Published 08:32 IST, April 11th 2020
Virat Kohli expresses gratitude to Delhi police for helping poor amid COVID lockdown
Virat Kohli hailed the efforts of the police personnel around the country for helping citizens and conveyed his wishes to the frontline COVID-19 warriors
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Team India's skipper Virat Kohli hailed efforts of police personnel around country for helping citizens and conveyed his wishes to frontline COVID warriors. Police officials across country have been helping poor, stranded and hungry by providing m food and essentials directly at ir doorstep, helping people amid lockdown. In a video shared by Delhi police on ir twitter handle, Virat Kohli salutes force for ir services and for ir kind gesture of distributing food to hungry & wishes m luck.
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Virat Kohli salutes police force
Coronavirus cases in India
Meanwhile, as per health ministry, India has conducted 1,44,910 tests on 130,792 suspected COVID-19 patients in 146 government and 67 private laboratories, Agarwal said. country reported 678 new cases and 33 deaths on Thursday, bringing number of confirmed cases to 6,412, and number of deaths to 199. Over 500 patients have recovered and been discharged. number of cases has been doubling every 4.1 days, health ministry had said earlier.
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impact of COVID-19 on sporting events
All major sporting events have eir been postponed or cancelled due to global pandemic. big global events like UEFA Euro Cup 2020 and Tokyo Olympic Games have been postponed to summer of 2021 while showpiece event of world tennis i.e. Wimbledon 2020 has been cancelled for first time since World War II. Coming back to cricket, semi-final and final matches of ongoing edition of Pakistan Super League (PSL) have been postponed as well. bilateral ODI series between India and South Africa have been rescheduled at a later date whereas, IPL 2020 that was supposed to get underway on March 29 has tentatively been postponed to April 15.
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08:32 IST, April 11th 2020