Mumbai's
Wockhardt Hospital has been declared a containment zone after several staff tested positive. Wockhardt's Chairman said the infection spread from the non-Covid section of the hospital.
In other news, the Cabinet reduced salaries of MPs by 30% for a year today and suspended MPLAD funds for 2 years.
Meanwhile, on lifting the
lockdown,
ICMR said that it would depend on the doubling rate of infections this week and also identification of new hotspots. India is not yet in the community transmission stage, it said, even as 693 new cases were reported on Sunday alone.
Elsewhere, Americans braced for the 'hardest and saddest'week of their lives with tragedies similar to the 9/11 attacks and the Pearl Harbour bombing as Covid death toll approached the 10,000-mark.
Track all the other updates of the day here...
INDIA'S CASE COUNT
- 33 more cases in Maharashtra; state tally jumps to 781
- Total cases rise to 135 in Indore
- Bhopal's count touches 50 as 9 more test positive
- 16 new cases in Gujarat, state total now 144
- 62-yr-old dies in Vadodara; Gujarat toll now 12
- Telangana reported 62 new cases on Sunday, taking total to 334
- 16 more people test positive in Lucknow
- 8 more people test positive in Rajasthan, state count now 274
- 9 with Tablighi links test positive in Haryana's Palwal, state total up to 85
- Third death in Uttar Pradesh, curfew in parts of Varanasi
- 14 new cases, 2 deaths in Andhra Pradesh, total number in the state to 266
- 12 more cases in Karnataka; Total in the state now 163
- 16 fresh cases reported in UP, total nears 300-mark
- 60-year-old who tested positive dies in Rajasthan
- 14-month-old boy with no travel history tests positive in Gujarat's Jamnagar
| World |
India |
Global Death Toll |
| 1,276,302 |
4067 |
69,527
|
- Orders placed for 5 lakh rapid antibody testing kits
- Northern Railways' PPE samples clear DRDO test
- King George's Medical University doubles testing capacity
- Liquor maker Bacardi to would produce 70,000 liters of hand sanitizer
- Covid-19 hospital in Odisha inaugurated; to be funded by Coal India arm
ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
- US announces $2.9 million support to India
- Lockdown hits India's March services sector
- March gold imports hit 6-1/2-year low on record price
- PepsiCo commits 25,000 testing kits, over 5 million meals to India
AROUND THE WORLD