Lockdown 4.0: Do new govt rules pave the way for decision on IPL 2020?

I do not know why many literate people are thinking we are immune to the virus. This approach is depressing, says Dr Chatterjee

As India's cumulative figure for confirmed Covid-19 cases reached 96,169 on Monday with states like Maharashtra, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Delhi witnessing a constant surge, medical experts have asserted that there is no point saying India has developed "herd immunity".

Dr Prasun Chatterjee, Associate Professor, Department of Geriatric Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) told ANI: "This pandemic cannot be overcome by thinking that tomorrow we will have herd immunity. Herd immunity has failed in the UK. There is no point in saying that India has developed herd immunity. We have tried to contain the virus through the lockdown."

"Mostly, we try to develop herd immunity through children because their immunity is very fresh. I do not know why many literate people are thinking we are immune to the virus. This approach is depressing," added Dr Chatterjee.He further said: "Herd immunity has a multiplier effect. If we develop it, we can protect many people but it is not so simple in the case of Covid-19. However, most importantly herd immunity can work only when there is some vaccination also."

While talking about immunity Dr Suresh Kumar, Medical Director, LNJP Hospital said, "When more people are exposed to any particular virus, some manifest it clinically whereas others sub-clinically and thus community starts building immunity at large."

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Coronavirus : India records 100 deaths in a day, 66 from Tamil Nadu

India coronavirus LIVE updates: Maharashtra cases at 27,524, Tamil Nadu 9,674, Delhi 8,470. Stay tuned with Business Standard for Covid 19 LIVE updates on corona cases and death toll worldwide

Coronavirus India update: The total number of coronavirus cases in India has been rising constantly. The country now is just a whisker from overtaking China — from where the virus originated. India’s tally of cases now stands at 82,052 and 2,649 people have died of infections so far, according to Worldometer data. Maharashtra govt decides to extend lockdown in Mumbai MMR, PMC, Aurangabad, Malegaon, Solapur till May 31, according to media reports. Will Central extend the nationwide lockdown a third time beyond May 17? Earlier, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had asked chief ministers to submit their Lockdown 4.0 plan by today.

Finance Minister Sitharaman on Thursday unveiled her second tranche of stimulus worth Rs 3.16 trillion. The package includes free food grain for migrant workers, credit support to farmers and working capital loan for street vendors. coronavirus world update: Globally, 4,525,441 people have been infected by coronavirus so far, and the total number of deaths from the disease now stands at 303,372.

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Maharashtra (20,446) Tamil Nadu (7,368) Delhi (5,310) Gujarat (5,252) Madhya Pradesh (2,018)

Coronavirus in US: Trump says he doesn’t want to talk to Xi right now, could even cut China ties

US President Donald Trump signaled a further deterioration of his relationship with China over the novel coronavirus, saying he has no interest in speaking to President Xi Jinping right now and going so far as to suggest he could even cut ties with the world’s second largest economy. In an interview with Fox Business Network broadcast on Thursday, Trump said he was very disappointed with China’s failure to contain the disease and that the pandemic had cast a pall over his January trade deal with Beijing, which he has previously hailed as a major achievement…Read More

Three Covid-19 positive Jamaat members travelled by bus from Delhi to HP

The SP requested the passengers of these buses to come forward in their respective districts for medical check-up to contact spread of COVID-19

The three Tablighi Jamaat members, who tested positive for coronavirus in Himachal Pradesh on Saturday, had travelled by two buses from Delhi to reach Nalagarh in Solan district on March 18, a senior police official said. Baddi Superintendent of Police Rohit Malpani said the three Jamaatis came to Nalagarh in two buses with registration numbers HP 93 0564 (Delhi-Nalagarh) and HP 12 0446 (Delhi-Hamirpur via Baddi-Nalagarh-Bilaspur). The SP requested the passengers of these buses to come forward in their respective districts for medical check-up to contact spread of COVID-19.

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The Delhi-Nalagarh bus started from Delhi at 7.30 am and arrived at Nalagarh at around 4 pm on March 18, he said. The Delhi-Hamirpur bus started at 9:15 pm on March 18 and reached Nalagarh on March 19 at 4.30 am, he added. Residents of Uttar Pradesh, the three Jamaatis hid in a mosque in Nalagarh. They were quarantined after their identification. They were admitted to the Indira Gandhi Medical College (IGMC) in Shimla on Sunday morning after they tested positive on Saturday night.

With no income and food, Dharavi gasps for air as Covid-19 cases increase

Overcrowding, unsanitary conditions in Asia’s largest slum pose big challenges to containment

The roads are empty, the shops closed, and some areas are cordoned off. Dharavi, Asia’s largest slum, is locked down like the rest of Mumbai. However, the rising number of coronavirus (Covid-19) cases in thisteeming shantytown, where people live in huts and decrepit tenements, has put it front and centre of India’s fight against the coronavirus outbreak.

