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Mumbai's health department reported 57 new Covid-19 positive cases and 4 deaths from the disease on Monday, reports ANI. The total positive cases in Mumbai now are 490 (including 34 deaths); 5 persons discharged were today, total persons discharged till now- 59:

There are 50 new COVID19 positive cases in Tamil Nadu today including 48 from Tablighi Jamaat, reports ANI quoting state health secretary Beela Rajesh.

She said that total positive cases in the state are 621 including 570 Tablighi Jamaat returnees.

In the last 24 hours, 12 new cases have been confirmed for COVID-19 in Karnataka, the state health dept said on Monday. Till now, there are 163 COVID-19 positive cases in the state, including 4 deaths & 20 discharged: ANI

The two-and-a-half-year-old child of Lucknow's first Covid-19 patient tests positive, hospitalised,say officials: PTI

Twenty six more found coroanvirus positive in Maharashtra; state tally jumps to 661, reports PTI quoting a state health official.

Cases in Delhi have increased, partly due to increased testing. Now, we are going to further increase testing so that positive cases could be identified. Situation still under control. Nothing to worry. Keep following lockdown: Delh CM Kejriwal

Cases in Delhi have increased, partly due to increased testing. Now, we are going to further increase testing so that positive cases could be identified. Situation still under control. Nothing to worry. Keep following lockdown https://t.co/w9K42qMTf0

— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) April 6, 2020

Delhi CM Kejriwal: Out of the total number of cases, 330 people are linked to Tablighi Jamaat in Delhi. Around 1,000 samples of are being tested for Covid-19 daily. :ANI

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal said on Monday that the Covid-19 cases have reached 523 in the national capital, with 20 fresh cases being reported in the last 24 hours including 10 attendees of Tablighi Jamaat event in Nizamuddin. One person died of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, total deaths stand at 7. Twenty five patients are on ventilators: ANI

The country has learnt to live without politics & religion during lockdown, says former ISRO chairman Madhavan Nair: PTI

West Bengal will have a policy making body for COVID-19 response, chief minister Mamata Banerjee has said, reports PTI.

It will also rope in Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee in the team, she added.

More than 25,500 Tablighi Jamaat members and their contacts have been quarantined in the country till now, a senior Union Home Ministry official said on Monday. reports PTI.

During the daily briefing, Joint Secretary Punya Salila Srivastava also told reporters that five villages in Haryana have been sealed and the residents quarantined as members of this Islamic organisation had stayed there.

She said that 1,750 foreign-based members of this the Jamaat, out of the total 2,083, have been blacklisted till now.

People in need of cash during lockdown no longer need go to banks or ATMs in Kerala as state govt ties up with postal department to deliver cash at doorsteps, reports PTI.

India's petrol sales shrank by 17.6 per cent and diesel demand tanked nearly 26 per cent in March as the economy froze under the nationwide lockdown announced to check the spread of COVID-19, reports PTI

Tamil Nadu CM K Palaniswami says one lakh rapid test kits from China will arrive on Thursday for quick screening for Covid_19, reports PTI.

The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday cleared an ordinance to slash salaries of parliamentarians and ministers by 30 per cent for one year to fund the battle against coronavirus disease.