Bengaluru lockdown news: Today's updates from your city

Amid prevalent chaos and uncertainty over access to the essential services and commodities during the lockdown, we bring you the latest updates from Bengaluru.
Update at 11.30am: Vande Bharat flight from San Francisco lands in Bengaluru
Update at 11.10am: World Bank announces $1 billion social protection package for India linked to Govt of India programmes
Update at 9.30am: Death toll due to Covid-19 rises to 2,649; cases climb to 81,970 in India, says Union health ministry (PTI)
*More pvt hosps to treat Covid patients in Karnataka
After making paid quarantine mandatory for migrants, the government has decided to expand the network of private hospitals offering paid treatment to Covid-19 patients. Till now, it had permitted only a few hospitals — Fortis, Columbia Asia and St John’s — to treat Covid-19 cases. Health department officials said the number will be gradually increased.
* Paid quarantine rider ruins homecoming
Those who returned to Bengaluru on a passenger train from New Delhi, were “welcomed” at KSR railway station with a rude shock and a choice: They would have to compulsorily spend the next 14 days under quarantine in hotels, which they would have to pay for. The solace was they could choose the hotel.
* Karnataka to treat all Covid cases in hospitals
The Karnataka government has decided to treat all patients in hospitals till they test negative, though the Centre on May 10 issued a circular stating home treatment/isolation can be provided for those who are asymptomatic or have mild to moderate symptoms.
* Karnataka's first recipient of plasma therapy dies
A 60-year-old Covid-19 patient from Andhra Pradesh died at Victoria Hospital’s trauma care centre on Thursday. The man was the state’s first patient to be administered plasma therapy and recently battled severe pneumonia, respiratory distress, diabetes and hypertension.