The overall number of COVID-19 positive people rose to 979, with 61 new cases coming in, the health ministry said this morning. The figure includes 87 people who have been cured, 25 people have died. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who declared a 21-day lockdown last week, today warned against violation of the restrictions, saying those doing so were "playing with their own lives'. In the backdrop of the return of thousands of migrant labourers to their villages, the Prime Minister also apologized for the lockdown decision which, he said, has inconvenienced the poor.
