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Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan had visited Safdarjung Hospital on Friday for a detailed review of the facilities available at the super specialty block.

'When I arrived in Kashmir, I realised that home was still way out of reach. I was to be locked up in quarantine,” said the first-year MBBS student from Jammu and Kashmir.

London University professor Francis Robinson said the coronavirus outbreak has led to a halt in the Jamaat’s traditional way of functioning and there are elements in India who will seize any excuse to attack Muslims.

However, it is not clear whether he had attended last month's religious congregation in Delhi's Nizamuddin, officials said.

Speaking exclusively to News18, the 22-year-old who was studying MBA in London said he was largely asymptomatic and is proud that he managed to stay away from other people and keep them safe.

Central government standing counsel Jasmeet Singh said a large number of Indian students are studying abroad and the missions are in constant touch with their universities or educational institutions for rendering assistance to them.

Kicked out of hotels, and running out of cash and patience, tourists have made desperate appeals to their embassies only to be told to sit tight.

The sample of the 40-year-old man was sent to Meerut Medical College and the report is negative for coronavirus, said chief medical officer Sanjay Bhatnagar.

The ICMR will not provide diagnostic kits/reagents to these laboratories and laboratory test should be offered only when the sample is referred by the State Health officials.

Singer Niranjan Haldar, 60, has been living on a boat ever since Prime Minister Narendra Modi made the announcement of 21-day nationwide lockdown.

A post-mortem was conducted and the medical officer said the death occurred due to cardio respiratory arrest, police said.

Sources said a March 19 order issued by the Indian Railways suspending all concessions except the categories mentioned above till further advice was yet to be rescinded.

Two women physicians were pelted with stones as a team of health department and administration visited the area for a health check-up of contacts of a patient who had earlier tested positive for coronavirus.

Sources said 35-year-old Meeran Haider, a Ph.D student at Jamia, is the president of RJD youth wing's Delhi unit.

Since the lockdown was imposed, a total of 257 complaints related to various offences against women were received, out of which 69 complaints are related to domestic violence, the data released by the NCW showed.

Secretary Preeti Sudan wrote that migrant workers in relief camps and shelter homes should be provided adequate medical facilities, besides proper arrangements for food, clean drinking water and sanitation.