Lucknow lockdown news: Today's updates from your city

TIMESOFINDIA.COM | Updated: Apr 6, 2020, 10:34 IST

Migrants lodged at the Indira Gandhi Pratisthan on their arrival in Lucknow from various states.

Amid prevalent chaos and uncertainty over access to the essential services and commodities during the lockdown, we bring you the latest updates from your city.
Update at 9.30am: Bollywood singer Kanika Kapoor discharged from hospital after her sixth sample tests negative for Covid-19
Update at 8.45am: 16 more people (all men) test positive for Covid-19, they are admitted at various hospitals in the state, reports ANI quoting King George's Medical University (Lucknow) administration
Update at 8.10am: An Indonesian national who attended Tablighi Jamaat in Nizamuddin, Delhi tests positive for coronavirus. He is currently under quarantine, reports ANI quoting Allahabad district administration.
* 50% of UP’s 282 Covid cases now linked to Tablighi Jamaat
With 143 out of 282 coronavirus cases in Uttar Pradesh linked to Tablighi Jamaat, now every second Covid-19 patient in the state is either a Jamaat member who attended the Nizamuddin congregation in Delhi or his contact.
* TJ chief spurned call to cancel event: Aides
Tablighi Jamaat chief Maulana Muhammad Saad Kandhlawi reportedly didn't listen to advice and requests from several senior clerics, Muslim intellectuals and his own aides to cancel the March 2020 Nizamuddin meet soon after the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.
* 4 Jamaatis test positive, four Old City areas sealed in Lucknow
Hours after four of 50 Tablighi Jamaat members from Jaipur holed up in mosques and a residential house in Old City tested positive for covid-19, four localities were completely sealed on Sunday. At least 700 policemen, including provincial armed constabulary (PAC) personnel were swiftly deployed to enforce sealing and sanitization of these areas — Phoolbagh, Alamnagar, Gulabnagar and Astabal.
* Debate over Tablighis turns violent, 1 dead
A man was shot dead after a debate over 'who is responsible for coronavirus outbreak' between two rival groups of different communities turned violent in Prayagraj on Sunday. Following the incident, heavy police force was deployed in Bakshi Moda village, under the jurisdiction of Kareli police station, where the crime took place.
* Yogi meets religious leaders, seeks help in fight against corona
As the number of Covid-19 positive patients having links with Tablighi Jamaat event in Delhi continues to spiral, UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday interacted with 377 religious leaders, including Muslim clerics, and exhorted them to ask people to take preventive steps to check spread of coronavirus.