India has recorded 606 cases of positive cases which includes 43 foreign nationals and 12 people have died of COVID-19.

Uttarakhand Education Secretary R Meenakshi Sundaram on Wednesday passed an order that, The Uttarakhand government has barred government and private schools from collecting tuition fees from students till the situation created by the Covid-19 pandemic normalises.

As per an ANI report, in a letter addressed to the District Magistrates, Sundaram said: “It has come to the notice of the government that certain private schools are pressurising the parents of wards to submit the tuition fees immediately. This is not right when there is a complete lockdown imposed in the state to contain the spread of COVID-19.”