The global cases of the new coronavirus, COVID-19, infections crossed two million on Wednesday and the death toll crossed 130,000. In India, the number of people infected has crossed 12,000 and the death toll 400, according to the latest John Hopkins University figures. Read More

The Centre has classified 170 districts across the country as coronavirus hotspots and 207 districts as non-hotspots. It has green-signalled limited resumption of economic activities in the country after April 20 outside the hotspots. Read More

Former finance minister P Chidambaram took a jibe at PMNarendra Modi after the latter’s address to the nation, in which he announced the extension of the lockdown to stop the spread of the new coronavirus, and accused him of neglecting the poor. Read More

Prime Minister Narendra Modi extended the nationwide lockdown to stop the transmission of the new coronavirus, COVID-19, infection by over two weeks to May 3. However, Modi also indicated that some of the restrictions may be eased after April 20. Read More

The number of people infected by the new coronavirus, COVID-19, in India has crossed 10,000, on Monday. The death toll too increased sharply and crossed 350 with 51 deaths reported during the same day. This is India’s highest number of deaths from the disease in a single day. Read More

On Monday, the Supreme Court modified its earlier ruling and said only the poor will be eligible for free testing for coronavirus infection in private labs. In its earlier order last week, the court had said free testing should be available for all. Read More

The Reserve Bank of India governor, Shaktikanta Das, said the new coronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic has adversely affected the country’s economy and the growth outlook doesn’t look good. Read More

PM Narendra Modi had a meeting with state CMs over a videoconference on COVID-19 situation in the country where they reached a broad agreement that the Centre and the states would work on a strategy to lift the nationwide lockdown currently imposed to stop the outbreak. Read More

The worldwide death toll due to the raging coronavirus pandemic has crossed the 100,000 mark while the total number of infections across the world is set to touch 1.7 million. India witnessed a record spike of 873 fresh cases in the last 24 hours. Read More

India witnessed a sharp rise in new coronavirus infections with 809 cases detected in a day, on Thursday. This is a hike of 30 per cent from Wednesday’s count. The day also saw a record number of single-day deaths from the infection. Read More