TIMESOFINDIA.COM | Updated: Mar 30, 2020, 20: 20 IST
NEW DELHI: Reiterating that COVID-19 is still in the local transmission stage in India, the health ministry on Monday said it took 12 days for cases of infection to rise from 100 to 1,000 in the country and that the rate of increase has been slower than some of the developed countries. Meanwhile, India has reported 1,071 COVID-19 cases and 29 deaths, so far.
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- Organisations involved in social welfare can play a big role in countering superstitions and misinformation about coronavirus, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said while talking to social workers via video conferencing.
- The home ministry has issued orders to states and Union Territories to make it a personal responsibility of District Magistrates to arrange food and shelter for stranded migrant workers.
- With thousands of migrant workers walking back to their native places, the Supreme Court observed that the panic and fear is becoming a “bigger problem than coronavirus”, and sought a status report from the Centre on the measures taken to prevent the exodus.
- Twenty-eight hospitals of Army, Air Force, and Navy across the country ha