The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Wednesday asked the Centre to issue guidelines and advisories to all the states and union territories to ensure that the implementation of coronavirus lockdown is done in a sensible manner respecting the rights, liberty and dignity of people.

The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) on Wednesday said that it has issued over 10.2 lakh tax refunds totalling to around Rs 4,250 crore till April 14. The amount is over and above the 2.5 crore refunds that have already been issued FY 19-20 till March 31 that totalled to Rs 1.84 lakh crore.

Through a press release issued by the Ministry of Finance, the CBDT said that about 1.75 lakh more refunds are in the process of issuance this week.

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Wednesday released the complete list of 176 government and 78 private laboratories to test potential coronavirus disease (COVID-19)-affected patient samples. Notably, the virus has affected more than 12,000 people in India and claimed at least 400 lives in the country, while it continues to spread like wildfire globally.

The official website of the council provides an idea about the government and private testing facilities for coronavirus available in the country. These testing facilities are spread across the length and breadth of the country.

The Centre on Wednesday declared 170 districts in the country as coronavirus hotspots and 207 as non-hotspots. Hotspots are the regions that have reported a significant number of positive cases.

During the daily press briefing, Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Health Lav Agarwal stated that the government has asked the states to segregate the districts based on the number of cases they have reported. While the regions with the most cases are coronavirus hotspots, non-hotspots are those districts where less number of cases are found. The discricts where no case has been found is the green zone.

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Startup Cipla Health, a subsidiary of Cipla, on Wednesday said it has partnered with Swiggy, Zomato and Dunzo for home deliveries of over-the-counter wellness products in the wake of the nationwide lockdown.

Leveraging on the extensive service delivery mechanism of the partners, Cipla Health will cater to 4 lakh people and cover 250 stores in 45 cities across the country, news agency PTI reported.

The revised guidelines from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on the extended lockdown have permitted information technology (IT) and IT-enabled services to function at 50 per cent strength beginning April 20.

The industry has welcomed the move but since most people in the sector are already working from home, companies are likely to take an individual call on if and how they would be implementing this new allowance.

Wholesale price inflation fell to 1% in March from 2.26% in February, government data showed on Wednesday.

The wholesale inflation based on wholesale price index (WPI) fells sharply due to a fall in food prices in the country.

According to data released by the Commerce and Industry Ministry, food inflation in March fell to 4.91% from 7.79% in the previous month.

Amid the coronavirus outbreak, where all have been asked to stay indoors, around 3,000-plus migrants arrived at the Bandra railway station in Mumbai demanding transportation facilities to return to their native places.

Seeing putting their own and even other lives in danger, cricketer Harbhajan Singh took to Twitter to express his disappointment.

A newborn boy in Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur district has been named 'Sanitiser'. His father Omvir Singh, resident of Vijay Vihar, said he had named his son 'Sanitizer' because it had the capacity to fight against the coronavirus. Whenever people will talk of Corona, they will remember that it was Sanitizer that saved them, Omvir said as quoted by IANS.

Sanitiser was born on Sunday in a hospital and his mother Monika said that as soon as her husband announced that his son would be named 'Sanitiser, all medical staff started smiling.

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