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THURSDAY 02 APRIL, 2020 morningstandard.in facebook.com/TheMorningStandard twitter.com/TheMornStandard instagram.com/themorningstandard `3,928 Lockdown lift in sight as Cost of a Chennai-Delhi LOCKDOWN rlys, airlines start bookings non-stop flight on April 15 on THREE DIE OF The move comes after the Centre said the 21-day yatra.com COLD IN J&K lockdown will not be extended beyond April 14 IRCTC OPENS ONLINE RESERVATION SYSTEM: “As we have clear indica- Labourers had decided tions that the lockdown will not be extended, we have resumed sale of online tickets,” an walk all they way to home IRCTC official said, adding that this will help passengers plan their travel in advance PAGE 8 A CAPITAL VIEW OF NEWS l NEW DELHI l J6.00 l PAGES 12 EX GRATIA J&K 1 TABLIGHI Kejriwal govt allots VIRUS LOAD ALL EFFORTS 48 UTTARAKHAND `1 crore for doctors, DELHI 53 48 ARUNACHAL PRADESH 48 UTTAR PRADESH 1 health staff on duty RAJASTHAN 11 81 BIHAR ASSAM 17 TO TRACK ITS JHARKHAND 1 EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE @ New Delhi STATES TOLD TO CHECK MADHYA PRADESH 1 SPREAD OF FAKE NEWS 71 WEST BENGAL THE Delhi government on 1,500 GUJARAT PARTICIPATED Wednesday announced that `1 The Centre on Wednesday asked 101 CHHATTISGARH FOOTPRINTS crore will be given as compensa- states and Union Territories to Cabinet secretary tells chief secretaries to tion to the families of those create portals for verifying fake 50 ODISHA INFECTED news related to coronavirus, telling trace all who participated in Nizamuddin health workers, including doc- 1,030 TELANGANA 21 6 tors and nurses, who die while them that the Centre was doing the 252 MAHARASHTRA religious meet; PM to speak with CMs today DEAD treating coronavirus patients. same to keep a check on fake news. The Home ministry also directed “Doctors and medical staff are EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE @ New Delhi our frontline warriors in this them to abide by its directives to 1085 ANDHRA PRADESH 70 UK extends fight, risking your lives. So, as a provide food and shelter to migrant doc work visa WITH the threat of Tablighi Jamaat’s Nizamuddin congregation workers during the lockdown. mark of respect to your work, if 1,500 KARNATAKA 1 In a relief to participants spreading the deadly novel coronavirus across the any health worker dies while foreign doctors, country looming large, Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba on Wednes- treating coronavirus patients, ‘ALLOW NO EXCEPTIONS including from day ordered all authorities to be firm in tracing and taking action the government will provide `1 TO LOCKDOWN’ 1,103 TAMIL NADU 190 India, whose against the Jamaat workers. 395 KERALA 1 crore as compensation to their The Centre has cautioned the 376 new cases visas were set Gauba directed the states and Union Ter- CASH FOR to expire in families, although I hope that states against allowing exceptions India registered 376 cases of ritories to launch on a “war footing” the POOR SOON day does not come, and all our to the lockdown other than those the virus in the last 24 hours. October, the UK contact tracing of all participants of the doctors and staff remain healthy permitted under its guidelines, The spike is primarily due to has extended congregation, adding intensive tracing of With reports of the the deadline by poor and vulnerable and safe,” Chief Minister Arvind saying violations may defeat the Class 10, 12 exams IOC tack on purchases the fallout of the Tablighi all contacts must be ensured in a fail-proof Kejriwal said while addressing a objective of containing COVID-19. Jamaat congregation in Delhi one year manner. sections of the only for 29 subjects IOC has declared force majeure meeting with doctors and medi- The directive in the wake of states Prime Minister Narendra Modi may also society facing “It has been decided that on crude purchases from Saudi Wimbledon hardships in cal staff through video like Kerala and Meghalaya allowing the board conduct exams Arabia, Iraq, UAE and Kuwait, 7 more in Noida hotspot cancelled speak to the Chief Ministers on Thursday conferencing. sale or home delivery of liquor ‘on 7 new coronavirus patients in to take them on board to deal with the accessing foodgrains, for only main subjects as refinery run rates have been Wimbledon the Union Cabinet So far, a total of five doctors health grounds’. that will be required cut down following lockdown Gautam Buddh Nagar in the organisers uphill task of tracing all participants and have tested positive of the virus last 24 hours, total cases 45 those who have come into contact Secretary asked the for promotion and may and oil market crash. A force scrapped the states to implement in Delhi. Of them, two worked at made accommodation arrange- be crucial for higher majeure is an event outside oldest Grand with them. Mohalla clinics. Several