22:44 April 01
The person from Dharavi in Mumbai who had tested positive for Coronavirus has died at Sion Hospital. He had symptoms like fever, cough, respiratory issues and also had co-morbid condition of renal failure.
20:42 April 01
A 57-year-old British citizen who was under treatment for COVID19 has been discharged from Ernakulam Medical College.
20:39 April 01
Maharashtra Health Dept: 33 new COVID-19 cases reported today in state - 30 from Mumbai, 2 from Pune&1 from Buldhana.
State tally of COVID-19 cases rises to 335. 3 deaths today. 2 in Mumbai – 75-yr-old & 51-yr-old men,and 3rd a 50-yr old man from Palghar. No history of international travel.
20:24 April 01
One Coronavirus positive case has been found in Shahu Nagar of Dharavi in Mumbai
A 56-yr-old man from Dharavi has been found to be Coronavirus positive. He has been shifted to Sion Hospital. Other 7 members of his family placed under home quarantine. They will be tested tomorrow. The building they live in has been sealed: Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation.
20:11 April 01
Haryana: Out of the ten COVID-19 patients in district Gurugram, 9 people have fully recovered.
20:10 April 01
Total COVID-19 positive cases in Delhi rises to 152 including 53 positive cases from Markaz Nizamuddin.
19:08 April 01
TN records 110 new COVID-19 cases, all Tablighi event returnees
As many as 110 people who returned to Tamil Nadu from Tablighi Jamaat meet in Delhi tested positive for coronavirus on Wednesday, taking the total cases
in the state to 234, a top Health department official said.
This is a quantum jump as the state recorded the highest number of new cases in a single day so far.
Health Secretary Beela Rajesh told reporters here that 110 people hailing from 15 districts of the state have tested positive for the contagion.
All of them had participated in the Delhi religious congregation and the tally of COVID-19 cases in the state now stood at 234, she said.
Around 1,500 people from Tamil Nadu had attended the event last month and of them over 1,131 have returned to the state so far.
18:55 April 01
Union HRD Minister Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank: In view of the current situation due to COVID-19, all CBSE school students studying in classes I-VIII to be promoted to the next class; Students of classes IX and XI to be promoted based on internal assessment of schools.
18:54 April 01
Rohit Kansal, Principal Secretary (Planning), J&K Administration: COVID-19 cases have risen to 62 in Jammu & Kashmir out which 58 are active cases. While 58 of the active cases have been reported in Kashmir division, 10 are in Jammu. 17041 people are under active surveillance.
18:52 April 01
Haryana Health Department: There are total 29 COVID-19 positive cases in the state. Out of total 29 positive cases, 10 are in Gurugram, 6 in Faridabad, 4 in Panipat, 3 in Sirsa, 2 in Panchkula and 1 each in Ambala, Hisar, Palwal and Sonipat. Out of which, 9 patients of Gurugram, 2 patient from Panipat, 1 patient each from Faridabad & Palwal are discharged
18:51 April 01
Subhas Burse, DCP, Mumbra, Thane, Maharashtra: 13 Bangladeshi nationals and 2 people from Assam who visited Markaz Nizamuddin who came to Thane have been home quarantined. Their test reports will be available by tomorrow. On the basis of the report, further action will be taken.
18:50 April 01
Total 9 persons including 7 Indonesian nationals and 2 Indians who attended event at Markaz Nizamuddin have been identified. They have been in kept in government quarantine and have showed no symptoms as of now: SP, West Midnapore, West Bengal
17:47 April 01
Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan: "Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) kits, N95 masks etc are available in adequate quantities. If in future, more masks, PPE kits, ventilators, ICU beds etc are needed, then, we are prepared for it."
17:37 April 01
120 positive cases reported till this morning. Total 766 people are admitted to the hospitals of Delhi due to Corona. Out of them 112 are positive, rest are possibly infected and are being tested.
16:37 April 01
R Ganga Ketkar, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR): "We have conducted 47,951 tests till date. There are 126 labs in ICMR network, number of private labs that have been approved are 51."
15:51 April 01
Mohali district administration: Three more COVID-19 cases emerged in Mohali today. They are stated to be close contacts of the positive cases in Chandigarh & have been put under quarantine.
15:51 April 01
Delhi: 2 resident doctors of Safdarjung hospital have tested positive for COVID-19 - a male doctor posted in COVID-19 unit and another resident doctor, a 3rd-year female PG student from Biochemistry department. According to the officials, she has a past travel history to aboard.
15:36 April 01
Chief Medical Health Officer Pratap Singh: "Thirty-seven attendees of Delhi's Tablighi Jamaat event have been traced & placed under quarantine in Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan. We will collect their samples for testing & take further action accordingly."
