CORONA UPDATE

*Goa: Three more passengers – a total of 7 people – who travelled in Mumbai-Goa train on Sunday, test positive for COVID19 during TrueNat testing. The total number of active cases in Goa reaches 29.*

*Highest ever spike of 5242 COVID19 cases in last 24 hrs, 157 death reported in last 24 hrs. Total number of positive cases in India is now at 96169, including 56316 active cases, 36824 cured/discharged/migrated cases, death toll 3029 deaths: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare*

*Bollywood actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui and his family members placed under 14-day home quarantine after they reach Budhana town in Uttar Pradesh for Eid from Mumbai: Police*

*Coronavirus in Mumbai: JJ Marg police station positive cases rise to 59, reports*

*Delhi Police crime branch arrests a student of Jamia Millia Islamia in connection with violence in Jamia area during protest against Citizenship Amendment Act in December last year: Officials*

*MUMBAI:* The number of people in home quarantine across the city has galloped exponentially over the last month. Earlier this week, on May 13, at least 2.34 lakh in the city were in home quarantine as against 43,249 about a month earlier (on April 15). That’s a rise of 441%.

Data put out by the civic body, BMC, shows how the number of Mumbaikars placed in home quarantine has surged northwards since the outbreak of Covid-19. On April 6, this figure stood at 10,968 and ballooned to 53, 118 on April 17 a rise of 384% within 11 days.

: *MUMBAI:* The driver of a 21-seater mini BEST bus carrying essential services passengers from Nalasopara to Mumbai was caught with liquor bottles in the bus on Sunday night.

The Tuling police has seized the bus and 327 bottles valued at Rs 12.30 lakhs. The 48-year-old driver who was headed to the Bandra bus depot has been arrested.

*Rajasthan High Court has issued orders stating that the period of summer vacation from 1 June to 14 June is rescheduled and declared as working days for the High Court.*

*1,273 personnel of Maharashtra Police including 131 officers have contracted COVID19 so far. Out of the total cases, 291 police personnel have recovered while 11 others succumbed to the infection: Maharashtra Police*

If we lift lockdown now, we may face unending lockdowns in future, says Uddhav Thackeray.