COVID-19 live updates, April 17: Karnataka, Jammu and Kashmir record new COVID-19 cases

COVID-19 live updates, April 17: Karnataka, Jammu and Kashmir record new COVID-19 cases

COVID-19 live updates, April 17: Karnataka, Jammu and Kashmir record new COVID-19 cases

NEW DELHI :

Army Chief General MM Naravane: Our personnel, who have not come in contact with any infected person, are being moved back to units. We have already catered for two special trains, from Bengaluru to Jammu and other from Bengaluru to Guwahati.

While we are busy not only helping our own citizens, but the rest of the world, by sending medical teams and exporting medicines; Pakistan is only exporting terror. This doesn’t augur well. (ANI)

Coronavirus in Delhi LIVE updates: Clerics and community leaders urge people to pray at home during the holy month of Ramzan. Cleric Mufti Mukarram says, "We should stay at home and practice social distancing to keep ourselves and others safe. If we fast and pray at home, there is no problem with it." (ANI)


COVID-19 live updates, April 17: Karnataka, Jammu and Kashmir record new COVID-19 cases

COVID-19 live updates, April 17: Karnataka, Jammu and Kashmir record new COVID-19 cases

Coronavirus in India LIVE Updates | BJP President JP Nadda: Today's announcement by RBI is in line with vision of PM Modi to take steps which are business as well as people friendly. RBI already took some steps on March 27. These steps will go a long way to help PM Modi's effort to keep the economy strong during and after the pandemic.

Initial Rs 50,000 crore to support small and mid NBFCs, refinance facilities of Rs 25,000 crore to NABARD to help farmers; Rs15,000 crore to SIDBI to boost loans to start-ups and SMEs; Rs10,000 crore to NHB to support housing for all, will prove to be significant steps. (ANI)


COVID-19 live updates, April 17: Karnataka, Jammu and Kashmir record new COVID-19 cases

COVID-19 live updates, April 17: Karnataka, Jammu and Kashmir record new COVID-19 cases

Coronavirus LIVE updates | From the morning of April 16 to the morning of April 17, 122 cases regd by Odisha Police for violation of guidelines on COVID-19. Out of these 117 cases for violation of lockdown, no case for violation of home quarantine. One case for rumour mongering and 4 cases for other related issues: Odisha's DGP on Twitter

Coronavirus in India LIVE updates | West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra has urged the central government to allow companies to contribute from their CSR kitty towards the emergency fund created by the state to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Mitra's letter to Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman echoed Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's recent stand on the issue. (PTI)


COVID-19 live updates, April 17: Karnataka, Jammu and Kashmir record new COVID-19 cases

Coronavirus LIVE updates | Our personnel who have not come in contact with any infected person are being moved back to units, we have already catered for two special trains, from Bengaluru to Jammu and other from Bengaluru to Guwahati: Army Chief Gen MM Naravane to ANI in Kupwara (Jammu and Kashmir)

Coronavirus in Maharashtra LIVE updates | 288 more COVID-19 cases and seven more deaths reported in Maharashtra. Total coronavirus cases in the state stand at 3,204 and deaths at 194: State Health Department (ANI)

To help people tide over any cash crunch during the COVID-19 pandemic, banks and non-banking finance companies (NBFCs) have rolled out personal loan schemes with relaxed norms for their customers.


COVID-19 live updates, April 17: Karnataka, Jammu and Kashmir record new COVID-19 cases

Coronavirus in Uttar Pradesh LIVE updates | Driver, sweeper booked for refusing to carry coronavirus patient's body

A driver and a sweeper working with the Health Department have been booked in Uttar Pradesh's Sambhal for allegedly refusing to carry the body of a coronavirus patient, police said today. The driver of a hearse van and the sweeper allegedly refused to bring the body of the COVID-19 patient from Moradabad to Sambhal, SHO Ravindra Pratap Singh said. (PTI)


Coronavirus LIVE updates | So far, we have only eight positive cases in the entire Indian Army. Of these, two are doctors and one is a nursing assistant. Four are responding well to treatment and we had one case in Ladakh, now he is fully cured and has joined duty: Army Chief General MM Naravane to ANI, in Kupwara (Jammu and Kashmir)

Coronavirus in Maharashtra LIVE updates | Pune reports another COVID-19 death; toll reaches 48

A 50-year-old coronavirus patient succumbed to the infection in state-run Sassoon Hospital in Pune today morning, taking the toll in Pune district to 48, an official said. The man suffered from pre-existing illnesses and was under treatment for the last two days, he said.

With this, the death count in Pune district, the second worst affected by coronavirus after Mumbai, has gone up to 48, according to health authorities. 
(PTI)