15:34 April 01
13 new COVID-19 positive cases reported from Ramganj in Jaipur on Wednesday.
Rajasthan Health Department: 13 more positive cases of COVID-19 reported from Ramganj Bazar, Jaipur. All 13 are contacts of the first person who tested positive in Ramganj. They have been kept in isolation at Rajasthan University of Health Sciences and NIMS & samples were taken.
15:08 April 01
Eatala Rajender, Telangana Health Minister: "Around 1,200 people from Telangana had attended Markaz gathering in Delhi, some of them were found COVID-19 positive, six of them died. In the last three days only those who had gone to Delhi for Markaz have tested positive for COVID-19."
15:07 April 01
Prime Minister Narendra Modi to hold video conferencing with all CMs tomorrow over COVID-19.
15:05 April 01
Assam Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma: Total 5 COVID-19 positive cases have been reported in Assam - 1 shifted to Silchar Medical College and Hospital and 4 to Gauhati Medical College in Guwahati.
14:49 April 01
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal: If anyone loses their life while serving COVID-19 patients, whether sanitation workers, doctors or nurses, their family will be provided Rs 1 crore as respect to their service. Whether they are from private or government sector doesn't matter.
14:47 April 01
Ministry of Information & Broadcasting: Cabinet Secretary took a meeting today by video-conferencing with all the Chief Secretaries/DGPs of states. They were sensitized about the intensive contact tracing of Tablighi Jamat participants as this has increased the risk of containment efforts of COVID-19. It has been found that foreigners who had participated in the Tablighi Jamat had violated visa conditions. Concerned states were asked to initiate action for violation of visa condition against the foreigners & the organizers of the event.
14:43 April 01
Railway official: A railway police head constable has tested positive for COVID-19. He has been quarantined at Kasturba hospital, Mumbai along with 5 of his colleagues. His 3 family members & 8 other colleagues have also been asked to remain in quarantine.
13:56 April 01
Kerala: 22 people from Mallapuram district had attended the (Tablighi Jamaat) meeting at Delhi's Nizamuddin. They have been placed under home quarantined on their return, says Superintendent of Police Abdul Kareem.
13:53 April 01
26 people of Uttarakhand participated in Tablighi Jamaat event at Delhi's Nizamuddin Markaz
They are still in Delhi. 173 out of 713 people who participated in regular jamaats at the mosque in last 28 days have been quarantined.
13:32 April 01
Ramesh Angral SSP District Police, Poonch, Jammu & Kashmir: "Ten people who arrived in Poonch district after attending Tablighi Jamaat (in Delhi's Nizamuddin) have been identified by District Administration. All of them have been kept under quarantine."
13:30 April 01
Karnataka Health Minister B Sriramulu: "200 people including 4 from Bengaluru & 5 from Belgaum, who participated in Tablighi Jamaat (in Delhi's Nizamuddin), have been quarantined. Total 342 people from Karnataka had attended the event."
13:28 April 01
First death due to COVID-19 reported in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur
The total number of coronavirus cases in the state stands at 101.
13:14 April 01
According to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Increase of 240 COVID-19 cases in the last 12 hours. Total number of COVID-19 positive cases rise to 1637 in India (including 1466 active cases, 133 cured/discharged/migrated people and 38 deaths).
13:12 April 01
Chief Minister's Office, Andhra Pradesh: All the 43 patients tested positive for COVID-19 today in Andhra Pradesh have returned after attending the event at Delhi's Nizamuddin Markaz.
12:35 April 01
23 COVID-19 cases have been reported in Bihar till today morning
Principal Secretary, Bihar Health Dept: "State govt has decided to test all the people who have returned from abroad after 18th March, because we have found that even those who had no symptoms have tested positive."
12:32 April 01
Prayagraj, SP (City): 7 Indonesian nationals & one each from Kolkata & Kerala were found at the Abdullah mosque. During investigation it was found that they had attended the Markaz gathering in Delhi, they & 28 others who came in contact with them quarantined. Case registered.
12:29 April 01
Dr Praveen Jadiya, Chief Medical Health Officer: 19 more people have been tested positive for COVID-19, taking the total number of cases to 63 in Indore, Madhya Pradesh.
Most of the new cases are contacts of infected people. 600 people have been placed in quarantine in Indore.
12:08 April 01
Sanjay Kumar, Principal Secretary, Bihar Health Department: We have received a list of 81 people who had attended the Markaz gathering (in Nizamuddin, Delhi). 17 in Patna and 13 in Buxar have been traced as of now, we will trace others also.
