1. 16-year-old girl, who was secondary contact of Markaz attendee tests COVID-19 positive in Assam.The girl is from Salmara Bongaingaon. Another Secondary contact of Markaz attendee from Goalpara tests COVID-19 positive in Assam.The number of #COVID19 patients in Assam now stands at 37. Active hospital cases 9 informed Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma through a tweet

2. Assam government carried out discussion with Centre to determine intra and inter-state transport movement of vehicles amid lockdown.Meanwhile, Assam has extended inter district travels within the state until May 2.

3. Permission from DCs is mandatory to move within districts of Assam. Violators will be apprehended and quarantined. A tweet was sent out by Kumar Sanjay Krishna, Chief Secretary, Assam. “No inter district movement of people allowed without authorisation by DCs. In case persons found travelling unauthorisedly, they shall be apprehended and kept in quarantine in the district where they are apprehended only. No District will push these persons to other districts.”

4. Assam Agriculture Minister Atul Bora suspected that a lot of pigs in the state could be suffering from ‘African Swine Fever’ and that the infection might have crossed over from China or Tibet into Assam. "It has also been reported in China. In Arunachal, it began. After the pigs died in that state, the corpses were dumped in the rivers from where the infection has probably come to Assam," told media. More than 2000 pigs have died from the disease. He said that the disease is highly contagious and could be carried by humans. However, this flu cannot affect humans, he added.

5. Meghalaya permits “conditional” movement of vehicles from Assam amid lockdown. The decision was taken after government of two states decided to coordinate to rescue stranded citizens. The vehicles were given passes from Assam government.

6. PM Modi applauded the Sikkim government in handling COVID-19 situation in the country. Sikkim Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang shared a post on this on FB

7. Top Indian athlete during an Instagram chat with Indian cricketer Suresh Raina recollected the time when she had scribbled Adidas on her shoes. “When I started running, I ran barefoot. But in my first Nationals, my father brought running shoes with spikes on them. It was just a normal pair of running shoes. I wrote ‘Adidas’ on the shoes with my hand. You never know what fate can do, Adidas is now making shoes with my name,” she said. Das said that she got really emotional when she had met Sachin Tendulkar who is her role model.

8. The National Commission for Women (NCW) seeks probe in alleged gang-rape of a woman in Rajasthan amid lockdown. The woman was allegedly raped by three men at a school where she was put up. The place was provided by local authorities as she was unable to reach her village amid lockdown.

9. Centre has asked states to stop using kits from two Chinese Companies.After the Govt. issued advisory on kits imported from China, the embassy in New Delhi has come out with a statement on this issue. “It is unfair and irresponsible for certain individuals to label Chinese products as “faulty”; and look at issues with preemptive prejudice,” said the Spokesperson. The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Monday that no payment has been made by the ICMR for the faulty Chinese testing kits for Covid-19.

10. Government of India and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed $1.5 billion loan to support immediate priorities that can help fight COVID-19. This includes disease containment and prevention, as well as social protection for the poor and economically vulnerable sections of the society, especially women and disadvantaged groups, according to a press release.

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Evening News - 28 April, 2020