DW BUREAU / Chandigarh The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal has announced to postpone all the political programs of the party for next 15 days keeping in view emerging Corona virus situation. Disclosing this in a statement released from the party head office here today, the SAD Senior Vice President and Spokesman Dr Daljit Singh Cheema said that this decision has been taken keeping in view health of the public and party workers and in accordance with the advice of the doctors and Health Department. He also disclosed that all the party workers have been informed about the decision and party has clearly directed that keeping in view health of all, no political program will be organized during next 15 days and no meeting at head officer and dharna or protests will take place at district level. He said that all the workers have been directed to strictly follow the directive of the party President. With 28,498 fresh cases recorded in a day, India''s COVID-19 tally sprinted past nine lakh on Tuesday, just three days after it crossed the eight-lakh mark, according to the Union health ministry data. The total coronavirus caseload in the country surged to 9,06,752 and the death toll mounted to 23,727 with 553 people succumbing to the disease in 24 hours, the data updated at 8 am on Tuesday showed. Of the total instances of the infection, the number of recoveries stood at 5,71,459, leaving 3,11,565 cases active. The total number of confirmed cases include foreigners. "Thus, around 63.02 per cent of patients have recovered so far," an official said. (editor@dailyworld.in)