The special educational program "Doordarshan Class Room" is being produced by the School Education Department in collaboration with Doordarshan. The program aims to provide study material to the students of the state's higher classes so that they can study regularly at their home during the lock-down period. This program is designed on thematic concepts for 10th and 12th classes. It will also include interesting videos on difficult concepts of the subject over a period of 1 hour.

The program will air twice a day from Monday to Friday on every week. Programs will be broadcast every day from 12 to 1 pm for class 10th and 3 to 4 pm daily for class 12th. The School Education Department is already airing the Radio School through AIR Bhopal. Apart from this, subject-wise study material on interesting topics is also being provided by the department through WhatsApp groups and local cable TV.

In Madhya Pradesh, the number of coronavirus cases in the state rose to 3 thousand 614. Thus the number of affected districts has gone up to 39 in Madhya Pradesh. The condition of 1,480 patients is stable while that of 243 was serious. So far, 1,676 people have recovered from coronavirus infection while 215 have been died. Meanwhile, after radio school, Doordarshan classroom is starting in Madhya Pradesh from today.

Meanwhile,Indian Council of Medical Research, ICMR has said that a total of 16 lakh 73 thousand 688 samples of Covid-19 have been tested by the various government and private laboratories in the country so far. Yesterday, 64 thousand 651 tests were conducted. Meanwhile, ICMR is continuously scaling up its testing facilities for Covid-19 by giving approval to government and private laboratories.

As of now, 345 government laboratories and 131 private laboratories' chains have been given approval to conduct the test for Covid-19. ICMR has also approved 28 institutions for the PLACID trial.

In other news : the number of Corona positive cases has risen to 160 in the state of Jharkhand  with addition of four new cases reported late night yesterday from Hazaribagh and Giridih district.

The number of recovered patients has gone up to 78, taking the recovery rate to 48.75 percent in Jharkhand. After the recent positive cases reported, four districts Dhanbad, Hazaribagh, Koderma and Giridih which were earlier declared as Corona free zones have again moved back to red zone areas.

All the fresh cases reported from these districts are of the migrant labourers who have returned to their homes from red zone areas. While the biggest concern of the state authorities remains the return of migrant labourers from massively hit red zone areas to Jharkhand, the recovery of asymptomatic patients is a positive sign.

Only 38 more patients detected from the Corona hotspot area of Hindpiri locality in Ranchi district are yet to win this battle over the viral infection. 53 patients from this containment zone have recovered from COVID19 infection.

Meanwhile, Special Shramik Trains continue to bring in more number of stranded migrants to Jharkhand as trains from Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Punjab and Gujarat have reached Jharkhand yesterday.

In the coming week 15 more trains are expected to bring migrant labourers from Haryana, Punjab, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat and Maharashtra. State government has also arranged buses for sending labourers to their homes by starting inter-district bus transportation facility.