Coronavirus news Live Updates: Ensure no movement of people across cities or on highways, Centre tells states
Akshay Kumar donates 25Crs to PM-CARES Fund
This is that time when all that matters is the lives of our people. And we need to do anything and everything it takes. I pledge to contribute Rs 25 crores from my savings to @narendramodi ji’s PM-CARES Fund. Let’s save lives, Jaan hai toh jahaan hai. 🙏🏻 https://t.co/dKbxiLXFLS
— Akshay Kumar (@akshaykumar) March 28, 2020
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries will donate Rs 25 crore worth of Hydroxychloroquine (HCQS), Azithromycin, other related drugs and hand sanitisers to support India’s fight against COVID-19.
Railways Minister Piyush Goyal releases pictures of train coaches converted into isolation ward
Stepping up efforts to fight Coronavirus, Railways has converted a train coach into an isolation ward. 🛌
— Piyush Goyal (@PiyushGoyal) March 28, 2020
Take a look at a prototype of an isolation ward, ready with medical facilities, in Kamakhya in Assam, with each coach having a capacity of serving 9 patients. #CoronaUpdate pic.twitter.com/2R7Dzd2XWm
Tata Trusts committed Rs 500 crores to fight coronavirus.
The COVID 19 crisis is one of the toughest challenges we will face as a race. The Tata Trusts and the Tata group companies have in the past risen to the needs of the nation. At this moment, the need of the hour is greater than any other time. pic.twitter.com/y6jzHxUafM
— Ratan N. Tata (@RNTata2000) March 28, 2020
Baldev Singh, Sikh religious guru who returned from Italy meets 15,000. All quarantined
At least 15,000 people who may have caught the new coronavirus from a Sikh religious leader are under strict quarantine in northern India after the man died of COVID-19.
The 70-year-old guru, Baldev Singh, had returned from a trip to Europe's virus epicentre Italy and Germany before he went preaching in more than a dozen villages in Punjab state.
The guru and his two associates ignored self-isolation orders on their return from Europe, causing 15 villages to be sealed off under stricter conditions than India's nationwide lockdown
Migrant workers line up at Uttam Nagar Bus Terminal
Delhi: Huge number of migrant workers queue up at Uttam Nagar Bus Terminal waiting for buses going to Anand Vihar Bus Terminal. From Anand Vihar Bus Terminal, they will be boarding buses for their respective home towns and villages. #CoronvirusLockdown pic.twitter.com/HNkQLq43g1
— ANI (@ANI) March 28, 2020
Modi appeals to contribute to PM-CARES Fund
People from all walks of life expressed their desire to donate to India’s war against COVID-19.
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) March 28, 2020
Respecting that spirit, the Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund has been constituted. This will go a long way in creating a healthier India.
Hyderabad Police feeds Orissa Migrants
Team Jubilee Hills, West Zone provided food and medicine to Orissa Migrants at SVV Guest house, Jubilee Hills who struck down due to #LockDown#LockDown #StayHome #BeSafe #CoronaVirusLockdown#HyderabadCityPolice #TelanganaPolice pic.twitter.com/iAbvrU3wIY
— Hyderabad City Police (@hydcitypolice) March 28, 2020
44 private laboratories have been given approval so far for testing COVID-19: ICMR