Bengaluru: The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has completely sealed areas coming under Padarayanapura and Bapujinagar wards, where five COVID-19 positive cases were reported.
Former prime minister H D Deve Gowda on Friday claimed the lockdown decision was taken in 'haste' without forethought because of which farmers and the working class were 'suffering' and suggested measures to mitigate the impact.
A hasty lifting of restrictions imposed to control the COVID-19 pandemic could lead to a fatal resurgence of the new coronavirus, the World Health Organisation warned on Friday.
Bantwal: A youth was drowned while washing his clothes at a stone quarry pound Honest Stone Quarry located at Ukkuda Durbey in the limits of Vitla police station.
Sectors that depend on people's behaviour would take the longest time to recover after the end of the lockdown period, while those curbed by the government to contain the spread of coronavirus are set for a bounce-back immediately after the restrictions are removed, say experts.
The death toll due to coronavirus rose to 206 and the number of cases in the country climbed to 6,761 on Friday, a record spike of 896 cases and 37 deaths in 24 hours since Thursday evening, according to the Union Health Ministry.
Seven more people,including two Tablighi Jamaat returnees, tested positive for COVID-19 in Kerala on Friday, taking the total number of active cases in the state to 238.
The government has asked IAS officer Kannan Gopinathan, who quit the elite service eight months ago "over denial of freedom to the people of Jammu and Kashmir", to immediately join duty in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic but the bureaucrat said he won't resume work.
