Coronavirus cases in India crosses 3,700 mark, 267 cured and 77 dead

Apr 5, 2020, 12:20 IST

Of these, 3,374 are active cases, while 267 individuals have been cured and discharged from the hospitals.
Maharashtra remained the worst hit state with the number of positive cases rising to 490, followed by Delhi at 445 and Tamil Nadu at 485.
75 more people have been confirmed positive for the Coronavirus in Uttar Pradesh in the past 24 hours.

The total number of confirmed Coronavirus cases in India rose to 3,718 on Sunday, according to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare data.

Of these, 3,374 are active cases, while 267 individuals have been cured and discharged from the hospitals. The death toll has mounted to 77 while one person has migrated to another country, according to the data released by the Health Ministry on Sunday.

Maharashtra remained the worst-hit state with the number of positive cases rising to 490, followed by Delhi at 445 and Tamil Nadu at 485. At least 306 people have been infected in Kerala, while Uttar Pradesh reported 227 cases, followed by Rajasthan at 200 cases, Telangana at 269 cases and Andhra Pradesh at 161 cases.

UP corona count touches 257, 98 are Jamaatis

With 75 more people being confirmed positive for the Coronavirus in Uttar Pradesh in the past 24 hours, the total number of Corona cases in the state has risen to 257.

Of the total cases, at least 98 are linked to the Tablighi Jamaat congregation in Delhi.

The state's count on Friday was 177 and two people — one each in Basti and Meerut— have died.

The overall district-wise tally since the coronavirus crisis began is —Gautam Buddha Nagar (58), Agra (44), Meerut (25), Ghaziabad (14), Saharanpur (13), Lucknow (10), Kanpur (7), Bareilly, Shamli and Maharajganj (6 each), Basti, Varanasi (5 each), Firozabad and Hathras (4 each), Azamgarh, Jaunpur, Ghazipur, Bulandshahr, Pratapgarh (3 each), Pilibhit, Mirzapur, Baghpat (2 each), Shahjahanpur Hardoi, Hapur, Moradabad, Lakhimpur Kheri and Banda (1 each).

15 Tablighi Jamaat members including 5 Indonesian women clerics held in Ghaziabad

At least 15 Tablighi Jamaat members including five Indonesian women clerics who are suspected to be infected with the dreaded coronavirus (COVID-19) have been held by Ghaziabad police and sent to a quarantine home.

Their location was traced late on Saturday with the help of local clerics, and all were found to be staying in mosques and madrasas.

"The Sahibabad police station had received information about them. Most of them went to the Nizamuddin Markaz Tablighi Jamaat event. A police team was formed to arrest them after receiving information," Kalanidhi Naithani, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Ghaziabad, told IANS on Saturday night.

Police teams along with the informers raided the house of local resident Faiz Mohammad in Shaheed Nagar, D Block, of Sahibabad police station area.

Jamaatis misbehave with hospital staff in Kanpur

Yet another case of Tablighi Jamaat members, admitted to a hospital here, misbehaving with the hospital staff has come to light.

The Jamaatis admitted to Lala Lajpat Rai Hospital in Kanpur, have allegedly refused to take medicines and have misbehaved with the medical staff, prompting the authorities to remove female staffers from there.

Aarti Lalchandani, a senior doctor at the hospital, said, "Our team is engaged in providing healthcare services to those admitted here. They were told not to spit in the hospital, but they refuse to accept our instructions. They spit on their hands and then touch staircase railings. They also misbehaved with the doctors."

They are also demanding non-vegetarian food and refusing to eat rice, 'dal' and paneer given to them. They also demand good clothes and better facilities.

"However, with police intervention, the situation has now come under control," she said.

COVID-19 crumbles healthcare hierarchy in MP; many officials down

The bureaucracy was crippled in Madhya Pradesh by Saturday night due to the coronavirus effect. Even the Health Department hierarchy had crumbled under the burgeoning crisis with its Principal Secretary Pallavi Jain Govil and Additional Director (Health) Veena Sinha testing positive for the dreaded virus.

On Friday, IAS officer and Health Corporation MD J.J. Vijay Kumar had tested COVID-19 positive. On Saturday, 12 IAS officers of the COVID-19 core group were home quarantined. Pallavi Jain Govil and Veena Sinha were admitted to Bhopal AIIMS, and their family members were also quarantined. Around 150 employees of the Health Department are under medical supervision.

Eight more persons tested positive from among other cases reported on Saturday, Chief Medical and Health Officer, Bhopal, Sudhir Kumar Daheria said.

So far, 17 positive cases have been reported from the state capital. In Madhya Pradesh, the number of infected patients has increased to 182.

Kalaburagi police force yoga session on lockdown violators, gift candles

Even as police across the country are grappling with the issue of dealing with lockdown regulation violators, police in the city have been quite innovative when it comes to punishing local violators.

On Saturday, police at the Chowk Police Station in the city took around 50 COVID-19 lockdown violators through a circuit of yoga sessions, physical workouts and oath-taking ceremonies.

With people engrossed in breathing exercises, the scene near the Cotton Market resembled a yoga centre. The only indication to say it is not a routine yoga session was the presence of policemen prodding the participants to do the exercise properly. The initiative to discourage lockdown violators in this novel way was taken by Shakeel Angadi, Circle Inspector at the Chowk Police Station.

The only commonality between participants and police personnel were the COVID-19 masks across their faces. The participants were all lockdown violators who had been apprehended by the police.

South African cleric dies of coronavirus after attending Nizamuddin congregation

A South African Muslim cleric, who recently returned from India after attending the Nizamuddin congregation, has died after contracting the novel coronavirus, according to his family members.

Moulana Yusuf Tootla, 80, attended the March 1-15 Tablighi Jamaat congregation in the Nizamuddin area, that has emerged as the epicentre for the spread of the coronavirus in different parts of India and abroad after thousands of people took part in it.

Tootla, who died on Tuesday, was buried after his body was collected in a bag by the Islamic Burial Council (IBC).

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