The death count due to coronavirus rose to 1,389 and the total number of cases climbed to 42,839 in the country, the Union Health Ministry said on Monday. The government further said 2,573 new cases and 83 deaths were recorded from the COVID-19 in 24 hours. The number of active COVID-19 cases stood at 29,685, while 11,761 people have recovered and one patient has migrated, the ministry said.
The government said a record high number of 1,074 patients were recovered from the deadly virus in the last 24 hours. India on Monday entered into the third phase of COVID-19 induced nationwide lockdown with considerable relaxations. The government, however, cautioned that the restrictions can be reimposed if there is any complacency in following the containment and social distancing norms.
Kerala did not report a single new case for the second consecutive day, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said. The neighbouring Tamil Nadu, however, saw a rise by a record number of 527 new cases. Gujarat, Maharashtra and Delhi also reported a significant rise in their numbers.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today warned action against shop owners if no "social distancing" is followed in front of their shops. "If there is no compliance of social distancing outside a shop, we will seal," Mr Kejriwal said. He added if people do not follow social-distancing in an area, the Delhi government will withdraw all relaxations from that area and take strict steps.
Here are the Coronavirus Outbreak Updates:

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Telangana: Around 1000 migrant workers in Hyderabad who were walking to Secunderabad railway station in a bid to return to their home states, were stopped by Police in Bahadurpura area earlier tonight. Buses were later arranged for them to shift them to a function hall. pic.twitter.com/cvwMt03MHm
- ANI (@ANI) May 4, 2020
#WATCH Andhra Pradesh:Police lathi charged at a large group of migrant workers,protesting in West Godavari's Kovvuru y'day demanding to be sent to their home states. Police had tried to persuade them into leaving the spot following which stones were allegedly pelted at the former pic.twitter.com/1rfc97l231
- ANI (@ANI) May 4, 2020
The Commerce and Industries Department of Karnataka government has issued a circular, directing IT/ITeS companies to submit a declaration that they will adhere to the standard operating procedures (SOPs) related to the prevention of COVID-19, as stated in the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) order of May 1.
"The state government in its May 2 order allowed certain industries and IT/ITeS companies to operate in urban areas," the Commerce and Industries Department said in the circular.
"The IT/ITeS companies, before starting operations, shall submit online self-declaration of adhering to SOPs through a link provided by the state government on its official website," added the circular, news agency ANI reported.
More than 100 stranded migrant labourers were standing in the queue outside doctor's clinic since today morning to get the fitness certificate.
The migrants were standing outside Andheri East-Western express highway of Mumbai. To get the fitness certificate, they are being charged Rs 100 each.
They said that in order to return to their villages, they have to submit some documents to the police station, and for that, the fitness certificate is required.
"We are charged Rs 100 for the certificate. After getting the certificate, we will leave for the police station," said Habib, a migrant labourer standing in the queue, news agency ANI reported.
The Odisha government today imposed restriction on the movement of people from 7 pm to 7 am, official sources said.
Though the Commissioner of Police, Bhubaneswar-Cuttack, did not imposed prohibitory order under section 144 of CrPC, it said: "As per lockdown condition in all zones...movement out of house is not permitted from 7 pm to 7 am except for essential purpose like medical emergency".
"All are requested to stay home during this time. All emergency workers and goods movement are exempted from this," the Commissionerate of Police said in its twitter handle.
The police personnel in the state capital and also in Cuttack, a green zone, used public address system to announce about the new restriction imposed from 7 pm to 7 am, news agency PTI reported.
The novel coronavirus death toll in Uttar Pradesh rose to 50 today with seven more fatalities in four districts and the number of cases climbed to 2,766 after 122 people tested positive.
Two deaths each were reported from Ghaziabad and Mathura, while one each was from Kanpur Nagar, Kanpur Dehat and Meerut districts, according to an official statement.
There are 1,914 active cases in the state and 802 people have recovered, it said, news agency PTI reported.
The Karnataka government is planning to maintain a health database of its citizens in the backdrop of experience gained from the COVID-19 pandemic, Medical Education Minister K Sudhakar said today.
A "Health Register" will be maintained to keep track of all health issues of the people and the project will be implemented first in Chikkaballapur district on an experimental basis, he said.
"COVID-19 has provided enough experience for all of us and therefore, there is a need to maintain health data of each person.... the government will be undertaking a survey using a team of primary health centre officials, revenue officials, education department staff and Asha karyakartas," the minister was quoted as saying in a release in Bengaluru, news agency PTI reported.
In the biggest single-day surge in the state so far, Tamil Nadu today reported 527 new COVID-19 cases, a large number of them linked to Koyambedu market in Chennai, taking the tally to 3,550 while the death count rose to 31, the government said.
