Here is a look at latest updates on the outbreak of coronavirus from various Indian cities — 1 Mumbai The Mumbai airport on Wednesday said it has helped transport more than 3,700 foreign nationals back to their respective countries, who were stranded due to the suspension of all commercial air passenger services amid the lockdown, with 20 repatriation flights in the last three weeks.

Marathi news channel journalist arrested over report about special trains, which allegedly led to a mob of migrants gathering in Mumbai's Bandra on Tuesday.

Misinformation regarding the commencement of trains from April 14, 2020, was spread using 11 different methods. The accounts have been tracked, FIRs are being filed and due legal consequences will follow.

Mumbai records a big drop in coronavirus deaths. There were only two deaths on Wednesday. The city had been recording deaths in double digits in the last 4-5 days.

The Bombay high court on Wednesday asked the Maharashtra government to consider if stranded migrant labourers can travel back home within the state after undergoing medical tests. 2 Delhi A doctor from Maulana Azad Medical College has tested positive for coronavirus today.

Over 200 cases were registered and 3,473 people detained in Delhi on Wednesday for violating lockdown orders.

Migrant workers evacuated from Kudesiya Ghat near Kashmere Gate, given fruits & shifted to shelter homes set up at government schools in different parts of Delhi amid coronavirus lockdown.

Delhi govt to use plasma enrichment technique to treat severely-ill COVID-19 patients on a trial basis.

To ensure that the learning process isn’t affected during the lockdown, North Delhi Municipal Corporation has formed class-wise WhatsApp groups for its primary school students. These groups are being used to deliver the study material and monitor the learning activities. 3 Bengaluru The Karnataka government on Wednesday opened a critical care support unit to monitor the progress of Coronavirus patients in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) of various designated Covid hospitals across the state.

Bengaluru police personnel, including those deployed for Covid-19 duty and the ones at police stations, will get a week’s compulsory break on rotation. Thirty per cent of the staff will be able to take leave each week.

The Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation is proving to be the city’s lifeline once again. Though most public transport modes are off the road, the transport utility is ferrying an average of 13,000 passengers a day.

App-based aggregator Uber announced Uber Essential to facilitate essential travel for residents of Bengaluru, Nashik, Gurugram and Hyderabad. This limited mobility solution will provide efficient transportation to essential service locations like hospitals and pharmacies. 4 Ahmedabad Supply chain disrupted in Ahmedabad by lockdown, prices of pulses up 15%.

Three Muslim organizations have offered their buildings in the city to the Ahmedabad municipal corporation and the government authorities as quarantines.

The seven-day-long curfew to check the spread of coronavirus infection in the Walled City and Danilimda areas of Ahmedabad in Gujarat kicked in on Wednesday. 5 Chennai Luxurious star hotels on the outskirts of Chennai may house people with Covid-19 symptoms as the government has identified them as quarantine facilities. These hotels are located on arterial roads including GST Road and East Coast Road (ECR) near Pallavaram and around Mamallapuram.

Universities in the state are joining the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic by diverting sophisticated real-time polymerase chain reaction (RTPCR) equipment to state medical colleges and hospitals to enable PCR tests.

As part of the fight against Covid-19, the civic body will collect swabs samples from 40,000 people in the city and send them for tests to government identified laboratories. 6 Kolkata 448 people have been arrested & 93 vehicles seized in Kolkata today for violating 'total safety restrictions': Police

The Calcutta high court on Wednesday directed the West Bengal government to ensure that guidelines issued by concerned central agencies be followed with regard to Covid-19 management in state correctional homes.

Three planes carrying passengers from Kolkata took off on Tuesday. This was the busiest traffic that Kolkata airport has witnessed in three weeks since fights were suspended to control the spread of Covid-19. In addition, SpiceJet operated a cargo flight from Chennai to Kolkata.

The death of a Covid-19 positive patient has led Medical College and Hospital Kolkata to shut down the male and the female medicine ward as a precautionary measure. 7 Lucknow The Lucknow University is preparing a model for increased use of information technology in the functioning and is exploring the possibility of conducting online examinations as well as paper setting.

Essential items for newborn babies and pregnant women and stationery for children will be delivered at the doorstep of residents from Thursday. The district administration has identified shops which will deliver these items to people. Officials said efforts were on to finalise the service.

Lucknow reports first Covid-19 death; 64-yr-old man dies at King George's Medical University.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday directed state officials to start online classes in all educational institutions and work on a permanent model for these, a senior official said. 8 Chandigarh The Chandigarh health department has a contingency plan for three-tier health care system. Under this, there will be 3,900 beds for patients with mild, moderate and severe symptoms for Covid-19.

Centre declares Chandigarh as coronavirus hotspot district.

Chandigarh administration is now threatening to name and shame morning walkers after the city was declared a coronavirus hotspot.

As many as 3,772 vehicles have been impounded and 485 persons booked for violating the curfew orders till date, says Chandigarh director general of police Sanjay Beniwal. 9 Hyderabad In a tragedy that is unfolding across the country, a large number of migrant labourers, hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced an extension of the lockdown, hit the roads of Hyderabad on Tuesday as they attempted to walk back to their homes in Andhra Pradesh. Some had decided to make the 800 km journey, to their home in Srikakulam, on foot.

Cybercrime sleuths of Hyderabad police commissionerate received seven complaints on Tuesday, taking the number of cases booked since lockdown to 160. On Tuesday, a fraudster posing as a wine shop representative siphoned off Rs 92,000 from a private firm employee’s bank account by promising to supply a bottle of brandy.

A 23-year-old coronavirus patient was arrested here on Wednesday for allegedly assaulting a doctor at the state-run Gandhi Hospital here on April 1 and produced before a local court through video conference. He was later remanded to judicial custody.

NEW DELHI: The country has remained in a state of lockdown for 23 consecutive days. The Central and state governments have announced a series of relief measures that are likely to bring a respite to millions of people facing hardship due to the ongoing restrictions imposed to check the spread of coronavirus.