In its daily media briefing, the Health Ministry on Monday said that in the last 24 hours, 796 COVID-19 positive cases and 35 deaths were reported.
Here are the key takeaways from the briefing:
– States are working continuously to enforce lockdown measures. Retired personnel, NSS and NCC cadets, and officials of other departments too are assisting the police in enforcing lockdown measures: Punya Salila Srivastava, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs.
– Inter-state and intra-state movement of all trucks is allowed across the country: HMO
– Till yesterday 2,06,213 tests were done. We have 14 mentor institutes who will look at the feasibility of more labs, or take part in the training.
– 14 districts in India have reported zero cases in the last 14 days: Lav Agarwal Joint Secretary, Health Ministry.
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– Total 25 districts in 15 states which reported cases earlier, had no case reported since the last 14 days.
– The first set of testing kits from China to arrive by April 15: ICMR
– 3.5 crore people have downloaded ArogyaSetu App.
– There is no need for worry, based on current stock and testing, we can test easily for 6 weeks: ICMR
– 78,000 Self Help Group members of 27 states have produced 1.96 crore masks under State Rural Livelihood Missions