Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a video conference with Chief Ministers on the coronavirus situation in India, with focus on a a strategy for a phased exit from the shutdown.
The Indian Railways will restart passenger services today in a phased manner with 15 pairs of trains.
The 15 pairs of trains, meaning a total of 30 return journeys, would be run as special trains from the New Delhi station connecting Dibrugarh, Agartala, Howrah, Patna, Bilaspur, Ranchi, Bhubaneswar, Secunderabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Thiruvananthapuram, Madgaon, Mumbai Central, Ahmedabad and Jammu Tawi.
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Here are the latest updates:
12.55 p.m.
Bihar cases total 767
Six more COVID-19 positive cases in Bihar take the total number to 767 in the state from Khagaria and Banka districts.
(Amarnath Tewary)
12.50 p.m.
20 of 33 fresh cases in Andhra Pradesh linked to Tamil Nadu’s Koyembedu market
The Andhra Pradesh State has reported one more COVID-19 death and 33 fresh cases in the past 24 hours and 20 of them are linked to the Koyembedu market in Tamil Nadu, according to the Health Department’s bulletin. In the past day, as many as 10,730 samples were tested.
The tally has gone up to 2,051 and the toll increased to 46. With 58 more patients recovering and getting discharged from hospitals the number of total recoveries, 1,056, continue to be above the number of active cases, 949.
(Tharun Boda)
12.35 p.m.
42 new COVID-19 cases in Karnataka
As many as 42 new COVID-19 cases have been reported in Karnataka taking the total cases to 904.
This includes 31 COVID deaths, one non-COVID death and 426 discharges.
(Afshan Yasmeen)
12.15 p.m.
Prime Minister to address the nation today
PM Narendra Modi will address the nation at 8 p.m. today, tweeted the PMO.
12.10 p.m.
Kejriwal seeks suggestions regarding extension of the lockdown
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal speaks to the media: “A Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) teacher Baikali Sarkar was engage