11:44 April 01
Delhi's Nizamuddin Markaz has been evacuated by authorities and evacuees were sent to quarantine as 24 positive cases of coronavirus were reported till Tuesday night. Sources say a total of 2100 people have been evacuated from the Markaz till early morning on Wednesday and suspected people have been shifted to hospitals. Tablighi Jamaat Markaz has been booked for violating the Epidemic Act provisions and also IPC Section 120B (criminal conspiracy).
11:42 April 01
Nodal Officer, Andhra Pradesh: 43 new positive COVID-19 cases detected in Andhra Pradesh since 9 PM on 31st March till 9 AM today.
With this, the total number of positive cases in the state has increased to 87.
11:12 April 01
Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia: "2,361 people were brought out from there (Markaz, Nizamuddin) out of which 617, who had symptoms have been taken to hospitals, others have been quarantined. I thank all those who participated in this 36 hour operation & risked their lives."
10:58 April 01
Gujarat Health Department: 8 new COVID-19 positive cases have been detected in Ahmedabad taking the total number of positive cases in Gujarat to 82.
As of now, only three patients are on ventilator support.
10:26 April 01
Ahmednagar Collector: 34 people traced in Ahmednagar, including 29 foreigners who had attended the Markaz in Nizamuddin, Delhi.
Out of these 29 foreigners, results of 14 have come & 2 have tested positive for COVID-19. 3 people who came in contact with them also tested positive.
10:23 April 01
Delhi: A doctor working at a Delhi government hospital has tested positive for COVID-19.
10:20 April 01
20 new COVID-19 cases in MP; tally jumps to 86
Twenty more people tested positive for coronavirus in Madhya Pradesh on Wednesday, taking the total number of such cases in the state to 86, a health
official said.
Among the new cases, 19 were reported from Indore and one from the neighbouring Khargone district, he said.
Of the 19 new patients in Indore, nine are from one family, including three children, aged 3, 5 and 8, residing in Tanzeem Nagar area of the city, the official said.
A police official from Indore is also among the new coronavirus patients.
He is admitted to a private hospital, Additional Superintendent of Police Guru Prasad Parashar said.
As a precautionary measure, the police officials wife and two daughters are also kept in a separate ward of the hospital.
The police station where the official was posted as in-charge has been sanitised and steps are taken to protect the other staff from the infection, Parashar said.
Indore has been the worst hit in the state as 63 coronavirus cases have been reported from the industrial city so far. Three of these patients earlier died.
Besides, Jabalpur has so far reported eight cases, Ujjain-six, Bhopal-four, Shivpuri and Gwalior two each and Khargone-one.
Of the total 86 patients, five died, including three of Indore and two from Ujjain, the official added.
10:05 April 01
Rajasthan Health Department: No new case of COVID-19 in Rajasthan, as of 9 am today, total positive cases in the state still stands at 93 (including 2 Italians & 17 evacuees from Iran). Out of those 93 people, 14 tested negative later while 5 have been discharged.
10:04 April 01
Goa Health Minister Vishwajit Rane: All the 14 tests conducted at Goa Medical College & Hospital on possibly infected COVID-19 patients have come negative. Today 25 more tests will be conducted.
10:02 April 01
Himachal Pradesh, Health Department: Till date total 229 suspected COVID-19 was investigated in which 222 samples have been found negative and 3 samples were positive.
10:02 April 01
Maharashtra: 16 more persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Mumbai and two more cases have been reported in Pune, taking the total number of cases in the state to 320. Total 12 people have died due to COVID-19 in the state till now.
09:46 April 01
Search begins for Nizamuddin-linked suspected cases as tally increases across India
New Delhi: Authorities launched a nationwide search on Tuesday for participants of a huge religious gathering held earlier this month in the national capital's Nizamuddin area, which has become the new epicentre of the deadly virus pandemic amid fears that thousands present there could have carried the infection to the length and breadth of the country.
Thousands of participants of the Tablighi Jamaat held in mid-March in Nizamuddin, which also is home to a famous Dargah, are known to have returned to their homes in virtually every state including Telangana, West Bengal, Karnataka and Gujarat. Many of these states have reported COVID-19 cases linked to this congregation.
Several fresh cases of infection were reported on Tuesday from Delhi, Maharashtra, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Jammu and Kashmir and Bihar, among other places, taking the nationwide tally well past 1,400 with at least 45 deaths, as per figures announced by government officials in different states.
But, a consolidated official tally announced later in the evening by the Union Health Ministry put the total number of confirmed cases at 1,397 and 35 deaths, marking an increase of 146 positive cases and three deaths since Monday night -- two in Punjab and one in Maharashtra.
