The SSLC and vocational higher secondary education (VHSE) examinations will resume in Kerala today amid unprecedented arrangements against the backdrop of the COVID-19 threat. The higher secondary education (HSE) examinations are slated to begin on Wednesday. Around 13.74 lakh students are expected to appear for these examinations.
The Hindu has brought out a multi-language e-book on essential COVID-19 information, in addition to covering the developments related to the coronavirus pandemic as it unfolded.
Here is a collection of our daily cartoons on COVID-19, a list of State Helpline numbers and a State-wise tracker for coronavirus cases, deaths and testing rates.
Also read: Data | Pollution levels decline in many Indian cities due to COVID-19 lockdown
Here are the latest updates:
10.45 am
Flight services resume in Andhra Pradesh
After almost two months of COVID-19 induced lockdown, domestic flight operations resumed in Andhra Pradesh as the first Spicejet plane from Bengaluru landed at Vijayawada airport early Tuesday with 79 passengers.
According to the Airport Director G. Madhusudhana Rao, the aircraft returned to Bengaluru at 7.40 a.m. carrying 68 passengers. He said the airport also received an Indigo flight from Bengaluru with 48 passengers and departed with 50 travellers.
He said as per the state government instruction, all the passengers who landed here had to register their details with the state government’s Spandana website.
“As Bengaluru is a non-high sensitive area (as far as COVID-19 cases are concerned), the passengers who landed here were advised home quarantine for seven days. In case of high- sensitive areas the passengers will have to undergo either institutional quarantine or paid quarantine,” Rao told PTI.
He said the passengers were handled as per standard operating procedures laid out by the Civil Aviation Ministry.
– PTI
10.45 am
With 47 fresh cases by 10: 30 am on May 26, Assam Covid-19 count rose to 595. The total active cases st