Coronavirus – Railways cancels all tickets till June 30; special trains to continue
The number of coronavirus cases in India rose to 78,003 on Thursday morning.
11.09 am: A special train carrying passengers from Mumbai arrives in Delhi.
11.04 am: Delhi Health MinisterSatyendar Jain says that the government is working on a policy to navigate the fourth phase of the lockdown and will inform people about it soon.
11.00 am: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Adityanath hands over cheques to representatives of the MSME (Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises) sector as part of the state’s online loan fair.
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Around 36,000 businesses will get loans amounting to Rs 2,000 crore under the programme.
10.57 am: Dubai Airport’s Chief Executive Paul Griffiths says temperature checks and masks will become the new normal for air travel, Reuters reports.
10.52 am: The United Nations Children’s Fund on Wednesday said that 6,000 children could die every day from preventable causes over the next six months as the coronavirus pandemic continues to weaken health systems.
10.48 am: An inmate at
tests positive for the coronavirus, ANI reports. Five jail staff members are twenty inmates have been placed under quarantine.
10.44 am: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will again brief the media at 4 pm on the Centre’s measures to deal with the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic.
10.37 am: Domestic benchmark indices fall even after the government’s announcement of a Rs 20 lakh-crore stimulus package. The BSE Sensex is trading at 31,408, down 1.8%. The Nifty 50 is down 1.79% and trading at 9,216.
10.32 am: China reports15 new coronavirus cases as mass testing begins for the 11 million people in Wuhan, according to PTI.
10.29 am: Migrant workers wait to board buses at the Inter-State Bus Terminus in Chandigarh.
10.17 am: The Indian Railways cancels all tickets booked to travel on or before June 30, PTI reports. Passengers with tickets of cancelled regular trains will get a full refund. The Shramik special trains will run as usual.
10.13 am: Health experts from the United Nations warn of a looming mental health crisis as millions of people worldwide are surrounded by death and disease and forced into isolation, poverty and anxiety due to the coronavirus pandemic, Reuters reports.
10.09 am: Brazil registered a record 11,385 new cases of the coronavirus on Wednesday, surpassing France’s tally to become the sixth-worst hit country, according to Reuters. Brazil’s tally went up to 1,88,974 while France’s count stood at 1,77,700.
10.06 am: A train carrying passengers from Patna arrives in Delhi.
10.02 am: announces a compensation of Rs 2 lakh to the families of migrant workers killed in an accident on the Muzaffarnagar-Saharanpur highway, ANI reports. The government also announces a compensation of Rs 50,000 for the injured people.
9.57 am: The Indian Railways on Wednesday issued an order allowing waitlisting of passengers from May 22 for journeys not just on the special trains, but also on all its upcoming services.
Read here: Covid-19: Railways to allow waiting lists on special trains from May 22, may increase operations
9.55 am: The Japan government saysit wants to lift a state of emergency declared because of the coronavirus in most of the country, though not yet the capital Tokyo and other urban centres, AFP reports.
Japan’s virus outbreak remains small compared with those seen in parts of Europe and the United States, with a little over 16,000 confirmed infections recorded and 687 deaths.
9.50 am: United States President Donald Trump on Wednesdaysaid that he will look into the legislation introduced in the Senate that proposes sanctions on China if it fails to cooperate and provide a full accounting of the events leading up to the coronavirus outbreak, PTI reports.
9.42 am: Fugitive tycoon Vijay Mallya congratulates the government on the Rs 20 lakh crore-coronavirus relief package. He urges the government to accept his offer to repay 100% of his loan dues and close the fraud case against him.
9.40 am: Rajasthan reports 66 coronavirus cases and one death. The state’s tally rises to 4,394 and the toll reaches 122.
9.37 am: Despite close to two months passing since the migrant crisis began with the sudden enforcement of the nationwide lockdown on March 25 to curtail the spread of Covid-19, the Centre has not found it necessary to establish a task force to help migrants reach their homes.
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9.34 am: Odisha reports 73 new coronavirus cases. The state’s tally rises to 611.
9.29 am: The United States on Wednesday accused China of stealing research on the coronavirus through hackers, according to Reuters.
In a joint statement, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Homeland Security said the they were investigating digital break-ins at US organisations by China-linked “cyber actors”
9.23 pm: The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development on Wednesday said that the coronavirus pandemic led to a 3% drop in global trade in the first quarter of 2020 and this downturn is expected to reach 27% in the next quarter.
