The Morning Filter Welcome to The Morning Filter, your best way to start the day one step ahead of the news cycle. We hope you are staying home and staying safe. Here are the latest updates and big stories that you need to follow today: 1) Coronavirus lockdown | Transportation of all essential, non-essential goods allowed during lockdown: MHA The Union Home Ministry on Sunday allowed the transportation of all essential and non-essential goods in the country and the use of premises of the state disaster response force (SDRF) to shelter migrant workers and the homeless stranded due to the lockdown imposed to combat COVID-19. 2) Coronavirus | First working day for banks after Finance Ministry rap on shutting branches On March 27, the Finance Ministry asked banks to explain why several branches are closed. Bank unions cited the problems the staff faced in reaching the branches. 3) Coronavirus | Global death toll crosses 31,000 More than two-thirds of the deaths from coronavirus have now been recorded in Europe. 4) Coronavirus | Sri Lanka to relax lockdown for eight hours on Monday Indefinite curfew will continue in Colombo, Gampaha, Kaluthra, Puttalam, Jaffna and Kandy, while for other regions, the ban will be lifted for eight hours — from 6 am to 2 pm — on Monday. The ban on foreign arrivals has been extended till April 7 to contain the spread of the virus. 5) Coronavirus | Canada PM says no air, train travel for those with virus symptoms The new restrictions will take effect on Monday, Justin Trudeau told reporters at his daily press briefing. 6) Coronavirus | Russia closes borders to slow coronavirus spread Russia is to completely close its borders from Monday to stop the spread of the coronavirus. The country closed its borders to foreigners last week and grounded all international flights on Thursday as part of increasingly stringent measures to slow the spread of COVID-19 in Russia. 7) Coronavirus | Yuvraj Singh-backed Healthians, socmed platform Likee partner to run COVID-19 awareness drive “Over a period of five days, doctors and nutritionists associated with Healthians will join live sessions conducted by the Likee Official India team,” Likee said in a statement. The sessions will continue on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. There will be a one-hour session each day from 6 pm to 7 pm. 8) Coronavirus | Italy’s sports minister to extend ban on events Vincenzo Spadafora said: “(On Monday) I will propose extending the ban on sports competitions at every level for all of April. And I’ll extend the measure to training — an area where we hadn’t intervened because there was still a possibility of holding the Olympics.” 9) Desi newspaper India Abroad to cease publication from Monday Suresh Venkatachari, chairman and a publisher of India Abroad, a weekly newspaper, announced its decision to cease the print edition. 10) Bodies of 3 Sikhs killed in Kabul to be back on Monday Union Food Processing Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Sunday said bodies of three Sikhs killed in the Kabul gurdwara attack, whose families were based in India, would be brought back to the country on Monday.
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