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Rs 1.44 crore has also been collected by the police after imposing challans or fines on 69,000 vehicles for violating lockdown rules, he said.

The initiative will enable countries to prepare alternative learning programmes in the case of school closures and help schools keep children and their communities safe by providing vital information on handwashing and other hygiene practices.

The comment comes after the government unveiled a Rs 1.70-lakh-crore package involving free food grain and cooking gas to the poor for the next three months, one-time doles to women and poor senior citizens and higher wages to workers, among others.

Kejriwal, who attended a meeting with L-G Anil Baijal, said a total of 36 people had tested positive for coronavirus in the Capital.

A Delhi Health official said the clinic in Mohanpuri area of Maujpur has been closed and is being sanitised.

Kishor also underscored shaky preparedness to deal with the pandemics outbreak in the country where there was very little to safeguard the poor.

Over the last fortnight, an unprecedented number of passengers - over 15.24 lakh have been screened at airports and a large section of them have been quarantined.

Chaitra Navratri marks the beginning of the new year of Hindu calendar. Considered as the Goddess of shakti (power), Durga is believed to provide inner strength to her devotees.

All capital and debt market services notified by markets regulator Sebi would be exempted from the lockdown, as per the government notification.

Sarma said the situation could aggravated as the deadly Japanese Encephalitis hits Assam around April every year, followed by several waves of flood from May-June onwards.

The AIIMS Resident Doctor’s Association has asked the government to issue an order prohibiting landlords and home-owners from evicting medical professionals working tirelessly amid the outbreak.

The molecular diagnostic company can manufacture over 15,000 testing kits per day from its facility at Lonavala in Pune district and the same will be ramped up to 25,000 kits per day.

The girl was alone in the house while her parents along with her siblings had gone to work in the agricultural fields. When they returned, they found the girl's semi-nude body in a pool of blood in the courtyard of the house.

As cases of the viral infection surged in the past few days, authorities have put almost the entire country under lockdown, banning gathering of people and suspending road, rail and air traffic till March 31.

The uncle, Nitesh Tripathi, said that he decided to name the baby after the deadly virus because Corona has unified the world on this issue.

As of now, the government has surplus foodgrains of 435 lakh tonnes, out of which 272.19 lakh tonnes are rice and 162.79 lakh tonnes are wheat, as per the government data.