Coronavirus Updates: Total Cases In India Rise To 9,352, Death Toll At 324; PM Modi To Address Nation Tomorrow

India saw its deadliest day of the Covid-19 pandemic with more than 50 lives lost over the last 24 hours as total infections continue to rise.

Total confirmed cases of Covid-19 in India stood at 9,352 on Monday evening, according to the health ministry’s website. This includes 980 who have recovered and 324 deaths. There have been 51 deaths in the last 24 hours.

India’s 21-day lockdown is all set to be extended further with most state chief ministers seeking a longer period of restricted activity. Some states like Odisha, Punjab, Maharashtra and Telangana have already extended the lockdowns.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the country on April 14 at 10 a.m.

Globally, total confirmed cases exceed 1.84 million while deaths top 1,14,000, according to data by John Hopkins.

Track latest news updates and developments on how the coronavirus situation is evolving in India here:

India added 905 new cases of Covid-19 taking the total to 9,352 in the country.

• Active cases: 8,048
• Cured/discharged/migrated: 980
• Deaths: 324

Source: Health Ministry (As of April 13, 5 p.m.)

India has tested more than 2 lakh samples for Covid-19 as the country continues to graduallly increase testing numbers.

So far, India has done 2,06,212 tests, ICMR Chief Epidemiologist RR Gangakhedkar said. Over 14,800 tests were done across 156 laboratories on Sunday.

The way we are doing tests we have the capacity and stock to keep doing tests for the next 6 weeks, Gangakhedkar said.

More than half of Mumbai’s cases come from seven wards which have cases between 70-300 each, according to a graphic released by the BMC.

Mumbai reported 1,399 coronavirus positive cases as of April 12.

The Vashi market, which was closed on April 11 to prevent the spread of coronavirus - will reopen on April 15 only for vegetables and potato-onions, according to APMC.

The APMC in Vashi has five markets, for:

• Foodgrains.
• Onion and potato.
• Masala.
• Fruits.
• Vegetables.

The APMC is likely to give more details/updates later in the day.

Fifteen new positive cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in Karnataka, taking the total number of affected in the state to 247, the Health department said on Monday.

"Fifteen new positive cases have been reported from last evening to this noon.... Till date 247 Covid-19 positive cases have been confirmed. This includes 6 deaths and 59 discharges," the department said in a mid-day situation report.

Among the 15 new cases thirteen are contacts of patients already tested positive, while one from Dodabballapura in Bengaluru Rural is with a travel history to Delhi, the other from Bengaluru city has Severe Acute Respiratory Infection.

Among the 13 contact cases tested positive four are from Hubballi in Dharwad district, three each from Malavalli in Mandya district and Raibag in Belagavi, two each from Bidar, and one from Mudhol in Bagalkote district.

Three out of 15 new cases are children- a 8 year-old girl from Malavalli in Mandya, 16-year old girl from Bidar and 14-year old boy from Raibag in Belagavi.

From across the state most number of infections have been reported in Bengaluru with 77, followed by Mysuru (48) and Belagavi (17). Those discharged include 27 patients from Bengaluru, nine from Mysuru, seven from Dakshina Kannada, six from Chikkaballapura, three from Davangere, two each from Uttara Kannada and Kalaburagi, and one each from Udupi, Dharwad and Kodagu.

Among the dead, two are from Kalaburagi and one each from Bengaluru, Bagalkote, Gadag and Tumakuru.

Source: PTI

Over 90 Goan seafarers on board a cruise ship currently docked at Mumbai have sought help from Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant for their repatriation.

The Goa government last week decided not to allow the seafarers to enter the state in view of the coronavirus threat, after they requested for disembarkment from the ship.

It said the seafarers from Goa will have to follow coronavirus-related quarantine protocol before they are allowed entry into the state.

In a letter written to Sawant on Monday, 93 Goan seafarers out of the total 450 on board cruise ship 'Karnika' sought his intervention in assisting their repatriation.

"Our ship has not had a single case of coronavirus or a suspect till date since the disease outbreak last year. Moreover, no crew member on board Karnika has shown any symptoms of coronavirus, they said in the letter.

Along with the letter, the crew members attached a certificate of an on-board doctor, to assert their claim of not suffering from any suspected symptoms.

Source: PTI

The Federation of Retailer Association of India on Monday urged the government to let small shops open immediately, as daily income flow of petty retailers has stopped completely since the lockdown, and sought compensation for their income losses.

Claiming to represent four crore micro, small and medium retailers from across the country with membership of 34 retail associations, FRAI said all the capital of these small retailers is tied up in the stocks of unsold products because of the lockdown.

They are now having to dip into small savings to survive in order to purchase food to support their family members, it said.

Source: PTI

Showing no signs of abating, the Covid-19 cases continued their upward trend in Andhra Pradesh, adding 12 since Sunday night and taking the overall tally to 432.

Showing no signs of abating, the Covid-19 cases continued their upward trend in Andhra Pradesh, adding 12 since Sunday night and taking the overall tally to 432.

Kurnool district has now fallen to second place with 84 cases. Guntur and Kurnool districts had the largest number of delegates who attended the Tablighi Jamaat congregation in New Delhi last month.

Overnight, two cases were added in Chittoor district and one each in Krishna and West Godavari.

With 12 patients discharged and seven deaths in the state so far, the number of active cases touched 413, according to the bulletin. So far, since the coronavirus outbreak, a total of 8,755 blood samples were tested in AP of which 8,323 turned negative. At 432, the percentage of positive cases was 4.9, according to the Covid-19 dashboard.

Source: PTI

A man from Nagaland has tested positive for novel coronavirus, the first case reported from the state, an official said on Monday.

The man with coronavirus-like symptoms was admitted to a hospital in Assam's Guwahati, where he tested positive for Covid-19, the official said.

Assam Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma also tweeted that a private hospital in Dimapur referred a patient to the Guwahati Medical College Hospital after he was found with symptoms of Covid-19.

Meanwhile, the Nagaland government has sealed various locations in Kohima, including the patient's residential area and the hospital where he was initially admitted, the official said.

Source: PTI

Two more people tested positive for the novel coronavirus in Bokaro district, taking the number of cases in Jharkhand to 19, an official said on Monday.

Deputy Commissioner Mukesh Kumar said two men, one aged 68 and another 45, tested positive for coronavirus on Sunday night. The two are relatives of the 72-year-old man who died of the disease on April 8, he said.

With the two fresh cases, the total count in Bokaro went up to eight, Kumar said.

The state capital has reported eight positive cases, Hazaribagh two and Koderma one.

A 60-year-old man died due to Covid-19 on Sunday, the second death due to the virus in the state.

Jharkhand had registered its first positive case on March 31, when a 22-year-old Malaysian woman tested positive for the virus. She was staying at Ranchi city's Hindpiri locality.

Source: PTI

Dharavi - the most crowded slum in Asia - has recorded four new cases of the Covid-19 infection, including a fifth death, according to a BMC official.

The patient was a 60 year old male patient from Nehru Chawl who was declared dead at the Sion hospital.

With this, the total tally of coronavirus cases in Dharavi stands at 47.

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Total confirmed coronavirus cases rose to 9,152 as of 8 a.m. on Monday morning, according to data made available by the Health Ministry of India. This includes 856 people who have been cured or discharged and 308 people who have succumbed to the respiratory illness.

This means the country has added 796 Covid-19 cases between Sunday and Monday 8 a.m., with 35 deaths during that time span.