Update at 9.13pm: 25 deaths, 1,330 new Covid-19 cases reported in Delhi in 24 hours; tally in the national capital reaches 26,334, including 708 deaths.
PTI update at 9pm | 44-year-old telephone operator posted at Delhi Fire Services’ control room tests Covid-19 positive: Officials
IANS update at 8pm: A murder accused who was absconding for almost six months was finally nabbed by Delhi Police after he returned to the national capital as the lockdown was relaxed.
IANS update at 7pm: With the aim to provide all necessary assistance to its staffers testing positive for coronavirus and to facilitate their treatment, the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has formed a ‘Staff Welfare Cell’ and a ‘Core Group’ including doctors to manage critical Covid-19 employees.
Update at 6pm: Five employees of the Union health ministry, including a director, an under-secretary have tested positive for COVID-19 in the last seven days, prompting the authorities to carry out a “major and comprehensive disinfection and sanitisation” of office premises from June 6-7.
PTI update at 4.30pm: Amid surge in coronavirus cases, recovery rate of COVID-19 patients in the national capital has gradually fallen in the last 10 days, dipping to 39.58 per cent as reported on June 4, according to official figures.
PTI update at 3.20pm: The Jawaharlal Nehru University Friday appealed to its teachers “not to sully the image of the university by violating COVID-19 guidelines”, two days after some of them held a protest on the campus against the CAA and expressed solidarity with arrested students.
ANI update at 3.20pm: Additional solicitor general Sanjay Jain, representing Delhi govt, tells the court that around 2 lakh workers are still in Delhi. “They are choosing not to go back. Less than 10,000 workers have expressed desire to go back to their native places,” he says.
* ANI update at 2.15pm: St. Thomas Church at Mandir Marg is all set to reopen on June 8, after MHA allows opening of places of worship
* PTI update at 1.30pm: A 22-year-old man allegedly committed suicide at AIIMS here on Friday by hanging himself from the grill of a staircase, police said. The man has been identified as Bittu Kumar Tiwari, a resident of Gopalganj in Bihar, they said.
* PTI update at 1.00pm: The country’s largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) on Friday said it has commissioned a 5 mega watt (MW) solar power plant at Gurugram, in the national capital region. The plant will cater to the internal energy requirements of the company’s Gurugram facility by synchronising with the captive power plant, MSI said in a statement.
* ANI update at 11.00am: Around 20 staff members of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) have tested positive for Covid-19. All of them are asymptomatic and are doing well: DMRC officials
* ANI update at 9.30am: India reports 9,851 new Covid-19 cases & 273 deaths in the last 24 hours. Total number of cases in the country now at 2,26,770 including 1,10,960 active cases,1,09,462 cured/discharged/migrated and 6348 deaths
* ANI update at 8.30am: Police personnel check vehicles at Delhi-Gurugram border as people commute through the route.
*Delhi high court on Thursday asked the AAP government to upload on its official website and publicise that despite sealing of the capital’s borders, people with medical emergencies can come to Delhi hospitals after availing an e-pass.
*With Covid-19 cases spiralling in Delhi, it is becoming difficult to secure a bed at a hospital within a reasonable time. The death of a 60-year-old man, Lakhjeet Singh, after he failed to get a bed in any hospital has brought out this stark reality. His daughter, Amarpreet, went on Twitter to break the news, saying, ‘The govt failed us.’
*As senior citizens are more vulnerable to the infection by the novel coronavirus, Delhi government has asked the divisional commissioner to prepare a database of all residents of the capital aged above 60 years.
*Delhi University will not be conducting examinations for over 3 lakh first and second-year undergraduate and over 12,000 first-year postgraduate students.
*After Maharashtra, Delhi has maximum active cases of Covid-19. According to the data shared by states, while Maharashtra has 39,935 active cases, the corresponding figure for Delhi is 14,456. It is much higher than the number of active cases in Tamil Nadu (12,135) and Gujarat (4,779), two other states that are most affected by the Covid-19 crisis.
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