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CISF, RAF and local police personnel held a flag march in the Dilli Darwaza area on Thursday
Amidst the prevailing chaos and uncertainty about access to services and commodities during closing, we bring you the latest updates from your city.
* * Update at 2.59 p.m.: Supreme Court Asks States To Consider Online Sales, Home Delivery Of Liquor (PTI)
* A residential complex, Status Tower, near the television tower in Thaltej, has found a unique way to keep the virus away from its plates. They have installed eight ultraviolet (UV) lamps on all sides of a wooden box kept in the complex. The box is used to sterilize all edible items entering the building, killing all pathogens in approximately 40 seconds.
* * Update at 1.05pm: Migrant workers are distressed. The way they are being treated by the Center and state governments is very wrong. They are not even being organized for adequate food and accommodation: BSP chief Mayawati (ANI)
* * Update at 11.55 a.m.: The red, orange and green areas have been delimited nationally. These zones must be decided at state levels that involve district magistrates, ANI reports, citing Rahul Gandhi.
* Before the 48 hour deadline set by Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) for private professionals, a total of 228 clinics and hospitals were issued within the city limits.
* * Update at 9.36am: 85 percent of daily bets in Ahmedabad affected by shutdown: Survey (PTI)
* * Update at 9.28 a.m.: Covid-19 death toll rises to 1,886; cases rise to 56,342 in India, PTI reports citing Union health ministry
* After the exodus of thousands of migrant workers leaving the state, the Gujarat cabinet approved a new ordinance that will liberalize the strict labor laws in force to guarantee the proper functioning of industries in the period after the closure.
* Coronavirus tightened its grip on Gujarat when the state added 388 new positive cases Thursday, bringing the state’s count to 7,013.
* To ensure that people affected by Covid obtain hospitals and asymptomatic patients have sufficient quarantine facilities, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation took over eight private hospitals with a capacity of 800 beds and also 60 hotels with a capacity of 3,000 rooms.
* Cadila Pharmaceuticals closed its factory in Dholka after up to 26 workers tested positive for Covid-19. This is perhaps the first instance in Gujarat where a pharmaceutical company has been forced to shut down because workers are infected with the new coronavirus.
* The seven companies of paramilitary forces sent to Gujarat were deployed in the containment areas most affected by Covid-19 in Ahmedabad and Surat, to increase security measures. These companies have been mainly deployed in containment areas of the walled city and in some areas of the “red zone”.
* Gujarat health department officials said Ahmedabad recorded 23 of 29 deaths recorded in 24 hours. Four patients in Surat and one patient in Banaskantha and Mehsana district also succumbed to the viral infection.
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