c m y k c m y k THE LARGEST CIRCULATED ENGLISH DAILY IN SOUTH INDIA HYDERABAD I WEDNESDAY I 1 APRIL 2020 WEATHER BUSINESS 9 TABLOID Max: 37.3OC WORLD|8 | Min: 23.7OC RH: 31% China may test Covid PSBs’ mega merger Buying ventilators? It Rain: Nil vaccine abroad comes into effect is sheer stupidity Forecast: Partly cloudy sky with haze. Max/Min temp. 37/24ºC deccanchronicle.com, facebook.com/deccannews, twitter.com/deccanchronicle, google.com/+deccanchronicle Vol. 83 No. 91 Established 1938 | 18 PAGES | `6.00 CORONA C UNT CASES DEATHS City has 603 Tablighi suspects 1397 35 Telangana reports 15 Covid positive patients; officials form teams to trace Markaz visitors MADDY DEEKSHITH AND TS: 96 06 JAYENDRA CHAITHANYA T. I DC AP: 44 00 HYDERABAD, MARCH 31 Delhi cops book Telangana state regis- WORLD CONFIRMED CASES tered a steep increase in number of coronavirus 8,00,000 positive cases with the Tablighi Jamaat government on Tuesday DEATHS announcing 15 new cases — the single largest jump in the state in one day. meet organiser 38,540+ All the cases announced COUNTRIES, on Tuesday were of people SHASHI BHUSHAN and AREAS WITH who had either visited the BHASKAR HARI TS OFFICIAL TOO CASES 183 event organised by the SHARMA | DC Tablighi Jamaat at the NEW DELHI, MARCH 31 ATTENDED DELHI Markaz mosque in Nizamuddin of Delhi The Delhi police on between March 13 and 15, Tuesday registered a case MOSQUE MEET ASTROGUIDE or relatives of those who against Maulana Saad DC CORRESPONDENT Sarvari; Uttarayana attended it, health minis- and others under various HYDERABAD, MARCH 31 Tithi: Chaitra Suddha Ashtami till ter Etala Rajendar said in sections of the IPC and the 3.38 am(Thursday) an official statement. Epidemic Diseases Act for A senior Telangana state Star: Arudra till 7.23 pm Tuesday’s cases took the violation of government government official is one Varjyam: Nil total Covid-19 tally so far directives given to the of the 1,030 people who to 96, of which 14 patients management of the have been ascertained to Durmuhurtam: 11.55 am to have been discharged Markaz of Basti Nizamu- have attended the Markaz 12.44 pm while six others have ddin. The government Nizamuddin in Delhi. An Rahukalam: 12 noon to 1.30 pm died, leaving 76 active said so far 1,582 Tablighi animal husbandry depar- HIJRI CALENDAR coronavirus cases under Jamaat workers were tment official, he is said Shabaan 6,1441 AH treatment as on Tuesday shifted to the Narela, to have attended the PRAYERS in different hospitals in People, who came for a religious gathering at Nizamuddin mosque, are being taken to a hospital for Covid-19 test in Sultanpuri and Bakkar- event that was held from Fajar: 5.10 am the state. According to the New Delhi on Tuesday. — PTI wala quarantine facilities March 13 to 16. He is a Zohar: 12.30 pm government, in all, 1,030 that included 441 admit- resident of Masab Tank, persons from the Telang- ted in hospitals. with his house located Asar: 4.41 pm ana attended the Markaz. The police said an FIR close to the GHMC munic- Maghrib: 6.35 pm The immense impact of was filed against Maulana ipal office there. Isha: 7.43 pm the Tablighi Jamaat orga- Saad and others of Tabli- An internal memo was SUNSET TODAY 6.29 PM nised events in Delhi on Tablighi spreads Covid in AP ghi Jamaat for violation sent to department dire- SUNRISE TOMORROW 6.10 AM the spread of coronavirus of the directives issued cts officials to look into MOONRISE TODAY 11.48 AM in Telangana, sent state after the coronavirus out- the matter and conduct MOONSET TODAY NA officials, including the AP adds 21 cases in 1 day; 711 people from AP visited Markaz break. necessary medical inves- police, scrambling to Over 3,000 people had tigations on the official. trace every one of the MD ILYAS I DC Guntur with nine positive to the Guntur General The highest number of gathered March 1 and COUNTER 1,030 persons and bring VIJAYAWADA, MARCH 31 cases, Krishna (five), East Hospital for testing. people who went to attend March 18 at the Nizamu- POINT them to hospitals, or place Godavari (four), Ananta- The Markaz meet was the Delhi meet are from ddin Markaz mosque for a branch on Tuesday asked them under home quaran- The Tablighi Jamaat meet pur (two), and one each conducted from March 15 Kurnool district (189), fol- Tablighi Jamaat meet. A the government to take tine, along with members conducted by the Markaz registered in Chittoor, to 17 and was presided by lowed by districts of Gun- senior police official said action on at least 157 per- of their families and their masjid at Nizamuddin is Kurnool and Nellore dis- Moulana Saadh, head of tur (88), Anantapur (73), the FIR was