However, this apparently did not include six deaths reported by Telangana government last night, all of who had attended the Nizamuddin congregation.
While the Union Health Ministry's tally, updated as on 8.30 PM Tuesday, put the total number of confirmed cases in Tamil Nadu at 74, the state government put its aggregate number at 124, with at least 77 of them having links to the Tablighi Jamaat.
For Maharashtra also, the Centre's tally was 216, but the state government officials put the figure at 302 with an increase of 82 in a day.
Officials have been saying that some mismatch occurs due to delay in assigning certain cases to a particular state after doing necessary checks.
According to the Health Ministry data, active COVID-19 cases stands at 1,238, while 123 people have been either cured or discharged and one had migrated.
The central government separately told the Supreme Court it has taken "proactive and preemptive timely steps" to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, but termed fake news as the biggest hindrance and sought a direction for the media not to publish any COVID-19 information without ascertaining facts with authorities.
The apex court asked the Centre to prevent migration of people due to coronavirus and to set up within 24 hours a portal for disseminating real time information on the pandemic to counter the panic being spread through fake news.
It also said "panic will destroy more lives than the virus" and asked the Centre to get trained counsellors and community leaders of all faiths to calm down the migrants, rather than the police to avoid use of force and intimidation.
The Union Health Ministry lamented that the number of hotspots has risen due to "lack of people's support and delay in timely detection" of the cases.
Health Ministry Joint Secretary Lav Agarwal said the government is using cluster containment strategies and doing rigorous contact tracing in these hotspots to check the virus from further spreading.
Within the national capital, more than 1,100 people who attended the congregation have been quarantined while at least 441 have been hospitalised. The government is screening all those who participated in the event, officials said.
Agarwal, however, said it was not the time to find faults but to take action.
In the national capital alone, at least 24 people who took part in the religious congregation, Tablighi Jamaat, have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said, as he slammed the organisers for being "highly irresponsible" on their part to hold such an event at a time when thousands have died in other countries due to the pandemic.
The Union Home Ministry said approximately 2,100 foreigners visited India for 'tabligh' activities this year, including those from Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Nepal, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Kyrgyzstan.
It also said that all state police have been asked to locate Indian Tabligh Jamaat workers from local coordinators, followed by their medical screening and quarantine.
So far, 2137 such people have been identified and are being medically examined and quarantined, while more would be located, the Ministry said.
Several state governments, including in West Bengal, Assam and Manipur, said they are taking steps to locate participants of the Nizamuddin event.
Karnataka government said 54 people from the state had attended the event, out of which 13 have been identified but they have tested negative for the COVID-19.
Gujarat police also launched a probe to identify all the attendees from the state and said primary investigations has revealed that some persons from Bhavnagar had attended the congregation.
At least 17 people from Himachal Pradesh also attended the congregation, a state police spokesperson said.
A Srinagar-based businessman is being seen as the "super-spreader" in this entire case as he travelled by air, train and road to Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and back to Jammu and Kashmir before he died of COVID-19 on March 26, raising fears he may have infected many others along the way, officials said on Tuesday.
Six people in Telangana who attended the meeting in the city's Nizamuddin West area also died on Monday.
According to officials, other states from where the attendees had come include Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Andaman Nicobar Islands, Rajasthan, Kerala, Odisha, Punjab and Meghalaya.
In Andhra Pradesh, officials said more than half of the 40 people who have tested positive for coronavirus in the state were linked to the Nizamuddin event.
Including the 24 new cases related to Nizamuddin, the total number of confirmed cases in Delhi was seen nearing 100, while Maharashtra reported 72 new coronavirus patients in the state including 59 in Mumbai.
Kerala also reported 7 new cases, taking the total number of those affected in the state to 215. The state also reported its second death from COVID-19.
Fresh deaths were also reported from West Bengal and Punjab, among other places.
The government, however, asserted that there is no shortage of medicines to combat the deadly virus outbreak and the Department of Pharmaceuticals is regularly monitoring distribution and addressing issues with the help of other departments, states and Union Territories.
Seeking cooperation from the public to fight the pandemic, the Union Health Ministry officials said there was no need to panic. They also said not everyone needs to wear masks and that following social distancing is more important to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Separately, a petition was filed in the Supreme Court seeking a direction to the Centre and authorities concerned to provide free of cost testing facility for COVID-19 to all citizens in the country.
The plea has also sought a direction to the authorities for ramping up the testing facilities for COVID-19 at the earliest "given the escalating mortality and morbidity rate across the country".
Globally, the COVID-19 tally has crossed 8 lakh confirmed cases, while more than 37,000 people have died.
