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A 65-year-old woman, diagnosed with Covid-19, died in Mumbai on Thursday.
Uttar Pradesh reported of 5 new coronavirus cases on Thursday. With this, the total number of Covid-19 cases in the state has reached 43.
Kerala reported 19 more positive cases of coronavirus on Thursday, taking the total number of infected people under treatment to 126, Chief
Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said.
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A doctor of a Mohalla Clinic in northeast Delhi is among the people who have been infected with coronavirus in the national capital, officials said on Thursday.
A senior official of the Delhi health department said, the doctor's wife and daughter have also tested positive for Covid-19.
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An Italian employee of the Holy See who lives in the same residence as Pope Francis was reported on Thursday to have tested positive for coronavirus. The infected person has been admitted to hospital.
A 70-year old woman, who became the second COVID-19 related fatality from Karnataka, is among four new positive cases of coronavirus confirmed in the state, taking the total number of the affected to 55, the health department said on Thursday.
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Rs 1.7 lakh crore package to be implemented with immediate effect; cash doles from April 1, Finance Minister has said.
Govt of India will pay the Employees' Provident Fund (EPF) contribution, both of employer and employee, put together it will be 24%, this will be for next 3 months.This is for those establishments which have upto 100 employees and 90% of them earn less that 15,000: FM Sitharaman
Nirmala Sitharaman: "A package is ready for the poor who need immediate help like migrant workers and urban and rural poor. No one will go hungry. The package is worth Rs 1.7 lakh crore."
A 70-year-old COVID-19 patient died in Gujarat's Bhavnagar district early Thursday morning, a health department officials said.
With this, the total number of deaths due to coronavirus inthe state has gone up to three, they said.
Coronavirus cases in Delhi rise to 36 after a mohalla clinic doctor, four others test positive. The doctor had reportedly come in contact with an infected woman who had returned from Saudi Arabia. The doctor's wife and daughter have also tested positive, Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain has said.
The total number of Covid-19 cases in India has increased to 629 whie death toll has climbed to 15.
In India, the total number of people infected with novel coronavirus has climbed to 629. The death toll, meanwhile, is 12.
The number of deaths around the world from the novel coronavirus cases has crossed 21,000.
More than 4.5 lakh declared cases have been registered from across the world since the epidemic first emerged in China in December.