Coronavirus live updates: Centre tells SC make-shift hospitals will have to be built in near future

A Chinese city close to the Russian border has ordered the Covid-19 tests for all 2.8 million residents, becoming the second city in the country after Wuhan, the first virus epicentre, conducted mass testing of its entire population, reported PTI quoting state-media.

The chairman of infrastructure conglomerate Adani Group, billionaire Gautam Adani, also said it was an opportune time to make a bet on India as it will be one of the world's top consumption centres, manufacturing and service hubs and a beacon of stable democratic governance, reports PTI.

'I firmly believe that the WHO's decision was taken in haste. It was a kind of knee-jerk reaction. They should have analysed the data on their own before temporarily suspending trials,' reports ANI quoting Mande as saying.

'People still think infection means death, it is a herculean task to open up. To get this fear out of the mind of people there has to be a clear narrative from PM because when he says something people seem to follow,' said Rajiv Bajaj, MD Bajaj Auto.

With several of its officers having tested positive for Covid-19, the Union Health Ministry has issued an office memorandum advising all staff members to "strictly" follow precautionary measures to contain the spread of the disease, reported PTI.

A malaria drug President Donald Trump took to try to prevent Covid-19 proved ineffective for that in the first large, high-quality study to test it in people in close contact with someone with the disease.

'India has to sell itself out of trouble. We have to get demand going again, we have to provide something that lifts the mood of the people. We need some mood elevator. And I do not understand why there is no strong initiative, even if it is for a period of 6 months-1 year to strongly lift the mood of the people and provide a stimulus to demand' Bajaj to Rahul Gandhi.

Even as new cases of Covid-19 are increasing rapidly, on the brighter side, the number of recovered people crossed the one lakh-mark on Wednesday to touch 1,00,303 or 48.31% of those infected by the Sars-Cov-2 virus.

The importance of wearing a mask is now widely understood. Look around you, and almost everyone has a mask strapped on. But how many are wearing the mask properly? How many have pulled it under their noses or their mouths? As India unlocks, it’s important to know how to wear the mask right.