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The estimate is based on a “preliminary assessment” of the city corporation's records, the official said. Tamil Nadu had reported 326 Covid deaths till Wednesday evening, including 260 within Chennai city limits alone.

For example, while a train from Bandra in Mumbai to Ghazipur City in Uttar Pradesh this week was booked to over 130%, trains coming to Mumbai from Gorakhpur (UP), Howrah (West Bengal), Darbhanga (Bihar), Patna and Jaipur have seen an average of 30% seats filled.

So far, 1,964 positive cases and 73 deaths have been recorded from Dharavi. At least 939 people have recovered from the slum sprawl. On Wednesday, Mumbai recorded 1,567 new infections, taking its total virus load to 52,667.

Kejriwal said his administration will implement Lt-Governor Anil Baijal’s order scrapping its decision to reserve beds in the Capital for Delhi residents and to treat patients from across the country in “letter and spirit”.

The state government had asked 22 private hospitals in the capital to reserve 20% more beds for Covid-19 patients, expanding bed strength in these hospitals by 2,015.

The order comes after Pinjra Tod activist Devangana Kalita (31) moved the court seeking directions to police to not leak any allegations pertaining to her to the media pending investigation, and, thereafter, during the trial.

In spite of having lost the flat to the inspector, the complainant was arrested and spent time in prison. He approached Pune police after his release, following which an inquiry was launched.

Doctors of Kasturba hospital have given a letter to the administration threatening mass resignation from June 16 while Hindu Rao has already drafted a letter threatening ‘pen down’ strike which the association will be giving to the administration Friday.

On Wednesday, Naval Kishore Ram issued an order asking office bearers of housing societies to follow the directives issued by the central and the state governments time to time in dealing with Covid-19 pandemic and not make their own rules.

The complainant had alleged that Shaikh had married earlier and had two children from his first wife and thereafter, in December 2018, got married a second time.

Conducted once every five years, the Lion Census was due on June 5-6 this year, but was postponed after the lockdown was announced on March 24.

Of the 674 lions counted during the exercise, 260 were females, 161 males, 93 sub-adults and 137 cubs.

According to Azam (34), his brother Imtiaz Ashraf Ali, for over three hours on Wednesday afternoon, lay in the sun outside the hospital even as Azam tried to get him a bed inside.

“Earlier, in one case, contact tracing would be done for up to 600 people, and today, if we multiply 1,500 cases with 600, it gives us 9,00,000 people for contact tracing. So, tracing is being done only for immediate contacts and not for indirect contacts,” Jain said.

A group of about 15-20 Naxals entered the forest office around 12.30-1 am and tied a cloth around the eyes of the two forest guards who were sleeping there.

According to officials, the strategy was adopted last month, after it was noticed that the four flu OPDs in the hospital were experiencing a high footfall, creating problems in maintaining social distancing in the rooms allotted for their operations.

One of the women alleged that she was gangraped by two men in the factory in Kengeri. An FIR was filed on May 23 against two factory workers under Section 376D of the IPC and SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act.

According to sources, the apex health research body, ICMR, has been considering the use of Remdesivir, an antiviral drug which has shown improvement in Covid-19 patients in formal clinical trials

Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal has extended his condolences. In a release, the Chief Minister said the two had made a “supreme sacrifice for the greater interest of the society”.

Additional Advocate Rupak Chaubey, one of the government counsel, said they will challenge the verdict in the Supreme Court.