8.10 am: Five more people test positive for the novel coronavirus in Rajasthan in connection with the Tablighi Jamaat event in Nizamuddin....
8.10 am: Five more people test positive for the novel coronavirus in Rajasthan in connection with the Tablighi Jamaat event in Nizamuddin.
#NewsAlert | Five test positive for #COVID19 in Rajasthan's Tonk. They are close contacts of the positive patients who attended #TablighiJamaat event in Delhi.
— The New Indian Express (@NewIndianXpress) April 3, 2020
8.02 am: Even as medical officials try to track down those who came in contact with hundreds of infected people at the headquarters of the Tablighi Jamaat in Delhi, the state health secretary says many of those quarantined from the coronavirus hotspot are not cooperating with authorities, NDTV reports.
Health Secretary Padmini Singhala, in a letter to the Delhi police commissioner, requests extra security to manage the thousands of people quarantined from the Nizamuddin markaz. More than 2,000 people were moved out of the area earlier this week, and over 9,000 have been quarantined in connection with the virus hotspot.
7.58 am: Prime Minister Modi on Thursday held a video conference with the chief ministers of all states. At the meeting, Bharatiya Janata Party ally and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had several complaints, reports NDTV. Kumar said that his state had asked for 5 lakh protective kits for doctors but had got only 5,000, and got no ventilators at all when it had...
