THE SPREAD OF COVID-19
Total confirmed cases including new cases added on May 19
UT J&K
1317
Punjab
Haryana
964
DELHI
28 2002 22 10554 500
Rajasthan
647 5845 338 3337
In the second accident, three workers travelling in a car were killed when their vehicle rammed a stationary mini-truck in Azamgarh district. Superintendent of police Trivedi Singh said: “The accident took place in Jameendashav village under Atraulia police station when the driver of the car dozed off. As a result, he lost control over the car and rammed it into a stationary mini-truck.”
In Odisha’s Angul district, the driver of an LPG tanker was charred to death when a bus carrying 26 migrants on its way to West Bengal from Mumbai rammed into the tanker . At least
Kerala
642
New cases 12 migrants sustained injuries.
A migrant worker of Balasore sitting atop a iron sheet-laden truck was killed when the vehicle hit another truck parked in front of a marine products export company. Another migrant worker killed as the trolley he was travelling in was hit by truck.
According to data collected by HT reporters, at least 162 migrants have died in such accidents since the beginning of the lockdown on March 25. In the past fortnight alone, 42 migrant labourers have died in two major accidents.
On May 8, a goods train ran over 16 people who were sleeping
Recovered cases
UT Ladakh
43 90 199 111 4926
Bihar
248
Odisha
978 17 0
Himachal Pradesh
5
Chandigarh
3
Uttarakhand
15
Uttar Pradesh
321 1495 72
Jharkhand
20 2489 57
Puducherry
0
Tamil Nadu
45 57 102 307
Andhra Pradesh
1596 10 12448 688 4895
on the tracks in Maharashtra’s Aurangabad on their way back to their village in MP on foot. Then on May 16, 26 workers died after the truck they were travelling in rammed another vehicle in Uttar Pradesh’s Auraiya district.
The nationwide lockdown left migrant workers without jobs and a way to get back home. It was only in late April that some states started transporting their workers back from other states using buses and only on May 1 that the government started running special trains for them.
In a communication to states on Tuesday, the Union home ministry asked states and Union Territories
Arunachal Pradesh
101
Assam
155 48 42
Meghalaya
13 167 0
Manipur
Mizoram
Tripura
2961 1074
Total number of cases across India*
Deaths due to Covid-19 across India
12 922 101
West Bengal
136
Andaman and Nicobar
33 0 33
to operate more Shramik Special trains in coordination with Indian Railways to ferry the migrants. “I appeal state governments to help the migrants, register their names and provide the list to the railways. I also appeal the migrants to stay where they are, and the Indian Railways will soon help them reach their hometowns,” said railway minister Piyush Goyal.
The home secretary also asked states and UTS to ensure that no migrant worker has to resort to walking on roads or railway tracks to reach their destination.