Chandigarh lockdown news: Today's updates from your city

TIMESOFINDIA.COM | Updated: May 2, 2020, 09:36 IST

Medical team arrives for door to door screening of suspected persons in Chandigarh

Amid prevalent chaos and uncertainty over access to the essential services and commodities during the lockdown, we bring you the latest updates from Chandigarh.
* Update at 9.24am: Death toll due to Covid-19 rises to 1,218; number of cases climb to 37,336, says Union health ministry
*After Himachal Pradesh relaxed norms allowing its people stuck in other states to come back, the online portal for making passes received four lakh applications in a month.
*Punjab, which few days back appeared to be limping back to normalcy, has been hit by another fresh wave of cases — the biggest — completely changing the state’s scenario.
*As the central government is requisitioning trains to ferry migrant labourers to their home states, the Punjab government's records reveal there are around 5.76 lakh migrant workers in 22 districts of the state.
*A few residents of Hallomajra working as security guards in Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32, are facing harassment at the hands of volunteers appointed by cops to ensure people stay in their homes despite instructions from the government that all the workers attached with emergency services should not be harassed.
*The Panjab university advisory committee has asked the dean student welfare (DSW) to chalk out a plan so that hostellers could go back to homes by obtaining e-passes from the nodal officers.