patients, ments for doctors from Lok Nay- education,” the CBSE said. reasonable control, which 3.2 lakh quarantine beds Slam tennis During a video-conference call with Chief the Pradhan Mantri suspected to have come in con- ak Hospital and GB Pant Hospi- Also, all class 1-8 students prevents IOC from performing Railways setting up 3.2 lakh tournament for Secretaries and DGPs of all States and Un- Garib Kalyan Yojana tact with the doctors, have been tal at a five-star hotel. All the to be promoted contract obligations isolation and quarantine beds the first time ion Territories, the Cabinet Secretary also within the next week. asked to self quarantine. “The expense will be borne by the asked the State and Union Territories au- “This will involve doctors and health workers Delhi government. thorities to ensure that no other religious large cash transfer should consider me as their During the meeting, health of- groups are holding congregations any- to hundreds of younger brother. You can ap- ficials raised a few issues with where in the country and strict action be beneficiaries,” proach me any time if you are health minister Satyendar taken against them if found doing so, sourc- officials said facing any problem, I will Jain, who was also pre- es said. find a solution. You are put- sent there. The chief min- Many of the attendees have reportedly gone into hiding in vari- ting your life at risk for ister also said he was per- ous parts of the country, complicating matters. other countrymen, we all sonally ensuring that The country’s senior most bureaucrat also ordered registration are grateful for your there is no shortage of of cases against foreign Tablighis for violation of visa norms, ac- service.” Personal Protective cording to sources. Gauba shared the roadmap for the intensive Earlier, the Equipment (PPE) kit contact tracing of Tablighis. “Tracing all the participants of the government for doctors. Nizamuddin Markaz is the top most priority, and the state govern- ments must not lose time,” said a senior government official. You (doctors and health workers) can approach me any time if you are facing any S GURUMURTHY WRITES ON TABLIGHI problem, I will find a solution. You are putting your life at risk for other Health workers sanitise the area near Nizamuddin in south Delhi, where people had attended a religious congregation JAMAAT - ITS OTHER, EVIL SIDE P7 countrymen, we all are grateful for your service — ARVIND KEJRIWAL, Chief Minister held by Tablighi Jamaat; over 2,000 people were evacuated from the premises of the Markaz | PARVEEN NEGI Centre drops anti-virals from its recommended list SUMI SUKANYA DUTTA @ New Delhi Earlier, it had recommended us- with monitoring for side effects.” tion helped 78 out of 80 patients ing the Lopinavir-Ritonavir com- However, they are not recommend- analysed. There was another inde- THE Centre has asked doctors bo for patients with acute respira- ed for children below 12 years, pendent study from China to sup- treating severe patients of corona- tory distress. pregnant and lactating port Hydroxycholoroquine- virus to stop administering anti- “One of the drug is Hy- women. Azithromycin combination. HIV drugs and instead put them droxychloroquine (Dose Sources said the revi- Doctors, meanwhile, said the on a combination of anti-malaria 400 mg twice a day for 1 sion came following a combination should be taken only drug Hydroxycholoroquine and day followed by 200 mg study published in the under close medical supervision. antibiotic Azithromycin. twice a day for 4 days) in New England Journal, “The government seems to have In the revised guidelines, the combination with Azithro- which said anti-HIV drug done a good thing by removing Union health ministry said, “no mycin (500 mg once a day for 5 combination did not work in anti-HIV drug as the evidence in specific antivirals have been prov- days),” said the guideline. “These 199 patients analysed. Another its support was very thin and its en to be effective as per currently drugs should be administered un- study from France said the anti- side effect were harsh,” said Dr available data.” der close medical supervision, malarial and antibiotic combina- Yatin Mehta, Medanata hospital . PEOPLE NEW J&K DOMICILE RULES COVER TAKEN FROM THOSE LIVING IN UT FOR 15 YEARS GURDWARA TO A SANA SHAKIL & FAYAZ WANI tification read. SHELTER HOME IN @ New Delhi/New Delhi Prior to the scrapping of J&K’s NATIONAL CAPITAL special provisions, only perma- NEARLY eight months after scrap- nent residents had exclusive ping the special status of Jammu rights on all government jobs, and Kashmir, the Centre has laid land and property. Besides, chang- down rules to re-define domicile ing the nature of reservation in for J&K, extending it to those who government jobs for locals, the have lived for 15 years in the newly government has majorly broad- created Union Territory.