Centre allows hiring of special buses by States/UTs to ferry passengers arriving at railway stations, in view of restrictions of public/private transport during lockdown.
Today is the fifty-first day of India’s nationwide lockdown, meant to stop the novel coronavirus pandemic. Known COVID-19 cases in India stand at 78,003. The death toll in India due to the outbreak has reached 2,549.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the second tranche of the economic package’s details today. There have been over 43.6 lakh confirmed cases of COVID-19 globally. At least 2.97 lakh people have died so far. Catch the latest updates here:
Centre allows hiring of special buses by States/UTs to ferry passengers arriving at railway stations, in view of restrictions of public/private transport during lockdown.
India has called upon the G-20 nations to ensure access to essential medicines, treatments and vaccines at affordable prices
With over 106 destinations in Germany and Europe, andmore than 20 intercontinental destinations, range of flights on offer for travellers will be greatly expanded by end of June. The first batch of flights will be available for reservation in booking systems today
I'm quite proud of our decision to have Mumbai as one of the first destinations for increasing our long-haul services. It reflects robust demand for flights to andfrom India, even in these unprecedented times,George Ettiyil, Senior Director Sales, South Asia at Lufthansa Group told media persons.
International Olympic Committee creates $800m fund to address coronavirus crisis (AFP)
Scientists at ICMR-NIV, Pune have developed and validated the completely indigenous IgG ELISA test for antibody detection for SARS-CoV-2. On external validation, IgG test kit has been found to have sensitivity and specificity of 98.7% and 100%, respectively.
After development in lab at ICMR-NIV, Pune, 4 companies SPAN, J MITRA, Cipla and Zydus-Cadila, were offered to take up the production. Zydus-Cadila accepted to produce the ELISA kits.
998 cases from Mumbai and 25 deaths reported today. The total cases in the city are now at 16,579 while death tally reaches 621.
Today’s announcements by FM Nirmala Sitharamanwill especially benefit our farmers and migrant workers. The announcements include a series of progressive measures and will boost food security, credit to farmers as well as street vendors
Mumbai Police regrets to inform about the unfortunate demise of ASI Murlidhar Waghmare (Sewri Police Station) andPN Bhagwan Parte (Shivaji Nagar Police Station). ASI Waghmare andPN Parte were battling Coronavirus.
Bureau of Civil Aviation Security has allowed passengers boarding an aircraft to carry hand sanitizer up to 350 ml in their cabin baggage. This is to be implemented with immediate effect.
Total number of COVID-19 positive cases in Haryana stands at 818, including 368 active cases, 439 recovered/discharged patients and 11 deaths.
Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh allows tiny/cottage industries in non-containment mixed use areas of Ludhiana to immediately resume operations, in order to support the opening of bigger industries that are dependent on the small ones for components.
The Chief Minister has said that the resumption of operations in these small units, which normally have labour living on or in the vicinity of the premises, will be subject to requirements of access control andstrict compliance with COVID-19 SOPs.
Today is Day-8 of Vande Bharat Mission, as of now, 56 flights have brought back our nationals from 12 countries. In addition, 904 Indians were repatriated from Maldives by INS Jalashwa and INS Magar on 10th May and 12th May respectively.
