Today is the fifty-sixth day of India’s nationwide lockdown, meant to curb the novel coronavirus pandemic. The lockdown has been extended till May 31. Many restrictions have been eased, especially in non-containment zones, according to the new guidelines.
Confirmed COVID-19 cases in India stand at 1,01,139. The death toll from the outbreak in India is at 3,163. Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat and Delhi have reported the highest number of cases.
Globally, there have been over 48.1 lakh confirmed cases of COVID-19. At least 3.18 lakh people have died so far. The United States, Russia, Brazil, the United Kingdom and Spain are the most-affected countries. Catch the latest updates here:
Number of coronavirus cases in Maharashtra increases to 37,136 with 2,127 new cases; 76 fresh deaths take toll to 1,325.
Indian Railways to run 200 non-AC trains from 1st June everyday as per the time table; online booking for these to begin soon.
In the next threedays, anyone wanting to go home will be taken home. More trains to start and bookings will be possible from June 1 onwards. Any states who want to facilitate sending migrants home will also be able to do so.
338 new COVID-19positive cases have been reported in Rajasthan today; taking the cumulative positive cases to 5845. 5 deaths have been reported today and death toll is at 143.
Maharashtra is doing around 15000 tests (for COVID-19) everyday in 67 testing labs. Death rate in Maharashtra has also come down to 3.2 percentnow.
Over 1,411 fresh cases and 43 deaths have been reported from Mumbai today, taking the total number of cases in the city to 22,563 and 800 deaths.
Gujarat reports 395 new COVID-19 cases and 25 deaths, taking case count to 12,141 and number of fatalities to 719.
28 more positive cases have been reported in Jammu and Kashmir; 22 from Kashmir division and 6 from Jammu division. Total positive cases in the union territory stand at 1,317 including 653 active cases.
136 new COVID-19positive cases have been reported in West Bengal today. The total number of cases in the state is now at 2,961, including 178 deaths. 72 deaths also occurred due to comorbidity.
601 more COVID-19cases and3 deaths reported in Tamil Nadu today. Total number of cases in the state is now at 12,448, including 7,466 active cases and84 deaths.
