This story is from April 1, 2020

Lucknow lockdown news: Today's updates from your city

Amid prevalent chaos and uncertainty over access to the essential services and commodities during the lockdown, we bring you the latest updates from your city.
Lucknow lockdown news: Today's updates from your city
A deserted Aminabad market in Lucknow
LUCKNOW: Amid prevalent chaos and uncertainty over access to the essential services and commodities during the lockdown, we bring you the latest updates from your city.
+Update at 1014pm: Amid the huge shortage of hand sanitizer and face mask, Mathura and Firozabad police have come together, to manufacture the same in order to save their men in khakee, posted round the clock amid coronavirus scare.

*Update at 10.52pm: Retired colonel and husband of the 73-year-old woman, who is under treatment at Base Hospital in Central Command after testing postiive for Covid-19, has also been tested positive for the novel coronavirus infection. The daughter-in-law of the colonel was tested positive on March 10 and was discharged from the King George's Medical University (KGMU) on March 21 after being declared to have recovered.
*Update at 6.53pm: After a 48-hour search for people from the state, who had attended the Tablighi Jamaat congregation at Nizamuddin in Delhi, police in districts managed to track down 569 of them. Senior police officers said that with the help of surveillance and the local intelligence units they managed to trace 569.
*Update at 5.37pm: Noida: 7 more test positive for Covid-19 in last 24 hours; active cases 39
*Update at 5.16pm: Uttar Pradesh Additional Director General of Police (law and order) PV Ramashastry said as many as 569 residents of UP have been traced so far who attended the Tabliqui Jamaat in Nizamuddin. Police also said that they were also searching for foreigners holed up in mosques across the state.
*Update at 4.57pm
: 7 new coronavirus patients found in Gautam Buddh Nagar in the past 24 hours, total cases 45, reports PTI quoting officials
*Update at 4.15pm: A 72-year-old man - father-in-law of the man who travelled from Amravati to Meerut and infected 16 others in the district - died on Wednesday, three days after he tested positive for Covid-19 at Lala Lajpat Rai Memorial Medical College.
*Distribution of free food through fair price shops will start from today.
*After a 24-hour search for 157 people from the state, who had attended the Tablighi Jamaat congregation at Nizamuddin in Delhi, police in 18 districts managed to track down 128 of them.
*From ‘Ram Rasoi’ to ‘Adam’s Kitchen’ and ‘langars’, members of all communities have joined hands to feed the hungry and shelter-less in the moment of crisis due to the lockdown.
*If wholesalers are to be believed, there is enough grocery stock for at least six days to cater to the public demand in the city. However, it is owing to transport issues that the rate of supply from other states and districts is low. This might create problems if the problem is not fixed at the earliest.
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