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Coronavirus roundup: Developments in India and rest of world
NEW DELHI: In a big push to revive the economy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday announced a Rs 20 lakh crore package, which combined the government's recent announcements on supporting key sectors as also measures rolled out by the Reserve Bank of India. In a televised address to the nation, the PM said the details about fourth phase of the lockdown will be made known before May 18, adding it will be different from the earlier phases. A total of 70,756 coronavirus cases and 2,293 deaths have been reported across the country.
Here are the top developments:
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India
- In his fifth address to the nation on Covid-19 pandemic, PM Modi said the goal of the country will be to become self-reliant, and identified economy and infrastructure as key drivers for it.
- India can now do one lakh Covid-19 tests per day, said Union health minister Dr Harsh Vardhan while interacting with senior officials of various districts of Jammu and Kashmir over coronavirus via video-conferencing. The minister also said that the country's Covid-19 mortality rate is one of the lowest in the world with 3.2 per cent.
- The ICMR announced that it is conducting a community-based sero-survey to estimate the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Indian population.
- PM Modi approved ex gratia of Rs 2 lakh each to the kin of the 16 migrant labourers who were run over by a goods train in Maharashtra's Aurangabad on May 8.
- Filling up of a detailed questionnaire related to COVID-19, carrying no cabin baggage, using Aarogya Setu app and reaching airport at least two hours before a flight departure are among the suggested requirements for air passengers during the initial phase after resumption of commercial flights.
- A total of 6,037 Indians have been flown back to India in 31 inbound flights operated by Air India and Air India Express under Vande Bharat Mission in 5 days beginning from May 7, the ministry of civil aviation said.
- The second phase of Vande Bharat Mission will be launched from May 16-22 during which 149 flights, including feeder flights, will be operated to bring back Indians from 31 countries, sources said.
- As the country grapples with Covid-19, at least 30 newly developed Super Speciality Blocks at various Government Medical Colleges across the country proved helpful as dedicated facilities for treating coronavirus patients.
- US Center for Disease Control and Prevention has committed $3.6 million to assist the Government of India's response to the Covid-19 epidemic, US Embassy in Delhi said.
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States
- Maharashtra: The state reported 1,026 new Covid-19 cases, taking the tally to 24,427, while the death toll rose to 921.
- UP: Another Covid-19 patient died while 41 new cases were reported from Uttar Pradesh as the total number of fatalities due to the pandemic rose to 81 and the state's coronavirus tally reached 3,614.
- Kerala: As the flow of Keralites returning home from other countries and states continued, five people, including four who came from abroad, tested positive for Covid-19 in the state, talking the total number of those under treatment to 32.
- Rajasthan: Rajasthan reported 68 new coronavirus cases taking the total positive cases to 4,056 in the state.
- Chandigarh: A 3-month-old baby girl is among six people who tested positive for Covid-19 in Chandigarh, pushing the total in the Union territory to 187.
- Bihar: As many as 34 new Covid-19 cases were reported in Bihar, taking the total number of positive cases in the state to 801.
- West Bengal: A total of 110 new cases of Covid-19 and 8 deaths were reported in West Bengal, taking the total number of active cases to 1,363 in the state.
- Delhi: 13 deaths and 406 more Covid-19 cases have been reported from the national capital in the last 24 hours. The total number of coronavirus cases in the national capital stands at 7,639, including 86 deaths.
- Gujarat: Gujarat reported 362 new Covid-19 cases and 24 deaths, taking the total case count to 8,904 and the fatalities to 537.
- Jharkhand: 7 more Covid-19 cases reported in Jharkhand - 6 from Hazaribagh and 1 from Ranchi. The total number of positive cases in the state rises to 172.
- Tamil Nadu: Eight people with co-morbid conditions died of Covid-19 in Tamil Nadu and as many as 716 fresh coronavirus cases were reported, pushing the tally to 8,718 in the state.
- J&K: 55 more Covid-19 cases reported in Jammu & Kashmir - 13 from Jammu division & 42 from Kashmir division, taking the total number of cases in the Union territory to 934.
- Himachal Pradesh: With two more positive cases being reported from the Hamirpur district, the Covid-19 count reached 64 in Himachal Pradesh.
- Punjab: A 32-year-old man infected with coronavirus died in Punjab as the state reported 37 new cases, 14 of them railway police personnel. So far, the state has reported 1,914 virus cases.
- Uttarakhand: One new positive case of Covid-19 has been reported from Nainital. The total positive cases have risen to 69 in the state.
- Haryana: Fresh coronavirus cases continued to be reported from Haryana's NCR districts, with 31 new infections out of 50 being recorded from Gurgaon and Faridabad. The total number of coronavirus cases in the state has now risen to 780.
- Madhya Pradesh: The number of coronavirus cases in Madhya Pradesh shot up to 3,986 as 201 more people were found infected by the disease in the last 24 hours, while the death toll rose to 225.
- Odisha: Thirty-one Covid-19 infected persons in Odisha were declared cured of the highly infectious disease, taking the total number of recoveries in the state to 116.
- Karnataka: A day after witnessing a dip, Karnataka recorded a new all-time single-day high of 63 new Covid-19 cases, most of them returnees to the state from other parts of the country, as the total reached 925.
- Andhra Pradesh: As many as 33 new cases were reported across Andhra Pradesh in the last 24 hours, taking the state tally to 2,051.
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World
- The novel coronavirus has killed at least 286,122 people since the outbreak first emerged in China last December. At least 4,188,040 cases of coronavirus have been registered in 195 countries and territories.
- Wuhan, the Chinese city where the deadly novel coronavirus emerged in December last year, has decided to test the city's entire 11 million population after new cases were reported for the first time in weeks, sparking fears of the second wave of the virus attack.
- Even as President Donald Trump urged getting people back to work and reopening the economy, an Associated Press analysis shows thousands of people are getting sick from Covid-19 on the job.
- Dr Anthony Fauci, America's top infectious disease expert, has warned the Congress that if the US reopens too soon during the coronavirus pandemic, it will result in “needless suffering and death." The US has the highest number of total deaths with 80,684 out of 1,347,936 cases.
- Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has tested positive for coronavirus. Peskov is the fourth top-ranking Russian government official to have Covid-19. Russia has so far reported 232,243 Covid-19, while the fatalities stand at 2,116.
- Nepal recorded 57 new coronavirus cases, the highest rise in a single day so far, which took the country's Covid-19 tally to 191.
- A 113-year-old woman, believed to be the oldest person living in Spain, has beat the coronavirus at retirement home where several other residents died from the pandemic. Spain has been one of worst-affected countries in the world by the pandemic, with nearly 27,000 Covid-19 deaths recorded so far.
- Virus-hit Iran will reopen its mosques for 3 nights over the next week so that worshippers can pray during one of the holiest times of year. Iran announced another 48 deaths from the virus taking its overall toll to 6,733. Another 1,481 people tested positive for the virus, bringing the total number of cases to 110,767.
- About 36,000 Afghan refugee families in Pakistan will receive an emergency cash assistance of Rs 12,000 each to meet their urgent needs during the coronavirus pandemic.
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