In a move welcomed by Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, the BJP has decided to shift its protests against the Supreme Court's Sabarimala verdict to the secretariat in Thiruvananthapuram. BJP workers from across the state are expected to join the 2-week protest. The decision, according to the BJP state Chief, Sreedharan Pillai, comes after women in the previously barred age-group stopped trying to enter the shrine.  

Bhilwara in Rajasthan has been crowned the state's coronavirus capital. It is also the place from where Rajasthan reported its first Covid-19 death. Bhilwara is a case in point of what not to do in case of a contagion like Covid-19.
An investigation has revealed that a person from Bhilwara, was admitted to five different hospitals in the area, as he increasingly deteriorated, before finally being tested positive for the virus on Wednesday. The patient, is believed to have transmitted the infection to several patients in these hospitals, along with doctors.
What followed next, was several coronavirus-infected doctors treated hundreds of patients before themselves testing positive for the virus. The administration has now imposed a curfew in nine villages of Bhilwara. Twenty-six members of the patient's family have also been quarantined.

The 23-year-old man who committed suicide by jumping off the seventh floor of Safdarjung Hospital, where he was taken for coronavirus testing from Delhi&rsquo;s IGI Airport earlier this month, has tested negative for COVID-19. A resident of Punjab&rsquo;s Balachaur district, the man had arrived from Sydney on March 18, and was taken to the hospital after he complained of a headache during screening at the airport. Doctors say, his sample had already been collected before he committed suicide, and the report came back negative, a few days later.

On day 2 of the 21-day lockdown, the supply of essential goods was better than on the first day, although there were complaints of shortage of medicines, milk, vegetables, along with a spurt in the prices of essential food items due of supply constraints. Milk supply in cities such as Mumbai, Pune, Patna and Lucknow could get affected, as per reports, as supply from villages has reduced. In cities such as Delhi, Dehradun and Mumbai, wholesale markets started full operations on Thursday, but with reduced inflow of fruits and vegetables. The Confederation of Indian Industry in a letter to the consumer affairs ministry has said that there is ambiguity in the lockdown orders issued by various local authorities, with the term grocery not clearly defined, resulting in short supply of items such as floor cleaners and toiletries and oral hygiene products such as tooth paste and toothbrushes.

Over 1,000 people who set off from Hyderabad, the capital of Telangana, to their homes in various districts in Andhra Pradesh were stranded at the Garikapadu border check-post on Wednesday, as the police refused to allow them passage due to the Covid-19&nbsp;lockdown.&nbsp;Students were also seen&nbsp;queuing&nbsp;up outside police stations across Hyderabad - compromising social distancing - for passes to return to their hometowns.&nbsp;Telangana&nbsp;police maintained that borders were sealed,&nbsp;no vehicle or person could be allowed into the state.&nbsp;The panic-stricken commuters were finally huddled into small groups and allowed to pass, but others have been warned not to aggregate at the the state border.

As India prepares for a long battle against&nbsp;COVID-19, the Railway Ministry plans to convert trains lying idle due to the lockdown, into isolation wards for rural and remote areas, along with manufacturing of ventilators in railway factories.
The Rail Coach Factory&nbsp;in Kapurthala has been tasked with the duty of converting&nbsp;coaches into isolation wards, while the Integral Coach Factory in Chennai, is attempting to manufacture ventilators.
RCF Kapurthala will be initially making a prototype by converting an existing&nbsp;coach into an isolation ward. This will be a non-AC coach because it would be difficult to sanitise air for a communicable disease in case of an AC coach. The layout is being prepared and a decision will be taken as to how many patients can be accommodated in a coach, keeping in mind&nbsp; factors like&nbsp;distance, hygiene, and most importantly, exclusive bathroom usage.
However, officials say, manufacturing of ventilators is turning out to be a challenge.&nbsp;India lacks an official figure on the number of ventilators it has. Rough estimates peg it at around 40,000.&nbsp;

Maharashtra reported 5 new coronavirus cases since Tuesday night, bringing the total number of cases in the state to 112, the highest in the country so far. The latest cases were reported after five members of a family in are from Islampur tested positive, officials confirmed. Meanwhile, three fresh cases were also reported in Gujarat, taking the total of cases in the state to 38. Officials say FIRs have been registered against 147 people for breaking home quarantine in the state. In Madhya Pradesh, five people have tested positive in Indore, taking the total number of cases in the state to 14. According to reports, none of the fresh patients have a history of travel abroad. The Union Health Ministry has said the second death in Delhi that was reported earlier has tested negative for coronavirus.

While India seems to have done well in controlling the number of confirmed cases compared to other countries in the early phase of the pandemic, India may see up to 13 lakh cases by mid-May if the numbers keep growing, according to researchers. The Cov-India-19 study group is an interdisciplinary group of scholars and data scientists, who have said the frequency of testing has been very low in India, as only 11,500 subjects have been tested as of March 18. Scientists say India entering phase 2 or phase 3 of escalation will have devastating consequences on the already overstretched healthcare system.

