1. India’s coronavirus count rose to 62,939 on Sunday morning. The toll increased to 2,109. Up to 41,472 people are still being treated, while 19,357 were discharged after treatment and one person has left the country.
  2. Indian Railways will gradually restart passenger train operations starting May 12, the Center said, adding that online reservations will begin Monday night.
  3. India’s evacuation efforts continued on Sunday. A group of 572 Indians arrived in Mumbai from the UK on Sunday morning. A flight carrying 243 stranded Indians from Singapore landed in Mumbai later in the day. INS Jalashwa, with 698 Indians repatriated from the Maldives, also arrived at the port of Cochin on Sunday. Passengers were also flown from London to Bangalore, from Kuala Lumpur to Kochi, from Kuwait to Chennai, from Tashkent in Uzbekistan to Delhi, and from the United States to Mumbai and Hyderabad on Sunday. A flight scheduled to transport passengers from Doha to Kerala was canceled and rescheduled for Tuesday.
  4. The number of coronavirus cases increased in India on Sunday. As of Sunday night, Maharashtra reported 20,228 positive cases, continuing to be the most affected state in India. Gujarat ranked second with 8,195 new infections, followed by Tamil Nadu, which reported 669 new cases, bringing the state’s count to 7,204. Delhi reported 6,923 coronavirus cases. Meanwhile, Kerala reported seven new cases of coronavirus on Sunday. This included three people who flew to Kerala from Abu Dhabi on May 7.
  5. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold his fifth meeting with the prime ministers of all states on Monday to discuss the coronavirus pandemic situation in the country, the prime minister’s office said on Sunday. The meeting will be held by videoconference at 3 pm.
  6. The Delhi government acknowledged on Sunday the discrepancies in the number of coronavirus deaths reported by hospitals and the figures it has announced. However, the government blamed hospitals for allegedly failing to report deaths in a timely and regular manner. Delhi Prime Minister Arvind Kejriwal previously said that 75% of coronavirus cases in the national capital were mild or asymptomatic.
  7. The Center on Sunday issued guidelines to restart manufacturing after the national shutdown, saying the first week should be considered “proof or proof.”
  8. The coronavirus has affected more than 40 lakh people and claimed 2.79 lakh lives worldwide, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker.
  9. South Korea warned of a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic later this year. “It will not end until it ends,” President Moon Jae-in said before the country’s plan to ease the restrictions.
  10. Eighty-one more inmates at Mumbai’s Arthur Road Prison tested positive for the coronavirus on Sunday. With this, the total number of cases in the prison increased to 184, including 24 staff members.