Amid prevalent chaos and uncertainty over access to the essential services and commodities during the lockdown, we bring you the latest updates from various cities of the country. 1 BENGALURU South-West Railway Zone is converting 312 train coaches into isolation wards to prepare for a fight against coronavirus. Out of 312, 120 coaches will be converted into isolation wards at the Hubli railway workshop.

Karnataka cancels exams for classes 7 to 9. While all students of classes 7 and 8 will be promoted without conditions, the formative and summative assessments, which were conducted in this academic year, will be considered for Class 9 students.

Chief minister B S Yediyurappa distributes free milk to slum dwellers in Bengaluru.

Karnataka government will buy excess milk from Karnataka Milk Federation (KMF) and distribute it among the poor, and purchase fruits and vegetables through the Horticultural Producers’ Cooperative Marketing and Processing Society, or Hopcoms. 2 DELHI Health minister Satyendar Jain said around 700 people have been admitted in different hospitals in Delhi. Thirty two people tested positive on Wednesday out of which 29 people had attended Tablighi Jamaat event in Nizamuddin.

Police deployed around three blocks where attendees of Tablighi Jamaat event have been kept due to their objections against getting tested.

Delhi fire brigade begins disinfecting Covid-19 hotspot in Nizamuddin

Jamia Millia Islamia starts online learning for its faculty.

Cooking gas price in Delhi cut by Rs 61.5 per cylinder 3 HYDERABAD Cyberabad police along with Cyient used the drone-based surveillance as an assistance to the ground forces to monitor sensitive areas in the city. "Visuals from drones are enabling correct decisions on moving forces to sensitive areas,” tweeted Cyberabad Police.

Telangana police has received more than 6.41 lakh distress calls to Dial 100 service in the last three days of the ongoing coronavirus lockdown.

In a first, officials of the Secunderabad Cantonment Board (SCB) penalised shopkeepers for flouting the lockdown norms on Wednesday. Two grocery stores in Pedda Thokatta and Bowenpally were fined for not drawing markings in front of their stores to ensure social distancing.

Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), in a release, stated that 5,724 locations were sanitised on Wednesday in 11 days by the civic body’s entomology wing. The officials were equipped with 1,000 power sprayers, 600k knapsack sprayers and 63 VMF sprayers. A total of 305 portable sprayers were put into use in residential localities. 4 MUMBAI Sai Hospital Chembur completely sealed, whereas, Saifee Hospital, Jaslok Hospital, Bhabha Hospital & Hinduja Hospital partially affected due to exposure to Covid-19 patients.

BMC shut down Dadar wholesale vegetable market after almost 5,000 people gathered there on Wednesday despite the lockdown.

Vegetable prices see-sawed as supplies shrank again on Wednesday. Prices rose in localities that failed to arrange transportation from Vashi or Dadar wholesale markets. Relocation and demolition of several markets also affected availability of fresh produce. 5 CHENNAI Work to convert train coaches to be used as temporary isolation wards for coronavirus patients at a factory in Chennai is ongoing.

Chennai police commissioner AK Vishwanathan distributes food to migrant labourers at Guru Nanak College in Chennai

Chennai corporation is likely to begin today a door-to-door screening for flu-like symptoms across all 200 wards, to break the chain and ensure “asymptomatic” people with domestic/international travel history don’t infect family members, particularly the elderly, during the lockdown. 6 AHMEDABAD A man distributing free masks beaten up in Dariapur. FIR lodged in Dariapur police station.

A 52-year-old Covid-19 positive patient passed away in Vadodara early on Thursday morning. So far, a total of 87 people have been tested positive in the state.

Gujarat government has asked district collectors to ensure that workers and labourers are paid timely wages by private sector employers. 7 KOLKATA Kolkata police has kicked off an initiative to donate 50 units of blood every day for a whole month to tackle the shortage.

Kolkata municipal corporation has decided to extend the deadline for tax payment by another three months to June 30.

Grocery shop owners said except edible oil, rice and pulses, sale of other items have plunged considerably. Even soap and shampoo sale has plunged.

Even though there are no issues with cooking gas availability to the dealers people are having problems with kitchen fuel. 8 CHANDIGARH The 62-year-old Padma Shri awardee and former 'Hazuri Raagi' at Golden Temple dies of coronavirus in Amritsar.

Three Bangladeshi nationals who attended the Tablighi Jamaat congregation in Delhi's Nizamuddin test positive in Haryana's Palwal.

Haryana recorded its first Covid-19-related death as a 67-year-old man from Ambala passed away soon after testing positive around midnight Thursday, as per health officials.

Tiding over slow procurement of PPEs (protective overalls), Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) in Sector 32, Chandigarh, has sourced 48 suits through crowdfunding. 9 LUCKNOW A Covid-19 symptomatic man has committed suicide in quarantine ward of a hospital in Shamli district. His report is awaited. Further investigation is under way, reports ANI quoting DM Jasjit Kaur.

Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath holds meeting with senior officers to review the situation on Covid-19 in the state.

A 21-year-old man from Basti tests positive for Covid-19, reports ANI quoting Dr Sudhir Singh, in-charge of isolation ward at King George's Medical University in Lucknow.

NEW DELHI: The country entered the ninth day of lockdown amidst a sharp rise in the number of people infected with the Covid-19 disease. The local administration and state governments have introduced a series of steps to ease people's suffering and check the outbreak of the virus.