Coronavirus Cases In India See Biggest Jump In A Day, Other Top Stories

Indian Railways on Friday evening cancelled all passenger trains from midnight Saturday to 10 pm Sunday after Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for a "janata curfew". BJP leader and former Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje has gone into self-isolation, with her son Dushyant Singh, after singer Kanika Kapoor tested positive for the virus. Meanwhile, the number of confirmed novel coronavirus cases in the country jumped past 230, with at 63 cases reported on Friday alone. This marks the largest single-day jump in the outbreak. At least four deaths have been linked to the virus.

  • India's battle to effectively contain the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) continued on Friday as the number of infections doubled in just four days to 236, even as experts reiterated that not enough people were being tested and that an undetected spread could overwhelm the country's health care infrastructure.
    India's battle to effectively contain the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) continued on Friday as the number of infections doubled in just four days to 236, even as experts reiterated that not enough people were being tested and that an undetected spread could overwhelm the country's health care infrastructure.
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  • The Centre issued an advisory on Friday to all hospitals and medical education institutions - both public and private - asking them to set aside beds, prepare isolation facilities, procure sufficient numbers of ventilators, high-flow oxygen masks and mobilise additional manpower to step up combat readiness to take on Covid-19.
    The Centre issued an advisory on Friday to all hospitals and medical education institutions - both public and private - asking them to set aside beds, prepare isolation facilities, procure sufficient numbers of ventilators, high-flow oxygen masks and mobilise additional manpower to step up combat readiness to take on Covid-19.
  • The four men convicted of the gang rape and murder of a Delhi woman on December 16, 2012 were hanged before dawn on Friday. Mukesh Singh, 32, Pawan Gupta, 25, Vinay Sharma, 26 and Akshay Kumar Singh, 31 were executed at 5.30 am for the savage assault in an empty moving bus on the 23-year-old physiotherapy intern who came to be known the world over as Nirbhaya.
    The four men convicted of the gang rape and murder of a Delhi woman on December 16, 2012 were hanged before dawn on Friday. Mukesh Singh, 32, Pawan Gupta, 25, Vinay Sharma, 26 and Akshay Kumar Singh, 31 were executed at 5.30 am for the savage assault in an empty moving bus on the 23-year-old physiotherapy intern who came to be known the world over as Nirbhaya.
  • The four men convicted in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case were clutching at straws as the Supreme Court held an unprecedented sitting at 2.30 am on Friday to take up a last-minute plea to delay their execution scheduled three hours later.
    The four men convicted in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case were clutching at straws as the Supreme Court held an unprecedented sitting at 2.30 am on Friday to take up a last-minute plea to delay their execution scheduled three hours later.
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