Patna (Bihar) [India], May 2 (ANI): The Bihar government has decided to set up quarantine centres at block headquarters for people being brought back to the state in special trains from other parts of the country, where they were stranded.
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 2 (ANI): Grocery shops and other outlets selling essential items will open from Monday in the city according to a roster system, said District Magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma.
Panaji (Goa) [India], May 2 (ANI): Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Saturday hailed the central government's decision to extend the nationwide lockdown by two more weeks.
New Delhi [India], May 2 (ANI): With 2,293 new cases in the last 24 hours, the highest number of cases in a single day, India's COVID-19 tally reached 37,336 on Saturday, including 1,218 deaths, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
New Delhi/Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India], May 2 (ANI): Delhi and Himachal Pradesh governments have appointed nodal officers to facilitate the movement of people stranded due to lockdown.
Gurugram (Haryana) [India], May 2 (ANI): As cross-border transit into Gurugram has been prohibited with certain exemptions, police here is checking for curfew passes and ensuring that no non-essential vehicle movement takes place during the lockdown to curb COVID-19 spread.
Raipur (Chhattisgarh) [India], May 2 (ANI): The Chhattisgarh government has information that over one lakh people from the state including migrant labourers are stranded in other states due to lockdown.
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], May 2 (ANI): As the country is under a nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of COVID-19, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat has requested all private doctors in the state to start their OPD services for people.
Indore (Madhya Pradesh) [India], May 2 (ANI): A couple entered into wedlock in Gautampura, Indore on Friday amid the lockdown after groom's father, a cancer patient expressed his desire to see his son getting married.
Siliguri (West Bengal) [India], May 2 (ANI): Hundreds of students studying in Rajasthan's Kota returned to Siliguri on Friday via buses. A total of 2300 students arrived in Asansol, Kolkata and Siliguri in West Bengal via 84 buses .
Hubli (Karnataka) [India], May 2 (ANI): Around 1400 migrant workers from neighbouring districts, working at brick manufacturing factories in Hubli were sent to their respective districts on buses, amid coronavirus lockdown.
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], May 2 (ANI): Around 271 United Kingdom (UK) nationals left for their country on Saturday, in a special British Airways flight from Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport in Amritsar on Saturday amid coronavirus lockdown.