Covid-19 updates: Antibody test guidelines likely to be released Saturday

An official from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said that there are 182 labs in the country for coronavirus diagnosis, out of which 130 are government labs.

The Indian Council of Medical Reserach said that 8,000 samples have been tested for coronavirus in the last 24 hours.

Home Ministry asked states to take strict action against Tablighi Jamaat members allegedly abusing health workers: Officials, reports PTI.

Lav Aggarwal, Joint Secretary, Health Ministry said that Health Minister Harsh Vardhan has appealed to patients & their families not to create any obstacle in the path of doctors while they discharge their duties. The Health Minister also expressed concerns over misbehavior with doctors & medical staff, reports ANI.

The Health Ministry also said that a total of 647 cases are linked to Tablighi Jamaat congregation so far from 14 states.

Since yesterday, 336 additional cases of coronaviurs have come before us. Total confirmed cases are 2301, 56 deaths have been reported, said Lav Agarwal. Joint secretary of Health Ministry, reports ANI.

Lav Agarwal, the Joint Secretarty of the Health Ministry said that 336 fresh cases of the novel coronavirus were reported across India in the last 24 hours.

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Friday announced the closure of most workplaces and moving to home-based learning for schoolchildren as part of his "decisive move" to contain the spread of coronavirus, reports PTI.

FIRs have been registered against six people in Himachal Pradesh for hiding information that they attended Tablighi Jamaat in Delhi, said Director General of Police (DGP) SR Mardi on Friday, reports ANI.

A cruise ship where at least two passengers died of coronavirus while barred from South American ports finally docked Thursday in Florida after two weeks at sea and days of negotiations with initially resistant local officials, reports AP.

Sixteen Tablighi Jamaat attendees from Hassan have been quarantined in the wake of novel coronavirus, District Collector R Girish said on Friday, reports ANI.

The Reserve Bank of India has revised the trading hours for various markets to minimise the risks and to ensure that market participants maintain adequate checks and supervisory controls while optimising thin resources & ensuring safety of personnel, reports ANI.

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Mosques were allowed to remain open in Pakistan on Friday, the Muslim sabbath when adherents gather for weekly prayers, even as the coronavirus pandemic spread and much of the country had shut down, reports AP.

The OPD services at the LNJP Hospital and the GB Pant Hospital will be closed from April 4 onwards, Delhi government authorities said on Friday. Both these hospitals are among the five facilities in Delhi designated for treatment of COVID-19 patients, reports PTI.

Days after a 55-year-old man died in a government hospital in Vijayawada, the Andhra Pradesh government on Friday confirmed that coronavirus was the cause of the death, reports PTI.