Coronavirus update: Delhi CM self-isolates

Delhi Lieutenant-Governor Anil Baijal overruled Chief Minister Arvind kejriwal’s decision to reserve healthcare facilities in the city for its ‘residents’.

• Kejriwal, meanwhile, self-idolated after reports of sneezing and coughing.
• KS Dhatwalia, principal director-general of India’s Press Information Bureau, tested positive for the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), Press Trust of India said.
• He has been admitted to All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, the news agency reported citing sources late night June 7, 2020.
• Dhatwalia regularly attended media briefings in the Capital along with central ministers and top officials.
• India has started to lift its countrywide lockdown June 8.
• Apart from Metro railways and air travel, most other economic activity has been permitted to resume, subject to conditions.
• The footfall of people has already increased, especially in the metros

• the country recorded 9,983 new positive cases June 7, according to the Union health ministry.
• This took its totaly tally to 256,611.
• Of them, 125,381 were active cases.
• The death toll increased by 206 to 7,135.
• Maharashtra continued to host the largest number of infected by a wide margin, with 43,601 active cases.
• Delhi has 16,229 recorded patients while Tamil Nadu has 14,399.
• Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has announced hospitals in the city state will be shut for non-residents.
• His government has earlier come down on private players for testing asymptomatic persons.
• Cases being reassigned to states: 9,189.
• Sikkim, which recorded its first case on May 23, now has seven patients.