Coronavirus: India has 11,439 COVID-19 cases and there have been 393deaths.
A list of 170 hotspot districts have been identified by the Centre, which includes all six metros and most large cities. The list marked 123 districts as "large outbreaks" -- which includes all nine districts of national capital Delhi. Mumbai, Kolkata, 9 districts of Bengaluru Urban, Hyderabad, Chennai, Jaipur and Agra were among the areas marked hotspots also on the list.
On Wednesday, India was praised by the International Monetary Fund Wednesday for its proactive decision of nationwide lockdown in its fight against coronavirus. A day earlier, the IMF in its World Economic Outlook had forecast India's growth rate to be 1.9 per cent in 2020.
More than 20 lakh jobs are at risk in India's aviation space and dependent sectors in the wake of the pandemic, according to global airlines' grouping International Air Transport Association.
Commercial flight services have been suspended till May 3 as the government has extended the nationwide lockdown in continuing efforts to curb the spread of coronavirus infection, which has already affected more than 11,000 people in the country.
On March 25, India entered a three-week lockdown, which was slated to end on April 14. The lockdown was extended till May 3.
India has 11,439 COVID-19 cases and there have been 393 deaths, according to the latest Health Ministry data.
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"कोरोना से लड़ाई में बहुत अच्छा काम हो रहा है और ऐसा लग रहा है कि पूरा हिंदुस्तान वाकई एक दूसरे से जुड़ा हुआ है। लेकिन चंद लोगों की वजह से ये बीमारी फैलती जा रही है।
- BJP (@BJP4India) April 16, 2020
हम सब रहें या कोई ना रहे, तय कर लो!"@BeingSalmanKhan का ये संदेश सबको सुनना चाहिए और इस पर अमल करना चाहिए। pic.twitter.com/gCNotImprE
Coronavirus: IMF Proposes USD 1 Trillion For COVID-19-Hit Nations: Crisis Like No OtherDescribing the COVID-19 pandemic as "a crisis like no other," IMF head Kristalina Georgieva has said the international lender plans to use all its USD 1 trillion lending capacity to support countries across the world battling the deadly outbreak."
#IndiaFightsCoronavirus A total of 650,000 kits, including Rapid Antibody Tests and RNA Extraction Kits have been despatched early today from Guangzhou Airport to #India | #2019nCoV#StayHomeSaveLives@MEAIndia@HarshShringla@DrSJaishankar
- Vikram Misri (@VikramMisri) April 16, 2020
Karnataka: Dr. Arun M Isloor,head of Chemistry Department, National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), Surathkal, along with research scholar Syed Ibrahim developed a disinfection chamber out of an old fridge.Dr.Arun M Isloor says,"we have named this as ZERO-COV." #COVID19pic.twitter.com/mLgLOv38Uz
- ANI (@ANI) April 16, 2020
Delhi: Visuals from Bengali Colony, Mahavir Enclave in South-West Delhi.
- ANI (@ANI) April 16, 2020
Gali No. 5 & 5A, H-2 Block, Bengali Colony, Mahavir Enclave has been identified as one of the 55 containment zones by the Delhi government. #Coronaviruspic.twitter.com/ltX24zaeSs
Coronavirus - ICMR Quotes Chinese Theory On COVID-19: Once In 1,000 YearsThe country's top medical body on Wednesday said that a research study in China has shown that the coronavirus strain at the heart of the global COVID-19 pandemic is a mutated form of its variant found in bats."
#WATCH Kerala: A person carried his 65-year-old ailing father in Punalur & walked close to one-kilometre after the autorickshaw he brought to take his father back from the hospital was allegedly stopped by Police, due to #CoronavirusLockdown guidelines. (15.4) pic.twitter.com/I03claE1XO
- ANI (@ANI) April 16, 2020
Commercial flight services have been suspended till May 3 as the government has extended the nationwide lockdown in continuing efforts to curb the spread of coronavirus infection, which has already affected more than 11,000 people in the country.
