Photos: India crosses 10,000 Covid-19 cases, lockdown extended

By HT Correspondent

Updated On Apr 14, 2020 05:27 pm IST

India went past a bleak milestone on Monday as the number of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases crossed 10,000, with the infections doubling over six days and the government expanding containment efforts and ramping up testing in an attempt to curb the highly contagious pathogen from sweeping across the country.

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A medical worker checks the temperature of a resident in Dharavi, Mumbai on Monday, April 13, 2020. 1,253 fresh Covid-19 cases were reported in the country on Monday taking the number of cases in the country to 10,444 according to HT’s dashboard. (Rafiq Maqbool / AP)

Updated on Apr 14, 2020 05:27 pm IST

A medical worker checks the temperature of a resident in Dharavi, Mumbai on Monday, April 13, 2020. 1,253 fresh Covid-19 cases were reported in the country on Monday taking the number of cases in the country to 10,444 according to HT’s dashboard. (Rafiq Maqbool / AP)

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Rashtrapati Bhawan in the distance and the deserted stretch near North and South Block at Vijay Chowk in New Delhi on April 12, 2020. The national capital has recorded 1,510 cases so far, becoming the city with the most number of infections. Four people died of Covid-19 on Monday, taking the Capital’s death toll to 28. (Arvind Yadav / HT Photo)

Updated on Apr 14, 2020 05:27 pm IST

Rashtrapati Bhawan in the distance and the deserted stretch near North and South Block at Vijay Chowk in New Delhi on April 12, 2020. The national capital has recorded 1,510 cases so far, becoming the city with the most number of infections. Four people died of Covid-19 on Monday, taking the Capital’s death toll to 28. (Arvind Yadav / HT Photo)

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Health department workers disinfect the area near Nizamuddin Markaz, now a containment zone, on April 11. Covid-19 cases first jumped in India after the detection of hundreds of patients who attended gatherings of the Tablighi Jamaat in New Delhi’s Nizamuddin last month. Daily cases have surged since the cluster was identified and isolated on March 30. (Ajay Aggarwal / HT Photo)

Updated on Apr 14, 2020 05:27 pm IST

Health department workers disinfect the area near Nizamuddin Markaz, now a containment zone, on April 11. Covid-19 cases first jumped in India after the detection of hundreds of patients who attended gatherings of the Tablighi Jamaat in New Delhi’s Nizamuddin last month. Daily cases have surged since the cluster was identified and isolated on March 30. (Ajay Aggarwal / HT Photo)

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A medical worker in Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) collects a sample from an elderly resident in the walled city area of Jaipur on April 13, 2020. The impact of India’s 21-day national lockdown also banks on disease clusters are being contained effectively, and people are being tested widely and aggressively. (Himanshu Vyas / HT Photo)

Updated on Apr 14, 2020 05:27 pm IST

A medical worker in Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) collects a sample from an elderly resident in the walled city area of Jaipur on April 13, 2020. The impact of India’s 21-day national lockdown also banks on disease clusters are being contained effectively, and people are being tested widely and aggressively. (Himanshu Vyas / HT Photo)

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A trail sanitation drive in Mayur Vihar Phase II, in New Delhi using a large-scale disinfection machine meant to deployed in the national capital’s red zones. With the mass identification and isolation of cluster cases across the country, the focus has now shifted to how well the government can contain and localise the infections. (Ajay Aggarwal / HT Photo)

Updated on Apr 14, 2020 05:27 pm IST

A trail sanitation drive in Mayur Vihar Phase II, in New Delhi using a large-scale disinfection machine meant to deployed in the national capital’s red zones. With the mass identification and isolation of cluster cases across the country, the focus has now shifted to how well the government can contain and localise the infections. (Ajay Aggarwal / HT Photo)

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Labourers load rice sacks on a truck at Food Corporation of India for distribution in the city in Hyderabad, on April 13. A majority of India’s states have backed an extension of the lockdown but some have sought an easing of the lockdown in areas outside the Covid-19 hot spots and containment zones to help get the wheels of the economy turning. (PTI)

Updated on Apr 14, 2020 05:27 pm IST

Labourers load rice sacks on a truck at Food Corporation of India for distribution in the city in Hyderabad, on April 13. A majority of India’s states have backed an extension of the lockdown but some have sought an easing of the lockdown in areas outside the Covid-19 hot spots and containment zones to help get the wheels of the economy turning. (PTI)

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A person waits for his turn inside a marked spot at a free food distribution, by Ramakrishna mission, in New Delhi on April 12. Covid-19 is expected to take a heavy toll on Asia’s third largest economy, which was already in the midst of a slowdown when the virus hit. (Burhaan Kinu / HT Photo)

Updated on Apr 14, 2020 05:27 pm IST

A person waits for his turn inside a marked spot at a free food distribution, by Ramakrishna mission, in New Delhi on April 12. Covid-19 is expected to take a heavy toll on Asia’s third largest economy, which was already in the midst of a slowdown when the virus hit. (Burhaan Kinu / HT Photo)

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A family watches Prime Minister Narendra Modi's address to the nation in Beawar, Rajasthan. In his third televised address to the nation in less than a month, the Prime Minister on Tuesday extended the lockdown to May 3 but made it clear that an economic revival rested on an April 20 review. (PTI)

Updated on Apr 14, 2020 05:27 pm IST

A family watches Prime Minister Narendra Modi's address to the nation in Beawar, Rajasthan. In his third televised address to the nation in less than a month, the Prime Minister on Tuesday extended the lockdown to May 3 but made it clear that an economic revival rested on an April 20 review. (PTI)

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A doctor in a protective chamber takes a swab from a man to test for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a Walk-In Sample Kiosk (WISK) in Chennai. Going ahead, the health ministry is considering pooled testing of people with symptoms in areas from where no SarsCov-2 (the virus that causes Covid-19) infections have been reported. (P. Ravikumar / REUTERS)

Updated on Apr 14, 2020 05:27 pm IST

A doctor in a protective chamber takes a swab from a man to test for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a Walk-In Sample Kiosk (WISK) in Chennai. Going ahead, the health ministry is considering pooled testing of people with symptoms in areas from where no SarsCov-2 (the virus that causes Covid-19) infections have been reported. (P. Ravikumar / REUTERS)

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A quarantine centre with a capacity of 700 beds inside a BMC school being set up at Dharavi in Mumbai. 202,551 individuals had been tested by 9pm on April 13, 2020, according data released by India Council of Medical Research (ICMR), with a total of 217,554 samples tested. (Satyabrata Tripathy / HT Photo)

Updated on Apr 14, 2020 05:27 pm IST

A quarantine centre with a capacity of 700 beds inside a BMC school being set up at Dharavi in Mumbai. 202,551 individuals had been tested by 9pm on April 13, 2020, according data released by India Council of Medical Research (ICMR), with a total of 217,554 samples tested. (Satyabrata Tripathy / HT Photo)

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Medical staff screen residents in Amritsar on April 12. Pooling of samples involves testing them in batches. When a pooled sample tests positive, then individual samples are assessed. Research shows that this method can be used to do up to three times as many tests with the same number of kits --an important factor considering India’s population and the low rate of testing so far. (Narinder Nanu / AFP)

Updated on Apr 14, 2020 05:27 pm IST

Medical staff screen residents in Amritsar on April 12. Pooling of samples involves testing them in batches. When a pooled sample tests positive, then individual samples are assessed. Research shows that this method can be used to do up to three times as many tests with the same number of kits --an important factor considering India’s population and the low rate of testing so far. (Narinder Nanu / AFP)

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