India’s nation-wide lockdown is likely to be extended till May 30 with considerable relaxations in the green and orange zones. The current phase of the lockdown is set to end on May 17.
Elsewhere, the United States has recorded 1,680 coronavirus deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing its grim total to 87,493, according to the latest real-time tally by Johns Hopkins University.
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Here are the latest updates:
3.15 pm | Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu CM urges migrant workers not to walk back home
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami has urged migrant workers against walking all the way or making their own arrangements to leave the State for their hometowns. The State government was taking steps for sending them home by trains, he assured them.
So far, 55,473 migrant workers were sent to Bihar, Odisha, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal and the Northeastern States on 43 trains between May 6 and 15; about 10,000 were to be sent everyday.
– Dennis S. Jesudasan
3.00 pm | Uttar Pradesh
Yogi Adityanath instructs officials in border districts not to allow migrant workers to walk home
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has appealed to migrant workers not to risk their lives as well as that of their families by walking back home or boarding illegal and unsafe means of transportation.
In a high-level meeting on the lockdown, Mr. Adityanath instructed officials in border districts to not allow any migrant worker to walk back or board any truck or motorcycle.
Such vehicles running unlawfully should be immediately seized and legal action be taken, the CM has instructed them.
– Omar Rashid
2.50 pm| Uttarakhand
Coronavirus cases on the rise in Uttarakhand with return of migrants
The return of migrants has caused an abrupt rise in the number COVID-19 cases in Uttarakhand with 17 people testing positive for the disease since the process started 10 days ago. All those who tested positive for the disease since the migrants began returning to the hill state are those returning from either Maharashtra, Gujarat, Haryana or Delhi.
“Ever since the migrants began to return to the state, COVID-19 cases have shot up. In the last 10 days, 17 new coronavirus positive cases have surfaced,” DG (law and order) Ashok Kumar said.
According to an official data, 82,834 out of more than 2 lakh migrants, have returned from outside so far and the process is going to continue for the next 10-15 days.
2.20 pm | Delhi
As many as 438 new COVID-19 cases were reported in Delhi in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of cases to 9,333, according to a health bulletin released by the Delhi government on Saturday.
Also, six more deaths have been reported, taking the total number of deaths to 129.
Of the 9,333 cases, 3,926 people have recovered and there are 5,278 active cases. – Nikhil M. Babu
2.10 pm | Andhra Pradesh
AP reports one death, 48 fresh cases
The State has witnessed one more COVID-19 death and 48 fresh cases during the past 24 hours after 9, 628 samples were tested. On the bright side, 101 patients have recovered.
Koyembedu wholesale market links continue to push the State figures as 31 of the 48 cases are linked to the hotspot in neighbouring Tamil Nadu.
Excluding the migrant workers’ cases, the number of active cases is 803. – Tharun Boda
2.05 pm | Puducherry
One more person has tested positive for COVID-19 in Puducherry, taking the tally of active cases in the Union Territory to 13. – Rajesh B. Nair
1.50 pm | Karnataka
Karnataka govt to decide on conducting SSLC exam on May 18
The Karnataka government is expected to take a call on Monday on holding the Secondary Level School Certificate (SSLC) or class 10 examination, which were postponed due to COVID-19 lockdown.
Minister for Primary and Secondary Education S Suresh Kumar said there was a possibility that the state government may come out with a timetable on Monday.
1.25 pm | Tamil Nadu
After a week, liquor sale resumes in TN amid security
Scene at a TASMAC shop in Ramanathapuram on Saturday.
| Photo Credit: L Balachandar
After a week’s hiatus, sale of alcoholic beverages resumed in non-containment zones of Tamil Nadu on Saturday amid police security except in State capital Chennai and neighbouring Tiruvallur.
Clockwise from left: A tippler with his purchase at TASMAC outlet near Anna bus stand in Madurai (R. Ashok); a man after successfully purchasing liquor from a shop at Uthukadu in Kancheepuram (B. Velankanni Raj); people lined up at a TASMAC outlet; an employee distributes token in Thoothukudi (N. Rajesh).
1.10 pm | Rajasthan
Rajasthan sees 91 fresh COVID-19 cases
Rajasthan reported 91 fresh cases of coronavirus on Saturday, taking the infection tally in the state to 4,838.
“A total of 91 fresh cases were reported on Saturday. A maximum of them, 55, are from Jaipur, including 48 from the district jail. Besides 21 cases were reported from Dungarpur, nine from Udaipur, two from Sirohi and one each from Ajmer, Bharatpur, Jhunjhunu and Kota,” an official said.
The state has so far recorded 125 deaths due to the disease. – PTI
1 pm | India
‘When a child is hurt, the mother doesn’t give loans’: Rahul’s jibe at Centre’s COVID lockdown package
Criticising the Narendra Modi-government’s self reliance package announc