India on Saturday recorded its biggest single-day spike with 6,654 fresh COVID-19 cases. The country now has 125,149 cases and as many as 3,728 people have died from the disease.
Here are the top 10 developments this Saturday:
1. 2,608 new COVID-19 positive cases, 60 deaths and 821 discharged in Maharashtra today. The total number of positive cases in the state now stands at 47,910, including 1,577 deaths and 13,404 discharged: Maharashtra Health Department
2. With 277 new coronavirus cases, tally rises to 10,001 in Ahmedabad, 24 people succumb to pandemic taking the death toll in the district to 669: Health official
3. Sikkim on Saturday reported its first positive COVID-19 case. The 25-year-old man was returning to the state from Delhi.
4. Kerala recorded yet another surge in single-day COVID cases with 62 new infections, of which, 31 persons came from other states and 18 from abroad. As of now, 732 cases have been reported in the state.
5. Railways have ferried around 40 lakh migrants onboard 2600 Shramik special trains with 80 per cent of them to Bihar and Uttar Pradesh: Railway Board Chairman Vinod Kumar Yadav
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6. The Railways has drawn up a schedule to operate 2,600 Shramik Special trains over the next 10 days across the country to ferry around 36 lakh migrant workers, stranded due to the COVID-19 lockdown, to their home states: Railway Board Chairman
7. Karnataka has reported 216 new COVID-19 cases, biggest ever spike, and a related fatality, taking the total number of infections in the state to 1,959 and the death toll to 42, the health department said on Saturday.
8. Bihar is now amongst the top ten states with maximum caseload Coronavirus in the country. The state’s overall tally is at 2,166.
9. 710 new COVID19 cases & 5 deaths reported in Tamil Nadu today; the total number of positive cases in the state now stands at 15,512, of which 7,915 are active cases. Death toll now stands at 103: Tamil Nadu Health Department
10. Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri today said: “We will try to start good percentage of international passenger flights before August. There’s no contradiction between domestic flights beginning from May 25 and lockdown in India being imposed till May 31.”