22:44 April 01
The person from Dharavi in Mumbai who had tested positive for Coronavirus has died at Sion Hospital. He had symptoms like fever, cough, respiratory issues and also had co-morbid condition of renal failure.
20:42 April 01
A 57-year-old British citizen who was under treatment for COVID19 has been discharged from Ernakulam Medical College.
20:39 April 01
Maharashtra Health Dept: 33 new COVID-19 cases reported today in state - 30 from Mumbai, 2 from Pune&1 from Buldhana.
State tally of COVID-19 cases rises to 335. 3 deaths today. 2 in Mumbai – 75-yr-old & 51-yr-old men,and 3rd a 50-yr old man from Palghar. No history of international travel.
20:24 April 01
One Coronavirus positive case has been found in Shahu Nagar of Dharavi in Mumbai
A 56-yr-old man from Dharavi has been found to be Coronavirus positive. He has been shifted to Sion Hospital. Other 7 members of his family placed under home quarantine. They will be tested tomorrow. The building they live in has been sealed: Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation.
20:11 April 01
Haryana: Out of the ten COVID-19 patients in district Gurugram, 9 people have fully recovered.
20:10 April 01
Total COVID-19 positive cases in Delhi rises to 152 including 53 positive cases from Markaz Nizamuddin.
19:08 April 01
TN records 110 new COVID-19 cases, all Tablighi event returnees
As many as 110 people who returned to Tamil Nadu from Tablighi Jamaat meet in Delhi tested positive for coronavirus on Wednesday, taking the total cases
in the state to 234, a top Health department official said.
This is a quantum jump as the state recorded the highest number of new cases in a single day so far.
Health Secretary Beela Rajesh told reporters here that 110 people hailing from 15 districts of the state have tested positive for the contagion.
All of them had participated in the Delhi religious congregation and the tally of COVID-19 cases in the state now stood at 234, she said.
Around 1,500 people from Tamil Nadu had attended the event last month and of them over 1,131 have returned to the state so far.
18:55 April 01
Union HRD Minister Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank: In view of the current situation due to COVID-19, all CBSE school students studying in classes I-VIII to be promoted to the next class; Students of classes IX and XI to be promoted based on internal assessment of schools.
18:54 April 01
Rohit Kansal, Principal Secretary (Planning), J&K Administration: COVID-19 cases have risen to 62 in Jammu & Kashmir out which 58 are active cases. While 58 of the active cases have been reported in Kashmir division, 10 are in Jammu. 17041 people are under active surveillance.
18:52 April 01
Haryana Health Department: There are total 29 COVID-19 positive cases in the state. Out of total 29 positive cases, 10 are in Gurugram, 6 in Faridabad, 4 in Panipat, 3 in Sirsa, 2 in Panchkula and 1 each in Ambala, Hisar, Palwal and Sonipat. Out of which, 9 patients of Gurugram, 2 patient from Panipat, 1 patient each from Faridabad & Palwal are discharged
18:51 April 01
Subhas Burse, DCP, Mumbra, Thane, Maharashtra: 13 Bangladeshi nationals and 2 people from Assam who visited Markaz Nizamuddin who came to Thane have been home quarantined. Their test reports will be available by tomorrow. On the basis of the report, further action will be taken.
18:50 April 01
Total 9 persons including 7 Indonesian nationals and 2 Indians who attended event at Markaz Nizamuddin have been identified. They have been in kept in government quarantine and have showed no symptoms as of now: SP, West Midnapore, West Bengal
17:47 April 01
Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan: "Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) kits, N95 masks etc are available in adequate quantities. If in future, more masks, PPE kits, ventilators, ICU beds etc are needed, then, we are prepared for it."
17:37 April 01
120 positive cases reported till this morning. Total 766 people are admitted to the hospitals of Delhi due to Corona. Out of them 112 are positive, rest are possibly infected and are being tested.
16:37 April 01
R Ganga Ketkar, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR): "We have conducted 47,951 tests till date. There are 126 labs in ICMR network, number of private labs that have been approved are 51."
15:51 April 01
Mohali district administration: Three more COVID-19 cases emerged in Mohali today. They are stated to be close contacts of the positive cases in Chandigarh & have been put under quarantine.
15:51 April 01
Delhi: 2 resident doctors of Safdarjung hospital have tested positive for COVID-19 - a male doctor posted in COVID-19 unit and another resident doctor, a 3rd-year female PG student from Biochemistry department. According to the officials, she has a past travel history to aboard.
15:36 April 01
Chief Medical Health Officer Pratap Singh: "Thirty-seven attendees of Delhi's Tablighi Jamaat event have been traced & placed under quarantine in Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan. We will collect their samples for testing & take further action accordingly."
