The federal government is expected to issue a new set of guidelines this weekend, possibly extending the lockdown in worst-hit areas. India started easing lockdown restrictions earlier this month, allowing reopening of shops and manufacturing and resumption of some trains and domestic flights and vehicles’ movement. India has surpassed China both in terms of confirmed cases and deaths from the disease. ———BEIJING — Around 400 German managers, workers and family members have begun returning to China aboard charter flights as multinational companies in the world’s second-largest economy seek to get their operations running again at full speed. China has largely banned all foreigners from entering China because of the coronavirus outbreak.

Source: Daily Sun May 30, 2020 05:48 UTC