Lockdown, Day 17: Death toll crosses 200-mark, no community transmission yet

There has been no sign of community transmission yet, the Health ministry said even as India's Covid numbers inched closer to the 7,000-mark on Day 17 of the three-week lockdown.

By ET Online | Updated: Apr 10, 2020, 09.26 PM IST

India lockdown day 17 wrap: What all happened

There has been no sign of community transmission yet, the Health ministry said even as India's Covid numbers inched closer to the 7,000-mark on Day 17 of the three-week lockdown. 678 new cases and 33 casualties were reported in the last 24 hours, taking the total tally to 6,761.

Here are the latest updates...

COUNT SO FAR

New case in Jharkhand's Bokaro takes state tally to 14
21 new cases takes Vadodara total to 39
3 new cases reported from Mumbai's Dadar area; 5 more in Dharavi
Two doctors among 14 test positive in Bhopal
Bihar now has 60 cases
UP reports 21 more cases; Total 431 infected
10 new cases reported in Karnataka
Cases rise to 161 in Haryana
5 linked to Tablighi Jamaat test positive in Agra; District tally now 89
132 confirmed cases in Punjab
4 test positive in Udhampur; Cases in J-K climb to 188
4 more cases in Odisha; State tally now at 48
46 new cases in Gujarat in past 12 hours
Woman dies in Rajasthan; 57 new cases reported
65-yr-old becomes Assam's first casualty
Two more deaths in Gujarat; State toll now 19

World	India	Global Death Count
1,611,981	6761	96,783

LIFE & HEALTH

ICMR approves use of diagnostic machine used for drug-resistant TB
Sanofi will donate 100 million doses of hydroxychloroquine to 50 countries
Haryana govt doubles pay of Covid-19 fighters
Punjab extends lockdown till April 30
IndiGo to fly planes half-full with no meal service for some time, whenever flights restart
Complete lockdown of 5 prisons in Mumbai & Pune region
Rs 10L compensation to next of kin of Uttarakhand officials, staff who lose lives to virus

ECONOMIC UPDATE