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MORE THAN 700 NEW JERSEY POLICE OFFICERS TEST POSITIVE FOR CORONAVIRUS – NBC
So far the case trajectory seems much better than the worse affected countries.
Let’s hope it stays that way.
You really think so given yesterday’s 1 lac migrant workers exodus in Delhi? All standing touching each other.
CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: CHINESE SCIENTISTS HAVE DEVELOPED A NEW WEAPON TO COMBAT THE VIRUS. THEY SAY THEY HAVE FOUND A NANOMATERIAL THAT CAN ABSORB AND DEACTIVATE THE VIRUS WITH 96.5-99.9% EFFICIENCY
Bro please give us the source of this update.
PMO sets up 10 panels to deal with post lockdown situation
The Prime Minister’s Office on Sunday constituted 10 different high-level committees to suggest measures to ramp up healthcare, put the economy back on track, reduce pain and misery of people as quickly as possible post 21-day lockdown imposed to contain the coronavirus pandemic.
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169 cases with 5 deaths already today, guess the pattern or next 3 days is 150-200 cases per day
Also in some states including Telangana, they are not testing some people who are coming with symptoms of Corona but are only quarantining them. Probably because of the fear of increase in case counts? 
And all this just in the meagre number of tests we have done till now. The actual infected count would be so much more right at this point of time.
47 new COVID-19 cases detected in Mumbai Metropolitan Region
Guys – something doesn’t add up. How is Prince charles (77) and Boris (50+) recovered so quickly and out of isolation? How can they recover in 3 days?
They had infection since long times maybe and developed only mild symptoms and took good care of their health.
How China has planned the entire thing :
1) Develop a virus…
2) Develop a vaccine…
3) Release virus at a place where you have maximum global migrants…
4) Keep silent till all of them reaches their destination…
5) Control local transmission in your area…
6) Let the World burn, lakhs of people dies,economies collapse worldwide…
7) Tell them you have vaccine…
Well Played China…Very well played…
Please sign the Change.org petition to save Indian restaurants & their employees…Thank You… 
Restaurants make more money than any other business selling a dosa for 60rs, investment 5rs including the sambhar. Even a roadside restaurant guy makes 2 lakhs per month 
As many as 227 new coronavirus cases and three deaths have been reported in the last 24 hours, the Centre said on Tuesday. A total of 1,251 cases have been reported in the country so far.
“227 new cases of COVID-19 and three deaths have been reported in the last 24 hours, thus, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 1,251 and the number of deaths to 32 in the country,” Lav Aggarwal, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, told media.
He also said that the three deaths have been reported from Gujarat, West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh. “The sudden increase in the number of confirmed cases has been due to delay in informing the authorities,” Aggarwal added.
“To contain the spread of coronavirus, the ministry is working with the state governments on finding the contacts of the new cases which have been confirmed,” he further said. — ANI
More ppl died without food due to lockdown than coronovirus. 
As many as 72 new coronavirus cases were detected in Maharashtra on Tuesday, 59 of them in Mumbai alone, taking the total number of COVID-19 patients in the state to 302, a health official said.
This is the largest increase in the number of cases within a day probably in the country, the state official said.
Besides Mumbai, Ahmednagar reported three cases, while two cases each came to light in Pune, Thane, Vasai, Virar and Kalyan-Dombivali cities, he added. — PTI
Assam Becomes First State To Announce Lockdown Exemption From Tomorrow
Assam is also trying to track around 500 people who had attended the Tablighi Jamat event in Delhi’s Nizamuddin mosque earlier this month.
Star Wars actor Andrew Jack dies aged 76
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US COVID-19 death toll higher than 9/11 attacks
2 UP families name their babies ‘Corona’ and ’Lockdown’v
At a time when the world is virtually waging a war against COVID-19 and the country is under a 21-day lockdown, two families in Uttar Pradesh have named their babies ‘Corona’ and ‘Lockdown’ with a hope that they would remind people about taking precautions.
1974 cases 🧐
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1st COVID-19 case from Mumbai’s Dharavi slum
A positive case of novel coronavirus has been reported from Dharavi area in Mumbai. The patient, a 56-year-old man, is undergoing treatment at Sion hospital.
Seven of his family have been put in quarantine. Authorities have sealed the building where he resides and started providing food and other necessities to the residents as they cant come out of the building. His contact history is being traced.
