Tablighi Jamaat Coronavirus Hotspot Remains Focus on Day 8 of the Lockdown

47,951 tests for COVID-19 conducted in country so far out of which 4,562 tests done at ICMR network labs on Tuesday, an ICMR official said.

51 private labs given approval so far for conducting COVID-19 tests, 816 tests conducted at private labs on Tuesday, according to an ICMR official.

Seven new COVID-19 patients found in Gautam Buddh Nagar in  the past 24 hours, according to a official release. The total cases climb up to 45.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has said that 766 people with COVID-19 symptoms have been admitted to hospitals across Delhi.

He, however, said that the situation was now under control.

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that the government will track the mobile phones of people under quarantine to check their movement. He said that they had already given 14,345 phone numbers to Delhi Police.

Tablighi Jamaat congregation in Nizamuddin area caused "big damage" to government's efforts to contain #COVID_19 pandemic, the National Commission for Minorities said.

Eight villages in Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur declared as red zones after it was found that 10 people from the district had attended the Tablighi Jamaat congregation in Delhi's Nizamuddin, officials said.

The Human Resource Development ministry directed the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) to form task forces to ensure placements are not affected due to situation arising out of COVID-19. It ask them to include psychologists in the  task force to address mental health challenges faced by students during lockdown.

Centre asks all states and Union Territories to launch contact tracing on "war footing" of all participants of the Tablighi Jamaat congregation in Delhi's Nizamuddin, which has emerged as Coronavirus hotspot.

The Ministry of Human Resource Development has asked the Central Board of Secondary Education to promote all students of classes 1 to 8 to the next class, in view of Coronavirus situation.

Students of class 9 and 11 are to be promoted on school based assessments conducted so far, the direction said.

Class 9, 11 students who have not been promoted this time can appear in school-based tests online or offline, the HRD Ministry said in a statement.

The CBSE is to conduct board exams only for 29 main subjects that are required for promotion and crucial for university admissions, the direction added.

Whenever the CBSE is in position to hold board exams, it shall conduct for 29 subjects by giving adequate notice, according to the statement.

For the rest of the subjects, the CBSE will not hold board exams; instructions for their marking, assessment to be issued soon, the HRD Ministry said.

Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan praised the ruling Left and Democratic Front government of the state for its "pro-active" handling of "invisible threat" of Coronavirus.

The armed forces have made available over 9,000 hospital beds and more than 8,500 doctors and support staff across the country to deal with the rising cases of Coronavirus infection, according to officials.

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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking financial assistance of Rs.25,000 crore to provide free ration to people and continue other welfare schemes amid dip in revenue due to COVID-19 lockdown.

The Uttar Pradesh government has announced that salaries of its employees will neither be deferred nor cut amid Coronavirus lockdown and its impact on the state's revenues.

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has said that the condition of the state's economy is strong despite the dip in revenues due to nationwide lockdown, according to UP Additional Chief Secretary Awanish Awasthi.

All 33 Supreme Court judges, including the Chief Justice, will donate Rs 50,000 each to PM CARES Fund on Coronavirus pandemic, a top court official said today.

Number of coronavirus cases in Maharashtra rose to 335, an increase of 33 since Monday night,  Health Ministry officials said today.