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Forty-two new coronavirus cases were detected in Dharavi today, taking the total tally of infections in Mumbai’s largest slum to 1,583, according to Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that the government is ready to deal with the situation if there is a spike in Covid-19 cases in the National capital.
He said 2,000 new beds will be available in private hospitals from Monday for novel coronavirus patients, PTI reports.
Delhi has recorded 13,418 cases so far and out of these, around 6,540 have recovered.
The Supreme Court on Monday allowed national carrier Air India to keep operating its scheduled flights with the middle seats filled for the next 10 days.
The Apex court observed that the government should be more worried about the health of citizens rather than the health of its commercial airlines, PTI reported.
The top court asked the Bombay High Court to decide the plea against DGCA circulars expeditiously and said Air India and other airlines will have to follow the order given by the HC with regard to safety measures including maintaining of social distancing inside aircraft by keeping middle seats vacant between two passengers in a row.
Domestic air services resumed in Kerala with Air Asia operating the first flight from Bengaluru to Kochi.
42 passengers arrived from the flight at 7 a.m. and state government guidelines were followed, PTI reports.
86 passengers travelled in the return flight. The Kochi airport is expecting 16 flights including those from Delhi, Mumbai and Hyderabad.
Domestic flight operations have resumed in the country with the first flight arriving at Jaipur airport from Bengaluru.
The Air Asia flight with 23 passengers on board arrived at 8:30 a.m., PTI reports quoting authorities from Jaipur airport.
The authorities added that out of the 20 flights scheduled for the day from the airport, airlines have already cancelled 11 of them.
Hamirpur district in Himachal Pradesh continues to have the highest number of Covid-19 positive cases in the state, PTI reports.
Total number of cases rose to 63 after one more person, a returnee from Mumbai, tested positive for the disease.
The total number of cases in Himachal Pradesh now stand at 210 with 57 active cases in Hamirpur district.
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