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.
*After 28 residents from Sadar were found positive to coronavirus infection, district authorities on Wednesday sealed two more localities, Sadar market and Lakdi Mohaal, falling within the area.
*ANI update at 10.40am: A 65-year-old man who had tested positive for coronavirus has lost his life at a hospital Agra. He had chronic kidney disease with systematic hypertension for the last 4 years. Total coronavirus related deaths in the district now at 5: Prabhu N Singh, Agra District Magistrate.
Update at 10.21am: A Cheetah helicopter of the Indian Air Force made a precautionary landing today on the Eastern Peripheral Expressway in Baghpat district of Uttar Pradesh: Indian Air Force
*The burial of Lucknow's first coronavirus patient was put on hold after 'panicked' locals near Aisbagh burial ground refused permission.
*PTI update at 9:29am: Death toll due to Covid-19 rises to 414 in country; cases climb to 12,380, reports PTI quoting health ministry
*19 more cases of Coronavirus have been reported in Agra. The total number of positive cases in the district rises to 167: Agra district magistrate
*A team of health workers and police officials came under heavy stone pelting by an irate mob on Wednesday when they reached Nagphani in Moradabad, to take away the brother of a deceased Covid-19 patient to a quarantine facility. Two doctors and four cops suffered serious injuries in the attack.
*Uttar Pradesh secretariat is set to resume its functioning from Thursday. However, entry of private persons will remain prohibited.
*The first death of a novel coronavirus patient was reported from Lucknow on Wednesday when a 64-year-old patient lostthe battle against the virus.
*In the highest jump of Covid-19 positive cases in a single day, at least 31 patients, including six women, were tested positive to
coronavirus infection on Wednesday, taking the Lucknow’s tally to 64.
*54 people from Sadar were quarantined in a hospital at Burlington Crossing hours after some of their neighbours were found to be among 27 people tested Covid-19 positive on Wednesday.