RSS Swayamsevaks distributes essential groceries to needy

Team Udayavani, Mar 29, 2020, 12:32 PM IST

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Bengaluru: RSS Swayamsevaks are distributing essential grocery items to the needy in Vasantpur, Majestic, Hebbal, Thyagaraja Nagar and other areas of Bengaluru, amid countrywide lockdown in wake of COVID-19.

This came after Prime Minister Narendra Modi had on Tuesday announced a 21-day lockdown in the entire country effective from midnight to deal with the spread of the coronavirus, saying that ” social distancing” is the only option to deal with the disease, which spreads rapidly.

The number of COVID-19 cases in India climbed to 979 on Sunday, March 29 with the death toll rising to 25, according to the Union Health Ministry.

The ministry reported six fresh deaths one each from Delhi, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra and Telangana.

Thus, deaths have so far been reported from Maharashtra (6), Gujarat (4), Karnataka (3), Madhya Pradesh (2), Delhi (2) and one each from Kerala, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Punjab, West Bengal, Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh.