The Morning Filter Welcome to The Morning Filter, your guide to the busy news day ahead. We hope you are staying home and staying safe. Here are the latest updates and the big news stories to follow today: 1. Coronavirus | Latest numbers The number of positive cases reported in India stands at 39504 with 1320 fatalities. On Saturday India recorded it’s biggest single day jump with 2,411 COVID-19 cases being reported. 2. Coronavirus | Armed forces flypast, and showering of petals The armed forces have made elaborate arrangements to conduct aerial fly-pasts, light up ships at sea and shower flower petals on several hospitals across the country on Sunday to express gratitude to lakhs of doctors, paramedics, sanitation staff and other front-line workers engaged in fighting the pandemic. 3. Coronavirus | Migrant workers and other stranded people need to pay an extra Rs. 50 to ride Shramik Specials - follow up/reax Special trains and buses continued to ply to take lakhs of migrant workers and students to their native places. 4. Coronavirus | Assam to open its borders with other NE States from Sunday However, Assam residents stranded in Sikkim will not be allowed to enter the state as they will have to come through West Bengal, Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said told reporters on Saturday. 5. Coronavirus | Himachal Pradesh asks residents stuck outside state to register on online portal The government also decided to bring back its residents stranded in Chandigarh, Panchkula and Mohali (collectively called the tricity) from Sunday, an official spokesperson said. Those who do not have any vehicle can register on the portal http://covid19epass.hp.gov.in/, the spokesperson said. 6. Coronavirus | Shops in green, orange zones across Punjab to remain open from 9 am to 1 pm from Sunday Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Saturday announced that the shops in green and orange zones across the state will remain open from 9 am to 1 pm with effect from Sunday. 7. Coronavirus | Puducherry CM seeks fiscal aid for people to fight COVID-19 crisis The cabinet meeting to be held on Sunday would decide on the various steps the government should follow in respect of restarting business activities, shops in keeping with the guidelines unveiled by the Centre while extending the lockdown further, V. Narayanasamy said. 8. Delhi-NCR, other parts of north India to receive rainfall from May 3-6: IMD Kuldeep Srivastava, the head of the Regional Meteorological Centre of the India Meteorological Department, said under the influence of an active western disturbance, the north Indian plains and the hills will start receiving light to moderate rain from Sunday. Morning Filter will return tomorrow. |
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