN ANGLE Registering a case under var- and others participated in the Maharashtra reporting stood at 1,251 while 32 such as cough, fever and ious sections of the Epidemic religious event. Though Delhi At the Delhi Markaz at Nizamuddin, Andhra Pradesh Odisha Kerala deaths—from Gujarat, West breathing difficulty to get 115 19 attended Delhi meet, 54 attended the meet, Diseases Act that would entail did not record any fresh cases foreign nationals Bengal and Madhya Pradesh — themselves tested and stay a punishment of two years, po- from Nizamuddin on Tuesday, four returned; 15 in Delhi most of them returned, have been confirmed due to the home quarantined. were staying on 82 quarantine now on home quarantine lice said the Crime Branch will several attendees of the con- 216 that day infection. Till Tuesday morning, there handle the case. Police said the gregation were found positive The cluster containment or were 16 hotspots identified in Karnataka Karnataka Telangana Tablighi management violated for coronavirus on Tuesday. At least 79 returned from 1,030 went to Delhi, most red-zone approach, officials ex- the country—spread across prohibitory orders and In Delhi, 24 people out Indian Tablighi Jamaat 50 the meet, quarantined. returned; 348 in Hyderabad plained, involved promptly many states. Dr Sujit Kumar workers, too, were One of them died home quarantine failed to take safety of the 102 tested for the 24 checking every household Singh, director, National Com- measures such as so- virus after being taken 1,530 housed at the Markaz Tamil Nadu Andhra Pradesh within 3 km, 5km or 10 km ra- municable Disease Centre, un- cial distancing. to the Lok Nayak Hos- 1,500 went to Delhi, Around 700 went to Delhi, dius of the house of an infect- der the health ministry, said Delhi Chief Minister pital have been found NaduTamil 1,131 returned; 800 most returned; 85 yet to ed person—depending on the these hotspots were further MARCH 24: Lockdown brings Arvind Kejriwal also positive so far, while re- Tablighi work to a halt 125 located and quarantined be traced total confirmed cases— and categorized as per the distribu- hit out at them, saying, ports of nearly another also identifying those who tion of cases. “This was an absolutely ir- 200 taken to two other hospi- have come in contact with the “The districts where a large responsible thing to do. Every- tals is still awaited. 50 from Ta- MARCH 26: 1,203 Tablighi Jamaat affected, to prevent communi- number of cases have been one is hearing about coronavi- mil Nadu with the travel his- workers screened, tested ty spread of the virus. found in multiple localities are rus and its impact on lives tory of Delhi tested positive “Extensive contact tracings a bigger worry for us, as op- around the world. Gurdwaras, and 11 who had attended the MARCH 29: 162 others screened are being done to identify peo- posed to cities where cases are mosques, temples and church- gathering of Tabligh-e-Jamaat and shifted to quarantine facilities ple who have come in contact confined to few localities or es all are vacant... At this time, were found infected in Andhra with the confirmed patients clusters,” said Dr Singh. having such a gathering was Pradesh. while there are also household On Tuesday, the National absolutely wrong.” In the first official response MARCH 31 surveys being carried out to Pharmaceutical Pricing Au- The management, facing from central government on see if COVID 19 symptoms or thority (NPPA)under the de- criticism for allegedly allowing the issue, the Union Ministry influenza-like illnesses are partment of pharmaceuticals about 1,800 members to contin- of Home Affairs said approxi- 1,339 present in people in identified directed drug manufacturers ue to stay at its headquarters in mately 2,100 foreigners have Tablighi Jamaat workers shifted areas,” said Lav Agarwal, joint to produce and maintain suf- Delhi’s Nizamuddin despite come to India for Tablighi ac- to Narela, Sultanpuri and secretary in the health minis- ficient stocks of essential lockdown orders, issued a de- tivities since January and all Bakkarwala quarantine facilities as try in the daily briefing on drugs at any point in time. tailed statement in defence, of them visited the Tablighi well as to Delhi govt hospitals and Tuesday. Rapid response teams “All efforts are made to ensure saying they haven’t violated Markaz at Banglewali Mosque AllMS, Jhajjar People with symptoms of coronavirus boarding a bus in Nizamuddin area to a hospital working with local health offi- production of drugs and medi- any law. in the densely populated Haz- Rest of them are being screened for screening on Tuesday | ANIL SHAKYA cials are implementing the cal devices during the period They claimed they reached rat Nizamuddin as it is the plan. The health workers are of lockdown,” NPPA said. out the authorities for help in headquarters of Tablighi ac- moving people out but no help tivities in India. According to came in. MHA, 2,137 Jamaat workers They said following the PM’s have been identified in differ- DAY’S CASES call for ‘janata curfew’ on ent states and more would be Five dedicated GLOBAL RECESSION MAY NOT March 22, they suspended all identified, examined and quar- NEW DEATHS their programmes. However, antined. P7 & 8 hospitals REPORTED The Delhi government said five AFFECT INDIA, SAYS UNCTAD FROM hospitals have been dedicated for l Kerala COVID-19. They are LNJP Hospital EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE Countries. next two quarters, but we are l Punjab & GB Pant Hospital collectively, @ New Delhi While UNCTAD chose not unlikely to slip into a reces- l West Bengal to elucidate why China and sion given our internal econ- Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality NEW CASES WHILE the economic impact India would escape the reces- omy and other factors.” Cumulative Hospital, GTB Hospital, DDU ON TUESDAY confirmed Hospital & BSA Hospital. of the coronavirus pandemic sion, analysts said it was Calling for a $2.5-trillion will most certainly pull down partly because of the package for developing cases A SECOND doctor of a the rest of the world into an large internal markets countries, UNCTAD Mohalla Clinic was on era of recession, India and that these countries Secretary-General China may escape unscathed, have and the benefit Mukhisa Kituyi said, 1,396 Tuesday reported to have tested positive for COVID-19 according to a report by of lower energy “The economic fall- UNCTAD. prices. out from the shock is 146 infection Major G20 countries have Said Prof N R Bha- ongoing and increas- Kerala at committed massive stimulus numurthy of the Na- ingly difficult to predict, 292 2nd spot with Delhi police have started a packages to the tune of $5 tional Institute of Public Fi- but there are clear indica- Maharashtra helpline number for people trillion to salvage their econ- nance & Policy “Our growth tions that things will get has the of its Outer North district omies but a possible reces- rate will slow down in the much worse for developing largest People who came for ‘Jamat’, a religious gathering at Nizamuddin, being taken to who are under distress due to sion stares them in the face.