c m y k c m y k THE LARGEST CIRCULATED ENGLISH DAILY IN SOUTH INDIA deccanchronicle.com Vol. 83 No. 82 Established 1938 | 32 PAGES | 6.00 HYDERABAD I MONDAY I 23 MARCH 2020 ` Janata obeys curfew Many states to extend Trains, Metro services, Covid cases rise to 396, lockdown till month-end interstate buses halted 3 new deaths take toll to 7 VINEETA PANDEY | DC with agency inputs ONLY 1 PERSON NEW DELHI, MARCH 22 CENTRE RECOMMENDED Deserted roads, empty LOCKDOWN IN 80 DISTS PER FAMILY CAN parks, silent neighbour- hoods — India saw an To stop local TELANGANA GO SHOPPING unprecedented complete transmission of ● self-imposed shutdown due ● Hyderabad Covid-19, the ● to the “janata curfew” as Centre recom- Medchal DC CORRESPONDENT millions stayed indoors fol- ● Ranga Reddy HYDERABAD, MARCH 22 lowing the appeal by Prime mended total Minister Narendra Modi. shutdown in 5 ● Sanga Reddy The state government’s At 5 pm the silence was bro- districts of TS ● Bhadradri Kothagudam lockdown of the state till ken with the sound of March 31 is essentially a thalis, conches and bells as PRIVATE COVID-119 serious exercise in ensur- people came out in large TESTING CENTRES ing that everyone stays at numbers to hail the efforts `4,500 home. The idea is to Maximum of healthcare providers and ● Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad reduce movement of peo- test cost all others involved in ● Apollo Hyderguda, Hyderabad ple thereby reducing the essential services. ● SRL Ltd., Secunderabad `1,500 chance of coronavirus India reported three more for screening from spreading from one coronavirus deaths on ● SRL Ltd, C/o. Ambicare suspect cases person to other. Sunday, including the first Clinics, Kondapur The lockdown will allow casualties from Bihar and `3,000 for only stores selling essen- Gujarat, taking the toll to ● Medics Labs, New Bowenpally confirmation test tial commodities. People seven and the number of will need to make quick Covid-19 cases rose to 396, purchases and return as authorities suspended home. To this end, the all passenger train and government said no more inter-state bus services till TS lockdown till March 31 than five people can gath- March 31 and imposed a er at any given public lockdown in 80 districts in place, street or road, any- unprecedented steps to con- S.A. ISHAQUI I DC where. Only one person tain the spread of the infec- HYDERABAD, MARCH 22 from a family will be tion 6 new positive cases allowed to leave the house The Union health min- Chief Minister K. Chandr- for making essential pur- istry said one death each asekhar Rao on Sunday chases. was reported from Bihar, announced a total lock- in TS take total to 27 People violating this Gujarat and Maharashtra down of Telangana till norm are liable to be on Sunday. A 38-year-old March 31 to combat the DC CORRESPONDENT penalised. man with a kidney ailment Coronavirus (Covid-19) epi- HYDERABAD, MARCH 22 INTER BOARD The government said and recent travel history to demic. that people working in Qatar died at AIIMS-Patna While addressing a press The number of Coron- PUTS OFF EXAMS private companies that and a 67-year-old man died conference here after avirus (Covid-19) cases in will be under the lock- at a hospital in Surat. reviewing the situation in Telangana on Sunday leapt down must be paid their Another death was report- the state at a meeting in from 21 to 27, with the gov- Hyderabad, March 22: monthly salaries on time. ed from Mumbai of a 63- Pragati Bhavan, Mr ernment announcing six The Telangana State Board The same goes for govern- year-old man. Chandrashekar Rao said, new Covid-19 positive of Intermediate Education ment employees though 80 As the virus cases “it is essential that we all patients in the state. has decided to postpone per cent of them are climbed, the central and take care and introduce Three of the six new cases five exams that were expected to stay home state governments decided preventive measures to are from the city and scheduled to be held on with only 20 per cent to lock down 80 districts in ensure the virus does not Ranga Reddy districts, March 23, until further working. 