India records 3,525 fresh cases; 24,385 cured till now

The death toll due to COVID19 rose to 2415 and the number of cases climbed to 74281 on Wednesday registering an increase of 122 deaths and 3525 cases in the last 24 hours according to the Union Health Ministry The number of active COVID19 cases stood at 47480 while 24385 people have recovered and one patient has migrated it said Thus around 3283 per cent patients have recovered so far a senior health ministry official saidA total 122 deaths were reported since Tuesday morning of which 53 were in Maharashtra 24 in Gujarat 13 in Delhi eight each in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal four each in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh two each in Telangana and Uttar Pradesh and one each in Andhra Pradesh Punjab Chandigarh and PuducherryOf the 2415 fatalities Maharashtra tops the tally with 921 fatalities Gujarat comes second with 537 deaths followed by Madhya Pradesh at 225 West Bengal at 198 Rajasthan at 117 Delhi at 86 Uttar Pradesh at 82 Tamil Nadu at 61 and Andhra Pradesh at 46 The death toll reached 32 in Punjab and Telangana eachKarnataka has reported 31 fatalities due to the respiratory disease Haryana has registered 11 Jammu and Kashmir 10 Bihar six and Kerala has reported four deaths Jharkhand Chandigarh and Odisha have recorded three COVID19 fatalities each while Himachal Pradesh and Assam have reported two deaths each Meghalaya Uttarakhand and Puducherry have reported one fatality each according to the ministry dataAccording to the health ministry data updated on Wednesday morning the highest number of confirmed cases in the country are from Maharashtra at 24427 followed by Gujarat at 8903 Tamil Nadu at 8718 Delhi at 7639 Rajasthan at 4126 Madhya Pradesh at 3986 and Uttar Pradesh at 366430000 Indians to returnMeanwhile Union Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Wednesday informed that the Phase2 of Vande Bharat Mission will be from May 1622 In the first phase of Vande Bharat we were to bring back 14800 Indians on 64 flights About 8500 Indians have already returned till this morning More flights are underway In the second phase the numbers are being doubled About 30000 more Indians will return from 31 countries on 149 flights Puri tweetedHe added PhaseII of Vande Bharat Mission to begin from May 1622 It will also include flights from Armenia Australia Belarus Canada France Georgia Germany Indonesia Ireland Italy Japan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Nepal Nigeria Russia Tajikistan Thailand and UkraineNo transport available on arrival in DelhiScores of people who arrived in New Delhi on the first batch of trains since the partial resumption of railway services amid a lockdown were on Wednesday left stranded on the roads outside the station with no transport available for onward journeys Special trains from Ahmedabad Patna and Mumbai reached the New Delhi station before 9 am The Indian Railways resumed passenger train operations from May 12 initially with 15 pairs of trains weeks after these were suspended due to the COVID19 lockdownNow AIs Centaur Hotel sealedThe ground floor of Air Indias Centaur Hotel was sealed for two days on Wednesday for sanitisation after a crew member tested at the temporary facility was found positive for COVID19 senior airline officials said Amid the Coronavirustriggered lockdown the Centaur is not functioning as a hotel and only a certain area of its ground floor is being used temporarily to test crew members who have to operate passenger flights under Vande Bharat Mission or other cargo flights the officials notedReturn of migrants increases casesThe return of the migrant workers from the highly Coronavirus infected states of Maharashtra and Gujarat is pushing up the number of COVID19 patients in Jharkhand where the tally reached 174 on Wednesday According to the health officials of the recent 50 positive cases 38 are migrant labourers The highest numbers during the day were reported from Hazaribagh district where six people who had returned from Maharashtra a couple of days ago have been confirmed to be infected with CoronavirusCatch up on all the latest Crime National International and Hatke news here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updates MidDay is now on Telegram Click here to join our channel middayinfomedialtd and stay updated with the latest newsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever