COVID-19 Live Updates, May 29: Karnataka reports 178 new COVID-19 cases, total tally mounts to 2,711
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NEW DELHI : India is developing a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, and will begin testing it in October, according to the Principal Scientific Adviser to the government. He said that pre-clinical studies are likely to be completed by that period, following which it is likely to move on to human trials.
The COVID-19 situation in the country continues to be grave, with the national capital registering over 1,000 cases in a 24-hour period for the first time. As many as 1,024 new COVID-19 cases were reported in Delhi in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of cases to 16,281.
Here is a list of State Helpline numbers. You can track coronavirus cases, deaths and testing rates at the national and State levels here.
Here are the latest updates:
3.15 PM | KARNATAKA
Two more test positive in Mandya
Two more positive cases of COVID-19 were reported in Mandya district in Karnataka, taking the district's total figure to 257.
The new patients, P-2548 and P-2549, a 10-year-old boy and 50-year-old man, are natives of near K.R. Pet in the district. They were settled in Mumbai and had recently returned to the district, said sources at the district administration.
- M.T. Shiva Kumar
COVID-19 Live Updates, May 29: Karnataka reports 178 new COVID-19 cases, total tally mounts to 2,711
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| COVID-19 Live Updates, May 29: Karnataka reports 178 new COVID-19 cases, total tally mounts to 2,711 |
3.15 PM | BIHAR
90 more COVID-19 positive cases reported n Bihar, taking the total number to 3,275 in the State.
- Amarnath Tewary
3.10 PM | MAHARASHTRA
Head constable succumbs to COVID-19 in Mumbai
A Head Constable with a police station in western Mumbai succumbed to COVID-19 in the early hours of Friday morning, taking the death toll among policemen in the city to 15.
At least 2,211 police personnel in Maharashtra have tested coronavirus positive so far, of whom 25 have lost their lives due to the infection, an official said on Friday.
As many as 249 of these COVID-19 patients are police officers, while 1,962 others are constabulary-rank personnel, he said.
Till now, 970 of them have recovered, the official added.
- Gautam Mengle, PTI
COVID-19 Live Updates, May 29: Karnataka reports 178 new COVID-19 cases, total tally mounts to 2,711
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| COVID-19 Live Updates, May 29: Karnataka reports 178 new COVID-19 cases, total tally mounts to 2,711 |
3.00 PM | MAHARASHTRA
BEST decides not to charge bus fare from migrants
The Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) announced that no ticket fare will be charged from migrant labourers while dropping them at the city railway stations for their journey to their home States.
A BEST spokesperson said that the decision was taken as per the directives of the Supreme Court.
The apex court on May 28 directed that no fare for travel either by trains or buses be charged from migrant workers stranded across the country, and they be provided food and water.
- PTI
2.55 PM | NEW DELHI
CISF official posted at warship building GRSEL succumbs to COVID-19
A Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel posted at the GRSEL, a warship manufacturing facility in Kolkata, has succumbed to COVID-19, officials said. Head constable Susanta Kumar Ghosh, 58, was a resident of Murshidabad district of West Bengal.
This is the fourth death from coronavirus in the about-1.62 lakh-personnel strong force and the second from this unit, a defence PSU located in Kolkata.
- PTI
2.45 PM | KERALA
Kerala govt. reviews Bev Q amidst mounting complaints from public
Mounting exasperation among the public over the glitches in the smartphone-based liquor purchase application, Bev Q, has forced the government to rethink its plans.
Excise Minister T. P. Ramakrishnan has called a high-level meeting at 2 p.m. to weigh in on whether the State should set aside the order that public can purchase liquor only via the application and restore the direct sale of alcohol as takeaway from stores and bars.
Kerala had banned the sale of liquor on March 25 as part of the COVID-19 lockdown. When it eased lockdown restrictions two months later in May, the government had contracted a start-up to create a smartphone application it hoped would help prevent overcrowding in front of liquor vends.
- G. Anand
COVID-19 Live Updates, May 29: Karnataka reports 178 new COVID-19 cases, total tally mounts to 2,711
2.40 PM | KERALA
Bev Q goes kaput disrupting liquor sale
Long queue seen outside a premium Bevco outlet in Kochi after the Bev Q app, the virtual queue management app, became inoperative on May 29, 2020. | Photo Credit: H. Vibhu
Liquor sale across the State was disrupted after Bev Q, the virtual queue management app for maintaining social distancing at liquor outlets, went kaput denying access to majority of users trying to book time slots. Only a couple of customers turned up with tokens issued over the app at a premium outlet of the Kerala State Beverages Corporation (KSBC) in the heart of Kochi city till afternoon.
A large number of users complained of not being able to access the app to book tokens for time slots. There were also complaints that though bar hotels were issued user id and password for accessing the app to record their stock levels, the system was yet to take off.
- Praveen
2.30 PM | NEW DELHI
Delhi reports biggest single-day jump in positive cases
1,106 new COVID-19 cases were reported in Delhi in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of cases to 17,386, Health Minister Satyendar Jain said while addressing a press conference. This is the biggest single-day jump in the number of cases in the city so far.
