CORONA VIRUS UPDATE

IN INDIA TOTAL CORONA CONFIRM CASES  3082 , RECOVERED  230 AND DEATHS 86

AIIMS employees to donate one day's salary to PM CARES Fund

Employees of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) to donate one day's salary to Prime Minister's Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund (PM CARES Fund) to fight COVID19.

Netflix donates Rs 7.5 crore to help daily wage workers in India

• Streaming platform Netflix on Saturday announced that it will contribute Rs 7.5 crore to Producers Guild of India  Relief Fund to help daily wage earners in the entertainment industry in the country.
• This fund, which was set up last month by Producers Guild of India, will provide emergency short term relief to thousands of daily wage earners in the Indian creative community, who have been directly impacted by the closure of film, TV and web productions in the country due to the corona virus pandemic.

Nestle announces Rs 15 crore grant

• FMCG major Nestle India on Saturday announced an initial grant of Rs 15 crore for providing food and essential groceries to the needy amid the coronavirus lockdown.
• It will also support the purchase of medical equipment for hospitals to fight against the Covid-19 outbreak, Nestle India said in a statement.
• The company has already started with a contribution of Rs 1 crore to the Narayana Hrudayalaya Foundation for the purchase of ventilators for Delhi/NCR.

108 members of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital staff quarantined

• 108 members of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital staff including doctors and nurses have been quarantined after they came in contact with two patients who in their second test report were found positive for COVID 19.
• Of the 108; 85 are in-home quarantine and 23 in the hospital

New York State records highest number of deaths in single day from COVID-19

• The New York State reported its highest number of 562 COVID-19 deaths in a single day, with a person dying almost every two-and-a-half minutes, as Governor Andrew Cuomo allowed redistribution of ventilators and protective gear to hospitals with greater need.
• Coronavirus cases in the state, the epicenter of the pandemic in the US, crossed 100,000 and it recorded the highest increase in the number of deaths from the virus in a single day between April 2 and 3, Cuomo said.
• The death toll in the state now stands at 2,935, an increase of 562 deaths in just one day, Cuomo said.

All you need to know about COVID-19 crisis

• Nine of the 14 patients who had tested positive for coronavirus in Ladakh have been cured over the past 12 days, official says.
• Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra says it's imperative for India to ramp up testing for coronavirus, and that the government must act now for the lockdown to yield results.
• The New York State reports its highest number of 562 COVID-19 deaths in a single day, with a person dying almost every two-and-a-half minutes, as Governor Andrew Cuomo allowed redistribution of ventilators and protective gear to hospitals with greater need.
• Six persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in UP's Maharajganj.
• UP's Banda reports first coronavirus case as Jamaat returnee tests positive.
• Railways says it has begun preparing to resume all its services from April 15 after a 21-day suspension of its passenger trains in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.
• Expressing confidence that the US general election in November won't be delayed by the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump vehemently opposes the idea of mail-in voting.
• A 60-year-old coronavirus positive woman having no travel history died at a hospital in Rajasthan's Bikaner on Saturday as the state reported 17 fresh positive cases, taking the tally to 196.
• All the COVID-19 patients admitted to the Chest Diseases hospital here were responding well to the treatment, the hospital says.
• Disney movies 'Black Widow' and 'Mulan' get new release dates.
• The country's COVID-19 death toll rises to 68 as the number of cases rises to 2,902.
• Three Jamaat members, including two from Bangladesh, test corona positive in UP's Shamli.
• A 75-year-old man has succumbed to coronavirus in Karnataka's Bagalkote, taking the death toll in the state to four.