The general insurance companies have received 900 claims for over Rs 17 crore for Covid-19 treatment till Monday,according the General Insurance Council, the official representative body of the domestic general insurers.

Maharashtra at around 450 claims for about Rs 8 crore have remained at the top of the claim chart. The city of Mumbai itself has generated around 350 claims for around Rs 4 crore.

A DGCA circular further stated, “However, it is reiterated that foreign and domestic airlines shall be suitably informed about the opening of their operations whether international to/from India or domestic respectively in due course.”

In a significant milestone in its fight against the novel Coronavirus,India has completed over 1 million Covid-19 RT-PCR tests (Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction).According to ICMR, a total of 1046450 samples have been tested as on 03 May 2020, 9 AM IST.RT-PCR is the only diagnostic test for Covid-19 approved by the World Health Organization.​​​​​​​India is current carrying out an average of 75,000 tests per day at 419 approved laboratories across the country.

A total of 66 deaths were reported since Friday evening of which 26 fatalities were reported from Maharashtra, 22 from Gujarat, eight from Madhya Pradesh, four from Rajasthan, two from Delhi and one each from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Haryana and Tamil Nadu.

Speaking to reporters after a Maharashtra Day event in Jalna on Friday, Tope said 85 per cent of the state’s population was covered under the Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Jan Arogya Yojana (MJPJAY) at present and the cover will be extended to the remining 15 per cent.A memorandum was signed to include government, semi-government employees and white ration card holders in the scheme in a bid to prevent private hospitals from overcharging patients, he said.

The biggest and most economically-important cities, including New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai and Ahmedabad, would all be classed as red zones, infection hotspots, and kept under strict lockdown.