India’s Covid-19 count has crossed the 1.6 lakh mark and a total of 4,531people have lost their lives due to the infection. With this, India climbed to the ninth spot among countries with the highest Covid-19 caseloads.
The Haryana government has issued orders to “completely seal” all borders with Delhi except for essential services, state Home Minister Anil Vij said on Thursday, over concerns of coronavirus spreading with people travelling from the national capital.
Coronavirus cases have been increasing in districts sharing a border with the national capital, Anil Vij said in an order. “The main reason behind the spike in cases is the entry of people from Delhi into areas of Haryana which share its border with Delhi,” he said.
Stay with Newsd for more such updates.
Karnataka records biggest single-day spike of 248 COVID-19 cases with returnees from Maharashtra continuing to add to state's tally; total count now 2,781
Mamata said there would be no religious congregation in Bengal and not more than 10 people would be allowed
The number of cases in state now 25: Health Minister S Pangnyu Phom, reports PTI
While on May 24, states had put the demand of 923 such trains yesterday it reduced to 449, the chairman said
The total number of hospital staff infected so far now stands at 206
The Former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Ajit Jogi passed away on Friday afternoon after suffering two cardiac arrest at a private hospital in Raipur. READ MORE
Uttarakhand cases took a massive surge on Friday as 101 new cases were reported which took the state coronavirus tally to 624.
The ministry of national health services reported that 25,309 cases were diagnosed in Sindh, 22,964 in Punjab, 8,842 in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, 3,928 in Balochistan, 2,100 in Islamabad, 658 in Gilgit-Baltistan, and 227 in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
Union home minister Amit Shah on Friday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and informed him about the views of all chief ministers on the extension of the ongoing nationwide lockdown beyond May 31, officials said. During the meeting, Shah briefed Modi about the suggestions and the feedback he received from the chief ministers during his telephonic conversations on Thursday, a government official said, reports TOI.
The decision to open shops in malls, will be taken soon, after taking into account the guidelines of the Health ministry, the Commerce and Industry ministry said. Issues of retail traders were discussed in a meeting between Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday with representatives of traders associations through video conferencing.
BSP president Mayawati on Friday asked the Centre and state governments to solve basic problems of livelihood and food faced by migrants returning home and said providing them jobs near their homes will be the real test of their intention. Referring to the Supreme Court's directions that no fare for travel either by train or bus be charged from migrant workers stranded across the country, Mayawati said the government has been ignoring a similar demand made by the BSP.
7846 people have recovered so far. Till now, the death toll is 398, reports ANI quoting Satyendar Jain, Delhi health minister
"It is a bit strange for us the stand that no testing facilities are required in districts," the CJ reportedly remarked while hearing PIL about no facility in Ratnagiri. The Cj has summoned the AG and asked the State to file a reply. The court has combined all health matters and posted it for next Tuesday.
UN chief Antonio Guterres has warned that the Covid-19 pandemic will cause unimaginable devastation, usher in hunger and famine of historic proportions and lead to a loss of $8.5 trillion in global output -- the sharpest contraction since the Great Depression -- if nations did not respond with unity and solidarity.
Days after nine deaths were reported on-board Shramik Special trains, the Indian Railways on Friday appealed to people not to travel on these trains if they are suffering from pre-existing health conditions. At least nine passengers were reported dead on May 27 over a span of 48 hours on board the migrant trains, with the railways stating that all of them had health conditions.
Total number of cases rises to 58 in Manipur, reports ANI quoting State Govt
Kerala on Friday recorded its eighth Covid death when a senior citizen with the coronavirus passed away at the Kottayam Medical College hospital earlier in the day. The condition of another senior citizen who travelled back from Mumbai is said to be serious.
Jagdish Panchal (46), who is also MLA from Nikol, is currently admitted at Apollo hospital in Ahmedabad. Panchal was symptomatic since the past few days and thus had himself tested earlier this week. Panchal said that as a precaution to check the spread of the infection in his family, he is quarantining himself at Apollo Hospital.
Two floors of Parliament Annexe building sealed after officer tests positive for Covid-19, reports PTI quoting sources
UN chief Antonio Guterres has appreciated India's assistance to other countries to combat the Covid-19 pandemic during a virtual conversation with ambassador TS Tirumurti, India's envoy to the world body, the Secretary General's spokesman has said.
Two doctors tests positive for COVID-19 at Rohtak, PGIMS, state tally rises to 1507
IndiGo on Thursday said that a few asymptomatic passengers, who travelled on its flights since resumption of services this week, have tested Covid-19 positive. READ MORE
129 people, including 105 residents of Tripura, returned from Bangladesh amid coronavirus pandemic. Each of them will undergo a Covid-19 test and 7-day institutional quarantine. They all arrived here on Thursday through Akhaura-Agartala Integrated Check Post in Agartala
The Governor’s House in Bhopal has been declared a containment zone after a peon and cleaner and four other family members residing on the sprawling premises tested positive for coronavirus, it was announced on Thursday.
The West Bengal's fire services minister Sujit Bose tests positive for Covid-19 according to the report of PTI.
Brazil reported a daily record of 26,417 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, according to the Health Ministry, bringing its total tally to 4,38,238, second only to the United States in confirmed cases.
As the corona positive cases rose in Gurugram, the administration has added 18 more areas to the containment zones, taking the total number to 63. The decision was taken on Thursday in a review meeting headed by Gurugram DM Amit Khatri.
Active: 89,987, Cured/Discharged/Migrated: 71,106, Deaths: 4,706
Israel’s Ministry of Health has reported 79 new COVID-19 cases, the highest daily rise since May 2. The total number of coronavirus cases in Israel reached 16,872, while the number of recoveries increased by 109 to 14,679.
The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 5.8 million, while the deaths have increased to more than 360,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of Friday morning, the total number of cases stood at 5,808,672, while the death toll increased to 360,289
With three more deaths reported till late Thursday evening, COVID-19 has taken 38 lives in Agra so far. The total number of the corona patients in the district is now 882, with seven new cases added till Thursday night.
South Korea has reported 58 new cases of the coronavirus, all in the densely populated Seoul metropolitan area, as officials scramble to stem transmissions linked to a massive e-commerce warehouse near the capital.
India has identified at least six local vaccine candidates with 30 groups trying to develop a vaccine for Covid-19. Besides, around 10 drugs are being re-purposed for use in treatment of the disease and are under different stages of trials, the government said while also highlighting that it was working on guidelines to prioritise distribution of the vaccine once it is available.
Three more employees of the office of Delhi Lt Governor Anil Baijal have tested positive for COVID-19, a day after a junior assistant was found infected with the novel coronavirus.
Locals in Mominpura, a COVID-19 red zone, held a protest here on Thursday demanding re-opening of roads in the area.
Shramik specials introduced by Railways on May Day to ferry migrants back to their home state have brought more criticism than admiration given the inordinate delays; migrants creating ruckus over lack of food and water and trains ‘losing way’ or taking routes other than the defined ones between the originating and destination stations.
Organizers canceled the Boston Marathon on Thursday for the first time in its history, bowing to the social distancing requirements of the coronavirus outbreak and ending a 124-year run that had persisted through two World Wars, a volcanic eruption and even another pandemic.The race, which draws a field of 30,000 and already had been postponed from April 20 to Sept. 14, will be replaced by a virtual event in which participants who verify that they ran 26.2 miles (42.2 km) on their own will receive their finisher’s medal.