Live updates: Weekend curfew in Chandigarh from 10pm on Friday to 5am on Monday
Congress leaders Digvijaya Singh and Randeep Singh Surjewala, and Shiromani Akali Dal leader Harsimrat Kaur Badal tested positive for coronavirus today. Telangana reported nine more coronavirus deaths and 3,840 new Covid-19 cases today. Meanwhile, 30 sadhus in Haridwar tested Covid-19 positive. Stay with TOI for all the latest updates:
Punjab: Seven private hospitals providing tertiary care for Covid-19 patients in the district to set aside at least 50% of their total bed capacity as isolation beds and wards for COVID Care, says district magistrate SAS Nagar (Mohali). (ANI)
Niranjani Akhara's Ravindra Puri tested positive for Covid-19. He attended the Kumbh Mela in Uttarakhand's Haridwar (ANI)
Ajmer Sharif Dargah closed for general public after Rajasthan govt’s new Covid guidelines. (ANI)
Weekend curfew in Chandigarh from Friday 10pm to Monday 5am.
Gujarat: Sanitization being done at Ahmedabad railway station, to contain the spread of Covid-19.
UP government announces Sunday lockdown amid rising Covid-19 cases: Official statement (PTI)
The owner of a pharmaceutical company in Indore arrested for allegedly selling fake Remdesivir injections. As many as 400 injections seized from his possession. (ANI)
Bihar CM Nitish Kumar calls a high-level meeting of senior officials, district magistrates and SPs, on the current Covid-19 situation. (ANI)
Kerala high court quashes police FIRs against Enforcement Directorate officials in gold smuggling case. (PTI)
OPD services to remain suspended at government hospitals in Uttar Pradesh. Only emergency services allowed: CM Yogi Adityanath
Arunachal Pradesh reports 8 new Covid-19 cases, tally rises to 16,920. (PTI)
Final leg polling arrangements under way in Tirupati Parliament constituency
Vontimitta temple in Kadapa district and Lepakshi in Anantapur district closed to visitors following central government order in view of rising Covid-19 cases across the country.
Odisha reports 3,108 new Covid-19 cases, 3 deaths. (ANI)
Congress leader Digvijaya Singh tests positive for Covid-19. He tweets that he is in quarantine at his residence in Delhi.
Shiromani Akali Dal leader Harsimrat Kaur Badal tests positive for Covid-19. She tweets that she has mild symptoms and has quarantined herself at her home.
Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala tests positive for Covid-19
Telangana reports 9 more Covid deaths, 3,840 new cases
30 Sadhus have tested positive for Covid-19 so far in Haridwar. Medical teams are going to akharas and RT-PCR tests of sadhus are being done continuously. The process will be further quickened from 17th April: Dr SK Jha, Haridwar chief medical officer
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