COVID-19 death toll rises to 27; cases jump to 1024
   Date :30-Mar-2020

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NEW DELHI :
 
THE number of COVID-19 cases climbed to 1,024 and the death toll touched 27 after two fresh deaths were reported on Sunday evening, according to the Union Health Ministry. In its updated data at 7:30 pm, the ministry said the two fresh deaths were reported from Gujarat and Jammu and Kashmir. So far, Maharashtra has reported 6 deaths, Gujarat 5, Karnataka 3, Madhya Pradesh 2, Delhi 2, Jammu and Kashmir 2 and Kerala, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Punjab, West Bengal and Himachal Pradesh have reported one each.
 
The ministry said the number of active COVID-19 cases in the country was 901, while 95 people were either cured or discharged and one had migrated. GoM reviews situation in the country: A Group of Ministers chaired by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday carried out a comprehensive review of the situation arising out of coronavirus pandemic including treatment of affected people and supplies of petroleum products and essential commodities across the country.
 
The meeting also deliberated on the issue of a vast numbers of migrant workers taking journeys on foot for hundreds of kilometres in various parts of the country to reach home from urban centres after the 21-day nation-wide lockdown came into force. Sources said the GoM reviewed the entire situation arising out of COVID-19 pandemic across the country.
 
Home Minister Amit Shah, Consumer Affairs and Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri, Rural Development Minister Narendra Singh Tomar, Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar attended the meeting. HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Zubin Irani, Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy and Railways Minister Piyush Goyal also participated. The sources said petroleum products are available in adequate quantities across India and that transportation of essential commodities by train, air and road is going on without any difficulty. They said any issue arising locally is being resolved.