So far, Dharavi has reported five cases, including one death — that of a 56-year-old man. But there is fear that the numbers could inch up in a place where people grapple daily with overcrowding and unsanitary conditions. To add to their misery, the lockdown has left residents with no income and little food. Rajesh Tope, Maharashtra’s health minister, told Business Standard that Dharavi was a grave concern for the government, given the density of its population and the poverty of its residents. “We are ensuring there is strict adherence to the rules of the lockdown in Dharavi. We do not allow crowds to collect, but it isn’t easy. There’s a space constraint, people are poor and without work right now. There are challenges,” he says.

Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) estimate that the average monthly income of a household in Dharavi is below Rs 5,000. Around 5-10 per cent of its population of 1.5 million, spread over 613 hectares and seven Mumbai wards, have headed back to their home towns in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar after the lockdown. Sajeevan Jaiswal, a cloth merchant, is dipping into his meagre savings to somehow get by till the lockdown ends. His shop, near the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation office in Dharavi, is shut. Jaiswal fears for the safety of his family — his wife, two sons, and a daughter-in-law — who live above his shop in a small, 200 square feet space. ..Read More

70-yr-old Covid-19 patient dies in Guj, state’s toll at 3; new cases emerge

The 70-year-old man died at a government hospital in Bhavnagar

A 70-year-old COVID-19 patient died in Gujarat’s Bhavnagar district early Thursday morning, a health department officials said. With this, the total number of deaths due to coronavirus inthe state has gone up to three, they said. “The 70-year-old man died at a government hospital in Bhavnagar,” state principal secretary (health) Jayanti Ravi said. Earlier, one patient each from Ahmedabad and Surat had succumbed to the viral infection, she said. Four new COVID-19 cases reported in Lucknow Four new COVID-19 cases have been reported in Lucknow, taking the total tally of coronavirus cases in the state to above 40 on Thursday.

A 21-year-old woman, whose parents had tested positive, a 32-year-old man with travel history to Dubai, a 33-year-old woman and a 39-year-old man tested positive for coronavirus, confirmed Dr. Sudhir Singh, Incharge, Isolation Ward, King George’s Medical University in Lucknow. According to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the total number of COVID-19 positive cases have risen to 649 in India (including 593 active cases, 42 cured/discharged people) and 13 deaths.

Coronavirus cases rises to 649 in India, 13 dead, The total number of people who have been confirmed positive for COVID-19 in India has risen to 649 in India, including 593 active cases and 42 people who have been cured or discharged from hospitals, according to the recent update by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) on Thursday morning.

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Coronavirus latest update: Globally, over 134,768 cases have been reported among which over 4,973 people have died

COVID19: Indian market on Friday hit the lower circuit for the first time in 12 years after 2008 crisis as concerns about the Coronavirus threatening global economic growth spurred foreigners to cut their holdings of local assets. India halted stock trading as benchmark indexes plunged at the open, and the rupee weakened to a record low. The S&P BSE Sensex tumbled 9.4% to 29,687.52 within minutes after trading began on Friday, while the NSE Nifty 50 Index sank 10% setting off a market-wide circuit breaker that halted trading for 45 minutes. It is India’s first such suspension since May 2009. The rupee fell 0.4% to 74.50 per dollar, an all-time low.

Japan’s equity market was also in panic mode as the benchmark Nikkei Stock Average plummeted over 10 per cent following the crash in US stocks, where the Dow closed down 9.9% for its biggest loss since Black Monday in 1987. Meanwhile, India recorded its first Coronavirus-linked death in Karnataka, as the number of positive cases soared to 79. The Delhi government announced several preventive measures to contain its spread like shutting down schools, colleges and cinema halls in the national capital. Similar steps were taken by Uttarakhand and Manipur. The Union health ministry confirmed that a 76-year-old man from Kalaburagi in Karnataka, who died on Tuesday, was infected with coronavirus.

Seventeen fresh cases have been reported from several states, including nine from Maharashtra, the Union health ministry said on Thursday. Earlier, PM Modi in a tweet announced foreign travel ban for all ministers as Air India suspended flights to Kuwait and curtailed flights to Italy, Spain and France till April 30..

