The Morning Filter Welcome to The Morning Filter, your guide to the busy news day ahead. We hope you are staying home and staying safe. Here are the latest updates and the big news stories to follow today:
1) Coronavirus | Gujarat 6th State to cross 1k mark; Centre says doubling time has slowed down The total number of COVID-19 cases in India exceeds 14,000, with the death toll over 490. The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Friday said the doubling rate of positive cases was now down to 6.2 days, compared to 3 before the nationwide lockdown that began on March 25.
2) Coronavirus | China pushes back on Trump administration coronavirus theory The Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman on Friday accused the U.S. administration of attempting to shift the focus from its own missteps in dealing with the pandemic by talking up a theory that it was started by a pathogen from a laboratory in Wuhan, the city where the global outbreak began.
3) Coronavirus | Industries in Haryana's non-containment zones to resume operations in phased manned after April 20 Haryana Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala said, “Necessary orders will be issued, most likely tomorrow, after which the industries in the state which are in non-containment zones can resume operations in a phased manner after April 20.”
4) Coronavirus | Karnataka to begin use of rapid tests kits from Saturday According to Primary and Secondary Education Minister Suresh Kumar , ICMR has purchased, 6,50,000 rapid tests kits for the country, of which Karnataka will get 12,400 kits. “It will reach us this night, so from tomorrow it will be used for tests,” he added.
5) Coronavirus | Chhattisgarh to start pool testing in couple of days Centre is likely to send rapid testing kits to the State by Saturday, Health Minister T.S. Singh Deo said.
6) Army special trains begins ferrying personnel to Pakistan, China borders 950 Army personnel left for Jammu from Bengaluru on Friday. Another train is set to operate from Bengaluru on Saturday to take another group of Army personnel to the North Eastern region.
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