15:34 April 01
13 new COVID-19 positive cases reported from Ramganj in Jaipur on Wednesday.
Rajasthan Health Department: 13 more positive cases of COVID-19 reported from Ramganj Bazar, Jaipur. All 13 are contacts of the first person who tested positive in Ramganj. They have been kept in isolation at Rajasthan University of Health Sciences and NIMS & samples were taken.
15:08 April 01
Eatala Rajender, Telangana Health Minister: "Around 1,200 people from Telangana had attended Markaz gathering in Delhi, some of them were found COVID-19 positive, six of them died. In the last three days only those who had gone to Delhi for Markaz have tested positive for COVID-19."
15:07 April 01
Prime Minister Narendra Modi to hold video conferencing with all CMs tomorrow over COVID-19.
15:05 April 01
Assam Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma: Total 5 COVID-19 positive cases have been reported in Assam - 1 shifted to Silchar Medical College and Hospital and 4 to Gauhati Medical College in Guwahati.
14:49 April 01
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal: If anyone loses their life while serving COVID-19 patients, whether sanitation workers, doctors or nurses, their family will be provided Rs 1 crore as respect to their service. Whether they are from private or government sector doesn't matter.
14:47 April 01
Ministry of Information & Broadcasting: Cabinet Secretary took a meeting today by video-conferencing with all the Chief Secretaries/DGPs of states. They were sensitized about the intensive contact tracing of Tablighi Jamat participants as this has increased the risk of containment efforts of COVID-19. It has been found that foreigners who had participated in the Tablighi Jamat had violated visa conditions. Concerned states were asked to initiate action for violation of visa condition against the foreigners & the organizers of the event.
14:43 April 01
Railway official: A railway police head constable has tested positive for COVID-19. He has been quarantined at Kasturba hospital, Mumbai along with 5 of his colleagues. His 3 family members & 8 other colleagues have also been asked to remain in quarantine.
13:56 April 01
Kerala: 22 people from Mallapuram district had attended the (Tablighi Jamaat) meeting at Delhi's Nizamuddin. They have been placed under home quarantined on their return, says Superintendent of Police Abdul Kareem.
13:53 April 01
26 people of Uttarakhand participated in Tablighi Jamaat event at Delhi's Nizamuddin Markaz
They are still in Delhi. 173 out of 713 people who participated in regular jamaats at the mosque in last 28 days have been quarantined.
13:32 April 01
Ramesh Angral SSP District Police, Poonch, Jammu & Kashmir: "Ten people who arrived in Poonch district after attending Tablighi Jamaat (in Delhi's Nizamuddin) have been identified by District Administration. All of them have been kept under quarantine."
13:30 April 01
Karnataka Health Minister B Sriramulu: "200 people including 4 from Bengaluru & 5 from Belgaum, who participated in Tablighi Jamaat (in Delhi's Nizamuddin), have been quarantined. Total 342 people from Karnataka had attended the event."
13:28 April 01
First death due to COVID-19 reported in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur
The total number of coronavirus cases in the state stands at 101.
13:14 April 01
According to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Increase of 240 COVID-19 cases in the last 12 hours. Total number of COVID-19 positive cases rise to 1637 in India (including 1466 active cases, 133 cured/discharged/migrated people and 38 deaths).
13:12 April 01
Chief Minister's Office, Andhra Pradesh: All the 43 patients tested positive for COVID-19 today in Andhra Pradesh have returned after attending the event at Delhi's Nizamuddin Markaz.
12:35 April 01
23 COVID-19 cases have been reported in Bihar till today morning
Principal Secretary, Bihar Health Dept: "State govt has decided to test all the people who have returned from abroad after 18th March, because we have found that even those who had no symptoms have tested positive."
12:32 April 01
Prayagraj, SP (City): 7 Indonesian nationals & one each from Kolkata & Kerala were found at the Abdullah mosque. During investigation it was found that they had attended the Markaz gathering in Delhi, they & 28 others who came in contact with them quarantined. Case registered.
12:29 April 01
Dr Praveen Jadiya, Chief Medical Health Officer: 19 more people have been tested positive for COVID-19, taking the total number of cases to 63 in Indore, Madhya Pradesh.
Most of the new cases are contacts of infected people. 600 people have been placed in quarantine in Indore.
12:08 April 01
Sanjay Kumar, Principal Secretary, Bihar Health Department: We have received a list of 81 people who had attended the Markaz gathering (in Nizamuddin, Delhi). 17 in Patna and 13 in Buxar have been traced as of now, we will trace others also.
