Coronavirus Updates: May 24, 2020 | As it happened

At least 7 employees of a private company located in Noida Sector-16 A tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday, taking the coronavirus tally of district to 345. 

All 13 districts of Uttarakhand are now designated as Orange Zone.

In the last 24 hours, 394 new COVID-19 positive cases have been reported in Gujarat, taking the total number of cases to 14,063 including 6412 cured/discharged and 858 deaths.

294 new positive cases and 9 deaths reported today, taking the total number of positive cases in the state to 6,665, of which 3408 patients have been cured and discharged. The death toll stands at 290.

A total of 286 COVID-19 positive cases and 3 deaths reported in Rajasthan today. The total number of positive cases in the state stands at 7,028, including 163 deaths, 3,848 recovered cases and 3,017 active cases.

The total number of COVID-19 positive cases in Haryana is now 1184 with 53 new positive cases reported today. The death toll stands at 16.

A staff of Tihar Jail has tested positive for COVID-19 today.

41 new COVID-19 positive cases have been reported in Telangana today, taking the total number of positive cases to 1854. The death toll rises to 53 after 4 deaths were reported today. Active cases stand at 709.

1,725 new COVID-19 positive cases have been reported in Mumbai today, taking the total number of cases to 30,359. The death toll rises to 988 after 39 deaths were reported today.

15 new COVID-19 positive cases have been reported in Punjab today; taking the total number of cases to 2060. There are 122 active cases in the state now. 

27 new COVID-19 positive cases and 2 death reported in Mumbai's Dharavi area today. Total positive cases in Dharavi increase to 1,541.

19 new COVID19 cases have been reported in Uttarakhand till 7:30 PM today; taking the total number of cases to 317.

10 new COVID-19 cases have been reported in Jharkhand. 4 from Hazaribagh, 3 from Garhwa, 2 from Koderma, and 1 from Bundu. The total number of cases rise to 363.

130 new positive cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Karnataka from 5 pm yesterday till 5 pm today, taking the total number of positive cases in the state to 2089, including 1391 active cases and 654 discharges.

587 new COVID-19 positive cases have been reported in Chennai today, taking the total number of cases to 10,576.

765 new COVID-19 cases and 8 deaths reported in Tamil Nadu today; the total number of positive cases in the state now stands at 16,277, of which 7,839 are active cases. The death toll now stands at 111.

2 new COVID-19 positive cases confirmed today. The total number of positive cases in the state now stands at 352, of which 288 are active cases. The death toll stands at 4.

The total number of positive cases in Chandigarh is now 238 including 186 discharged cases. The death toll stands at 3.

The number of active cases of COVID-19 rises to 322 in Kerala, with 53 more people testing positive today.

Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan is holding video conferences over the COVID-19 situation in the country.

• Lockdown was imposed in India at the right time. Other developed countries wasted many days to take this decision. In some countries when the situation went out of control they took the decision of lockdown & in most places it was partial lockdown.

• If doubling rate in India before lockdown was between 3.4 days, today the doubling rate is more than 13-days. Lockdown and all its guidelines have acted as potent social vaccine."

A 53-year-old woman from Kalpetta in Wayanad, Kerala who had tested positive for COVID-19 and was undergoing treatment at Kozhikode Medical College passed away today. She was suffering from cancer and had returned from abroad on May 20.

All passengers coming by flights will be scanned for COVID-19 on their arrival at the airport in Madhya Pradesh. If anyone is found symptomatic, they will be sent to quarantine & their samples will be collected for testing.

53 new COVID-19 positive cases reported in Uttarakhand today. The total number of positive cases in the state rises to 298.

The number of active cases of COVID-19 has reached  2493 in Uttar Pradesh. 3433 people have recovered from the disease while 155 deaths have been reported till date

52 new COVID19 positive cases reported today; the total number of positive cases in the state now stands at 6794

Singapore on Sunday reported 548 new coronavirus cases, majority of them foreign workers living in dormitories, taking the total number of infections in the country to 31,616,

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The maximum temperature in Delhi expected to touch 46 degrees Celcius on 26th May with heatwave to severe heatwave conditions. 

With 508 new cases, the total number of COVID-19 positive cases in Delhi is now 13,418 (till midnight of 23rd May), total death toll 261

66 new COVID-19 cases reported in the state in the last 24 hours; the total number of cases in the state is now 2627

4 new COVID-19 positive cases confirmed- 2 from Chirang, at Tezpur quarantine centre; 2 from Jorhat with travel history to Chennai. The total number of positive cases in the state now stands at 350

3 new COVID19 positive cases reported today, taking the total number of positive cases in the state to 32

The total number of COVID19 positive cases in Odisha now stands at 1336, with 67 new positive cases reported yesterday

After eleven people who travelled to Goa in the Delhi-Thiruvananthapuram Rajdhani Express train tested coronavirus positive on Sunday, the total number of cases in Goa rose to 66.

Tokyo and four other prefectures in the country will see the state of emergency lifted from Monday. New cases of the virus in Japan have fallen below 50 a day, a 95% decline from the April peak.

After six new cases were reported on Sunday, the total number of coronavirus cases rose to 192. Three of the fresh cases were reported from Una and one each from Kangra, Hamirpur and Solan districts. 

52 new COVID19 positive cases reported today; the total number of positive cases in the state now stands at 6794

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• Young people in developing countries dying at higher rates than in wealthier countries
• New York state reports under 100 daily deaths for first time since March
• Spanish PM says foreign tourism to Spain can resume in July
• China reports zero new cases for first time since start of pandemic
• Boris Johnson's top aide broke the government's lockdown rules

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The newspaper printed 1,000 names on its Sunday May 24 front page, noting the list represents just 1% of the total loss of lives in the U.S. The front page also says, "They were not simply names on a list. They were us."

Hello and welcome to today's live coverage of coronavirus news in India and across the world, with me, Sushmita Panda and my colleagues Himanshu Shekhar, Shashwat  Bhandari, Vani Mehrotra, Priya Jaiswal,  Sidhant Mamtany and Rashi Hardaha. You can get in touch with us directly on twitter ​​@sushmitapanda, @himaanshus, @ShashBhandari​ @vani_mehrotra​ @priyajais, @SidMamtany, and  @rashihardaha for news, tips, photos, questions and comments.

Here's a quick overview: 

The total number of global cases has surpassed 5.4 million, including more than 343,000 fatalities. More than 2,247,000 patients are reported to have recovered.

Deaths by country:

United States- 98,683
Italy- 32,735
Spain- 28,678
France- 28,332
United Kingdom- 36,675
Belgium - 9,237

Coronavirus in India: Total COVID-19 positive cases cross 131,000-mark
Coronavirus Death Toll in India: As of Friday evening, the death toll stood at 3,868