Saturday 18 April 2020

Lockdown, Day 25: India's toll nears 500-mark

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18 Apr, 2020 | 06:35 PM IST


Lockdown, Day 25: India's toll nears 500-mark

With the country's case count dangerously close to the 15,000-mark, India is slowly getting ready to restart business. From Monday, select services will resume in parts of the country, although which parts will be allowed to get back to work remains to be decided.

In another major development, Air India has started accepting bookings for select domestic flights from May 4, renewing hope of lockdown ending once and for all on May 3.

Here are the other top stories of the day...



COUNT SO FAR
    Mumbai's Dharavi breaches 100-mark
    Virus infiltrates Indian Navy, 26 infected
    50 more patients in Indore; MP tally now 1,360
    Two tests positive in Bihar, total 85
    Tally rises to 38 in Himachal
    24 new cases reported in Agra
    7, including an infant, test positive in Moradabad, UP
    Gujarat reports 176 new cases; state count now 1,272
    Andhra Pradesh reports 31 new cases; state count tops 600
    Meghalaya reports two more cases; state case count rises to 10
    Karnataka reports 12 more cases; case count hits 370
    Delhi case count now 1,767
    41 new cases and 2 deaths reported in Rajasthan
World India
Tally Toll Tally Toll
22,56,844 1,54,350 14,792 488

LIFE & HEALTH
    Drug Controller General permits clinical trial of convalescent plasma
    NHAI to resume toll collection on National highways from April 20
    Hyundai ties up with Air Liquide to scale up production of ventilators
    Maharashtra to give Rs 2,000 each to 12 lakh registered construction workers

BUSINESS UPDATE
    Air India starts bookings for select domestic flights from May 4th; International flights from June 1st
    Ficci seeks bailout package for aviation industry
    Coal India to not offer supplier's credit to consumers
    Government nod now must for investment from China and neighbours

WORLD VIEW
    Large global contraction in the first half of 2020 inevitable: IMF
    France toll rises to 18,681
    US death toll passes 35,000, cases top 700,000
    Germany case count up by 3,609, hits 1,37,439
    Confirmed cases in Japan hit 10,000
    China's imported cases reach 1,566; revised death toll 4,63
    Mexico registers 578 new cases, 60 deaths
    UK sets up new Vaccine Taskforce
    San Diego Comic-Con cancelled for the first time in 50 years

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