A 25-year-old man with serious injuries fell unconscious after the accused attacked him, alleging that he was a 'coronavirus carrier'.

No fresh death due to the virus was reported in this period. Delhi has so far reported 68 deaths.

Senior BJP leader and Union minister Prakash Javadekar said the entire country is together in fighting the coronavirus but the Congress is busy "fighting" Modi and the government.

Kerala Finance Minister Thomas Isaac said that while aimed to collect Rs 2,000 crores, the state government could raise only Rs 250 crores in April.

"UP has stopped testing for the past two days and should start testing on a large scale, while adopting transparency in this regard. Hiding data and the truth can prove fatal," Priyanka Gandhi said.

Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal said the government should rethink on lockdown measures as the country cannot have the 'lockdown of people and lockout of the economy'.

BJP leaders Debasree Chaudhuri and another MP, Sukanta Majumdar, alleged that they were served with quarantine notices by the local administration so that they could not step outside to provide ration and other relief material to the masses.

Be it businesses, offices, education institutes or medical sector, everyone is adapting to changes in the post-coronavirus world, PM Modi said.

Kumar’s Twitter feed revealed that the MLA has been at it for a few days now, earlier, he even reached out to BJP MLA Ramesh Bidhuri asking help for patient living in his constituency.

Bhagwat, who appeared hopeful of the pandemic ending soon and lifting of the lockdown, said the world will take time to fall in order after the big upset but the way ahead depends on self-reliance and being indigenous.

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan told BJP party workers that the committees would be formed at every panchayat level in the rural areas and ward level in the urban areas.

The BJP's response came after the Congress accused the Centre of "cruelly" and "mercilessly" abandoning the entire category of migrant labourers and termed "a cruel joke" the order on inter-state movement of workers.

Gandhi also called upon the government to immediately put money into the hands of the poor and provide a financial package to the industry to help revive the economy.

A freewheeling interview, some banter thrown in, and careful attention to the fact that no personal attacks on PM Narendra Modi are made while questioning the government over the coronavirus pandemic crisis was the template of Gandhi's press conference.

After a cabinet meeting on Friday, MP minister for Home and Health Narottam Mishra said no work was done when Nath was in power and "whatever funds were received were diverted to Chhindwara (the CM’s home town)".

The BJP leaders waged a social media war against the Bengal government by accusing the state of hiding Covid-19 figures and also complaining the Centre that TMC-led government in Bengal has completely failed in handling the coronavirus crisis.

The actor posted on Twitter that he has taken money out of his reserve funds to pay the people working for him so that they do not suffer because of the lockdown.

Chiranjeevi mentioned that while the cost of the losses caused because of the novel coronavirus can’t be estimated right now, the amount would run into hundreds of crores.

Organisers call the project 'Serres Séparées' (Separate Greenhouses) because they say it sounds better in French.

New York, where nearly 20,000 people have died of COVID-19, is the epicenter of the US virus pandemic. Latinos and African-Americans are the principal victims, experiencing a mortality rate nearly double of that of white Americans.

As more and more South Koreans were released from treatment for Covid-19, authorities discovered some ostensibly cured patients were later testing positive again.

The Costa Atlantica now hosts one of Japan's biggest clusters of the coronavirus, which infected one-fourth of the more than 600 people then on board.

Scientists at University College London's Genetics Institute found almost 200 recurrent genetic mutations of the new coronavirus - SARS-CoV-2 - which the UCL researchers said showed how it is adapting to its human hosts as it spreads.

Russia now ranks fourth in the overall number of reported virus cases in Europe and fifth in the world.

Tension between USA and China has reached fever pitch in recent days as they have exchanged barbed comments on each other's handling of the coronavvirus.

London's Pakistani-origin mayor fears it's not possible to understand the full extent of this disparity as, unlike in Scotland, ethnicity is not recorded on death certificates in England.

The BoE kept its benchmark interest rate at an all-time low of 0.1% and left its target for bond-buying, most of it British government debt, at 645 billion pounds.

The guidance contained detailed advice for making site-specific decisions related to reopening schools, restaurants, summer camps, churches, day care centers and other institutions.

This emerging syndrome, which may occur days to weeks after a COVID-19 illness, reflects the surprising ways that this entirely new coronavirus infects and sickens its human hosts.

Officials defended their strategy of not imposing strict stay-at-home measures, saying Sweden's healthcare system still had spare capacity.

The Islamic republic has battled to contain the Middle East's deadliest outbreak of the COVID-19 illness since reporting its first cases in mid-February.

The kingdom had previously said such gatherings were prohibited and said on Thursday that those breaching the rules would be punished by law.

On Wednesday, Chancellor Angela Merkel and governors of the 16 states agreed to further loosen the rules, albeit with a fallback clause.

US Vice-President Mike Pence has also tested negative.

Coronavirus cases have been registered in all of Russia's 85 regions, with Moscow the worst affected by far with 92,676.

COVID-19 is spread through respiratory droplets or contact and the virus has also been detected in feces, saliva and urine.

The US needs it for all of the epidemiological work that needs to be done to protect Americans today and tomorrow, Pompeo asserted.

The major cruise lines are accused of failing to do enough to get their staff home, ostensibly to save money on pricey charter flights – a claim the companies deny.

Last week, US President Trump threatened new tariffs against China after claiming there was evidence linking Covid-19 to a top-security lab in Wuhan.

The virus that causes COVID-19 can be found in semen, Chinese researchers report in a small study that doesn't address whether sexual transmission is possible. Doctors detected the virus in semen from six of 38 men hospitalized with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19. Four were still very sick with the disease while two were recovering.

Alejandra has not heard anything from the state -- though she has gotten a fundraising email from Republican Senator Rick Scott, who set up the current unemployment system during his tenure as governor.

Hydroxychloroquine did not lower the risk of dying or needing a breathing tube in a comparison that involved nearly 1,400 patients treated at Columbia University in New York, researchers reported Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The findings indicated that a decreased sense of smell may be an indicator of patients early in the disease course as well as those who may go on to develop more severe symptoms.

Large-scale parades that had been envisaged to commemorate the victory over the Nazis have been downsized as the world grapples with coronavirus crisis.

Singapore on Friday reported 768 new cases of coronavirus, mostly among the foreign nationals living in dormitories, taking the total number of infections in the country to 21,707 with 20 deaths, the health ministry said.

As European countries begin to ease their restrictions on public life at a varied pace, with some allowing businesses to reopen while others remain on lockdown, the different rules are sowing confusion for travelers.

Afghanistan has recorded more than 100 deaths from the virus out of more than 3,700 confirmed cases.

Experts and officials both in Iran and abroad have cast doubts over Covid-19 figures, saying the real number of cases could be much higher than reported.