filed under sons linked to the Tab- other contacts. The gover- turning into a disaster for tricts. the Markaz mosque. Tabli- Nellore (68), Prakasam Section 269, 270, 271 and lighi Jamaat now staying nment poured in manpow- Andhra Pradesh too. Adding to the crisis, peo- ghi Jamaat leader Ikram (67), Kadapa (59), Krishna 120B IPC at the Nizamu- at various masjids and er forming special teams Twentyone new coron- ple are falling for rumours Ali of Hyderabad super- (43), Visakhapatnam (42), ddin police station. other places in Delhi. that fanned out across all avirus (Covid-19) positive wherein even non-coron- vised the programme. Chittoor (36), East Goda- Delhi Chief Minister These include 94 from districts of Telangana for cases were identified in avirus deaths in the family State officials found 711 vari (27), West Godavari Arvind Kejriwal has Indonesia, 13 from Kyrg- the purpose. the state on Tuesday, tak- of any Delhi returnee is persons who attended the (16) and Vizianagaram appealed to religious lead- yzstan, nine from Bangla- In the city itself, 200 spe- ing the total to 44, out of being related to Covid. meet from Andhra (three). ers, irrespective of faith, desh, eight from Malay- cial teams including the whom 18 persons had Besides this, people who Pradesh, in which officials Many of these returnees to not organise any event sia, and some Indian nat- GHMC, revenue and returned from the meet. met any of the Delhi traced whereabouts of 626 transmitted Covid-19 to during the lockdown. ionals. The police warned police officials, fanned out Prakasam district tops returnees in various people and shifted them to their family members, Delhi health minister no “social distancing” is to trace, locate and get 603 the list, with 11 new posi- places in Guntur district quarantine The search is including their wives, and Satyendar Jain said 24 possible at these places Markaz attendees from tive cases, followed by are fearing community on for information on the the officials have shifted people had tested positive. and there was a grave the city to book. “It did Visakhapatnam (10), transmission and rushing remaining 85. them to quarantine. The Delhi police special public health risk. not help any that many of the addresses we had for these people were fake. It has been a Herculean task SC ASKS CENTRE WRITE TO BANK to locate them,” an official IN BRIEF said. TO PREVENT Centre to focus on urban areas IF YOU WANT A senior police official said, “about 90 per cent of DC CORRESPONDENT TO PAUSE EMIS Only BS-6 fuel the people state-wide who MIGRATION NEW DELHI, MARCH 31 visited Delhi for the reli- DC CORRESPONDENT MEDICAL GEAR EXPORT TO SERBIA KICKS UP ROW MADHUSUDAN from today gious event have been NEW DELHI, MARCH 31 The Union health ministry SAHOO | DC Hyderabad: India will switch traced. Those with symp- on Tuesday said that cities SRIDHAR in India by Serbia and “A second cargo Boeing NEW DELHI, MARCH 31 to cleaner BS-VI fuel from toms of Covid-19 were A day after the Uttar and states with the highest KUMARASWAMI | DC was flown from Kerala to 747 landed at Nikola April 1, joining select club of shifted to government Pradesh administration number of positive cases NEW DELHI, MARCH 31 Serbian capital Belgrade. Tesla Airport in Belgrade Several public sector countries. The new fuel hospitals and quarantine received flak for spraying are being treated as major The consignment repor- from Kerala, with 90 banks on Tuesday infor- contains just 10 part per centres for treatment.” migrant labourers with hotspots of Covid-19 and Ending a controversy on tedly includes “35 lakh tonnes load of medical med their branch heads million (ppm) of sulphur All put, official said, the some unspecified chemi- the government is making alleged export of protec- pairs of sterile latex sur- protective equipment as well customers about and reduce nitrogen oxide total number of Covid-19 cals, the Centre told the all efforts to focus on them tive medical equipment gical gloves”. bought by Serbia to com- RBI’s three-month mora- emissions considerably. The suspects in the state con- Supreme Court on to contain the spread of to Serbia in contraven- While the export of bat COVID-19”. torium on all term loans, switch to clearer fuel was nected to Markaz visitors Tuesday that there is a the virus. But at the same tion of a ban, a govern- latex gloves was banned, The reports said “the including home, auto planned in 2016 by the now may be in thousands. possibility that three out time it emerged that till ment official said the con- the government official cost for the transport of and crop loans and credit Narendra Modi government.