Today is the ninety-seventh day since India implemented a nationwide lockdown, to curb the novel coronavirus pandemic. India has so far recorded 5,66,840 lakh cases, which includes 16,893 deaths. Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Delhi and Gujarat have reported the highest number of cases.
However, the recovery rate is rising and now stands at 58.6 percent. The government released guidelines for ‘Unlock 2.0’ yesterday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be addressing the nation at 4.00 pm today.
Large swathes of the country are set to remain under lockdown as the government announced the second phase of the country’s gradual emergence from restrictions. While lockdown will stay containment zones, the other areas will have certain relaxations in terms of night curfew and people’s presence in shops. But there will be no big ticket changes yet like opening of schools and colleges, cinema halls, gymnasiums, swimming pools, bars and assembly halls or metro services will not happen yet.
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As a part of its latest steps to slash employee costs, domestic carrier IndiGo has begun laying off a section of employees, while also extending compulsory leave without pay (LWP) for others.
This took the confirmed cases in the state to 7,835, including 5,333 recoveries and 11 deaths.
This figure includes patients who have recovered (98,503) and the death toll in the country which stands at 4,304.
While Punjab province has reported 75,501 cases so far, Sindh has reported 81,955 cases.
China has reported 19 new COVID-19 cases in the mainland for yesterday, up from 12 a day earlier, the health authority said. There were no new deaths.
Aamir Khan revealed in a press statement that some of his staff tested positive for coronavirus and he and other family members have tested negative. His mother's test is awaited.
As several health care workers and staff of private hospitals staying in different slums here being detected with COVID-19, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation has asked the hospital authorities to ensure lodging of such staff members in their campus.
206 new COVID-19 cases have been reported in Odisha in the last 24 hours, taking the state’s tally to 7,065.
The reported active COVID-19 cases in India now stand at 2,15,125, according to the Union Health Ministry.
Assam inched towards the 7,800-mark in COVID-19 cases with 302 more people, including 172 from the capital city, testing positive for the infection on Monday, Health and Family Welfare Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.
On the 100th day of the lockdown, the COVID-19 tally in Mumbai increased to 76,294 yesterday with the addition of 1,247 new cases. The death toll rose to 4,461 after 92 more patients succumbed to the infection, the city civic body said.
West Bengal recorded the highest single-day spike of 624 fresh COVID-19 cases yesterday, taking the state's tally to 17,907, while 14 more people succumbed to the disease raising the death toll to 653, a health bulletin said.
The chief of the World Health Organization (WHO) said that all countries living with COVID-19 will be the new normal in the coming months, as the pandemic had already infected more than 10 million people worldwide, including more than 500,000 deaths.
Delhi recorded 2,084 new COVID-19 cases yesterday, taking the infection tally in the city to over 85,000, while the death toll from the disease rose to 2,680, the authorities said.
A potential COVID-19 vaccine, the first to be developed in India, has been given DCGI (Drug Controller General of India) approval for Phase I and II human clinical trials that are scheduled to start across the country in July.