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India will go on a 21-day nationwide lockdown from today to fight the coronavirus pandemic, PM Modi announced via a televised address on Tuesday night. The national lockdown comes as India reported more than 50 new cases of Covid-19, taking the latest total of patients to 557.

Covid-19 has claimed 11 lives in the country with authorities reporting one death each in Delhi–the second in the national capital–and Maharashtra on Tuesday and over 500 persons being afflicted by the viral infection. Fears are also mounting that more could be hit as the global coronavirus toll inches towards 17,000.

PM ANNOUNCES NATIONAL LOCKDOWN

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday announced a complete lockdown of the entire country for 21 days in an unprecedented drastic measure to try halt the spread of coronavirus shortly after which the Centre said all road, rail and air services will remain suspended during this period.

In his second address to the nation in less than a week on the growing concerns over Covid-19, Modi said the lockdown will be in force from Tuesday midnight, as he announced a Central allocation of Rs 15,000 crore to strengthen the health infrastructure to tackle the disease.

BSEB released the Bihar Board 12th Result 2020 today evening on March 24 after an afternoon announcement by BSEB Chairman Anand Kishor who said no press conference would be carried out to declare the BSEB 12th Result 2020.

But since the BSEB Intermediate Result 2020 was declared in the middle of the short lockdown process to slow down the spread of Coronavirus Covid-19, and right before PM Narendra Modi gave his address declaring an extended country-wide lockdown for 21 days, many Bihar Board students are wondering when the BSEB 10th Result would be declared.

As per comments by BSEB Chairman Anand Kishor, the Bihar Board 10th Result 2020 would be declared much after March 31, 2020. This is because the answer sheet evaluation of the BSEB 10th students have been suspended temporarily till the time the lockdown continued. It was presumed earlier that the answer sheet evaluation would probably continue after March 31.

But since PM Narendra Modi has declared a country-wide lockdown till April 15 or for a period of 21 days starting at midnight on March 24, the answer sheet evaluation for the Bihar Board 10th Result 2020 is likely to be further delayed. No official information has been declared yet on the result declaration date.

Around 20,000 board examiners were supposed to evaluate the BSEB 10th board exam answer sheets at over 100 evaluation centres in Bihar. But when the lockdown was announced earlier, there were around 50% Bihar Board 10th answer sheets still to be checked as per an HT report.

The answer keys of both the BSEB 10th board exams and the Bihar Board 12th board exams have been declared.

Kerala decided to go in for a total lockdown from midnight tonight till March 31 with 28 new positive COVID-19 cases, the highest on a single day, being reported on Monday, taking the total number of people under treatment to 91 and more than 64,000 under surveillance.

With positive cases continuing to rise, the government decided to go in for the lockdown from midnight tonight till month end, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who held a series of high-level meetings with various departments and stakeholders, said.

At least 64,320 are under surveillance in the state and 383 are in isolation wards of various hospitals.

Of the 28 new cases, 19 are from the worst-affected northern district of Kasaragod, five are from Kannur, one from Pathnamthitta, two from Ernakulam and one from Thrissur, Vijayan told reporters after a COVID-19 review meeting.

This is the highest number of positive cases detected in the state on a single day.

Within the last four days, the state had recorded 67 positive cases.

“Twenty-five of the 28 found positive today had returned from Dubai,” Vijayan said, adding as of now there is no evidence of community spread of the virus.

As part of the lockdown, the state’s borders will remain closed, state run KSRTC and private buses would be off the roads, but private vehicles would be allowed.

Banks would be open only till 2 pm.

“All essential materials will be made available. All state borders will remain closed. There will not be any public transportation.KSRTC and private buses will not ply, but private vehicles would be allowed. Petrol pumps would not be shut and LPG distribution will not be affected,” Vijayan said.