Also, 82 more deaths have been reported taking the total number of deaths to 398, the Minister said. But only 13 of these deaths have happened in the past 24 hours. "Rest of the deaths are old. 52 deaths from Safdarjung hospital are very old and they submitted it to us two days back and we have added it after auditing," Mr. Jain said.
Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, who was also present at the press conference, said that of the total COVID-19 patients in Delhi, the recovery rate was about 50%. "80-90% people recover from home quarantine. So, do not panic," he said.
- Nikhil M. Babu
COVID-19 Live Updates, May 29: Karnataka reports 178 new COVID-19 cases, total tally mounts to 2,711
2.15 PM | NEW DELHI
Decision on opening shops in malls will be taken soon
The decision to open shops in malls, will be taken soon, after taking into account the guidelines of the Health ministry, the Commerce and Industry ministry said.
Issues of retail traders were discussed in a meeting between Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday with representatives of traders associations through video conferencing.
- PTI
2.00 PM | SWEDEN
Sweden opens up for sport
Competitive and professional sport can resume from June 14, the Swedish government said, but games would have to be played mostly without an audience.
With Sweden’s softer approach to coronavirus pandemic, children’s sports activities continued and adults were able to go to practice sessions.
“Now we’re also opening up for competitive play among all ages, which means that high-level sports can resume once again,” culture minister Amanda Lind told a press conference. She said it would apply to all sports and at all levels, but only in a way that respects current guidelines from the Public Health Agency.
- PTI
1.30 PM | MANIPUR
3 more test positive in Manipur, total count 58
Three more persons tested positive for COVID-19 in Manipur, raising the total number of such cases in the state to 58, an official said.
All three hail from Imphal West district, he said. Necessary containment measures and contact tracing were underway, the official at the State's COVID-19 common control room said. Manipur currently has 53 active cases. Five patients have been discharged following their recovery.
1.00 PM | KARNATAKA
178 new COVID-19 cases reported in Karnataka today. With this, the total number of cases stand at 2,711
12.30 PM | PUDUCHERRY
Four COVID-19 cases were reported from Solai Nagar in Muthialpet while nine patients got discharged in Puducherry on Friday.
All new cases were traced to transmission within the family of already infected patients, health officials said.
With the discharge of two patients, Mahe enclave has no cases alongside Karaikal and Yanam. The active cases in Puducherry stand at 35.
The cumulative total of COVID-19 cases is 56 with 21 discharged.
12.20 PM | MEGHALAYA
One more tests positive in Meghalaya
A person who recently returned to Meghalaya from Haryana has tested positive for COVID-19, raising the number of active cases in the State to eight, Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma said.
Another person who had travelled from Haryana has tested positive. The patient is in Tura and under quarantine.
12.15 PM | HIMACHAL PRADESH
Nine new COVID-19 cases in Himachal Pradesh, tally 291
Nine more people tested positive for COVID-19 in Himachal Pradesh on Friday, taking the number of coronavirus cases in the state to 291, officials said.
Of the fresh cases, five were reported from Hamirpur and four from Kangra, they said, adding that all of them had recently returned from other states.
Four of them had returned from Maharashtra, two each from Gujarat and Delhi, and one from Rajasthan, the officials added.
The number of active cases in the State now stands at 208.
While 77 COVID-19 patients have recovered, six have died.
12.10 PM | RAJASTHAN
Two more deaths in Rajasthan
Rajasthan reported two more COVID-19 deaths on Friday, taking the death toll in the State to 182, the Health Department said.
Over 90 new coronavirus cases were also reported in the State, taking the virus tally to 8,158.
"One death each was reported from Jaipur and Jhunjhunu," Additional Chief Secretary (Health), Rohit Kumar Singh, said.
There are 3,121 active cases in the State and 4,289 people have been discharged.
12.00 NOON | KERALA
CIAL steps up safety measures for employees
With the increase in the number of passengers following the resumption of domestic flights, the Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL) has tightened the COVID-19 safety protocol for the airport staff.
The entire process of passenger services, beginning with thermal scanning of passengers as they arrive, was technologically-backed.
Safely gadgets had been issued to the staff of support agencies working at the airport.
Personal protection equipment had been issued to employees coming into close contact with passengers. The airport will also introduce a monitoring mechanism to ensure that employees complied with the safety protocol.
11.50 AM | HARYANA
Haryana seals border with Delhi after rise in cases
Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij has asked the State Home Secretary to completely seal the border with Delhi and restrict unregulated movement of people.
The Minister issued the order in the wake of the sudden spike in COVID-19 cases in the bordering districts (National Capital Region), including Gurugram, Faridabad, Sonipat and Jhajjar, which reported 111, 98, 27 and six COVID-19 cases respectively in the past week.
11.40 AM | NAGALAND
Nagaland govt sends 169 returnees home without following mandatory quarantine; one among them test positive Civil society organisations and political parties on Thursday slammed the Neiphiu Rio government in Nagaland for violating its own COVID-19 protocols by allegedly sending a positive patient along with 168 others from a quarantine centre in State capital Kohima without waiting for the test results.
