Coronavirus live updates: Lapses on part of Centre & state govts in providing succour to migrants, says SC

CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (IIIM), Jammu joins hands with Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) to develop and scale-up a new Reverse Transcriptase-Loop Mediated Isothermal Amplification (RT-LAMP) based Covid-19 diagnostic kit

SC says a coordinated and concentrated action is required to redeem the situation. It seeks response from the Centre by Thursday to the issue it has taken suo motu cognisance

SC says immediate measures are required to be taken by Centre and state government to provide travel, shelter and food facilities free of cost to migrant labours

SC takes suo motu cognizable of plight of migrant workers and says there have been lapses on the part of Union and state governments to provide them succour

67 new Covid-19 positive cases have been reported in Kerala today: Chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan

Lunch, dinner being served to needy people at 2,500 camps set up by Delhi govt: Delhi deputy CM Sisodia

Delhi government has sent 2.41 lakh people to their home states in 196 trains from May 7 till Monday: Delhi deputy CM Manish Sisodia

We clearly advised HCQ should be taken with food, not on empty stomach. One ECG should be done during treatment: ICMR

No major side-effects of HCQ found in studies in India. Its use should be continued as preventive treatment for Covid-19: ICMR (PTI)

Covid-19 testing scaled up significantly. Over 1.1 lakh samples tested per day at 612 labs: ICMR

India has reported about 0.3 deaths per lakh population which is among the lowest in the world: Health ministry

The fatality rate is one among the lowest in the world, it is 2.87% now: Health ministry

A total of 60,490 patients have recovered so far from Covid-19. Recovery rate continues to improve and presently it is 41.61%: Health ministry

Various welfare measures taken by Centre for poor much more than what Rahul Gandhi has been demanding: Prakash Javadekar

Doubling rate of Covid-19 in India was three days before lockdown, it is now 13 days; lockdown a success: Union minister Prakash Javadekar

Operations have started in Andhra Pradesh from today. These numbers are all set to soar higher: Hardeep Singh Puri

58,318 passengers flew to their destinations on 832 flights on the first day, 25th May till midnight: Aviation minister, Hardeep Puri

Federation of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE) writes to Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray proposing guidelines for the resumption of work in the media and entertainment industry

Federation of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE) writes to CM Uddhav proposing guidelines for resumption of work in the media and entertainment industry, reports ANI.