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.
Update at 10.30am: Huge traffic jam at Majuragate in Surat on the first day of lockdown 3.0
Update at 9.27am: Death toll due to Covid-19 rises to 1,373 in India; number of cases climb to 42,533, reports PTI quoting health ministry
Update at 8.40am: 17 test positive for Covid-19 in Gujarat's Bhavnagar; tally in the district rises to 73
*AMC has included Maninagar ward in the list of red zones. With this, the city now has 10 wards in the red zone. These are Dariapur, Shahpur, Danilimda, Jamalpur, Saraspur, Gomtipur, Behrampura, Khadia, Asarwa and Maningar.
*Several residential societies in Bopal are in the grip of the Covid-19 scare as a cashier of a leading provision store in the area has tested positive for the virus.
*Taking your life partner sitting on the adjoining seat of your car or making her ride pillion on a twowheeler is the habit that you must leave now as police will book you for not maintaining social distancing and for the disobedience to the lockdown order in Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar cities.
*Of the total 3,523 cases reported in Ahmedabad till May 2, 70% were from the 10 hotspots of Ahmedabad. Also, of the total 183 deaths in the city till May 3, 130 have been reported from the hotspots.
*Viay Rupani-led government issued a notification reiterating the status quo over the next two weeks for areas falling under the municipal corporation limits of Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, Gandhinagar, Rajkot and Bhavnagar. Relaxations will also not be provided in municipal areas of Bopal, Bareja, Godhra, Khambhat and Umreth municipalities.