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Tuesday, May 05, 2020

Record rise in cases, deaths

Record rise in cases, deaths

As many as 3,900 new COVID-19 cases and 195 fatalities were reported in the last 24 hours, the biggest spike in a single day, the Health Ministry said and asserted that some states were not reporting cases in a timely manner. Addressing the daily briefing, joint secretary at the Health Ministry Lav Agarwal said the total number of cases stand at 46,433 and the death toll at 1,568. Punya The Centre said the Railways had run 62 special trains for stranded domestic workers till now that carried an estimated 70,000 people. Meanwhile, in one of the largest evacuation exercise, named "Vande Bharat Mission", the government will operate 64 flights from May 7 to 13 to bring home nearly 14,800 Indian nationals stranded abroad.