Health Ministry
Spitting in public has been made a punishable offence and a strict ban enforced on sale of liquor, gutka, tobacco.
The Karnataka government has said it cannot open its borders to critically ill people from Kerala's Kasargod.
Health reporters also pointed out that the briefing was rather too brief, less than 15 minutes.
The health ministry said Odisha, Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh and Kerala saw one patient in each state test positive for COVID-19.
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The total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in India rose to 29 after a Paytm employee who had travelled to Italy tested positive.
India has 106 million adult smokers, second only to China, and more than 900,000 people die each year in India due to tobacco-related illnesses.