11:44 April 01
Delhi's Nizamuddin Markaz has been evacuated by authorities and evacuees were sent to quarantine as 24 positive cases of coronavirus were reported till Tuesday night. Sources say a total of 2100 people have been evacuated from the Markaz till early morning on Wednesday and suspected people have been shifted to hospitals. Tablighi Jamaat Markaz has been booked for violating the Epidemic Act provisions and also IPC Section 120B (criminal conspiracy).
11:42 April 01
Nodal Officer, Andhra Pradesh: 43 new positive COVID-19 cases detected in Andhra Pradesh since 9 PM on 31st March till 9 AM today.
With this, the total number of positive cases in the state has increased to 87.
11:12 April 01
Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia: "2,361 people were brought out from there (Markaz, Nizamuddin) out of which 617, who had symptoms have been taken to hospitals, others have been quarantined. I thank all those who participated in this 36 hour operation & risked their lives."
10:58 April 01
Gujarat Health Department: 8 new COVID-19 positive cases have been detected in Ahmedabad taking the total number of positive cases in Gujarat to 82.
As of now, only three patients are on ventilator support.
10:26 April 01
Ahmednagar Collector: 34 people traced in Ahmednagar, including 29 foreigners who had attended the Markaz in Nizamuddin, Delhi.
Out of these 29 foreigners, results of 14 have come & 2 have tested positive for COVID-19. 3 people who came in contact with them also tested positive.
10:23 April 01
Delhi: A doctor working at a Delhi government hospital has tested positive for COVID-19.
10:20 April 01
20 new COVID-19 cases in MP; tally jumps to 86
Twenty more people tested positive for coronavirus in Madhya Pradesh on Wednesday, taking the total number of such cases in the state to 86, a health
official said.
Among the new cases, 19 were reported from Indore and one from the neighbouring Khargone district, he said.
Of the 19 new patients in Indore, nine are from one family, including three children, aged 3, 5 and 8, residing in Tanzeem Nagar area of the city, the official said.
A police official from Indore is also among the new coronavirus patients.
He is admitted to a private hospital, Additional Superintendent of Police Guru Prasad Parashar said.
As a precautionary measure, the police officials wife and two daughters are also kept in a separate ward of the hospital.
The police station where the official was posted as in-charge has been sanitised and steps are taken to protect the other staff from the infection, Parashar said.
Indore has been the worst hit in the state as 63 coronavirus cases have been reported from the industrial city so far. Three of these patients earlier died.
Besides, Jabalpur has so far reported eight cases, Ujjain-six, Bhopal-four, Shivpuri and Gwalior two each and Khargone-one.
Of the total 86 patients, five died, including three of Indore and two from Ujjain, the official added.
10:05 April 01
Rajasthan Health Department: No new case of COVID-19 in Rajasthan, as of 9 am today, total positive cases in the state still stands at 93 (including 2 Italians & 17 evacuees from Iran). Out of those 93 people, 14 tested negative later while 5 have been discharged.
10:04 April 01
Goa Health Minister Vishwajit Rane: All the 14 tests conducted at Goa Medical College & Hospital on possibly infected COVID-19 patients have come negative. Today 25 more tests will be conducted.
10:02 April 01
Himachal Pradesh, Health Department: Till date total 229 suspected COVID-19 was investigated in which 222 samples have been found negative and 3 samples were positive.
10:02 April 01
Maharashtra: 16 more persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Mumbai and two more cases have been reported in Pune, taking the total number of cases in the state to 320. Total 12 people have died due to COVID-19 in the state till now.
09:46 April 01
Search begins for Nizamuddin-linked suspected cases as tally increases across India
New Delhi: Authorities launched a nationwide search on Tuesday for participants of a huge religious gathering held earlier this month in the national capital's Nizamuddin area, which has become the new epicentre of the deadly virus pandemic amid fears that thousands present there could have carried the infection to the length and breadth of the country.
Thousands of participants of the Tablighi Jamaat held in mid-March in Nizamuddin, which also is home to a famous Dargah, are known to have returned to their homes in virtually every state including Telangana, West Bengal, Karnataka and Gujarat. Many of these states have reported COVID-19 cases linked to this congregation.
Several fresh cases of infection were reported on Tuesday from Delhi, Maharashtra, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Jammu and Kashmir and Bihar, among other places, taking the nationwide tally well past 1,400 with at least 45 deaths, as per figures announced by government officials in different states.
But, a consolidated official tally announced later in the evening by the Union Health Ministry put the total number of confirmed cases at 1,397 and 35 deaths, marking an increase of 146 positive cases and three deaths since Monday night -- two in Punjab and one in Maharashtra.
