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Five migrant workers died and 13 were injured when a truck they were traveling from UP to Hyderabad became a tortoise in MP late at night. Two of the injured are critical and are being cared for at Jabalpur Medical College. The accident comes immediately after 16 migrant workers were hit by a train in the Maharashtra city of Aurangabad on Friday while trying to return to their rural homes in Madhya Pradesh.
In its daily update, the Union Ministry of Health said the number of deaths increased to 1,981 and the number of cases to 59,662, registering an increase of 95 deaths and 3,320 cases in 24 hours until Saturday morning.
However, a PTI count of the numbers reported by different states and Union territories, at 10:45 p.m. Saturday, showed at least 62,761 confirmed cases across the country, 19,000 recoveries and 2,028 deaths. This showed an increase of more than 6,000 confirmed cases since Friday morning.
New cases were also reported on Saturday from Uttar Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Punjab, Bihar and Assam.
In addition to concerns, the new cases included at least two foreign returnees who had arrived in Kerala on May 7 on two separate first-day flights, one from Dubai and the other from Abu Dhabi, under an ongoing mass evacuation plan from the central government. bring back the stranded Indians abroad.
While a large number of cases continued to be detected in Maharashtra, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Delhi, experts warned that the numbers may increase in the coming days due to the continued movement of thousands of migrant workers facilitated by trains and buses to help them get there. their places of origin and due to a large number of Indians stranded abroad, along with expatriates, who were brought back on special flights.
The new coronavirus has infected 4,023,539 people worldwide and has so far caused 279,307 deaths.
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