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The plea said that fundamental right to life under Article 21 of the Constitution needs to be enforced for migrant workers who are severely affected by the lockdown ordered by the government on March 24.

The order said the absence of workers on April 2 had disrupted emergency services at the hospital, a COVID-19 institution and interrupted in the discharge of duty by other officials in the hospital.

The Shiv Sena called the issue a 'matter of national health and not religion.' 'The Muslim community, too, would have supported such a move. Violating the lockdown is playing with other people's lives,' it said.

Himanta Biswa Sarma had said a total of eight persons from Golaghat district tested positive on Wednesday.

It called for more testing for coronavirus and said extensive testing in many countries had led to containment of the spread of the deadly virus.

The central government has managed to get a list of all those who attended the event and claims to have tracked down most with what appears to be a boots on the ground, old-school policing using the local intelligence networks.

Health Minister Eatela Rajnder had also condemned the incident, promising immediate and stringent action.

Saying people have no need to panic, the Andhra Pradesh CM claimed if they take medicines continuously for 14 days, Covid-19 will be cured.

Police officials said while some returned back to Kerala after attending the religious gathering in Delhi's Nizamuddin mosque, a large number of attendees from dispersed to other states due to the lockdown.

Post August 5, residents of both Jammu and Kashmir had expressed concerns that ending the erstwhile state’s special status may lead to demographic changes with outsiders being given power to own land in the UT.

Health officials are investigating whether a 57-year-old man who succumbed to the illness had any foreign travel history as the state's total coronavirus cases surged to 34.

The first patient who was discharged from Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest Diseases in Bengaluru said he found it difficult to sleep at night due to the jet lag in addition to the stress of being tested positive for COVID-19.

While the day is not a public holiday in any city or country, the only exception is Odessa, Ukraine, who marks an official city holiday on April 1.

The government said that of the approximately 1,500 people who took part in the meet in Delhi, 1,131 had returned to TN, about 800 were traced and 300 could not be found so far and the rest were quarantined by the authorities in Delhi.

The 24 people, including foreign nationals, were traced to a mosque at Hindpiri in the city on Monday and kept at a quarantine facility in Ranchi.

Milk producers, sericulturists, flower cultivators, fruit and vegetable growers and many others who survive on daily income are finding it nearly impossible to sell their goods.