Delhi lockdown news: Today's updates from your city

TIMESOFINDIA.COM | Updated: Apr 6, 2020, 13:15 IST

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.
* Shab-e-Barat: Cops urge people to follow curbs
Delhi Police has urged the Muslim community not to gather during Shab-e-Barat. Legal action will be taken against the people found violating the guidelines, it has warned. In a tweet, Delhi Police urged the Muslims to support the department in the fight against novel coronavirus. “Lockdown is in force even on the sacred night of Shab-e-Barat on April 8 and 9, 2020. Do not misuse it by coming out on bikes and create chaos on the streets,” police added.
*Update at 11.25am | We have not been able to trace the contact of 70 people, out of the total number of positive cases found in Delhi. Many of them were found to be positive only yesterday, so we will find it out by this evening: Delhi health minister Satyendar Jain
*Update at 11.19am | The central government had said that they are giving us 27,000 PPE kits. We did not get it on Sunday, maybe we will receive it in a day or two: ANI quotes Delhi health minister Satyendar Jain.
* Update at 10.57am: Around 198 FIRs lodged by Delhi Police over violation of home quarantine orders. These FIRs were registered not only on the basis of the complaints by neighbours or family members but also on the basis of phone tracking, reports ANI quoting Delhi Police.
* East Delhi BJP MP Gautam Gambhir on Monday offered Rs 50 lakh from his MPLAD fund to the Delhi government for procurement of equipment for medical staff dealing with Covid-19 cases, around two weeks after he pledged the same amount for the purpose.

* Delhi government’s legal metrology department has taken penal action against six establishments in Old Delhi’s Lahori Gate and Shraddhanand market for violating various provisions of packaged commodity rules.
* Update at 7.56am: Shri Digambar Jain Ratnatraya Jain Mandir in Dwarka is closed on the occasion of Mahavir Jayanti, due to coronavirus lockdown. A Jain monk says, "The temple is closed in view of the coronavirus pandemic as 'rashtra dharm' comes first".

* Parents write to govt seeking fee reprieve
The new academic session was to begin on April 1. The schools have been shut as a precautionary measure against Covid-19 for some time, however, schools have started sending in fee receipts to the parents. Parent associations of different private schools have demanded that Delhi government intervene against the fee collection as parents have been impacted due to the lockdown.
The Delhi parent association has written to the deputy chief minister and education minister Manish Sisodia seeking intervention on the fee collection. Even several parent associations on their individual capacity have been sending letters to the government so that they can get fee waiver till the lockdown is in place.
* About 6.5 lakh people, who are left with no ration or money due to the nationwide lockdown imposed to prevent the novel coronavirus from spreading, had food at Delhi government-run hunger relief centres in the national capital on April 4.
* To ensure efficacious distribution of financial assistance to the vulnerable section by the Centre and Delhi government, chief secretary Vijay Dev has asked various banks in the capital to ensure there is adequate cash in ATM, besides provisions of social distancing and hygiene to prevent novel coronavirus from spreading.
* The Covid-19 death toll in Delhi has reached seven with the state health authorities confirming one more casualty due to the novel coronavirus infection on Sunday.