UN chief Antonio Guterres is closely following the situation in New Delhi and stresses that demonstrators should be allowed to protest peacefully, and security forces should show restraint, his spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said at the daily press briefing.&nbsp; Communal violence over the Citizenship Amendment Act in northeast Delhi has killed over 20 people, including a police constable, and left over 250 people injured till Wednesday as police struggled to check the rioters who ran amok on streets, burning and looting shops, pelting stones and thrashing people.&nbsp;

UN chief Antonio Guterres is closely following the situation in New Delhi and stresses that demonstrators should be allowed to protest peacefully, and security forces should show restraint, his spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said at the daily press briefing. Communal violence over the Citizenship Amendment Act in northeast Delhi has killed over 20 people, including a police constable, and left over 250 people injured till Wednesday as police struggled to check the rioters who ran amok on streets, burning and looting shops, pelting stones and thrashing people.

India needs at least 38 million masks and 6.2 million pieces of personal protective equipment as it confronts the spread of coronavirus, according to a report by Invest India, quoted by Reuters. In a four-page internal document dated March 27, Invest India estimated the country needed needed 38 million masks - 14 million needed by state governments and the rest by the centre. Invest India said it had contacted 730 companies for ventilators, ICU monitors, protective equipment, masks and testing kits, of which 319 firms had responded so far.

The All India Institute of Medical Sciences has decided to convert its sprawling Trauma Centre building into a dedicated hospital for Covid-19 patients. Official sources said, it will have around 260 beds. Of these, 50 are&nbsp;ICU beds and around 30-40 beds are in the high-dependency unit. The unit will have around 70 ventilators. AIIMS&nbsp;authorities say,&nbsp;capacity can be ramped up, depending on the requirements.

At least 22 migrant workers have died while trying to reach home to their villages during the mass exodus from cities, amid the Covid-19 panic. A report by Scroll says, the actual number could be much more.
Thousands of migrant workers have been trying to get home, with most of them attempting to cross state borders, amid the 21-day lockdown.&nbsp;With businesses shut, vast numbers of daily wagers&nbsp;were left without any means of sustenance and shelter in large cities.
As they marched along interstate highways to their homes, many were beaten, lathi-charged and sent back from the borders by the police for breaking rules of social distancing.

The Supreme Court is expected to hear an urgent plea on the mass exodus of migrant workers from cities, and the chaos over the past few days. Many migrant labourers who have been forced to flee urban areas where they were employed, are now scrambling to return to their villages. Many of these labourers have been forced to walk hundreds of kilometres due to either unavailability of transport or their inability to afford it, with some even dying while on their way. The petition, filed by Advocate Alakh Alok Srivastava, seeks to provide shelter, food and medical aid to migrant workers.

The cases of novel coronavirus in India have surged to 1,071, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The number of deaths have now risen to 29. Maharashtra reported 12 new cases of the novel coronavirus. Five cases were seen in Pune, three from Mumbai, two from Nagpur, one from Kolhapur and one from Nashik. Another 45-year-old Covid-19 patient died in Gujarat on Monday. The woman was a resident of Gujarat's Bhavnagar and had no travel history to affected countries. According to the Health Ministry data, 100 people have been cured from the infection.

Here are the latest numbers on Covid-19 in India as of March 30, 11 am.
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Prasar Bharati, India&rsquo;s public broadcaster, has said that reports claiming that the government may further extend the 21-day nationwide lockdown are false.&nbsp;Referring to a report carrying the headline "Modi govt could extend coronavirus lockdown by a week as migrant exodus triggers alarm"&nbsp;&nbsp;Prasar Bharati said the news is fake.&nbsp;Cabinet Secretary&nbsp;Rajiv Gauba expressed surprise and said that there is no such plan of extending the lockdown.

Authorities at Delhi&rsquo;s Tihar Jail on Saturday released over 400 prisoners to decongest prisons amid the coronavirus pandemic. A report by news agency PTI quoting jail officials said, out of the total 419 prisoners, 356 were released on an interim bail for 45 days, while the remaining 63 were released on an eight-week emergency parole. The move after the Delhi govt amended prison rules last week to provide convicts the option of getting special parole and furlough to reduce the risk of Covid-19 infections in crowded prisons. Under the amended rules, prisoners can get 60-day parole in case of unprecedented situations like an epidemic or a natural disaster.

The Home Ministry suspended two senior Delhi government officers on Sunday while two others were issued show-cause notices for dereliction of duty over movement of migrant workers during the nationwide lockdown imposed to contain Covid-19 spread.
The Additional Chief Secretary of the Transport Department and the Principal Secretary of Finance, GNCTD &amp; Divisional Commissioner were suspended with immediate effect, while the Additional Chief Secretary of the Home and Land Buildings Departments and SDM Seelampur were issued notices.
The notices were 'for failing to ensure public health and safety' during the lockdown. It added that, due to the serious lapses in performance of their duties, the competent authority has initiated disciplinary proceedings against them.

The government has issued a health advisory for the elderly population during the Covid-19 pandemic which includes advising them not to go for routine checkups to hospital. Elderly people have been asked to make tele-consultation with your healthcare provider as far as possible. It has also advised the elderly to postpone elective surgeries like cataract surgery or total knee replacement.

