Coronavirus update: Tamil Nadu records 50 new cases

Tamil Nadu recorded 50 new novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) positive cases Monday 31, 2020, said C Vijayabaskar, the state’s health minister. Among them, 45 had been to Delhi.  

• The Supreme Court of India March 31, 2020 directed the Centre to ensure food, shelter, medical aid and religious conselling to migrants stranded at various parts of the country due to the 21-day lockdown that the government has invoked to combat the novel coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19). 
• Chhattisgarh’s health minister complained of a shortage of kits to test for the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) despite the Indian Council of Medical Research insisting that India had an adequate number of kits.
• The pandemic could have 90 per cent of the global population, killing more than 40 million, in the absence of mitigation measures, according to a new modelling by Imperial College London, the Nature reported March 30, 2020. 
• There were 227 new cases positive to the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) on March 30, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) informed in a rare late night update.
• MoHFW now pegs India's case tally at 1,353. Unofficial estimates are above that.
• There have been 32 deaths from the outbreak. 
• In Telangana, six people who attended a religious congregation at New Delhi's Nizamuddin area on March 13-15, died after contracting the disease (COVID-19). The state health department said March 30 it was trying to trace those they would came in contact with.

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