With a fresh case in Andhra Pradesh, the total number of Covid-19 cases in India has climbed to 196. PM Modi has called for a janta curfew on March 22, saying no citizen, barring those in essential services, should get out of their house.
he total number of Covid-19 cases in India has climbed to 196 with a person testing positive for the novel coronavirus in Andhra Pradesh on Friday. With the fresh case on Friday, the Andhra tally now stands at three.
The total number of confirmed cases in India was 195 on Thursday – a day when the country reported its fourth coronavirus death. The person, who died in Punjab, was an elderly and had co-morbid conditions like diabetes, cardiac ailments, the Union Health Ministry said.
As Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged people to stay indoors and called for ‘janata curfew’, fresh cases in India were reported from Delhi, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand, Telangana. Gujarat reported its first Covid-19 patient on Thursday.
Third positive case of Covid-19 was detected in Andhra Pradesh on Friday after a man, who returned from Saudi Arabia on March 12, was found positive in Visakhapatnam.
In Delhi, four new cases were reported on Thursday, taking the total in the national capital to 14. The Delhi Health Department said new cases included two people from West Bengal, who had returned from Italy. They are now in quarantine at the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) Chhawala facility.
Of 14 in Delhi, three patients have been discharged so far. A total of 1,96,200 passengers who have returned from the coronavirus-affected countries have been screened at the Delhi airport till March 18 and placed under surveillance.
A Spain-retuned couple in Rajasthan tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday, taking the total number of confirmed cases in Rajasthan to nine.
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