A massive fire broke out at the furniture market in Delhi's&nbsp;Shaheen&nbsp;Bagh on Sunday evening. Four fire tenders were rushed to the spot to douse the blaze. Images showed police and fire officials on the site trying to douse the fire. The fire erupted about 500&nbsp;metres&nbsp;from the&nbsp;epicentre&nbsp;of the anti-CAA protests. The area&nbsp;had seen&nbsp;sit-in by thousands of protesters, mostly women, for over 100 days. The area was vacated after most of the protesters withdrew in wake of the coronavirus outbreak and the subsequent lockdown announced across India.&nbsp;

Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Sunday wrote to Prime Minister&nbsp;Narendra Modi&nbsp;and urged him to consider the consequences of a &lsquo;complete economic shutdown&rsquo; as it may &lsquo;disastrously amplify the death toll&rsquo; due to&nbsp;coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic.&nbsp;While backing the Centre in its fight against the outbreak, Gandhi said, it is critical to understand that India&rsquo;s conditions are unique.&nbsp;Suspecting that the government will further extend the 21-day lockdown, Rahul said it is time to immediately strengthen the social safety net and use every public resource to support and shelter the working poor to prevent them from migrating.&nbsp;&nbsp;

With 106 fresh cases and six deaths reported in the last 24 hours, the total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in crossed the 1000-mark and stands at 1024. This includes&nbsp;27 deaths on Sunday, the health ministry said.&nbsp;Highlighting that co-morbidity has played a major role in most deaths the ministry said data is being monitored at state level.&nbsp;A death each has been reported from Bengal, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Kerala, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Bihar. Maharashtra has reported 6 deaths, Madhya Pradesh 2, Karnataka 3, Gujarat 4, and Delhi 2.&nbsp;&nbsp;

The government has launched a toll-free helpline number for people who may face any mental health issue due to the ongoing countrywide lockdown to contain the spread of coronavirus.&nbsp;In its daily briefing on the coronavirus situation in the country, the health ministry said on Sunday the National Institute of Mental Health and&nbsp;Neuro-Sciences&nbsp;has launched the number.&nbsp;Earlier, WHO had warned that the coronavirus crisis and the restrictive measures can have a negative impact on people's mental health and well-being.&nbsp;

Amid a nationwide 21-day lockdown, the Centre on Sunday said that all those who violate the restrictions will be sent to a minimum of 14-days in quarantine to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus.&nbsp;During a video conference with chief secretaries and DGPs&nbsp;of the states, Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba and Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla asked them to ensure that there is no movement of people across cities or on highways.&nbsp;States were directed to ensure that there is strict implementation of the lockdown&nbsp;and only the movement of goods should be allowed.&nbsp; &nbsp;

As hundreds of migrant workers&nbsp;are on the move to their native places, a video of a Madhya Pradesh&nbsp;police&nbsp;officer writing&nbsp;&lsquo;I have violated lockdown restrictions, keep away from me&rsquo;, on the forehead of a&nbsp;labourer&nbsp;has gone viral. The officer has been issued a show-cause notice.&nbsp;Three&nbsp;labourers&nbsp;were returning from Uttar Pradesh when they were directed to the primary health&nbsp;centre&nbsp;by the police for medical examination&nbsp;in Chhatarpur district.&nbsp;While they were waiting for a doctor, a senior inspector scolded them for violating the lockdown and wrote the inscription on one of the&nbsp;labourer&rsquo;s&nbsp;forehead.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Along with Covid-19, Kerala's health infrastructure is battling a sudden jump in alcohol related suicide cases. 5 people with alleged alcohol&nbsp;addiction have committed suicide in the state. With prohibition in place due to the national lockdown, there is a sudden jump in admissions in de-addiction centres and mental health units. Several people have withdrawal symptoms due to the unavailability&nbsp;of liquor. State Health Minister said that facilities for addiction treatments have been set up at family health centres and primary health centres. 20 beds have been set aside at district level hospitals for serious addiction cases.&nbsp;Tele-counselling&nbsp; and psychiatric&nbsp;help is also being provided.

After the Prime Minister on Sunday offered his apology for the inconvenience caused to people following a countrywide lockdown, the Congress attacked the government for what it called &lsquo;inept handling&rsquo; of the situation.&nbsp;Stating that the lockdown was announced with the same haste with which&nbsp;demonetisation&nbsp;was done, Singhvi asked the Prime Minister not to&nbsp;mock&nbsp;the&nbsp;poor as anybody who is not financially sound cannot afford&nbsp;a Covid-19 testing kit which is priced at ₹4,500 apiece in India.

After chaotic scenes were witnessed in various parts of the country, particularly the national capital where thousands of workers breached the lockdown&nbsp;on Saturday, the Centre has directed all states to seal borders and not allow movement of people. In a notification released by the Press Information Bureau, the govt said, states have been told to ensure timely payment of wages to workers at their&nbsp;place of work during the period of lockdown, without any cuts. The directive added that house rent should not be demanded from the labourers for this period and action should be taken against those who ask labourers or students to vacate.

The number of Covid-19 cases climbed to 979 in India on Sunday with the death toll rising to 25, according to the Union Health Ministry.&nbsp;The ministry reported six fresh deaths -- one each from Delhi, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra and Telangana. In its updated data at 10 am, the ministry stated that the number of active Covid-19 cases in the country was 867, while 86 people were either cured or discharged and one had migrated.&nbsp;The total number of 979 cases in the country included 48 foreigners, the data stated.

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