Coronavirus Daily Updates

CORONAVIRUS DAILY UPDATE

With total cases at 13,835, health ministry says doubling rate of cases reduced with lockdown   At a daily media briefing about updates on COVID-19 situation, Joint Secretary in the Health Ministry Lav Agarwal claimed that India has been doing better than many other countries on the outcome ratio, which is the number of recoveries from coronavirus infection versus the number of deaths.

Explained: How RBI is handling 'The Great Lockdown'   Coronavirus lockdown: The RBI has tried to provide more focussed help for NBFCs and micro-finance institutions, which, in turn, should help the people hardest hit by the Covid-19 economic crisis.

China revises death toll to 4,632; Russia sees over 4,000 cases in a day   The United States has the highest death toll (32,917) in the world, followed by Italy with 22,170 dead although its population is just a fifth of that of the US. Spain has recorded 19,130 deaths, followed by France with 17,920.

Man from Pune who slipped in despite check-posts is first Covid-19 patient in 'Green Zone' Parbhani   Coronavirus lockdown: At least 14 persons deployed at Matori check-post at Ahmednagar-Beed border and five persons at Dhalegaon check-post at Beed-Parbhani border who came into his contact have been quarantined and are being tested for Covid-19.

Who was June Almeida, the virologist who first saw the coronavirus?   June Almedia was the first individual to see the human coronavirus in 1965. Who was she, and how did she do it?