Today is the sixty-fourth day of India’s nationwide lockdown, meant to curb the novel coronavirus pandemic. Domestic passenger flights resumed earlier this week after two months.
Confirmed COVID-19 cases in India stand at 1,51,767. The death toll from the outbreak in India is at 4,337. Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat and Delhi have reported the highest number of cases.
Globally, there have been over 56 lakh confirmed cases of COVID-19. At least 3.5 lakh people have died so far. The United States, Brazil, Russia, the United Kingdom and Spain are the most-affected countries. Catch the latest updates here:
2 passengers who had travelled with SpiceJet from Ahmedabad to Guwahati on May 25 have tested positive for COVID-19. Passengers had travelled on SG-8194 (Ahmedabad-Delhi) & SG-8152 (Delhi-Guwahati).
I told Amit Shah, if you think West Bengal can't manage on its own then you come and handle. Amit Shah had then said "Chune huyesarkar ko hum kaise tod sakte hai". I thank him for saying this.
I appeal to the PM andHM to take care of the situation. I want PM to intervene, this is no time for politics. There is a spike in cases in Bihar and other BJP ruled states.This is one country. The virus has to be stopped from spreading.
18 new COVID-19 positive cases have been reported in Mumbai's Dharavi area today. The total number of positive cases in Dharavi rises to 1,639, the death toll stands at 61.
280 new COVID-19 positive cases and3 deaths have been reported in the state today; the total tally of positive cases in the state rises to 7,816. Active cases in state stand at 3,081. Death toll is at 173.
76 new COVID-19 positive cases have been reported in Haryana today, taking the total number of cases in the state to 1,381.
The current count of COVID-19 patients in Maharashtra is 56,948. Today, 2190 patients have been identified as positive, also 964 patients have been cured. Total 17,918 patients are cured and discharged. Total active patients are 37,125.
1,044 fresh cases of COVID-19 and 32 new deaths reported from Mumbai today. This takes the total number of cases in the city to 33,835 and total virus-related deaths to 1,097.
BMC has said that Sero-Surveillance has started in Mumbai to monitor the trend of coronavirus infection transmission. The objective of the survey is to estimate and monitor the trend of Sero-prevalence for COVID-19 cases in high burden cities. The surveillance is being conducted by ICMR.
This will be a base line survey and there will be subsequent rounds, the municipal body added.
The Mumbai Police's order prohibiting the circulation of fake news and content "derogatory and discriminatory towards a particular community" or "causing panic and confusion among general public", has started a political war of words in Maharashtra.
The order states that those people designated as "Admin" on messaging and social media platforms "shall be personally responsible for any such information being disseminated from a group administered by them".
It also prohibits any person from "inciting mistrust towards government functionaries and their actions taken in order to prevent spread of the COVID- 19 virus and thereby causing danger to human health or safety or a disturbance to the public tranquillity". It will remain effective till June 8.
The BJP's Mangal Prabhat Lodha has now filed a petition in Bombay High Court challenging the constitutional validity of the order.
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CM Captain Amarinder Singh will chair a review meeting with the concerned departments on the overall COVID-19 situation in the state on May 30, and announce the government’s decision on lifting or further extension of lockdown thereafter:
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