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Coronavirus Crisis Updates: April 2, 2020

• 3 more persons have tested positive for COVID19 in Uttarakhand, taking the total number of cases to 10. There are 245 Tablighi Jamaat (Delhi) attendees in institutional quarantine in the state: State Health Department.
• 5 more persons have tested positive for COVID19 in Bihar taking total number of cases to 29. 2 are from Gopalganj with travel history to Middle East and 1 from Saran with travel history to UK. 2 are from Gaya and are contacts of earlier positive cases: State Health Department.
• 16 Haj houses across the country turned into quarantine centres for Cororonavirus cases: Union Minister for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi.
• 141 fresh COVID19 positive cases in last 24 hours, including 129 positive cases from Markaz Nizamuddin; Total 4 deaths including 2 from Markaz Nizamuddin: Delhi Government.
• Increase of 235 COVID19 cases in the last  24 hours. Total number of COVID19 positive cases rise to 2069 in India (including 1860 active cases, 155 cured/discharged/migrated people and 53 deaths): Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
• Total COVID19 positive cases in Delhi rises to 293 including 182 positive cases from Markaz Nizamuddin: Government of Delhi.
• A resident doctor of AIIMS who was tested positive for COVID19 earlier today, his 9 months pregnant wife (a doctor posted at Emergency) has also been tested positive. She has been isolated and her delivery will take place at AIIMS.
• The home ministry has blacklisted 960 foreigners, linked to Delhi's Tablighi Jamaat event, and has suspended their Indian visas.
• A 59-year-old woman and her 10-month-old granddaughter have tested positive for #COVID19 in Chandigarh. They are primary family contacts of NRI couple (Positive for COVID-19). Total cases in the Union Territory is 18, so far: Chandigarh Health Department.
• A pregnant woman from Kollam district is also among the 21 new COVID19 positive cases in Kerala: Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan.
• 21 more persons have tested positive for #Coronavirus in Kerala. Total cases in the state are 286 of which 256 are active cases: Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan
• Out of 2346 people brought from Markaz Nizamuddin,1810 persons quarantined & 536 people admitted to city hospitals; Tests of all 2346 persons are being done. Due to this it is possible that the no. of COVID19 cases in the city might rise in coming days: Delhi CM
• Rs 5000 each will be transferred into the accounts of auto, taxi, e-rickshaw, RTV & Gramin Sewa drivers and all those plying public service vehicles. This might take between a week and 10 days to implement: Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal.
• Maharashtra Government has declared 30 government hospitals of the state as COVID19 hospitals. A total of 2305 beds are available in these 30 COVID-19 hospitals: State Health Ministry.
• Around 50 members of medical staff (including doctors, nurses and paramedics) across the country have tested positive for Coronavirus: Health Ministry official.
• Out of about 2,000 Tablighi Jamaat members in Delhi, 1,804 have been quarantined, 334 admitted to hospitals: MHA official.
• About 9,000 Tablighi Jamaat members and their contacts quarantined till now across country: MHA official.
• Two of the five coronavirus patients undergoing treatment in Goa tested negative for the infection on Thursday, indicating that they were on the path of recovery, the state government said.
• Eleven more people have tested positive for COVID-19 taking the total number of cases to 131 in Rajasthan including two Italian & 14 attendees of Tablighi Jamaat in Delhi: State Health department.
• COVID19 cases rise to 33 in Haryana, with active cases standing at 20: State Health Department.
• "Possibly infected, confirmed & serious cases will be kept in separate wards. A facility has been set up in the hospital for the doctors & nurses treating the patients. They will not go to their homes for 14 days," says Dr Bishnu, CEO of COVID-19 Hospital, KIMS in Bhubaneswar.
• A resident doctor of the Physiology Department of All India Institute Of Medical Science (AIIMS), Delhi has tested positive for COVID-19. He is admitted to the new private ward for further evaluation and multiple testing. His family will also be screened.
• Forty eight suspected COVID-19 samples sent by the Goa Health Department to the National Institute of Virology in Pune earlier this week have rested negative, Health Minister Vishwajit Rane confirmed. 
• We meet today in midst of an unprecedented health and humanitarian crisis. The magnitude of the challenge before us is daunting but our resolve to overcome it must be greater: Congress Interim President Sonia Gandhi at Congress Working Committee meeting (via video conferencing)
• Increase of 131 COVID-19 cases in the last 12 hours. Total number of COVID-19 positive cases rise to 1965 in India (including 1764 active cases, 151 cured/discharged/migrated people and 50 deaths)
• Mayor of Los Angeles has told the citizens of LA to start wearing masks to combat the coronavirus.
• A 23-year-old migrant labourer who escaped from a quarantine centre to meet his family in Lakhimpur, allegedly committed suicide after learning that police were searching for him.
• Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said that his country is slowing the spread of the COVID-19 disease and saving lives.
• 3 more coronavirus cases reported in Maharashtra (2 from Pune & 1 from Buldhana) taking the total number of positive cases in the state to 338
• A 52-year-old COVID19 patient lost his life today morning. He had a history of travel to Sri Lanka and was admitted to SSG Hospital, Vadodara on 19 March. 4 members of his family have also tested positive for the virus&are undergoing treatment
• The global COVID-19 death toll is nearing 50,000 mark as the number of cases stand at the brink of breaching the one million mark.

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