Coronavirus live updates: 28 employees of Zee News have been tested positive for coronavirus positive. Sudhir Choudhary, Zee News CEO In a statement, Zee News shared that last Friday one of the employee had tested positive, after which they initiated contact tracing and mass testing of all those who came in contact with the infected employee.
Karnataka has banned the entry of international and domestic passengers from four states – Maharashtra, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala – till May 31. While it has allowed the buses to operate, only 30 people with face masks would be allowed. It has also said that every Sunday will be a total lockdown and only essential services will be allowed. In Delhi, where cases breached the 10,000-mark, AIIMS is finalising its plan to restore services at the hospital from this week.
India’s 80 per cent of coronavirus cases are from 30 municipal areas spread across 12 states, UTs and top health ministry officials on Saturday held a meeting with senior officers and district magistrates from these areas.
These areas are in Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Punjab and Odisha. Maharashtra remains the worst hot state with a total number of cases rising to 30,706 and 1,135 deaths.
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28 employees of Zee News have been tested positive for coronavirus. Sudhir Choudhary, Editor-in-chief, Zee News confirmed this on Twitter.
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The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) is finalising its plan to restore services at the hospital from this week. The plan involves equally redistributing personnel from Covid-19 centres in all departments to reallocating beds for indoor patients.
“The services are likely to start this week. Discussions on whether the services should be partially opened or in one go are going on with all the heads. Suggestions regarding limited registrations have also poured in. We are working on the plan,” said Dr DK Sharma, medical superintendent of the hospital.
As the number of COVID-19 positive cases in Maharashtra crossed 33,000 as of Monday morning, the number of positive cases in Maharashtra Police reached 1,273 with 11 having lost their lives to the viral disease. According to the numbers shared by officials from the Maharashtra Police headquarters, among the 1,273 cases, 131 are officers and 1142 are constables. Of these, a total of 291 — 34 officers and 257 constables — have recovered. A majority of these cases are local police personnel from Mumbai, Thane and Malegaon or personnel of the State Reserved Police Force (SRPF) who were deployed in these high-risk areas and later repatriated to their home units.
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal will be addressing a press conference at 5.30 pm today on the COVID-19 situation in the capital.
Karnataka has banned the entry of international and domestic passengers from four states – Maharashtra, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala – till May 31. While it has allowed the buses to operate, only 30 people with face masks would be allowed.
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Rajasthan records two COVID-19 deaths and 140 cases within a day. The total number of cases in state stands at 5,342 and deaths at 133.
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15 cases each have been reported from Chittoor and Krishna districts, while the remaining have been reported from East Godavari, Kurnool, Nellore, Visakhapatnam, Vizianagaram and West Godavari. The number of active cases in the state has reached 705 today, while 1,527 patients have been cured and discharged so far.
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The roadways bus overturned on Monday morning at Hamirpur in Uttar Pradesh in which 15 migrant labourers were injured. During the accident, 31 people were inside the bus.
Devotees paid a visit at the Mata Bhadrakali Mandir in Amritsar to mark beginning of a fair. The temple's priest said that people were asked to stay home, but they requested for darshan to offer prayers.
As the third phase of the nationwide lockdown ended on Sunday, the Centre announced an extension till May 31, but listed considerable relaxations in non-containment zones that are set to further open up the economy. While all markets, offices, industries and businesses will be allowed to open, inter-state and intra-state movement of “passenger vehicles and buses” will be permitted with the consent of the states involved.
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Ninety-five more cases of COVID-19 were reported in Indore on Sunday, taking the tally of positive cases to 2565 in the district so far. According to Praveen Jadia, Indore Chief Medical Health Officer (CMHO), "95 more people have tested positive for coronavirus in Indore, taking the total number of positive cases in the district to 2565. 101 COVID-19 patients have died so far in Indore."
Four passengers who travelled on the Mumbai-Goa train on Sunday, testes positive for COVID-19, reported ANI. With this, the total number of active cases in the coastal state rises to 26.
Bihar reported its eighth death due to coronavirus on Sunday with Patna alone witnessing 57 out of 106 fresh COVID cases, thus making it the number one district in terms of positive cases in the state, reported PTI.
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Bihar on Sunday reported 560 Covid-19 cases among migrant workers who have returned home since May 1, constituting 7% of the 7,639 samples tested so far. Of the 1,070 swabs randomly taken from migrant workers back from Delhi, 172 have so far tested positive for the virus, which works out to nearly 31% of the total cases.