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The number of deaths from Covid-19 increased to 2,549 and the number of cases increased to 78,003 on Thursday, registering an increase of 134 deaths and 3,722 cases in the last 24 hours from Wednesday at 8 am, according to the Ministry of Health of the Union.
The number of active COVID-19 cases was 49,219, while 26,234 people recovered and one patient migrated, he said.
“Thus, about 33.63 percent of patients have recovered so far,” said a senior health ministry official.
Eight migrant workers died and more than 40 were injured in MP’s Guna when the truck they were traveling in collided with a bus last night. The workers were heading to UP from Maharashtra. All the wounded have been admitted to hospitals. In another tragedy, this time in UP, 6 migrant workers on their way to Bihar were crushed to death and some more were injured.
Migrant workers walking home amid the coronavirus blockade have been involved in various accidents across the country. Last week, 16 migrant workers were killed after they were hit by a train while sleeping on the tracks in Aurangabad, Maharashtra.
In an attempt to transport more immigrants, the Railways decided this week to transport around 1,700 passengers on board their ‘Shramik Special’ trains instead of the current 1,200.
According to an order issued, railway zones have also been asked to provide three stops in the destination state other than the final stop, at the request of state governments.
He also said that the capacity of the train should be equal to the number of bunks on the train. The ‘Shramik Special’ trains have 24 coaches with the capacity to transport 72 passengers in each coach.
The new coronavirus has infected more than 43 lakh people worldwide and caused more than 2,90,000 deaths.
The United States recorded 1,813 coronavirus deaths in the past 24 hours, for a total of 84,059, according to the latest real-time count reported Wednesday by Johns Hopkins University.
The country, the most affected by the pandemic in terms of the number of deaths, has now confirmed a total of 1,389,935 cases, the Baltimore-based school reported.
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