Highlights: Mumbai's Covid-19 tally crosses 25,000-mark with 1,382 new cases

The Airport Authority of India says that Aarogya Setu app is not mandatory for children as it issued new SOPs for recommencement of flights (domestic).

AAI issues SOP for airports for recommencement of domestic flights, says Aarogya Setu app not mandatory for children below 14 years of age

— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) May 21, 2020

Uttarakhand minister S Uniyal told ANI that state does not have infrastructure to quarantine 2-3 lakh people as cases emerge in Tehri, Uttarkashi, Chamoli, Almora and Bageshwar districts.

As people have started coming from outside, cases have emerged in Tehri, Uttarkashi, Chamoli, Almora & Bageshwar. You need infrastructure to quarantine 2-3 lakh people, I believe we do not have it currently: Subodh Uniyal, Uttarakhand Minister #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/MtP1kMjjYQ

— ANI (@ANI) May 21, 2020

An Air India flight is set to depart from Australia's Sydney with 224 Indians onboard.

First special Air India flight from Sydney to New Delhi, under #VandeBharatMission took off today with 224 Indians onboard: High Commission of India in Australia pic.twitter.com/G1TdqxuLet

— ANI (@ANI) May 21, 2020

India had reported 5,611 cases on May 20. On May 21, India reports 5,609 fresh Covid-19 cases with 132 deaths. With 45,300 recoveries the recovery rate is 40.31%.

Economy minister Yasutoshi Nishimura who is heading the Covid-19 response team said that restrictions in Osaka will be lifted by today but Japan's capital will remain under emergency.

German resident Gertrud Schop lit 8,000 candles with her friends in memory of every life lost due to the pandemic.

VIDEO: German woman lights 8,000 candles in memory of each victim of COVID-19.

Once a week Gertrud Schop lights a candle in her garden for every person who died from COVID-19 in Germany. This week, she and volunteers lit nearly 8,000 of them pic.twitter.com/2pVeEGlsOO

— AFP news agency (@AFP) May 21, 2020

WHO reported that 106,662 virus cases were reported across the globe. This was the steepest single-day rise in the number of global cases.

Ghaziabad's Pooja, who is stranded at the Delhi-Ghazipur border, seven months pregnant and mother of a 18-month-old child, wants to go home. She tells ANI that the police are not allowing her and other migrant workers to go home.

Delhi: Migrant workers who want to go home are stranded at Delhi-Ghazipur border amid the lockdown. One of them, Pooja who belongs to Ghaziabad says, "I'm 7 months pregnant&have a 1.5-year-old child.I want to go home but police are not allowing us to move towards our home state". pic.twitter.com/Oz40t02eJH

— ANI (@ANI) May 21, 2020

In his series of three tweets, US President Donald Trump said that China wants his Democrat competitor former Vice President Joe Biden to win the US elections which could be held this November.

China is on a massive disinformation campaign because they are desperate to have Sleepy Joe Biden win the presidential race so they can continue to rip-off the United States, as they have done for decades, until I came along!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 21, 2020

US President Donald Trump upped his attack on China for failing to contain Covid-19 at its early stages. In his tweet, he hinted that China had the option but deliberately chose not to act while accusing them of directing a misinformation campaign at Europe and US.

....It all comes from the top. They could have easily stopped the plague, but they didn’t!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 21, 2020

People throng Delhi's Ghazipur Mandi to buy vegetables amid Covid-19 lockdown's fourth phase.

Delhi: People arrive at wholesale fruit and vegetable market in Ghazipur, to make purchases amid the #CoronavirusPandemic. pic.twitter.com/20AZRxez5i

— ANI (@ANI) May 21, 2020

US has recorded 1,561 deaths in the last 24 hours according to a tally accessed by AFP from Johns Hopkins University.

#UPDATE The United States recorded 1,561 coronavirus deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 93,406, according to Johns Hopkins University.

The country -- hardest hit by the pandemic in terms of the number of fatalities -- has now confirmed a total of 1,550,959 cases pic.twitter.com/MckT2FW0S1

— AFP news agency (@AFP) May 21, 2020