Delhi Address for Mother of All Infections
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YOUR NEWSPAPER IS TOTALLY SAFE BENGALURU WEDNESDAY APRIL 01, 2020 `6.00 PAGES 16 LATE CITY EDITION PSU BANKS KICKSTART LOAN CUSTOMERS CAN OPT OUT, IF THEY WISH MOST PSU BANK CUSTOMERS TO BENEFIT The relief will be on EMIs of all term loans and deferral of interest ■ EMI deductions are system-generated at a prefixed date. For next MORATORIUM MEASURES payments on working capital loans. It means EMIs on home or auto loans three months, banks will deactivate the automatic deduction of EMI due on April 1 can be deferred for three months and the instalment can be EMIs, though the process differs from bank to bank Days after RBI allowed banks to offer a 3-month freeze on all paid in June. However, the repayment schedule will get extended by three ■ SBI, PNB, IDBI Bank, Canara Bank, Andhra Bank, Indian Bank and DUES FALLING BETWEEN MARCH 1 AND EMIs, PSU banks announced their intent to do so on Tuesday months. Customers willing to pay can opt out of the moratorium | P10 Indian Overseas Bank and many others will freeze EMIs MAY 31 ARE EXEMPT, ACCORDING TO RBI CHENNAI ■ MADURAI ■ VIJAYAWADA ■ BENGALURU ■ KOCHI ■ HYDERABAD ■ VISAKHAPATNAM ■ COIMBATORE ■ KOZHIKODE ■ THIRUVANANTHAPURAM ■ BELAGAVI ■ BHUBANESWAR ■ SHIVAMOGGA ■ MANGALURU ■ TIRUPATI ■ TIRUCHY ■ TIRUNELVELI ■ SAMBALPUR ■ HUBBALLI ■ DHARMAPURI ■ KOTTAYAM ■ KANNUR ■ VILLUPURAM ■ KOLLAM ■ WARANGAL ■ TADEPALLIGUDEM ■ NAGAPATTINAM ■ THRISSUR ■ KALABURAGI DELHI ADDRESS FOR MOTHER OF ALL INFECTIONS FIR against head of Nizamuddin mosque MARCH 21 TABLIGHI JAMAAT’S FOOTPRINT Action begins to isolate and where large religious gathering was held in quarantine Tablighi Jamaat activists Karnataka tracks down violation of prohibitory orders; hundreds after positive cases found in suspected to have been infected; 7 dead Telangana TOTAL 79 who attended jamaat 115 FOREIGNERS EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE tailed statement in defence, By then, Haryana @ New Delhi saying they haven’t violated ANUSHA RAVI @Bengaluru K’TAKA COVID-19 ROUNDUP any law. They claimed they WITH the Tablighi Jamaat reached out to the authorities 824 WITH Telangana and Jammu TOTAL CASES RECOVERED DEATH headquarters in Delhi becom- for help in moving people out 824 DELHI and Kashmir witnessing the ing the biggest hotspot for coro- but no help came in. foreign Tablighi Uttar Pradesh deaths of seven people who at- 101 8 3 navirus in India, the police on They said following the PM’s Jamaat workers were tended the Tablighi Jamaat (re- Tuesday registered an FIR call for ‘janata curfew’ on in different parts of ligious congregation) in New Tele-consulting for COVID to Rajasthan against the head of the Niza- March 22, they suspended all the country for 132 Delhi’s Nizammudin, due to take off today |P4 missionary work 13 muddin Markaz, Maulana their programmes. However, COVID-19, Karnataka has Closure of liquor outlets Saad, and other management Madhya Pradesh JharkhandWest Bengal stepped up its efforts to track the subsequent nationwide extended till April 14 |P2 staff for flouting orders against lockdown left a large number Around those from the state who took gatherings. of visitors stranded in the part in the event. On Tuesday At least seven people who premises. Police sealed the Odisha 38 70 evening, Health Minister B went to Delhi to take part in the participated in the congrega- headquarters on Tuesday. 2,100 Sriramulu said at least 54 peo- congregation. All of them have tion in mid-March died after Around 800 people were moved Indian Tablighi Jamaat ple from Karnataka had trav- been quarantined. The process contracting the virus. Many out in buses and quarantined members, too, were touring 11 elled to Delhi to take part in the of tracing and quarantining Telangana 49 others have tested positive and in different parts of the city. different parts of the country congregation that was held in the others is under way,” Srira- are under quarantine. On Monday, police evacuated THE INDIAN ANGLE the second week of March. By mulu said. Registering a case under var- 200 people suspected with the Maharashtra Tuesday night, the number had Earlier in the day, the minis- ious sections of the Epi- symptoms of Covid 19. At the Delhi Markaz at Nizamuddin, Odisha Kerala increased to 79. ter said that so far, 13 people 115 19 attended Delhi meet, 54 attended the meet, most demic Diseases Act that According to police, foreign nationals “The numbers are set to rise who were part of the event would entail a punish- between March 10 to four returned; 15 in Delhi of them returned, now in as more and more people who have tested negative for COV- were staying on 82 quarantine home quarantine ment of two years, po- March 15, around 4,000 216 that day attended the congregation con- ID-19. Also, at least 10 people lice said the Crime people including for- Karnataka Karnataka Telangana tact the government. We have from Belagavi, who attended Branch will handle the