Increased testing

The Hindu Newsletter - Increased testing

	Friday 17, April 2020

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 | Latest Numbers  India registered over 800 COVID-19 positive cases on Thursday, with the tally now exceeding 13,300 and 420 deaths. These include over 11,000 active cases.   2) Coronavirus | Delhi pizza delivery man tests positive  The Delhi government has decided to conduct tests for COVID-19 on people engaged in delivering essential services like food, milk and other items.   3) Coronavirus | Arunchal’s lone COVID-19 patient tests negative again Health Secretary P. Prathiban said that the person who has been kept in an isolation ward at Tezu zonal hospital would be discharged on Friday.   4) Coronavirus | Ahmedabad Municipal Commissioner "expects" around 100 cases will emerge daily from Friday Cases are rising because we have increased testing, Vijay Nehra said adding 10 persons, either relatives or neighbours of the Congress MLA who has tested positive, were found to be infected with the disease on Thursday. The legislator is undergoing treatment at SVP Hospital in Ahmedabad.   5) Coronavirus | Republicans back Trump, call for WHO chief to resign  Some Republican lawmakers have suggested that the U.S. President withhold aid until the U.N. agency’s director general resigns while others called for an international investigation of its handling of the coronavirus, according to Reuters.   6) Coronavirus | Lockdown effect: Deve Gowda’s grandson's marriage to be low-key Former prime minister H.D. Deve Gowda’s grandson Nikhil Kumaraswamy is entering into wedlock in a low-key ceremony on Friday.   7) Coronavirus | Calcutta HC directs WB govt to file report on adherence to COVID-19 guidelines A division bench said that it will take up the issue for hearing again on Friday, when it will consider the report to be placed by the state government.   8) Coronavirus | Delhi HC to hear plea for protecting victims of domestic violence, child abuse during lockdown Petition, which is likely to come up for hearing on Friday, has sought certain immediate and effective measures to be adopted to help victims of domestic violence and child abuse during the lockdown.   9) Coronavirus | J&K's third testing centre to start functioning from today  The third testing centre in Kashmir is likely to be started Friday at the Jhelum Valley Medical College (JVC), Bemina in Srinagar.   Morning Filter will return tomorrow. Follow up on the day’s biggest stories with concise analysis from The Hindu with the Evening Wrap newsletter, delivered to your inbox every weekday evening.

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