Lucknow lockdown news: Today's updates from your city

Police personnel stand guard and barricade the old city during the lockdown in Lucknow (ANI photo)
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.
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