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    Lockdown, Day 25: India's toll nears 500-mark

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    18 Apr, 2020 | 06:35 PM IST


    Lockdown, Day 25: India's toll nears 500-mark

    With the country's case count dangerously close to the 15,000-mark, India is slowly getting ready to restart business. From Monday, select services will resume in parts of the country, although which parts will be allowed to get back to work remains to be decided.

    In another major development, Air India has started accepting bookings for select domestic flights from May 4, renewing hope of lockdown ending once and for all on May 3.

    Here are the other top stories of the day...



    COUNT SO FAR
      Mumbai's Dharavi breaches 100-mark
      Virus infiltrates Indian Navy, 26 infected
      50 more patients in Indore; MP tally now 1,360
      Two tests positive in Bihar, total 85
      Tally rises to 38 in Himachal
      24 new cases reported in Agra
      7, including an infant, test positive in Moradabad, UP
      Gujarat reports 176 new cases; state count now 1,272
      Andhra Pradesh reports 31 new cases; state count tops 600
      Meghalaya reports two more cases; state case count rises to 10
      Karnataka reports 12 more cases; case count hits 370
      Delhi case count now 1,767
      41 new cases and 2 deaths reported in Rajasthan
    World India
    Tally Toll Tally Toll
    22,56,844 1,54,350 14,792 488

    LIFE & HEALTH
      Drug Controller General permits clinical trial of convalescent plasma
      NHAI to resume toll collection on National highways from April 20
      Hyundai ties up with Air Liquide to scale up production of ventilators
      Maharashtra to give Rs 2,000 each to 12 lakh registered construction workers

    BUSINESS UPDATE
      Air India starts bookings for select domestic flights from May 4th; International flights from June 1st
      Ficci seeks bailout package for aviation industry
      Coal India to not offer supplier's credit to consumers
      Government nod now must for investment from China and neighbours

    WORLD VIEW
      Large global contraction in the first half of 2020 inevitable: IMF
      France toll rises to 18,681
      US death toll passes 35,000, cases top 700,000
      Germany case count up by 3,609, hits 1,37,439
      Confirmed cases in Japan hit 10,000
      China's imported cases reach 1,566; revised death toll 4,63
      Mexico registers 578 new cases, 60 deaths
      UK sets up new Vaccine Taskforce
      San Diego Comic-Con cancelled for the first time in 50 years

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