eign nationals from In- At least 79 returned from 1,030 went to Delhi, most appealed to such people to the event, have been quaran- Andhra Pradesh Andhra case. Police said the Tab- donesia, Jordan, Yemen, Indian Tablighi Jamaat 50 Pradesh Andhra the meet, quarantined. returned; 348 in Hyderabad reach out to us,” said Pankaj tined for the last 14 days and workers, too, were One of them died home-quarantined lighi management violated Saudi Arabia, China, 24 Pandey, Commissioner for none of them have showed any prohibitory orders and failed Ukraine, Malasia, Sri Lanka, 1,530 housed at the Markaz Tamil Nadu Andhra Pradesh Health and Family welfare. symptoms, according to DC Dr to take safety measures such as Afganistan, Bangladesh and 1,500 went to Delhi, Around 700 went to Delhi, “From Bidar alone, 26 people S B Bommanahalli. P4 Tamil Nadu social distancing. other countries participated in MARCH 23: Lockdown brings 1,131 returned; 800 most returned; 85 yet to be Delhi Chief Minister Arvind the religious event. Tablighi work to a halt 125 located and quarantined traced Kejriwal also hit out at them, In the first official response saying, “This was an absolute- from central government on STATE COUNT NOW AT 101 ly irresponsible thing to do. the issue, the Union Ministry MARCH 26: 1,203 Tablighi Jamaat workers screened, tested Everyone is hearing about cor- of Home Affairs said approxi- EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE @ Bengaluru onavirus and its impact on mately 2,100 foreigners have lives around the world. Gurd- come to India for Tablighi ac- MARCH 29: 162 others screened People with symptoms of WITH 10 new cases reported on Tuesday, the state’s tally of COV- and shifted to quarantine facilities coronavirus boarding a bus waras, mosques, temples and tivities since January and all in Nizamuddin area to a ID-19 positive cases has touched 101. The figure was 88 on Monday churches all are vacant... At of them visited the Tablighi hospital for screening on evening as per the Health Department bulletin, but had increased this time, having such a gather- Markaz at Banglewali Mosque to 91 the same night with three more cases reported from Hosapete Tuesday | ANIL SHAKYA ing was absolutely wrong.” in the densely populated Haz- MARCH 31: Jamaat workers in Ballari district. The management, facing rat Nizamuddin as it is the shifted to quarantine Among the fresh cases, Patient 92 is a 40-year-old male from Ben- criticism for allegedly allowing headquarters of Tablighi ac- facilities, Delhi govt galuru, who is the husband of Patient 59, a 35-year-old woman. She, about 1,800 members to contin- tivities in India. hospitals and in turn, is a contact of Patient 25, a 51-year-old man from Bengaluru ue to stay at its headquarters in According to MHA, 2,137 1,339 AllMS, Jhajjar; who had travelled to London and returned on March 13. Patient 93 is Delhi’s Nizamuddin despite Jamaat workers have been Rest of them are a 19-year-old male from Bengaluru, who had travelled to New lockdown orders, issued a de- identified in different states. P7 being screened York, USA, and returned to India on March 22. P5,8,9,12 Global recession may CONTAINMENT EFFORT State declares not hit India: UNCTAD B’luru, 4 other EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE elucidate why China and India @ New Delhi would escape the recession, analysts said it was partly be- dists as red zones WHILE the economic impact cause of the large internal mar- of the coronavirus pandemic kets that these countries have CHETANA BELAGERE @ Bengaluru will most certainly pull down and the benefit of lower energy the rest of the world into an era prices. BENGALURU is one of the corona hotspots of recession, India and China Said Prof N R Bhanumurthy in the country, according to the National may escape unscathed, accord- of the National Institute of Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). The ing to a report by UNCTAD. Public Finance & Policy “Our state government too has identified some Major G20 countries growth rate will slow down districts as ‘cluster zones’ or ‘red zones’ -- have committed massive in the next two quarters, Mysuru, Uttara Kannada, Bengaluru, Dak- stimulus packages to but we are unlikely to shina Kannada and Chikkaballapur. the tune of $5 trillion slip into a recession Some of the surrounding villages have to salvage their econo- given our internal been identified as buffer zones to prevent mies but a possible re- economy and other the spread of COVID-19. cession stares them in factors.” Speaking to The New Indian Express, the face. Calling for a $2.5-trillion Medical Education Minister K Sudhakar “World economy will go into package for developing coun- said, “Whether Bengaluru figures in NCDC recession this year with a pre- tries, UNCTAD Secretary-Gen- list or not, Karnataka government has al- dicted loss of global income in eral Mukhisa Kituyi said, “The ready ensured strict measures in most of the trillions of dollars… with economic fallout from the our districts.