NEW DELHI, May 28: There were 6,566 new cases of coronavirus and 194 deaths
in India in the last 24 hours. With this, the tally has gone up to 1,58,333
cases and 4,531 deaths, according to the Health Ministry. Case-wise India is
now among the top ten worst-hit, having steadily moved up from the bottom, from
among 180 countries, three months ago. Yet India's mortality rate has been consolably
low, even as globally there have been over 3.5 lakh deaths, the US alone losing
1 lakh lives in less than three months.
Meanwhile, a confident India resumed domestic flights last Monday, a week ahead
of a national lockdown scheduled to end on May 31, although in a heavily curtailed
volume. Bengal, which stayed away from joining the operations then due to the
cyclone, on Thursday made its entry into the aviation map. Passengers were seen
queueing up at the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata
on Thursday morning.
Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri has said that all the airports are
functioning smoothly. The night before the domestic flights were to resume,
the objections from several Sates in view of the coronavirus epidemic were resolved
by cancelling some flights to bring down the traffic at airports in a compromise.
Although it led to chaos at the airport the next morning.
The Railways too is resuming the train service from June 1. Initially, 200
trains will run, covering all the States. This will be in addition to the special
trains being run to ferry the stranded people as also the thousands of Shramik
Special trains transporting jobless migrant workers back to their home States.
Among the States, Maharashtra is the worst affected. In a day 131 policemen
were tested positive for coronavirus and two of them died today. There have
been 54,758 cases and 1,792 deaths in the State so far, more than one-third
of the total cases of 30 States.
In Bhopal, the Raj Bhavan's residential campus has been isolated for disinfection
as six residents tested positive for corona. In Delhi, as employee of Raj Niwas
has contracted the infection and a building has been sealed. So also the NDMC
central office. The Railway Ministry was sealed a few days ago as several of
its employees were detected to have the infection.
CORONA IMPACT: In the new situation of planes idling for over two months
now, SpiceJet converted three Q400 passenger aircraft into freighters. "Our
cargo operations are doing extremely well and to address the increased demand
we have converted three Q400 passenger aircraft into freighters," Chairman and
Managing Director Ajay Singh said, according to ET.
The following is the State-wise break-up of immediately available data
of total cases and total deaths due to coronavirus in INDIA as on May 28:-
Country/State; Total Cases (TC); Total Deaths (TD)
INDIA (TC): 1,58,333; (TD): 4,531
Andaman and Nicobar Islands - TC: 33; TD: 0
Andhra Pradesh - TC: 3,171; TD: 58
Arunachal Pradesh - TC: 2; TD: 0
Assam - TC: 781; TD: 4
Bengal - TC: 4,192; TD: 289
Bihar - TC: 3,061; TD: 15
Chandigarh TC: 279; TD: 4
Chhattisgarh - TC: 369; TD: 0
Delhi - TC: 15,257; TD: 303
Goa (No new cases after April 3) - TC: 68; TD: 0
Gujarat - TC: 15,195; TD: 938
Haryana - TC: 1,381; TD: 18
Himachal Pradesh - TC: 273; TD: 5
Jammu and Kashmir - TC: 1,921; TD: 26
Jharkhand - TC: 448; TD: 4
Karnataka - TC: 2,418; TD: 47
Kerala - TC: 1,004; TD: 7
Ladakh - TC: 53; TD: 0
Madhya Pradesh - TC: 7,261; TD: 313
Maharashtra - TC: 56,948; TD: 1,897
Manipur - TC: 44; TD: 0
Meghalaya - TC: 20; TD: 1
Mizoram - TC: 1; TD: 0
Nagaland - TC: 4; TD: 0
Odisha - TC: 1,593; TD: 7
Puducherry - TC: 46; TD: 0
Punjab - TC: 2,139; TD: 40
Rajasthan - TC: 7,703; TD: 173
Tamil Nadu - TC: 18,545; TD: 133
Telangana - TC: 2,098; TD: 63
Tripura - TC: 230; TD: 0
Uttarakhand - TC: 469; TD: 4
Uttar Pradesh - TC: 6,991; TD: 182