17 states from where Covid- spread further in Telan- while another is from notice. The Spot Valuation 19 cases have been reported gana. To achieve this objec- Bhadadri Kothagudem dis- Camp work that was to break the chain of trans- tive, the state government trict. Two others are origi- scheduled to be started mission, and the Health has taken this decision nally from AP. All six indi- from Monday has also been Ministry said states would under the Epidemic Dis- viduals had a history of postponed, according to a earmark hospitals to exclu- eases Act of 1897, and a recent foreign travel, the late night release. sively treat coronavirus notification has been state health department patients. issued.” said in its daily evening resident of Rajolu in east While essential services He said that with suspen- media bulletin on Covid-19. Godavari district of AP, were allowed to remain sion of all international A 24 year old male, desig- who flew into Hyderabad open, cities largely saw flight, no one allowed to nated as patient 22, who is from Sweden on March 16, milk booths opening for enter the country from sea from Guntur in AP, had the health department said. only a brief while as even route, threat of further recently arrived here from The fourth patient who ration and grocery shops import of Covid-19 infec- London via Dubai. Another tested positive is a 34-year- were closed in most of tion had been minimised, 23-year-old male, a student old male from Manikonda India. The only people on but there was need to con- and resident of Kukatpally in Ranga Reddy district, the roads were either tain spread of virus from in Hyderabad, travelled who too travelled back ambulances, the police or people who have already from London to Hyde- from Sweden on March 14. mediapersons. tested positive. rabad, via Doha in Qatar. The government was also Mr Rao said, “essential The third case confirmed ■ Page 4: Oldest positive expanding the network of services like milk and veg- is of a 26-year-old male, a case is 50-yyear-oold labs for testing samples etables would be exempted from suspected cases. for curfew but only one Several states, including person from each family 31. However, small kirana All inter-state borders with Maharashtra, Kerala, would be allowed to shop shops are allowed to oper- neighbouring Mahara- Haryana, UP, Uttarakhand for these essentials.” ate. He said all public shtra, Andhra Pradesh and and West Bengal, He announced that all transportation, including Karnataka have also been announced a partial or shops and establishments, auto rickshaws, taxis, pri- closed till then. complete lockdown for shopping malls, supermar- vate bus and Hyderabad varying periods. kets and wine shops would metro rail services stand ■ Page 4: No entry for Prime Minister Narendra remain closed till March suspended till March 31. private vehicles too: CM Modi thanked the people for expressing gratitude towards those at the fore- front of the battle against coronavirus. In a series of tweets, the PM wrote: “The Foreign returnees flout country thanked each per- son who led the fight against coronavirus. Many thanks to the countrymen.” home quarantine rules The Prime Minister said the event marked the MADDY DEEKSHITH I DC missing, while a man who did not go home in beginning of the nation’s HYDERABAD, MARCH 22 came from Doha, left for Chandanagar, and instead victory in a long battle Andhra Pradesh without went to a residence in DD against the Covid-19 men- Despite the nation-wide any notice, while a third Colony. ace. He urged people to and global alarm over the has shifted his residence She did not follow self- bind themselves to the coronavirus pandemic, not and is not traceable. quarantine procedures, a principle of social distanc- everyone who has been A young woman, who fact confirmed by the staff ing with the same resolve asked by health officials to arrived in Hyderabad from of Greater Hyderabad and restraint. On Sunday, remain in home isolation Dubai on March 14, violat- Municipal Corporation several people posted and under quarantine after ed all home quarantine (GHMC). Her location was videos and audio of the returning from an interna- guidelines prescribed by finally traced by civic sounds of birds chirping tional trip are following the K. Chandrasekhar Rao- authorities through a and cuckoo singing. the instructions. led government. phone call. One woman, who After landing at the Rajiv ■ Page 8: ICMR issues returned from Singapore Gandhi International Air- ■ Page 4: Some returnees guidelines for pvt sector on March 13, has been port at Shamshabad, she giving fake addresses CITIZENSHIP | STIR ‘Inflammable substance’ hurled near site: Cops Shaheen Bagh attacked New Delhi, March 22: indoors in a bid to contain has been registered at Saturday. A police official Unidentified men hurled the spread of the novel coro- Shaheen Bagh police sta- said they suspect an insid- “inflammable substance” navirus. tion. One of the volunteers er’s involvement in near the site of anti-citizen- Police found a banner, who did not wish to be iden- Sunday’s incident as the ship law protest in Shaheen rugs, burnt bamboo and a tified said the men threw a protesters had clashed on Bagh but none of the five few broken bottles. Some petrol bomb in a lane near Thursday too.