Chandigarh lockdown news: Today's updates

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 10:43am: I appeal to people suffering from serious ailments, pregnant women & those above 65 years & below 10 years of age to travel only when necessary in Shramik trains, says railway minister Piyush Goyal

* In utter disregard of all Covid-19 SOPs, officials of Hamirpur district of Himachal Pradesh sent home 15 Mumbai returnees on Wednesday late afternoon without waiting for their report, which confirmed them to be virus-positive late at night.
* Seven new cases of coronavirus were reported in Chandigarh on Thursday, taking the tally to 289. They include six persons from Bapu Dham Colony and a 91-year-old woman from Sector 15 who was admitted to a private hospital in Mohali. This is the second case from Sector 15, while Bapu Dham’s count has touched 216. The active cases are 96.
* Punjab recorded 19 fresh cases of Covid-19 on Thursday, taking the overall tally of infected people in the state to 2,158.
* In overall tally, 405 of the total 1,504 Covid-19 cases reported in Haryana till Thursday evening are from Gurugram district. It constitutes 27% of the total cases of the state.