Dharavi is a densely populated area in Mumbai with over 15 lakh people, spread over 613 hectares. Caution is being taken that the cases dont spread in the area, an official statement said.
Mumbai has emerged as one of the hotspots for the spread of the deadly Covid-19 in India. While Maharashtra has over 320 positive cases of the virus, Mumbai is responsible for over half of them.
So far, the city’s health department has declared the Koliwada area of Worli and the Goregaon suburb as two hotspots in Mumbai.
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China Concealed Extent of Virus Outbreak, U.S. Intelligence Says
China has concealed the extent of the coronavirus outbreak in its country, under-reporting both total cases and deaths it’s suffered from the disease, the U.S. intelligence community concluded in a classified report to the White House, according to three U.S. officials.
The officials asked not to be identified because the report is secret and declined to detail its contents. But the thrust, they said, is that China’s public reporting on cases and deaths is intentionally incomplete. Two of the officials said the report concludes that China’s numbers are fake.
The report was received by the White House last week, one of the officials said.
Covid-19 patient in Mumbai’s Dharavi dies
The 57-year-old man residing in Dharavi in Mumbai, who tested positive earlier for coronavirus, has passed away. He had symptoms like fever, cough, respiratory issues and also had co-morbid condition of renal failure.
Meanwhile, seven members of his family have been put in quarantine. Authorities have sealed the building where he resides and started providing food and other necessities to the residents as they cant come out of the building. His contact history is being traced.
Dharavi is a densely populated area in Mumbai with over 15 lakh people, spread over 613 hectares. Caution is being taken that the cases dont spread in the area, an official statement said.
Wadala housing complex under complete lockdown
https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/coronavirus...
Left without a job, 18-yr-old jumps in front of train
https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/coronavirus...
Second COVID-19 case confirmed in Dharavi, Mumbai. A 52-year-old BMC sanitization worker has been found positive for the virus, he resides in the Worli area but was posted at Dharavi for cleaning, the BMC said.
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Gambhir pledges two year’s salary to PM-CARES Fund
Research indicates that SARS-CoV-2 ( COVID-19) can survive for at least 5 weeks in faeces (including recovered patients) 
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langas/artic...
Pay for these sanitization workers should be at least doubled/tripled and hopefully everyone get to take benefit of the announced* 50L insurance package!
Finally One Chinese city (out of millions) bans eating dogs
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Atleast 15k would have been found +Ve if everyone with symptoms would have been tested…I am refreshing the official tracking site & every 10-15 minutes, I am seeing like 100 increases in the confirmed cases…I don’t know intentionally the tests are not being done in fear of the increase of positive cases or there is lack of facility to do more tests daily… 
It is probably a bit of both
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will share a video message with countrymen on Friday amid a nationwide lockdown to combat the coronavirus outbreak.
‘At 9 am tomorrow morning, I’ll share a small video message with my fellow Indians,’ the prime minister tweeted, without divulging the subject of his message.
Modi held a meeting with chief ministers on the COVID-19 outbreak via video-conferencing on Thursday.
The number of COVID-19 cases climbed to 1,965 in the country on Thursday while the death toll rose to 50, according to the Union Health Ministry. — PTI
Wah..9AM
Now people will have atleast 15 hours..no need to rush for anything on an urgent basis
Maha opts for blood tests for quick nCoV detection
The Centre has allowed Maharashtra to conduct rapid COVID-19 tests to expedite the detection of coronavirus cases, state Health Minister Rajesh Tope said on Thursday. The state government will use blood samples instead of swabs in rapid tests for coronavirus detection, Tope said. Talking to reporters after Prime Minister Modi held a video conference with all chief ministers to discuss ways to check the spread of coronavirus, Tope also said that around 3.25 lakh migrant labourers are in state-run shelters across Maharashtra. Besides Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, the video conference was also attended by Tope ans state Home Minister Anil Deshmukh.
“The prime minister has informed us that the state can now carry out rapid tests for early detection of coronavirus cases. We will be using blood samples for the early detection of COVID-19 infection,” Tope said.
Modi also asked the Maharashtra government to take care of migrant workers in the state in view of the lockdown. “There are some 3.25 lakh migrant labourers in various state-run facilities. Modiji asked us to not only take care of their food, but to also provide them television so that they can have some entertainment and do not leave the shelter homes,” the health minister said. — PTI
BJP PR agents here 
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