Coronavirus LIVE: Death toll rises to 3,285, over 95,481 confirmed cases

The coronavirus death toll across the globe rose to 3,285 on Thursday, with over 95,481 confirmed cases

Coronavirus: The coronavirus episode which spread from focal China has now spread to in excess of 78 nations — from South Korea to Italy, Iran, Japan and the United States. In any event 11 individuals have kicked the bucket of the COVID-19 infection in the US. In India, another instance of COVID-19 was accounted for after Paytm in an announcement said that one of its representatives in Gurgaon office had tried positive, taking the quantity of affirmed cases in India to 29. With concerns mounting over the spread of the infection, the Delhi government has chosen to shape a team and set up seclusion wards in 19 government and six private emergency clinics. Three schools in Noida and abutting regions were likewise closed as a prudent step. President Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other BJP pioneers have dropped Holi social occasions over the coronavirus alarm. The PMO likewise composed a between clerical meet to audit readiness and reaction to Coronavirus.

South Korea’s complete number of novel coronavirus contaminations — the most outside China, where the ailment originally rose — moved toward 6,000 on Thursday as specialists announced 145 new cases. The all out remained at 5,766, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stated, with 35 passings. The coronavirus loss of life over the globe rose to 3,285 on Thursday, with more than 95,481 affirmed cases. Fortunately more than 53,000 individuals have recouped from the destructive infection, henceforth there are around 38,508 dynamic cases.

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Coronavirus : Toll crosses 1300; 242 deaths in a day in China’s Hubei

The death toll from coronavirus (COVID-19) in China jumped to 1355 on Wednesday, with the number of confirmed cases rising to 44,763. Catch LIVE updates

The death toll from the coronavirus epidemic continues to climb. So far, the virus outbreak has claimed 1,355 lives with 242 new fatalities reported in the worst-affected Hubei province on Wednesday. The number of confirmed cases abroad rose to 440 with one death so far in the Philippines. Japan reported the highest number of 203 cases with a majority of them from a cruise ship. On Wednesday, two Indian crew on board a cruise ship off the Japanese coast were tested positive for the novel coronavirus, the Indian Embassy in Japan said as authorities confirmed that 174 people have been infected with the deadly disease. The virus, now named COVID-19, has spread to over 20 countries, including India.

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Stranded by coronavirus blockade, Chinese man fights to get back to work

Tian Bing has spent six straight nights curled up in the back of his white sedan, stranded at an expressway service station in eastern Jiangsu province in China because of a blockade aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus. On Sunday, the 35-year-old completed a near-2,000 km (1,243 mile) drive from his hometown to Taixing, a city of about 1 million people in Jiangsu, to return to work. But policemen guarding the highway exit to the city, where he runs a home appliances repair business, told him turn back. The reason: Tian is not considered a local resident under China’s Byzantine hukou system, barring him from entry due to the city’s recent decision to keep out outsiders.

China’s Hubei province communist party chief relieved of duty

The head of the Communist Party in the Chinese province of Hubei, the epicentre of a coronavirus outbreak that has killed more than a thousand people, has been relieved of duty, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Thursday. Shanghai Mayor Ying Yong has been appointed as the new secretary of the Hubei Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China.

Coronavirus Update: 636 dead, 31,161 infected; Twitter mourns doctor’s death

The virus, called 2019-nCoV, is a coronavirus – which infects the nose, throat, or sinuses – and has pneumonia-like symptoms. The death toll has now risen to 636 in China. Catch LIVE update

The death toll from the novel coronavirus in China jumped to 636 on Friday, with 31,161 infected. Out of the total rise in the toll, central Hubei province – the epicentre of the outbreak – reported 69 deaths, including 64 in the provincial capital Wuhan. Across mainland China, there were 3,143 new confirmed infections. Authorities are fighting to stop it from spreading as millions travel for Chinese New Year, and scientists are trying to understand the virus, which has not been seen by humans before, and its effects. Experts say the virus, called 2019-nCoV can be spread from human to human.

Chinese doctor Li Wenliang, one of the eight whistle-blowers who warned other medics of the Novel coronavirus outbreak but were reprimanded by the police, died of the epidemic on Thursday. Meanwhile, China vehemently denied a Taiwan media report that Beijing is under-reporting the death toll and infected cases from the virus outbreak.

“On late Saturday evening, the Tencent, which runs popular social media APP weChat showed confirmed cases of the Wuhan virus in China as standing at 154,023, ten times the official figure at the time…Most ominously, the death toll listed was 24,589, vastly higher than the 300 officially listed that day,” the report claimed.

Yuan inches lower, set for losing week on anxiety over virus impact on economy

China’s yuan eased against the dollar on Friday as it staggered towards a feeble end to a week that saw no end in sight to the country’s coronavirus epidemic even as Beijing stepped up containment efforts and support measures for the economy. While investors have been comforted by China’s moves to restore calm to battered markets, confidence remains fragile as the death toll from the outbreak continued to climb sharply to over 600, leaving policymakers fretting over the potential drag on global growth..