Covid-19 Live updates: India logs 909 new cases in last 24 hours

Covid-19 Live updates: India logs 909 new cases in last 24 hours

With the three fresh cases, the total number of infections in the country has gone up to 12.

• New virus cases doubled to 99, nearly all imported.
• China is stepping up scrutiny of inbound foreigners and tightening border control.

Areas around House No-A 176, Deoli Extension; A-30 Mansarovar Garden; and Street nos. 1 to 10, C block, Jahangirpuri are included.

Pakistan’s cases hit 5,038, while 14 more deaths pushed the toll to 86

• A group of four-five Nihangs – an order of Sikhs – were asked to stop at a vegetable market at around 6.15 am.
• “An ASI’s (Assistant Sub Inspector) hand was chopped off by a sword. A Station House Officer of Sadar Patiala sustained an injury on his elbow and anther official suffered an injury on his arm in the attack,” Senior Superintendent of Police, Patiala, Mandeep Singh Sidhu told PTI.

• As per latest depositories data, foreign portfolio investors (FPI) withdrew a net sum of Rs 2,951 crore from equities and Rs 6,152 crore from the debt segment between April 1-9.
• Total net outflow stands at Rs 9,103 crore.
• In the previous month, FPIs had withdrawn a record amount of over Rs 1.1 lakh crore (net).

The country has adopted a $52 billion program, which aims to pay companies 75% of their employees’ salaries to avoid massive layoffs.

Total cases in the locality are now up to 43.

Total cases in the state are now up to 751.

New numbers take the total to 2,551 cases, as well as three more deaths; the southeast Asian nation’s toll rises to 38.

The total number of deaths are at 20,506 and as many as 527,111 people have been infected by the contagion so far.

The latest spike brings the number of total infections to 7,460, including 712 from the Diamond Princess cruise ship.

Ahmedabad civic body has roped in five persons who have recovered from the coronavirus infection to work as volunteers at a care centre set up for asymptomatic COVID-19 patients who do not suffer from any underlying complications. The initiative has been taken as the patients who have recovered are likely to have developed immunity to the disease and chances of them contracting the infection again are several times less than others, Ahmedabad Municipal Commissioner Vijay Nehra said on Saturday.

The novel coronavirus has infected 8,356 people in India, killed 273, as per the latest update by the Union Health Ministry. According to the latest data available 909 new cases were reported in the last 24 hours, 34 people have died of the infection.

• Saudi Arabia’s King Salman approved an extension of the kingdom’s curfew until further notice due to the rate at which the coronavirus is currently spreading, the state news agency (SPA) reported early on Sunday.
• The Saudi king has previously ordered a curfew that took effect on March 23, from 7 pm to 6 am for 21 days, to curb the spread of the coronavirus, state media reported.
• Last week Saudi Arabia placed its capital Riyadh and other big cities under a 24-hour curfew, locking down much of the population to stem the spread of the new coronavirus.

North Korea called for stronger measures against the rapidly spreading coronavirus pandemic at a meeting presided by leader Kim Jong Un, state media reported Sunday, without acknowledging whether the country had reported any infections. The already isolated, nuclear-armed North quickly shut down its borders after the virus was first detected in neighbouring China in January, and imposed strict containment measures.

• Seven more people tested positive for COVID-19 from Korba district’s Katghora, according to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Raipur.
• With this the total number of COVID-19 cases in Chhattisgarh has reached 25.
• However, 10 patients have been cured and discharged out of the 25 total cases.
• The total number of positive COVID-19 cases in the country has risen to 7,703, according to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on April 11.
• As per a notification by the ICMR at 9 pm on Saturday, a total of 1,79,374 samples from 1,64,773 individuals have been tested.

• The United States recorded 1,920 deaths related to the novel coronavirus over the past 24 hours, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University as of 8:30 pm Saturday (0030 GMT Sunday).
• The number of fatalities was lower than the previous day’s record toll of 2,108.
• The outbreak has now claimed the lives of at least 20,506 people in the US, the most of any country.
• The US also leads the world in the number of confirmed infections, with 527,111 by the Baltimore-based school’s count.