The novel coronavirus pandemic has spread across 187 countries and territories. Today is the forty-seventh day of India’s nationwide lockdown, which has been extended till May 17. Restrictions have been eased, especially in non-hotspot areas.
Confirmed COVID-19 cases in India stand at 62,939. The death toll from the outbreak in India is at 2,109. Maharashtra, Gujarat and Delhi have reported the highest number of cases. A massive exercise to repatriate Indians stranded abroad is underway.
Globally, there have been over 40.2 lakh confirmed cases of COVID-19. At least 2.79 lakh people have died so far. The United States, Spain, Italy, UK, France and Germany are the most-affected countries. Catch the latest updates here:
Indian Railways: Indian Railways plans to gradually restart passenger train operations from 12th May, 2020, initially with 15 pairs of trains (30 return journeys). These trains will be run as special trains from New Delhi Station connecting Dibrugarh, Agartala, Howrah, Patna, Bilaspur, Ranchi, Bhubaneswar, Secunderabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Thiruvananthapuram, Madgaon, Mumbai Central, Ahmedabad and Jammu Tawi.
Thereafter, Indian Railways shall start more special services on new routes, based on the available coaches after reserving 20,000 coaches for COVID-19 care centres and adequate number of coaches being reserved to enable operation of up to 300 trains everyday as “Shramik Special” for stranded migrants.
28 new positive cases of COVID-19reported in the state today. Total number of positive cases stands at 703 including 10 deaths and 393 active cases.
In the last 24 hours, 398 new cases of COVID-19have been reported in Gujarat. The total number of cases stands at 8,195 now, including 2,545 cured/discharged cases and 493 deaths.
Mumbai reports 875 new cases of coronavirus and 19 deaths. The total number of cases in the city are at 13,564 while deaths due to the infection are at 508.
National Institute of Virology, Pune has successfully developed the 1st indigenous anti-SARS-CoV-2 human IgG ELISA test kit for antibody detection of COVID-19. It will play a critical role in surveillance of proportion of population exposed to the infection.
A medical staff of counter-terrorism force NSG test COVID-19 positive; has been admitted to hospital, reports news agency PTI.
25 new positive cases reported in Jammu & Kashmir today (2 from Jammu division and 23 from Kashmir division), taking the total number of cases to 861. The total death toll stands at 9.
153 new COVID-19 cases reported in the state today, taking the total number of positive cases in the state to 1,939.14 deaths have also been reported due to COVID-19in the last 24 hours in West Bengal, the death toll due to the virus rises to 113.
The upcoming Monsoon session of the Parliament will be held as per schedule. Till now, there are no plans to postpone the session. The decision will be taken as per the situation at that time.
Pune Municipal Commissioner has issued an order to close all shops in containment zones of Pune from 11th to 17th May. In all 69 containment zones of the city, only hospitals and medical stores will be allowed to remain open.
