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Lockdown, Day 17: Death toll hits 200-mark

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
    Fiscal deficit at 5.07% in Feb, likely to go up in March
    ADB assures $2.2 billion support package to India

AROUND THE WORLD
Italy eyes lockdown extension to May 3
605 deaths in Spain; lowest daily toll in 17 days
Total of 81,907 cases in mainland China reported as of end-April
Death toll crosses 16,000 in US, infected cases surge past 460,000
Germany's cases rise by 5,323, deaths by 266
Pakistan's cases reach 4,601; Death toll at 66
Pakistan extends suspension of all flight operations till April 21