The new cases included 19 new-born and children below the age of ten, a health department bulletin said.
Thirty people were discharged from various hospitals, as the aggregate of those recovered and sent home rose to 1,409, but the state's recovery rate which was hovering over a healthy 50 plus per cent till recently took a hit in view of the steady spike in the cases in the past few days.
In fact, the state added a whopping 1,086 cases in the last six days, news agency PTI reported.
Twelve people were arrested and challans issued to owners of 248 vehicles across Noida and Greater Noida today for allegedly defying curbs imposed due to the coronavirus lockdown, the police said.
Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) section 144 is in force in Gautam Buddh Nagar, which falls in the "Red Zone" for COVID-19, even as lockdown restrictions continue, prohibiting normal movement in the district in western UP adjoining Delhi due to the pandemic.
"Four FIRs were registered on Monday for lockdown violations and 12 people arrested. A total of 745 vehicles were checked across 200 barrier points in the district and challans issued to 248 of them, while another seven were impounded," the police said in a statement.
The first information reports were registered under section of Indian Penal Code for violation of prohibitory orders put in place under CrPC section 144, which bars assembly of four or more people, they said, news agency PTI reported.
Gujarat today reported 376 fresh coronavirus cases and 29 deaths, highest in a single day. The number of cases reached to 5,804 and the total fatalities reached 319-mark, news agency PTI reported.
Over 3,000 migrant workers stranded in Gujarat and Kerala returned to Odisha's Ganjam district by special Shramik Express trains today, officials said.
While around 2,400 workers came from Surat in Gujarat in two trains, around 640 workers reached Odisha from Ernakulam in Kerala in another train.
All the three trains have reached the Jagannathpur railway station on the outskirts of Berhampur, they said.
Another train carrying around 1,200 migrant labourers is likely to reach the Odisha today late night, sources said.
On Sunday, over 2,300 migrant workers returned in two trains from Surat and Aluva in Kerala.
All the returnees will be placed under institutional quarantine for the next 14-day, an official said, news agency PTI reported.
Forty-two more persons tested positive for coronavirus in the slum-dominated Dharavi area of Mumbai, taking the tally to 632 today, said a senior Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) official.
No fresh death from COVID-19 has been reported from Dharavi in the last 48 hours, he said.
The civic officer said the new cases were found in Pivala Bangala, Dharavi Cross road, Shiv Shakti Nagar, Muslim Nagar, Azad Nagar, Kalyanwadi, Jalil Compound, Matunga Labour camp and some other localities of Dharavi, news agency PTI reported.
Twenty-five people tested positive for COVID-19 in Jammu and Kashmir today, taking the number of cases in the union territory to 726, officials said in Srinagar.
Of the fresh cases, 24 are in Kashmir and one in Jammu region, they added.
"Twenty-five new positive cases have been reported from Jammu and Kashmir in the last 24 hours, which has taken the total number of cases to 726," an official said.
Of the total number of cases reported so far in the union territory, 664 are from Kashmir and 62 from Jammu, news agency PTI reported.
Bringing in cheers to the tipplers, the Tamil Nadu government today announced resumption of liquor sales from May 7 after a long dry spell due to COVID-19 lockdown since March 24, but ruled out opening the shops in containment zones.
The decision to open the state-run retail outlets across Tamil Nadu was taken after people in districts bordering Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh started making a beeline to liquor shops there which started functioning from today, posing a challenge in controlling people's movement, the
government said in a release, news agency PTI reported.
As many as 1,074 COVID-19 patients have recovered in the last 24 hours, the highest number of recoveries recorded in one day, the health ministry said today.
Addressing a press briefing, Joint Secretary at the health ministry Lav Agarwal said the recovery rate stands at 27.52 per cent with 11,706 COVID-19 patients cured till now.
In the last 24 hours, 1,074 COVID-19 patients have recovered, the highest number of recoveries in one day, Mr Agarwal said.
In the last 24 hours, 2,553 COVID-19 cases were reported, taking the number of overall cases to 42,533, while the total active cases stand 29,453, he said.
Mr Agarwal also said that the COVID-19 curve is relatively flat as of now and it was not right to talk in terms of when the peak would come.
"If we collectively work then peak might not ever come while if we fail in any way we might experience a spike in cases," he said.
Mr Agarwal assured that there is no shortage of testing kits.
"On Sunday, 57,474 tests were conducted. We have progressively increased our testing capacity as per need," he said, news agency PTI reported.
The Delhi High Court directed the AAP government today to ensure that coronavirus samples sent to the accredited labs are processed swiftly and the results declared within 24-48 hours.
The high court bench, seeking directions to the centre and the Delhi government to ensure swift testing of coronavirus or COVID-19 and declaration of results within 48 hours.
