Here is a look at the latest updates on the outbreak of coronavirus from various Indian cities — 1 Delhi The Delhi State Cancer Institute (DSCI), which was shut down about a fortnight ago when 27 of its staff members and four patients tested positive for Covid-19, has decided to resume OPD services from Tuesday.

Delhi government will start using 42,000 rapid antibody test kits from Monday at various containment zones across the city.

At least 35 cases of novel coronavirus were reported on Sunday from Tughlaqabad Extension, which was declared a hotspot by Delhi government on Friday.

A total of 79 areas in the national capital have been identified as containment zones.

So far, Delhi records 2,003 Covid-19 positive cases and the death toll stands at 45. 38 patients who died suffered from serious ailments; rapid tests are most likely to start from today, says health minister Satyendra Jain. 2 Mumbai As the number of Covid-19 patients in Mumbai keeps increasing, there is a sharp increase in the number of containment zones as well. From 77 containment zones that were marked out initially before March 30, the number has now climbed to 721.

Spike in child porn consumption during the lockdown period shows the huge presence of paedophiles, child rapists and child pornography addicts online. We're taking urgent steps to tighten stringency to prevent a drastic rise in sexual crimes against children, said Maharashtra home minister.

Fuel will not be given to anyone at more than 200 petrol pumps across Mumbai if the customer is not wearing a mask, said Petrol Dealers’ Association president M Venkat Rao on Sunday.

A fresh batch of 36 nurses from Jaslok Hospital in Peddar Road have purportedly tested positive for coronavirus, taking the facility’s overall tally of infected to 57.

Twenty cases in Dharavi push coronavirus total in the area to 138.

Maharashtra crossed the 4,000 mark on Sunday as the state and Mumbai saw the highest single-day surge of Covid-19 cases so far. With 552 new cases, the tally in Maharashtra stood at 4,200, while Mumbai’s count reached 2,724 with 456 fresh cases. 3 Lucknow The Islamic Centre of India has formed a 15-member "Qabristan Sewa Samiti" to facilitate the last rites of persons dying of coronavirus in Lucknow district.

Nineteen UP districts which have more than 10 coronavirus cases will not get any relaxation from Monday onwards.

About 90% of Covid-19 patients admitted in isolation wards of various hospitals in the city are asymptomatic. 4 Hyderabad Telangana government on Sunday issued orders directing the management of all the private recognized schools not to increase the fee by even a single paisa in the ensuing 2020-21 academic year.

People being discharged from quarantine were left in the lurch after hospital authorities and ambulance service refused to provide them transport facility back home.

Telangana will extend the lockdown to contain the surge of coronavirus till May 7, chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao said on Sunday, even as the state reported three new deaths and 49 new Covid 19 positive cases.

Another cop in Hyderabad tests Covid-19 positive. 5 Kolkata From today, 14 medical colleges in Kolkata will start conducting state-wide rapid tests. This step coincided with ICMR clearing the decks for RG Kar Medical College and Hospital and Command Hospital, Alipore, to start Covid-19 testing.

Muslim religious figures have called for a suspension of all congregational activities during the month of Ramzan that will start later this week. They have urged all members of the community to pray at home and follow the lockdown norms.

Three doctors of Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata (MCH), have tested positive to Covid-19, while seven junior doctors of SSKM Hospital have been sent on institutional quarantine after they showed symptoms.

Suvarthi Das, a research scientist from Kolkata, became part of America’s first large-scale immunity test against Covid-19 conducted in the Santa Clara county, California. 6 Chennai Animals at the Vandalur zoo are happy with ‘zero stress’ and there is a need to improve enrichments (props) in the animal houses to provide a wild experience, veterinarians have found after a 21-day observation exercise.

Two zones of Greater Chennai Corporation — Manali (zone 2) and Ambattur (zone 7) — have not recorded any positive cases of Covid-19 so far.

Under pressure to prepare and operate parcel trains to meet the need to transport essentials and medical equipment, railway employees including train controllers and staff at workshops have been working almost every day putting themselves at risk.

With remote work becoming commonplace in times of the lockdown, magicians in the city are moving online for their shows. 7 Bengaluru A team of researchers at the Centre for Nano and Soft Matter Sciences (CeNS) has come up with a technique for making face masks, termed Tribo E Mask, that can hold electric charges to restrict the entry of infections without any external power.

There have been a clear reduction in NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) levels in Bengaluru’s air during the current lockdown, shows analysis carried out by Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air using satellite data.

A pregnant woman who walked for 7km in search of a hospital delivered a baby boy at a dental clinic in Bengaluru on April 14. 8 Ahmedabad There is great confusion among Amdavadis about the relaxation they are given from 8am to noon to buy essential items. Shops selling essential items remain open during this time and people come out to shop. But DGP Shivanand Jha has said that no official permission has been given to people to come out in that period during the lockdown.

A perplexing case has struck the municipal health team on Saturday morning, contacts of Covid-19 cases are turning positive 26 to 34 days after they first came in contact with the patient. Five such cases have emerged over the last 10 days.

Three private hospitals in Ahmedabad-- Sterling Hospital, HCG Hospital & Narayana Hridayalaya-- have now been notified as Covid-19 hospitals that can treat patients with charges applicable.

Areas on the eastern side of Sabarmati River in Ahmedabad account for nearly 90% of the total Covid-19 cases in the city – the cases have been detected from 30 out of 48 wards of Ahmedabad, said Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) officials.

Ahmedabad municipal commissioner, on Sunday, mentioned that the city is carrying out 2,490 tests per million. 9 Chandigarh In a first of its kind move in Chandigarh, a group of Sector 40 residents has started monitoring people’s movements at the entry and exit points of the sector, to guard against Covid-19 pandemic.

Ten people tested positive for coronavirus in Punjab on Sunday, taking the state’s tally for the infectious disease to 244.

With 18 more new cases, most of them from NCR districts of the state, the total number of Covid-19 positive cases touched the figure of 250 in Haryana on Sunday.

NEW DELHI: From Chandigarh to Chennai, cities in India continue to be under lockdown for the fourth consecutive week. Mumbai continued to remain the hub of Covid-19 outbreak along with Ahmedabad which has seen a dramatic rise in the number of new cases in the last few days.