This document summarizes news coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic from several Indian newspapers between April 1st and April 30th 2020. It provides an overview of each newspaper and then summarizes the top stories reported each day, including increasing case numbers in India and Delhi, the impact of the religious gathering in Nizamuddin, debates around lockdown measures, and the start of plasma therapy trials.

1. DONE BY:
TRISHA SARKAR
ANINDITA AICH
Mass Communication Models and
Theory Assignment

2. OVERVIEW
NEWSPAPERS TAKEN:
• HINDUSTAN TIMES
• NAVBHARAT TIMES
• ANANDABAZAR PATRIKA (BENGALI)
TIMELINE:
1st APRIL 2020 to 30th APRIL 2020

3. ABOUT THE NEWSPAPER

4. APRIL 1ST 2020
 ICMR plays down signs of community transmission
 Now a disease hub, Jamaat defied series of anti-Covid
curbs
 21-day lockdown may not be enough to stop spread:
Study
 Global body count exceeds 40,000
 Kejriwal warns Delhi cases may shoot up over 2-3 days

5. APRIL 3RD 2020
• 1,000,000 AND COUNTING: CORONAVIRUS DISEASE
Cases hit seven figures worldwide, deaths exceed 50,000;
spike in India
• Plan staggered exit from lockdown, PM tells CMs
• Jamaat accounts for lion’s share of Delhi’s infections
• Health workers, police attacked in some states
• At city virus tracking hub, Markaz takes center stage
• 62% of Delhi’s 293 Covid-19 cases now linked to Jamaat

6. APRIL 6th 2020
• India toll hits 100; Delhi tally 503
• Rate of infection doubling in 4.1 days, could have been
7.4 without Jamaat hot spot, says govt
• PPE shortage back in focus as four nurses test positive
• To stem infection risk, all Covid patients being moved to
two designated hospitals
• Anti-malaria drug is the best bet against Covid-19 until a
cure is created

7. APRIL 8TH 2020
• Test, trace, treat in Delhi’s 5T plan
• Plasma transfusion shows promise in Covid treatment
• Centre considering pleas by states to prolong lockdown
• We will begin pool testing trials to speed up diagnosis:
Satyendra Jain
• Schools shut but classes still open: Delhi govt institutions
turn to tech
• Hot spot next door, Nizamuddin East fights to keep Covid at
arm’s distance

8. APRIL 10TH 2020
• 816 cases jolt India amid harder curbs.
• Odisha lockdown to go on, others could follow
• Heat may not bring relief, warns US study
• Locked down and out: Residents learn their fate on news
bulletins
• CAPITAL UNDER LOCKDOWN

9. APRIL 13TH 2020
• More red zones as Capital extends Covid clampdown
• Delhi’s diagnosis push: Random antibody testing across
clusters
• First consignment of anti-malaria drug reaches US
• Reading up on Covid-19 now most common web activity for
all ages
• Containment, high-risk zones to be disinfected
• Govt to scale up rapid testing for Covid-19, awaiting antibody
kits
• DELHI’S 1,000 CASES IN 41 DAYS

10. APRIL 15TH 2020
• India to stay locked down till May 3
• Eight new red zones; Delhi to conduct 20k tests in five
days
• Covid cases rising exponentially, critical to ramp up
testing: ICMR
• Surveillance, social distancing to be stricter in
neighbourhoods
• CBSE awaits guidelines for clarity on exams
• How patients, relatives stuck outside AIIMS are trying to
survive lockdown

11. APRIL 17th 2020
• Rapid kits finally arrive to test Covid immunity
• Stricter norms likely after food rider tests Covid-19+
• 72 houses quarantined as delivery boy tests positive
• Plasma trials okayed in Capital
• Guard blamed for Def Col cases tests negative
• In times of Covid, police force gloves, masks on arrested
men
• Cops test positive, Chandni Mahal stn sealed

12. APRIL 20TH 2020
• Covid-19 doesn’t see race, religion: Modi
• CM worried as Delhi cases hit 2,000 mark
• Silent spread fears grow as asymptomatic cases spike
• 11/11: NE district joins hot spots list
• 110 new cases push Covid tally across 2k
• Antibody tests begin in city to identify plasma donors

13. APRIL 22TH 2020
• Cases double to 20,000 in 8 days
• ICMR puts rapid tests on hold to check faulty kits
• Delhi to conduct Covid-19 tests for journalists in city
• Lok Sabha staffer, kin of president’s house worker test
+ve
• 5-star hotels for docs only: Govt revises rules for Covid
warriors
• Six front-line workers Covid+, sweeper may have died of
virus

14. APRIL 24TH 2020
• Virus spread slowed by a month of lockdown: Govt
• ‘Communal virus’ a big threat: CWC
• Covid patients infiltrating from Pak to infect Indians:
J&K DGP
• 45-day-old baby among 58 tested +ve in 2 clusters
• Are hospitals becoming risk zones for Covid infections?
Health care workers, including doctors, across hospitals
have contracted the viral disease

15. APRIL 27TH 2020
• PM, CMs to discuss graded lockdown exit on video call
• China says all Covid patients in Wuhan now stand
discharged
• Delhi dismisses possibility of more relaxations before
May 3
• Over 200 attendees pledge to donate plasma
• Braving Covid threat, woman travels 2,400km to help
sister fight cancer

16. APRIL 29TH 2020
• Covid cases climb to 31,000, spike puts deaths over 1,000
• Plasma therapy is not a proven treatment: Govt
• Delhi, Mumbai in 15 ‘high caseload’ areas
• Home-isolation of mild cases to begin in Capital this
week
• 11 of Lok Nayak staffer’s family test +ve for Covid
• 11 virus cases linked to Azadpur market, 100 results
awaited

18. APRIL 4TH 2020:

19. APRIL 7TH 2020:

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21. APRIL 11TH 2020: APRIL 14TH 2020:

22. APRIL 16TH 2020: APRIL 18TH 2020:

23. APRIL 21ST 2020: APRIL 23RD 2020:

24. APRIL 25TH 2020: APRIL 28TH 2020:

25. APRIL 2ND 2020:

26. APRIL 4TH 2020: APRIL 7TH 2020:

27. APRIL 11TH 2020: APRIL 11TH
2020:
APRIL 14TH 2020: APRIL 16TH 2020:

28. APRIL 18TH 2020: APRIL 21TH 2020:

29. APRIL 23RD 2020: APRIL 25TH 2020:

30. APRIL 28TH 2020: APRIL 30TH 2020: