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List of All 75 Coronavirus-Affected Districts Under Lockdown Till March 31

The government has placed nearly all of urban India under a lockdown, shutting down major cities such as Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru.

New Delhi| Central government has asked state governments to issue directions to the 75 districts that have positive cases to stop all services except the emergency services: Lav Agarwal, Joint Secretary, Health Ministry.

Movement of all non-essential cargo items has been suspended in West Bengal & no such non-essential items carried in National Permit holding goods carriages like trucks, trailers shall be allowed to enter the state from midnight of Mach 22 till March 31: State Govt, reported ANI

Here is a state and union territory-wise breakdown of the 75 districts that will go under lockdown:

Andhra Pradesh: Prakasam, Vijaywada and Vizag

Chandigarh: Chandigarh

Chhattisgarh: Raipur

Delhi: Central, East Delhi, North Delhi, North West Delhi, North East Delhi, South Delhi and West Delhi

Gujarat: Kutchh, Rajkot, Gandhinagar, Surat, Vadodara, and Ahmedabad

Haryana: Faridabad, Sonepat, Panchkula, Panipat and Gurugram

Himachal Pradesh: Kangra

Jammu & Kashmir: Srinagar and Jammu

Karnataka: Bangalore, Chikkaballapura, Mysore, Kodagu and Kalaburgi

Kerala: Alappuzha, Ernakulam, Idukki, Kannur, Kasargod, Kottayam, Mallapuram, Pathanamthitta, Thiruvananthapuram and Thrissur

Ladakh: Kargil and Leh

Madhya Pradesh: Jabalpur

Maharashtra: Ahmednagar, Aurangabad, Mumbai, Nagpur, Mumbai Sub-Urb, Pune, Ratnagiri, Raigad, Thane and Yavatmal

Odisha: Khurda

Puducherry: Mahe

Punjab: Hoshiarpur, SAS Nagar and SBS Nagar

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Rajasthan: Bilwara, Jhunjhunu, Sikar and Jaipur

Tamil Nadu: Chennai, Erode and Kanchipurum

Telangana: Bhadradri Kothagudam, Hyderabad, Medchai, Ranga reddy and Sanga Reddy

Uttar Pradesh: Agra, GB Nagar, Ghaziabad, Varanasi, Lakhimpur Kheri and Lucknow

Uttarakhand: Dehradun

West Bengal: Kolkata and North 24 Parganas

The officials stressed that these steps were vital to ending the chain of transmission.

As cases of coronavirus mount in India, the government has amped up vigil and set up quarantine facilities to contain the spread of the infection.

According to data collected by the Union Health Ministry, as of March 17, there is one isolation bed per 84,000 Indians, and one quarantine bed per 36,000 Indians. The data, collected in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, states there is one doctor per 11,600 Indians, and one hospital bed per 1,826 Indians.

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