However, this apparently did not include six deaths reported by Telangana government last night, all of who had attended the Nizamuddin congregation.
While the Union Health Ministry's tally, updated as on 8.30 PM Tuesday, put the total number of confirmed cases in Tamil Nadu at 74, the state government put its aggregate number at 124, with at least 77 of them having links to the Tablighi Jamaat.
For Maharashtra also, the Centre's tally was 216, but the state government officials put the figure at 302 with an increase of 82 in a day.
Officials have been saying that some mismatch occurs due to delay in assigning certain cases to a particular state after doing necessary checks.
According to the Health Ministry data, active COVID-19 cases stands at 1,238, while 123 people have been either cured or discharged and one had migrated.
The central government separately told the Supreme Court it has taken "proactive and preemptive timely steps" to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, but termed fake news as the biggest hindrance and sought a direction for the media not to publish any COVID-19 information without ascertaining facts with authorities.
The apex court asked the Centre to prevent migration of people due to coronavirus and to set up within 24 hours a portal for disseminating real time information on the pandemic to counter the panic being spread through fake news.
It also said "panic will destroy more lives than the virus" and asked the Centre to get trained counsellors and community leaders of all faiths to calm down the migrants, rather than the police to avoid use of force and intimidation.
The Union Health Ministry lamented that the number of hotspots has risen due to "lack of people's support and delay in timely detection" of the cases.
Health Ministry Joint Secretary Lav Agarwal said the government is using cluster containment strategies and doing rigorous contact tracing in these hotspots to check the virus from further spreading.
Within the national capital, more than 1,100 people who attended the congregation have been quarantined while at least 441 have been hospitalised. The government is screening all those who participated in the event, officials said.
Agarwal, however, said it was not the time to find faults but to take action.
In the national capital alone, at least 24 people who took part in the religious congregation, Tablighi Jamaat, have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said, as he slammed the organisers for being "highly irresponsible" on their part to hold such an event at a time when thousands have died in other countries due to the pandemic.
The Union Home Ministry said approximately 2,100 foreigners visited India for 'tabligh' activities this year, including those from Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Nepal, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Kyrgyzstan.
It also said that all state police have been asked to locate Indian Tabligh Jamaat workers from local coordinators, followed by their medical screening and quarantine.
So far, 2137 such people have been identified and are being medically examined and quarantined, while more would be located, the Ministry said.
Several state governments, including in West Bengal, Assam and Manipur, said they are taking steps to locate participants of the Nizamuddin event.
Karnataka government said 54 people from the state had attended the event, out of which 13 have been identified but they have tested negative for the COVID-19.
Gujarat police also launched a probe to identify all the attendees from the state and said primary investigations has revealed that some persons from Bhavnagar had attended the congregation.
At least 17 people from Himachal Pradesh also attended the congregation, a state police spokesperson said.
A Srinagar-based businessman is being seen as the "super-spreader" in this entire case as he travelled by air, train and road to Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and back to Jammu and Kashmir before he died of COVID-19 on March 26, raising fears he may have infected many others along the way, officials said on Tuesday.
Six people in Telangana who attended the meeting in the city's Nizamuddin West area also died on Monday.
According to officials, other states from where the attendees had come include Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Andaman Nicobar Islands, Rajasthan, Kerala, Odisha, Punjab and Meghalaya.
In Andhra Pradesh, officials said more than half of the 40 people who have tested positive for coronavirus in the state were linked to the Nizamuddin event.
Including the 24 new cases related to Nizamuddin, the total number of confirmed cases in Delhi was seen nearing 100, while Maharashtra reported 72 new coronavirus patients in the state including 59 in Mumbai.
Kerala also reported 7 new cases, taking the total number of those affected in the state to 215. The state also reported its second death from COVID-19.
Fresh deaths were also reported from West Bengal and Punjab, among other places.
The government, however, asserted that there is no shortage of medicines to combat the deadly virus outbreak and the Department of Pharmaceuticals is regularly monitoring distribution and addressing issues with the help of other departments, states and Union Territories.
Seeking cooperation from the public to fight the pandemic, the Union Health Ministry officials said there was no need to panic. They also said not everyone needs to wear masks and that following social distancing is more important to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Separately, a petition was filed in the Supreme Court seeking a direction to the Centre and authorities concerned to provide free of cost testing facility for COVID-19 to all citizens in the country.
The plea has also sought a direction to the authorities for ramping up the testing facilities for COVID-19 at the earliest "given the escalating mortality and morbidity rate across the country".
Globally, the COVID-19 tally has crossed 8 lakh confirmed cases, while more than 37,000 people have died.
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