India breaches the 5000 mark in COVID-19 cases for a third consecutive day; domestic flight bookings open.

India reported a total 5,376 new Covid-19 positive cases on Wednesday taking the tally of total cases to 1,12,359. 135 deaths were also reported as the death toll climbed to 3,435 due to Coronavirus. The Health Ministry said that mild or pre-symptomatic cases of patients, who do not have fever prior to discharge from the hospital cannot spread the infection. 

The last five days in India have recorded four biggest single-day figures of coronavirus cases. The number of patients who recovered from COVID-19 was around 45,000. Delhi reported 534 fresh infections and has now breached the 500 marks on two consecutive days. Delhi's tally of positive COVID-19 patients is at 11,088 and the death toll at 176. Maharashtra is still the worst affected state with more than 37,000 infections and 1,325 deaths.

Tamil Nadu is behind Maharashtra in terms of total cases with a tally 12,448 and Gujarat is third as it reported fresh 398 cases on Wednesday to take the western state's tally to 12,140.   

Slowly yet steadily, domestic flights will resume operations from 25th May, Monday, exactly two months after the lockdown declaration whereby all flights were barred from flying. The Aviation Ministry announced that bookings for the domestic flights would start from Thursday, 21st of May. However, international flights still remain cancelled.

Globally, Latin America overtook the USA and Europe to report one-third of the 91000 cases reported this week. The global tally has breached the 5 Million mark and reported 3,28,000 patients dead.