9.22 am: Fourteen migrant workers were killed in two separate accidents in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh on Wednesday evening. More than 60 people were injured.
Read here: Covid-19 lockdown: 14 migrant workers killed in two separate accidents in Madhya Pradesh and UP
9.18 am: Former Union Minister and Karnataka Congress leader CM Ibrahim asks Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa to decide on allowing Muslims to offer Eid prayers at mosques after consulting medical experts.
9.11 am: The World Health Organization on Wednesday said that thecoronavirus may never go away and could become endemic like HIV, according to Reuters. “It is important to put this on the table: this virus may become just another endemic virus in our communities, and this virus may never go away,” WHO emergencies expert Mike Ryan said.
9.07 am: A train carrying passengers from Delhi arrives in Bengaluru.
9.05 am: A 30-year-old woman and her daughter test positive for Covid-19 in
, ANI reports. They had returned to the state from Delhi earlier this month.
8.54 am: In the last 24 hours, India reported 3,722 cases while the toll increased by 134.
8.51 am: India’s tally rises to 78,003 with 49,219 active cases, according to the health ministry’s update. The toll is now 2,549.
8.39 am: King George’s Medical University in Lucknow tested 982 samples on Wednesday and 28 of those have come positive, reports
8.30 am: At least two people have been killed and 12 injured in a collision between a bus and a truck near Shankar Chowk in
, reports ANI. The bus, ferrying 32 migrant workers, was going from Muzaffarpur to Katihar.
8.27 am: Delhi’s
has been closed for two days for sanitisation after the secretary and the deputy secretary of the market tested positive, SP Gupta the chairman of the market, tells ANI.
8 am: Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has accused the Imran Khan-led government of failing to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, reports PTI. The country saw a record jump of more than 2,000 cases in a single day. The total number of cases in Pakistan is over 35,000 and 761 Covid-19 patients have died.
7.55 am: Eight migrant workers died and nearly 50 were injured after the truck they were travelling in collided with a bus in Madhya Pradesh’s Cantonment Police Station area in Guna district on Wednesday night, reports ANI. The injured have been moved to a district hospital. The workers were on their way back to their hometowns.
7.50 am: Nepal’s health ministry says five more coronavirus cases have been found in the country, taking the total number of cases to 250, reports ANI.
7.45 am: United States President Donald Trump has asked governors across the country to work towards reopening schools in their states, reports AP.
7.40 am: Six migrant labourers, walking along the Muzaffarnagar-Saharanpur highway, were killed after a speeding bus ran over them late on Wednesday, reports ANI. The incident occurred near Ghalauli check-post. A case has been registered against the unidentified bus driver.
7.35 am: Here are the top updates from Wednesday
- Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday briefed the media on the Rs 20 lakh crore-stimulus package announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to tide over the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic. “In order to provide more take home salary for employees and to give relief to employers in payment of provident fund, EPF contribution is being reduced for businesses and workers for three months, amounting to liquidity support of Rs 6,750 crore,” said Sitharaman. The finance minister also announced that the due date for filing income tax returns has been postponed from July 31 and October 31 to November 30 for 2019-’20. The rates for tax deducted at source and tax collected at source have been reduced by 25% till March 31, 2021.
- Maharashtra reported its largest 24-hour increase in the number of novel coronavirus cases, with 1,494 more on Wednesday. Mumbai alone has 15,747 of the state’s 25,992 cases now. Mumbai has tested over 2,30,000 samples so far. Around 3 lakh people are in home quarantine and over 14,000 in institutional quarantine.
- The number of coronavirus cases in India rose to 74,281 on Wednesday morning and the toll climbed to 2,415, according to the figures from the Union health ministry. The country recorded 3,525 new infections and 122 deaths in the last 24 hours. India is now the 12th most-affected country by the pandemic as the cases crossed the 74,000-mark, according to the latest real-time tally by Johns Hopkins University.
- The Prime Minister’s Office on Wednesday announced that Rs 3,100 crore from the PM Cares Fund trust will be used to buy ventilators, help migrant workers and support development of a vaccine against the new coronavirus.
- The International Monetary Fund warned that moving too early to reopen economies and rollback restrictions and lockdowns in Asia and Europe could lead to renewed coronavirus outbreaks. It said that economies in Asia and Europe should proceed carefully and resist the urge to do too much too soon.
- The Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, plans to conduct nucleic acid testing over a period of 10 days on the entire population after new coronavirus cases emerged for the first time in weeks.
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