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Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a video conference with the chief ministers on the coronavirus situation in India, focusing on a strategy for a gradual exit from the shutdown.
Indian Railways will gradually restart passenger services today with 15 pairs of trains.
The 15 pairs of trains, meaning a total of 30 return trips, will be run as special trains from the New Delhi station connecting Dibrugarh, Agartala, Howrah, Patna, Bilaspur, Ranchi, Bhubaneswar, Secunderabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Thiruvananthapuram, Madgaon, Central Mumbai, Ahmedabad, and Jammu Tawi.
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Here are the latest updates:
12.15 p.m.
The Prime Minister will address the nation today
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the nation at 8 p.m. Today, the PMO tweeted.
12.10 p.m.
Kejriwal seeks suggestions on blocking extension
Delhi Prime Minister Arvind Kejriwal speaks to the media: “A teacher from the Delhi Municipal Corporation (MCD) Baikali Sarkar was engaged in a Delhi government-run hunger relief center; she contracted Coronavirus while feeding the poor. She died on May 4. May she rest in peace. We are proud of such Crown warriors. The Delhi government will give her family $ 1 crore in compensation.
Last month, the Delhi government had provided ₹ 5,000 assistance to construction workers. We will do it again this month.
The Prime Minister, in the videoconference with the Chief Ministers, asked for suggestions on the extension of the blockade that will be sent before May 15. Today, I ask those suggestions from the people of Delhi. Should markets be open? Should public transportation be allowed? What should be open and what should not while maintaining social distance and taking care of our health, but also the health of the state economy? Submit your suggestions by 5:00 PM tomorrow. Let me clarify that this is not voting, but a call for suggestions. All good suggestions will be discussed with experts, doctors, who will form the Delhi government’s proposal to be sent to the Center.
He asked people to send suggestions to 1031, or to send them by WhatsApp to 8800007722 and mail them to [email protected]
(Jatin Anand)
12.05 p.m.
Rajasthan cases cross 4,000
Positive cases of COVID-19 in Rajasthan cross the 4,000 mark with the detection of 47 new cases today. The count in the state is now 4,035. Two deaths, one in Bikaner and Jalore, bring the number of COVID-19 deaths to 115. Of the total number of patients, 2,362 have recovered and 2,077 have been discharged. As of now, the State has 1,558 active cases: Department of Medicine and Health.
(Mohammad Iqbal)
12 noon
Over 45,000 bookings worth £ 16 million rupees so far for special trains
So far, more than 80,000 passengers have booked tickets worth more than £ 16 million rupees on special trains, the Indian Railways said, hours before the first such train leaves New Delhi station for Bilaspur. in Madhya Pradesh.
So far, 45,533 reservations (PNR) worth Rs 16.15 million have been recorded for special trains over the next seven days, the railways said, adding that around 82,317 passengers will travel against these reservations.
These special trains will only have wagons with air conditioning. – PTI
11.30 a.m.
Odisha migrants face a double whammy on their journey home
The prospect of returning home in the midst of the COVID-19 blockade generally makes many migrants happy. But, for Rajendra Dhinda, a worker from the Odlas district in Balasore, the return trip was nothing less than a struggle.
Thanks to the double quarantine to which Mr. Dhinda and his fellow migrants were subjected, the return home is prolonged. First, the Andhra Pradesh government put them in a quarantine center while on the road. They were again quarantined in their village in Odisha starting Tuesday.
10.30 a.m.
A further 15 positive cases of COVID-19 were reported from Bihar, bringing the total number to 761 in the state.
The cases were from the Begusarai, Darbhanga and Supaul districts.
(Amarnath Tewary)
9.40 a.m.
China Reports 16 New Coronavirus Cases Amid Second Wave Fears
China reported a new case of coronavirus and 15 asymptomatic infections, the day after a new COVID-19 group emerged in Wuhan, where the virus first emerged.
China’s National Health Commission (CNH) said on Tuesday that an imported case was registered in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on Monday, while no local infections were reported.
9.30 a.m.
Manipur prepares to receive a special train with 1,141 from Chennai
The special train carrying 1,141 students and others from Chennai will arrive at the Manipur train station in Jiribam around midnight on Tuesday. Fifty buses had already arrived at the train station to take them to Imphal. Doctors and paramedics will examine them for COVID-19 at the station.
9.20 am
Twenty-three new cases of COVID-19, 15 in Balasore, three in Ganjam and Jajpur and one in the Puri and Boudh district, brings Odisha’s total to 437, the State Department of Health said on Tuesday.
(Prafulla Das)
Vande Bharat: Air India flies 883 people out of the country
In the last days of the Vande Bharat mission, Air India and Air India Express have carried 883 people from India on 25 flights.
So far, 23 flights have taken 3,908 Indians to various airports in the country. In Mumbai, 110 people returned from Dhaka on Monday, while 319 were expected from Newark late at night. A flight from Kuala Lumpur is expected to bring 225 passengers on Tuesday.
Kerala
First flight with NRI to land in Kannur today
The first flight to Kannur International Airport with expats will arrive from Dubai on Tuesday. The Air India Express flight, which will take off from Kannur at 10.30 a.m., will return with around 180 passengers from Dubai at 7.10 p.m.
In addition to Kannur’s 109 passengers, 47 will return from Kasaragod, 12 from Kozhikode, seven from Malappuram, three from Mahe and one from Wayanad and Thrissur.
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