19 May, 23:19 (IST)

Repatriation flight Air India Express IX 890 carrying 175 Indian passengers from Bahrain arrived at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad, earlier today.

19 May, 23:00 (IST)

Kanpur: Eight labourers have been injured after the truck they were travelling in met with an accident in Bilhaur, today. The injured have been shifted to hospital. The truck was enroute to West Bengal from Haryana.

19 May, 22:20 (IST)

Air India special flight (AI 1908) from Dammam (Saudi Arabia) reached Cochin International Airport with 143 passengers: Public Relations Department, Kerala.

19 May, 22:18 (IST)

Karnataka government issues SOP for hair cutting salons and parlors. Appointments/token system to be adopted to stagger clients entry. Sharp waste to be collected in puncture-proof, leakproof white container with 1 percent hypochlorite solution; to be handed over to biomedical waste disposal agency.

19 May, 21:40 (IST)

Railways to run 200 non-ac timetabled trains daily from June 1, says Railway Minister Piyush Goyal. Bookings for non-ac second class trains to be run from June 1 will be available online; everyone can avail these services.

19 May, 21:02 (IST)

Maharashtra is doing around 15000 tests (for COVID-19) everyday in 67 testing labs. Death rate in Maharashtra has also come down to 3.2% now: Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope

19 May, 20:47 (IST)

Today a record number of 1202 patients in the state were discharged from hospitals after recovering from COVID-19. Maharashtra is having over 25% recovery rate of COVID patients now: Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope.

19 May, 20:04 (IST)

28 more positive cases have been reported in Jammu and Kashmir; 22 from Kashmir division and 6 from Jammu division. Total positive cases in the union territory stand at 1317 including 653 active cases: Govt of Jammu and Kashmir.

19 May, 19:05 (IST)

12 new COVID-19 cases in Kerala, the total rises to 642, active cases 142.

19 May, 18:03 (IST)

Countries agree to the independent probe of WHO's COVID-19 response, reports AFP.

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Mumbai, May 19: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee issued guidelines for the fourth phase of lockdown that will continue till the month-end. The curfew from 7 pm in the night till 7 am in the morning - as directed by the Union Home Ministry in its notification for "lockdown 4" - will not be implemented in the state, the CM said. Among the other relaxations are- re-opening of private offices. The attendance in all establishments has been capped at 50 percent. Salons for haircuts and beauty parlours have also been granted the permit to resume their operations.

The total number of coronavirus cases on Monday witnessed the highest ever spike of 5,242 COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours. The total number of cases were at 96,169. and the death toll mounted to 3,029 so far.

Maharashtra is one of the worst-hit states of India due to coronavirus. On Monday, 2,033 new COVID-19 cases and 51 deaths were reported in Maharashtra. So far, 35,058 people in this western state of India have contracted coronavirus. The death toll due to the deadly virus also jumped to 1,249.

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