Lucknow lockdown news: Today's updates from your city

TIMESOFINDIA.COM | Updated: May 2, 2020, 10:17 IST

Worker sanitises a shop in Lucknow during the government-imposed nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of coronavirus (ANI photo)

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Amid prevalent chaos and uncertainty over access to the essential services and commodities during the lockdown, we bring you the latest updates from Lucknow.
* Update at 10.01am: Seven labourers who had arrived from Maharashtra via Jhansi in government buses to Basti, have tested positive for Covid-19, reports ANI quoting DM Basti
* Update at 9.21am: Death toll due to Covid-19 rises to 1,218; number of cases climb to 37,336, says Union health ministry
* ANI update at 9.03am: Out of the 865 samples tested yesterday for Covid-19, results of 14 are positive, says King George's Medical University (KGMU), Lucknow
*The novel coronavirus-induced lockdown that has struck a blow to economic activities across the country, is also set to hit the grassroots-level democracy in the state. Any decision by the government to extend the lockdown beyond May 3 would jeopardise elections to nearly 59,000 village panchayats in UP.
*Five days after a video of the inhumane treatment meted out to quarantined inmates at a private college in Agra went viral, this facility at Sikandra is now being converted into an isolation ward.