TIMESOFINDIA.COM | Updated: Mar 29, 2020, 21: 23 IST
NEW DELHI: The Centre on Sunday asked state governments and Union Territory administrations to effectively seal state and district borders to stop the movement of migrant workers, who will be put in 14-days quarantine at destinations for violating the lockdown. The Centre also directed the officials to make adequate arrangements for food and shelter for the poor and needy people. Meanwhile, the health ministry said there are 1024 confirmed coronavirus cases in the country, including 27 deaths.
Here are the top developments:
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- Cabinet secretary Rajiv Gauba and Union home secretary Ajay Bhalla asked all the state chief secretaries and DGPs to ensure that there is no movement of people across cities or on highways as the lockdown continues.
- Union home secretary Ajay Bhalla asked all states and Union territories to allow transportation of all goods, without distinction of essential and non-essential, during the lockdown period.
- The Prime Minister’s Office constituted 10 different high-level committees to suggest measures to ramp up healthcare, put the economy back on track, reduce pain and misery of people as quickly as possible post 21-day lockdown imposed to contain the coronavirus pandemic.
- Aviation regulator DGCA on Sunday said it was suspending breathalyser tests, which is done to detect alcohol, for all aviation personnel, including pilots, hours after an Air India union had requested it to do so citing that these tests could spread coronavirus.
- The government has launched a