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NEW DELHI: The number of deaths from Covid-19 increased to 1,981 and the number of cases rose to 59,662 in the country on Saturday, registering an increase of 95 deaths and 3,320 cases in the last 24 hours, according to the Ministry of Health of the Union. The number of active cases of COVID-19 was 39,834.
Here’s a look at the latest updates on the coronavirus outbreak from major Indian cities:
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DELHI
- Five police officers test positive for coronavirus in Delhi
- Noida schools will pay Rs 5 lakh in fine if rate is raised this year
- Delhi government says it will pay migrants’ train fare
- The special tax department has filed a complaint with the Delhi Police Crime Division against fake websites claiming to deliver liquor to people’s doors.
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AHMEDABAD
- Dr. Randeep Guleria, Director of the Indian Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) met with doctors at the Ahmedabad Civil Hospital on Saturday to give them advice on Covid-19 treatment.
- An additional 24 people died in Gujarat on Friday, bringing the death toll to 449, while the total number of cases was 7,403.
- Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, which had marked four hotels as Covid service centers so far, will now have 100 more hotels with a 3,175 bed capacity for this purpose.
- The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has decided to launch a massive disinfection campaign in Ahmedabad.
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LUCKNOW
- Two Covid warriors at an Agra hospital, a junior doctor and healthcare staff, and a UPSRTC bus driver who transported immigrants from Madhya Pradesh to Jhansi on April 30, were among the 155 new cases of coronavirus in UP on Friday. . The list also includes at least 15 migrant workers, as the UP count reached 3,238.
- The crown pandemic has affected more than 25,000 housing units worth several billion rupees, even as the state government has decided to provide a stimulus package to revive the damped sector, which is the main contributor to the economy. state.
- Three children ages 10-13 who lived in a quarantine center in Chinhat fled after climbing the boundary wall with the help of sheets in the early hours of Friday.
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HYDERABAD
- On Friday, the Telangana government began imposing a 1,000-rupee fine on people who roam public places without wearing a mask as the state struggles to contain new cases of Covid-19.
- In what could be the first experiment of its kind, the Telangana police are using artificial intelligence (AI) to track those who leave without wearing a face mask. The new system alerts the police after analyzing live CCTV images.
- About 900 students from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh are stranded at Lovely Professional University (LPU) in Punjab.
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MUMBAI
- Probably the first time in the country, a positive Covid woman gave birth to triplets at the BYL Nair, a civic-run hospital in Central Mumbai on Friday.
- Eight more BEST staff members were spotted with Covid-19 on Friday, seven of them from the traffic wing. The total of positive cases amounted to 64 in the company.
- BMC reported five deaths in Dharavi of people who had been discharged. The victims had completed their 14-day hospitalization more than a month ago. The death toll in Dharavi, the most affected poor neighborhood in the city, was 26 with 808 positive cases.
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BENGALURU
- The Karnataka government and South Western Railway (SWR) resumed services on Friday, transporting nearly 3,600 people on two trains to Lucknow and one to Danapur, Bihar.
- Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) on Friday ordered the Commercial Street malls and seven other highways in the Central Business District to close the blinds until further notice.
- Karnataka’s government allowed the sale of take-away alcoholic beverages in clubs, hotels, bars and restaurants on Friday until May 17.
- The Karnataka government has spent Rs 3.5 lakh on each of the 136 Covid-19 patients treated at the Trauma Care Center at Victoria Hospital in Bengaluru.
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CHANDIGARH
- Leaders of the local Congressional unit wrote to adviser UT administration Manoj Parida asking him to inform them of the number of migrant workers who wish to travel to their native states from the city, as the state Congressional unit is willing to pay for migrant travel. .
- The Chandigarh administration has rejected requests from private taxi operators to allow them to operate in the city.
- Nearly 5,000 people, mostly NRIs, are expected to return by air to Chandigarh from abroad.
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CHENNAI
- The Madras High Court on Friday charged authorities with a flagrant violation of the conditions established to resume liquor sales on May 7 and ordered the immediate closure of all stores until the end of the closure.
- Covid-19 count in Chennai was less than 400 on Friday when Tamil Nadu recorded 600 new cases.
- Of the total of 6,009 cases registered in Tamil Nadu as of Friday, 1,589 were linked to the Koyambedu group.
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Kolkata
- Not allowing trains to arrive in West Bengal is an injustice to migrant workers; It will create more difficulties for them: the Interior Minister, Amit Shah, to Mamata. Shah wrote to the prime minister saying that the state is not supporting the Center to help migrants reach their homes.
- Several neighborhoods in southern Kolkata, which had managed to avoid the coronavirus for the past 40 days, are now on the city’s containment zone map with new case reports.
- The West Bengal government may change the Posta truck unloading.
- Grocery prices in retail markets have risen for the third time in the past month and a half.
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