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— ANI (@ANI) May 5, 2020
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has withdrawn relaxations that allowed the opening of liquor shops.
Now only grocery shops and medical stores will be allowed to open, an order issued by the BMC commissioner said.
The Health Ministry attributed a spike in new cases and deaths reported over the last 24 hours to correction of under-reporting by some states.
Contact tracing is being done and asymptomatic cases are being tested,”the ministry’s Joint Secretary Lav Agarwal said. “We are fighting an infectious disease and we have to fight it together. Need of the hour is community participation so that every person contributes in breaking the chain of transmission.”
India saw 3,900 new infections and 195 deaths in the 24 hours preceding the Health Ministry’s 8 a.m. update. The same 24 hours also saw the highest testing conducted - accounting for 7 percent of all testing done in India so far.
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The Andhra Pradesh government has enhanced prices of liquor by another 50 percent on Tuesday, only a day after imposing a 25 percent hike as shops were reopened in relaxation of the ongoing lockdown.
Special Chief Secretary (Revenue) Rajat Bhargava said the increase in liquor rates was to 'discourage' people from consumption and safeguard health. The enhanced rates would come into force with immediate effect, he said.
The state government also decided to open liquor outlets from 12 noon, instead of 11 a.m., till 7 p.m. Sources said the fresh hike (50 percent) in rates could fetch an additional revenue of Rs 9,000 crore per annum to the cash-starved state government.
The entire liquor business in Andhra Pradesh is controlled by the state government through its own retail outlets, numbering 3,468. Sources said Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy directed that 15 percent of the retail liquor shops be closed down by this month end.
Source: PTI
Koyambedu market for vegetables, fruits and flowers, one of the largest in the country that used to teem with thousands of people every day here, has emerged as the latest hotspot for Covid-19 cases in Tamil Nadu.
The development has prompted authorities to shift the market -spread over 295 acres with over 3,000 outlets of which only about 200 of them are presently functional- to suburban Tirumazhisai from Thursday.
Of the 527 positive cases on Monday, a "large number are linked to the Koyambedu market," a bulletin said while rough estimates provided by officials here and in districts pegged at least 450 cases to have a link to the market place.
In Chennai alone, at least 215 of the 266 new cases were linked to the Koyambedu market.
An inquiry launched to probe the "serious" case of 137 Covid-19 infections, and a death, in a single CRPF battalion will be completed soon, officials said on Tuesday, even as the force is undertaking new measures to combat the outbreak.
They said the probe is being monitored by CRPF chief AP Maheshwari and it will be taken to its "logical end at the earliest."
"The coronavirus outbreak in the 31st battalion of the force has been viewed seriously. The Director General (DG) has directed to gear up the force to face the challenge of the pandemic during 'hotspot policing' duties and while rendering other security related tasks," a senior officer said.
There are 137 positive cases in this unit till now and six more results are awaited, he said. Overall, the force has 146 confirmed cases, with two recoveries.
Source: PTI
Swabbing more people than ever in a day, India tested 84,713 people in the 24 hours preceding the Indian Council of Medical Research’s 9 a.m. update.
This takes the total number of tests done so far to 11,91,946.
To put things into better perspective, 7 percent of all testing done in India so far happened int he last 24 hours.
The government is close to testing 1 lakh people a day - a goal it announced on April 6, when its daily testing numbers were around 18,000.
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