Hyderabad: Airlines may soon be permitted to operate maximum 75 per cent of their pre-COVID scheduled domestic flights if the passenger numbers continue to remain healthy in the coming 7-10 days, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Thursday. Health Minister Harsh Vardhan has said India's rising recovery rate and progressively falling active cases have proven the success of the Centre-led COVID-19 containment strategy. India's coronavirus fight is people-driven and gets great strength from its COVID-19 warriors, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said as he urged people to follow COVID appropriate behaviour. India's COVID case tally has reached 68,35,656, with 9,02,425 active cases. Over 1 lakh have succumbed to the virus in India so far.
Delhi
New Delhi: CM Arvind Kejriwal set in motion plans to allow restaurants to operate 24x7, abolish the need for a tourism licence and multiple other licences, like the health and trade ones, issued by the local bodies. Delhi reports 2,726 new COVID-19, 37 deaths and 2,643 recoveries/discharges/migrations in last 24 hours.
Maharashtra
Mumbai: Mumbai's slum locality Dharavi reported eight new COVID-19 cases, the lowest daily count in nearly two weeks, taking its tally to 3,300 on Thursday, the city civic body said. According to a senior BMC official, 2,820 COVID-19 patients from Dharavi have already recovered and discharged from hospitals. The densely populated slum-dominated area has only 187 active COVID-19 patients at present, the official said.
Karnataka
Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa and Primary Education Minister S Suresh Kumar will hold a virtual meeting on Thursday to discuss the reopening of school amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
Madhya Pradesh
Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Narottam Mishra Thursday said that in its fresh set of Covid-19 guidelines, the Union Home Ministry has relaxed the restriction on the gathering of more than 100 people at political rallies. The minister, however, said the use of masks, sanitisers, and social distancing will continue as before.
Jharkhand
Ranchi: Places of worship open outside COVID19 containment zones in Jharkhand from today; Visuals from a temple and a church in the capital city
Kerala
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala ranks third in the country in active cases — 92,246 — after Maharashtra and Karnataka. Kerala became the fourth state in the country to record over 10,000 Covid-19 cases in a day.
Odisha
Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday said Rs 50 lakh will be provided to the kin of all martyred COVID warriors. Patnaik, while reviewing the situation through video conferencing, praised the commitment of the COVID warriors who have been fighting the dreaded disease for the last eight months.
