Coronavirus Daily Updates

CORONAVIRUS DAILY UPDATE

Death toll rises to 242 as cases cross 7,500 mark   Coronavirus (COVID-19): Most states, as per government sources, have requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to extend the nationwide lockdown beyond April 14 for two more weeks.

PM-CMs meet: Broad consensus emerges on extending lockdown by two more weeks   Coronavirus (COVID-19): The meeting between PM Narendra Modi and Chief Ministers comes two days before the end of a 21-day lockdown period that PM Modi had first announced on March 24.

Lockdown: Thousands of foreigners remain stranded across country   According to the Ministry of Tourism, "thousands of international visitors are confined to their hotel rooms and cannot fly out due to the nationwide lockdown”.

Iran begins lifting restrictions; racist slurs against Africans in China   The global death toll from the virus surged past 103,000 on Friday, with the United States quickly becoming the epicentre of the pandemic that first emerged in China late last year.

Indore man, detained under NSA for attacking cop, tests positive   A top jail officer told The Indian Express that one of the two persons to be kept in Jabalpur prison had showed coronavirus symptoms on the way and both were taken to the isolation ward in Victoria Hospital, Jabalpur.