The bench also directed the Delhi government, represented by additional standing counsel Satyakam, that it "shall continue updating its website on a regular basis to reflect the correct number of tests that are being conducted for COVID-19 in Delhi, mention the number of cases that are positive or negative and state the number of results that are pending after the tests are conducted", news agency PTI reported.
The number of coronavirus cases reached 102 in Chandigarh today, with five more people testing positive for the disease in the Union territory, officials said in Chandigarh.
A 13-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy are among the five fresh cases, a medical bulletin said.
All of them are family contacts of a COVID-positive patient and they are residents of a containment zone and is the worst-affected area of the city, it said.
A total of 1,678 samples have been tested so far and of these, reports of 30 samples are awaited, it said, adding that 80 cases are active in the city, news agency PTI reported.
Eleven people died due to COVID-19 in West Bengal in the last 24 hours, taking the death count of the state from the coronavirus infection to 61, Chief Secretary Rajiva Sinha said today.
The number of active coronavirus cases in the state rose to 908 with 61 more people testing positive for the infection, he said.
Altogether 218 people have been discharged from hospitals across the state following their recovery.
West Bengal has reported a total of 1,259 COVID-19 cases, Mr Sinha said. The union health ministry, however, put the total figure at 963 for the state, news agency PTI reported.
For the second consecutive day, no new COVID-19 cases were reported in Kerala while 34 people are under currently treatment after 61 were discharged, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said today.
He said so far 499 people have been infected with the coronavirus, which has claimed three lives, including that of a four-month baby girl from Malappuram.
At least 21,724 are under observation, including 372 in various hospitals, Mr Vijayan said, news agency PTI reported.
COVID-19 death count rises to 1,389, the number of cases climb to 42,836 in India, the health ministry said. The total number of cases in the last 24 hours became 2,573 while the death count in the past 24 hours is 83.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal stressed on three important things to be followed to keep away from the coronavirus infection. He said one must wear mask whenever they are going outside, social distancing is very important and finally, to wash hands every half an hour or sanitise hands. He asked people of Delhi to be more vigilant.
The chief minister also talked about today's liquor shop incidents in Delhi where people were seen crowding infront of the shops and not following social distancing norms. He said that if these incidents continued then the government will be bound to seal the area and also the shops will be closed.
Mr Kejriwal also pointed out the time when Delhi had fought out dengue. He urged people to act responsibly to kill the coronavirus pandemic.
Shop owners will have to take the responsibility, if the norms of social distancing are violated outside a shop then the shop will be shut: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal https://t.co/GaeSDiXmCD
- ANI (@ANI) May 4, 2020
Govt of Tripura along with the help of Central Govt have decided to sent back 33,000 migrant workers to their respective states from Tripura largely by train: Chief Minister of Tripura Biplab Kumar Deb. #CoronavirusLockdown pic.twitter.com/mEKhWYciN2
- ANI (@ANI) May 4, 2020
#WATCH Andhra Pradesh: Long queue seen outside a liquor shop on Nuzividu road of Hanuman Junction town of Krishna District. #CoronavirusLockdown pic.twitter.com/rz3cGf7kiA
- ANI (@ANI) May 4, 2020
Delhi: More number of vehicles seen on roads in the national capital today, after Delhi govt announces several relaxations amid #CoronavirusLockdown; Visuals from Moolchand. pic.twitter.com/5orSQBBP4F
- ANI (@ANI) May 4, 2020
Chhattisgarh: Social distancing norms being flouted as people in large numbers queue outside a liquor shop in Rajnandgaon. The state govt has allowed liquor shops to open in the state from today except for the containment zones. #CoronavirusLockdown pic.twitter.com/GfTzQP86Ip
- ANI (@ANI) May 4, 2020
#WATCH Delhi: Drones are being used for surveillance by Police in the wholesale fruit and vegetable market in Ghazipur, amid #CoronavirusLockdown (Source: Delhi Police) pic.twitter.com/aHZbjEd86f
- ANI (@ANI) May 4, 2020
People line up outside a liquor shop in Laxmi Nagar after Delhi govt allowed sale of liquor in standalone shops, neighbourhood (colony)shops or shops in residential complexes. pic.twitter.com/ADyPE8ZUYQ
- ANI (@ANI) May 4, 2020
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Delhi: People arrive at Okhla Mandi to make purchases, amid the #CoronavirusLockdown. The nationwide lockdown, imposed to combat #COVID19, has been extended till May 17, 2020. pic.twitter.com/nDuzATPPZ9
- ANI (@ANI) May 4, 2020
Delhi: People form queue outside the wholesale fruit and vegetable market in Ghazipur amid #CoronavirusLockdown. The nationwide lockdown has been extended till May 17. pic.twitter.com/NDRpozsSAs
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