They were allegedly made to vacate the centre three days after being lodged.
It was alleged that the Kohima authorities sent the 169 away without quarantining them for the mandatory 14 days and waiting for their swab test results to come.
They had reached their destination when results showed one of them had tested positive.
11.30 AM | DELHI
DD News video journalist tests positive posthumously
Nearly 50 personnel of the camera division of Doordarshan News will be tested for coronavirus infection after 53-year-old video journalist who died of ‘heart attack’ on Wednesday tested positive posthumously.
The DD News has temporarily shut down the studio. It would be re-opened after sanitisation.
“We have made contingency plans so that news operations are unaffected, by leveraging our pool of studios in Delhi,” a top official at DD News said.
11.15 AM | ODISHA
Odisha reports two non-COVID deaths
63 more COVID-19 cases were detected in Odisha taking the total to 1,723 on Friday.
The number of active cases stood at 827, while 887 had recovered and seven had died of COVID-19. Two non-COVID-19 related deaths were also reported, said State Health Department. - Prafulla Das
11.00 AM | WEST BENGAL
Bengal minister tests positive for COVID-19
West Bengal's Fire and Emergency Services Minister Sujit Bose has tested positive for COVID-19. His wife and domestic help have also tested positive. All the three of them are currently under home quarantine. - Shiv Sahay Singh
10.45 AM | USA
Trump feeling ‘absolutely great’ after taking hydroxychloroquine
U.S. President Donald Trump is feeling “absolutely great” after taking a two-week dose of antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine and will take it again if he thinks he is exposed to the coronavirus, a top White House official has said.
The drug is not FDA-approved for the treatment of COVID-19 but it has been identified as a possible treatment for the infection.
10.20 AM | MADHYA PRADESH
Results for 144 samples delayed by month in Indore declared negative
The Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College, Indore, has declared COVID-19 test results for at least 144 persons as negative, almost a month after their samples were collected. An overwhelmed testing capacity caused the delay, college officials said.
Anita Mutha, Head of the Microbiology Department, explained that around mid-May the workload overwhelmed the capacity. “We catered to 14 districts and Indore, using just one laboratory. The lockdown affected logistics, making it difficult to ramp up testing,” she said.
But now, she added, there was no pendency. “We have four laboratories now, and will get another two soon...”
10.15 AM | KERALA
Gulf returnees stranded on Kannur-Kasaragod border
A group of 18 expatriates who returned from Kuwait were stranded in the KSRTC bus in which they were travelling for more than four hours on the Kannur-Kasaragod border on their way from the Nedumbassery airport on Thursday, when they were informed that they would be allowed entry only after a medical examination and necessary arrangements were made to quarantine them at their respective places.
The Additional District Magistrate (ADM) N. Devidas said they had received no information about their arrival. As the authorities had to bring medical staff and arrange facilities to quarantine the returnees, they were advised to wait, he said.
10.00 AM | NEW DELHI
India ninth-worst hit country
India now has 165799 COVID-19 cases, making it the ninth worst affected country in the world.
India reported one of the highest rise in the number of cases overnight, 7466. As many as 175 deaths were also reported taking the cumulative number of COVID-19 victims to 4706.
71105 patients have recovered so far, according to the Ministry of Health.
According to Worldometer, India has now overtaken Turkey as the ninth-worst hit nation in terms of number of COVID-19 cases reported.
9.30 AM | BRAZIL
Brazil registers record 26,417 coronavirus cases in a day
Brazil reported a daily record of 26,417 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, according to the Health Ministry, bringing its total tally to 4,38,238, second only to the United States in confirmed cases.
Brazil's death toll rose 1,156 from a day earlier to 26,754 confirmed fatalities from the COVID-19 respiratory disease, just shy of a record 1,188 deaths registered on May 21. - Reuters
9 AM | USA
U.S. records 1,297 coronavirus deaths in 24 hours: Johns Hopkins
The United States recorded 1,297 coronavirus deaths on Thursday, bringing its total to 1,01,573 since the global pandemic began, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University.
The country has also officially logged 17,20,613 cases of the virus, far more than any other nation, the tracker kept by the Baltimore-based university showed at 8:30 p.m. - AFP
8.30 AM | KOTTAYAM, KERALA
One more COVID-19 death in Kerala
Kerala recorded its eighth COVID-19 death on Friday morning when a 65-year-old man, who was in critical condition at the Government Medical College (GMC) in Kottayam, died.
The deceased has been identified as a native of Perumthuruthy in Thiruvalla. He returned from Abu Dhabi on May 11, and was admitted to the Pathanamthitta District Hospital on May 18 after being tested positive for COVID-19.
According to health officials, he was shifted to the GMC in Kottayam on May 26 after his condition deteriorated. The person had comorbidities including acute diabetes.
The funeral service will be held later in the day in accordance with the WHO protocol under the directions of trained personnel of the Health Department.
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