Coronavirus live updates: 'Delhi belongs to all', LG justifies reversing AAP govt's order on hospitals

Total number of cases in the country now at 2,66,598, including 1,29,917 active cases, 1,29,215 cured/discharged/migrated and 74,66 deaths: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

"Lockdown in the State has been extended till June 30. Till June 10 trains will enter West Bengal carrying migrant workers. We have requested Kolkata Police to check if there is any possibility of allowing cycle for riding in Kolkata and to issue a notification regarding the same," reports ANI quoting Bengal CM Banerjee.

"It has come to notice that entrance examination for All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) is scheduled to be held on June 11, 2020. Many candidates from Kerala who had opted Thiruvananthapuram as the centre, have got centres in the state of Tamil Nadu," Vijayan wrote in a letter to the Union Health Minister. The Kerala Chief Minister has requested Dr Harsh Vardhan for urgent intervention in the matter so that the candidates are allowed the centres of their choice in the current situation.

The senior IAS officer, who took over as commissioner of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) last month, said after he joined the post, he found that swab reports of April 4 were delivered on April 22, reports PTI.

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that the number of confirmed Covid-19 cases will continue to rise in the country, and a peak will be witnessed by the end of July or beginning of August.

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany increased by 252 to 184,193, data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases showed today. The reported death toll rose by 16 to 8,674, the tally showed, reports Reuters.

There is heightened interest for gold loans among borrowers as more farmers, small merchants and businesses kick-start stalled economic activity. Gold loans are the easiest and the fastest to be processed and disbursed and, with the rising rates of the yellow metal, more money is now available for the same gram. According to RBI norms, 75% of the value of pawned gold can be lent.

The Ramon Magsaysay awards, regarded as Asia’s version of the Nobel Prize, have been cancelled this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, the only third time the annual awards were disrupted in six decades.The Manila-based foundation that hands out the awards said Tuesday it has no choice but to cancel the awards this year “with the Covid-19pandemic practically immobilizing the world.” The awards were also cancelled due to a financial crisis in 1970 and a disastrous earthquake that hit the Philippines in 1990.

"Although the situation in Europe is improving, globally it is worsening," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual news conference in Geneva. "More than 100,000 cases have been reported on nine of the past 10 days. Yesterday, more than 136,000 cases were reported -- the most in a single day so far," he said.

South Korea has reported 38 new cases of Covid-19 and one more death, bringing national totals to 11,852 infections and 274 virus-related fatalities. Read more

Saudi Arabia could drastically limit numbers at the annual haj pilgrimage to prevent a further outbreak of coronavirus after cases in the country topped 100,000, sources familiar with the matter said on Monday.

The Covid-19 pandemic may peak in different parts of the country at different times, the 15th Finance Commission’s high-level panel on health has observed, suggesting pooling of resources between states to ensure better availability of health infrastructure in every state.

Delhi's Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia will participate in a meeting of State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA) on Tuesday to discuss whether there is community spread of COVID-19 in the national capital and to decide the further strategy to combat coronavirus. Deputy CM Manish Sisodia will be participating in the place of CM Arvind Kejriwal, who will remain absent owing to ill-health.

South Korea has reported 38 new cases of Covid-19 and one more death, bringing national totals to 11,852 infections and 274 virus-related fatalities. Figures from South Korea's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday showed 35 of the new cases came from the densely populated Seoul metropolitan area, where officials have struggled to trace transmissions linked to entertainment venues, church gatherings and low-income workers who couldn't afford to stay home.

New coronavirus cases had their biggest daily increase ever as the pandemic worsens globally and has yet to peak in central America, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday, urging countries to press on with efforts to contains the virus.