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  • The total number of confirmed novel coronavirus cases in the country has reached 169 after seven more were tested positive for Covid-19 in Telangana

    The total number of confirmed novel coronavirus cases in the country has reached 169 after seven more were tested positive for Covid-19 in Telangana. All seven new cases are Indonesian nationals. Section 144 was imposed in Davangere in Karnataka, Noida in Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan as the number of confirmed coronavirus cases climbed by 28 on Wednesday.

    In Maharashtra, which has the highest number of positive coronavirus cases so far, three more persons, including a woman, tested positive for the Covid-19, taking the number of infections in the state to 45. Pune district’s count touched 19 on Wednesday after a 22-year-old man with travel history to the Philippines tested positive for the coronavirus in Pimpri-Chinchwad.

    Meanwhile, a suspected coronavirus patient has committed suicide at Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi, soon after he was admitted to the facility by airport authorities. The man was brought by the airport authorities as a coronavirus suspect and was immediately put in the isolation ward. He forced open the isolation ward and jumped off the seventh floor of the building, the hospital authorities said.

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the nation on Thursday evening on the situation arising out of coronavirus outbreak and the efforts to combat it, the Prime Minister’s Office said on Wednesday.

    “PM Shri @narendramodi will address the nation on 19th March 2020 at 8 PM, during which he will talk about issues relating to COVID-19 and the efforts to combat it,” the PMO tweeted. In another tweet, the PMO said Modi chaired a high-level meeting to review the ongoing efforts to contain the spread of coronavirus.

  • Chandigarh street singer reveals his income has witnessed a major drop because of the coronavirus outbreak

    Chandigarh street singer reveals his income has witnessed a major drop because of the coronavirus outbreak

    Street singer and musician Jograj Daulatnath plays an instrument in a deserted market

    Jograj Daulatnath, a 70-year-old street singer and musician, often comes to Chandigarh’s Popular Plaza in sector 17 to earn his livelihood. He has been doing this for the last 38 years.

    He sits in the middle of the streets and grabs the attention of people by playing his instrument and singing a folk song. This is a routine day for Jograj.

    However, from the last one week, his income has witnessed a major drop. The markets bear a deserted look following the novel coronavirus outbreak.


    People informed him it is some disease which has compelled everyone to stay indoors. When asked about the same, he expressed ignorance about the novel coronavirus scare. “I don’t know why people are not in the market. It is some disease which is keeping the people confined to homes” Jograj reveals.

    Jograj is a patient of asthma. He also showed us an inhaler pump and said it was empty.

    He hails from Churu, Rajasthan and lives in a slum near Chandigarh. He came to Chandigarh in the year 1982 and has been singing from the age of 10. He has six daughters out of which three are married.

    “I own an Aadhar card but the Chandigarh administration refused to give me the social security pension as I do not have a birth certificate. I have to feed three daughters and have no money” says Jograj.

    Jograj is not an isolated case of people affected by the lockdown. There are hundreds of people who have been affected because of the outbreak and have lost their daily earnings.

  • India has closed the iconic Taj Mahal and other monuments to visitors, citing the coronavirus epidemic

    India has closed the iconic Taj Mahal and other monuments to visitors, citing the coronavirus epidemic. The cultural sites will remain closed until the end of the month, the Culture Ministry announced.
    The ministry declared all 3,691 monuments and sites protected by the Archaeological Survey of India would remain shuttered until March 31 following a high-level Group of Ministers meeting devoted to Covid-19 on Monday.

    Closing the historic sites is part of a larger plan agreed upon by the Group of Ministers to ramp up containment measures relating to the coronavirus. The plan includes tightening travel restrictions and shutting down some businesses.

    “Important measures including the closing of schools, swimming pools, malls, allow employees to work from home, less use of public transport, one-metre distance between people should be maintained till March 31,” the Joint Secretary of the Union Health Ministry told reporters on Monday.

    India has prohibited travel from EU and European Free Trade Association countries, as well as Turkey and the UK as of March 18, while a 14-day compulsory quarantine will take effect for visitors from Qatar, Oman, Kuwait, and United Arab Emirates.

    Four new cases of the virus were announced on Monday, bringing the total for India to 114, with two deaths, three patients treated, and 10 discharged.

    Some 5,200 people who have had contact with India’s known coronavirus patients are under surveillance, the secretary said.

    India officially declared the coronavirus epidemic a “notified disaster” over the weekend, elevating it to the level of earthquakes, avalanches, and other natural disasters and giving local governments access to a special fund earmarked for disaster response.