As the govt and healthcare experts recommend washing hands with soap and water as one of the basic protective measures against coronavirus, a survey done by the National Statistics Office shows, it&rsquo;s not a habit that comes easily to most Indians. According to the survey, while members of 99% of households wash their hands before a meal, only those in 35.8 % of homes do so with soap. The results of the survey were made public in a report titled &lsquo;Drinking Water, Sanitation, Hygiene, and Housing Condition&rsquo; in November last year, and it covered nearly 1,06,838 households countrywide.

A 54-year-old man infected with coronavirus died at a hospital in Madurai in the early hours of Wednesday, the first death recorded in Tamil Nadu due to the contagion. The latest death takes India&rsquo;s coronavirus toll to 11. Doctors said the man had a medical history of prolonged illness with "uncontrolled diabetes". On Tuesday, the total number of Covid-19 cases in Tamil Nadu rose to 18 after six more people, including three women, tested positive for coronavirus.

Telangana CM K Chandrasekar Rao has issued a stern warning to people who have been violating lockdown regulations. He said, if people will not listen to the police, he will ask for deployment of the army and shoot-at-sight orders will be issued. Telangana, along with the rest of India, has been put under a 21-day lockdown, which will have curfew-like provisions. However, there will be exceptions for essential commodities like groceries, medicines and cooking gas. Telangana CM urged people of the state to follow police instructions and cooperate with the cops.

After the Centre overruled the Delhi govt's ban on domestic flights in and out of Delhi, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has now asked the Centre to suspend all flights coming to West Bengal to contain the spread of the virus. In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Didi said the state government is seriously concerned that the Centre is still allowing domestic flights to operate, as there is no option to make arrangements for the social distancing of passengers. Kolkata and several other areas in West Bengal were on Monday locked down till March 27 after seven confirmed cases were reported from the state.

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Himachal Pradesh has been placed under lockdown indefinitely to check the spread of coronavirus, Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur announced in the Assembly on Monday. The hill state has become the 14th state to announce a total lockdown to curtail the spread of the virus, but is only the second to make it indefinite. Earlier, only Nagaland had on Sunday announced an indefinite lockdown as most states took the step till March 31.

The Centre has asked state governments to strictly enforce lockdowns and take legal action against those who violated the restrictions, as cases of coronavirus&nbsp;climbed in the country.
The Centre and state governments had on Sunday decided to completely lock down 80 districts across the country where cases have been reported till March 31.
Senior government officials said there are provisions under the Indian Penal Code to take action against people disobeying lockdown ruled under the Epidemic Diseases Act of 1897.&nbsp;
Any person disobeying any regulation or order under this Act shall be deemed to have committed an offence punishable by a jail term of six months, a fine, or both.

Death toll in the coronavirus outbreak in India has now touched 8 with the passing of a 68-year-old man from the Philippines, in a hospital in Mumbai. The man had tested positive for coronavirus and later had recovered from the infection. The man had diabetes mellitus and asthma and was admitted to the hospital on March 13, he later developed acute renal failure and respiratory distress. This is the third death reported from Mumbai in connection with the coronavirus.

The number of confirmed novel coronavirus cases in Maharashtra witnessed a sharp rise in the last 24 hours with state authorities reporting as many as 15 new cases. Out of these, 14 people tested positive for Covid-19 in Mumbai and 1 in Pune. As of March 23, the number of total confirmed cases in Maharashtra stands at 89.&nbsp;Authorities also revealed that 8 of these 15 people, who have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, are acquaintances of people who tested positive earlier.&nbsp;

Services of Ola and Uber will not be available in Delhi till March 31 amid the lockdown announced by the state government to contain the spread of coronavirus. The city will be in lockdown from March 23 to 31, during which no public transport, including private buses, taxis and autorickshaws will be allowed. Uber in a statement said the ride-hailing firm is complying with all government directives. Ola said the company will enable a minimal network of vehicles to support essential services in cities, wherever applicable.

The total number of coronavirus cases in India jumped to 396 on Sunday as 81 new cases were reported from across the country in the biggest single-day increase till now, amid fears of community transmission. Three more people with COVID-19 died, taking the overall toll in India to seven. According to the govt breakup, 63 cases have been reported in Maharashtra, which is the highest. Kerala has reported 52 cases, while Delhi has reported 27 positive cases. In Uttar Pradesh, 25 cases have been reported.

India came to a screeching halt as authorities ordered passenger railway, metro, and interstate bus services to be suspended across the nation till March 31 in a bid to contain the spread of the deadly novel coronavirus.&nbsp;Only essential services will run in 80 districts, including big cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, and Chennai. Apart from the Centre's orders, 13 states also announced complete lockdowns. International flights have been banned for a week and many airlines have talked about trimming operations. The state shutdown measures came as the country observed a 14-hour voluntary 'Janata curfew' on Sunday, following which PM Modi tweeted, this is the start of a long fight.

In a heartwarming gesture on Sunday, Delhi Police personnel were seen offering flowers to commuters and urging them to stay home to observe the Janta Curfew. In a tweet, DCP New Delhi wrote, his men were on the roads for the safety of citizens and they should stay at home to support them.

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