Coronavirus Daily Updates

CORONAVIRUS DAILY UPDATE

ICMR asks states not to use rapid test kits for 2 days; total cases mount to 18,985   Amid complaints about faulty rapid test kits, the Indian Council of Medical Research on Tuesday advised states not to use them for the next two days, saying it will issue an advisory after their teams carry out field validation of these equipment.

Covid-19: How India's neighbours are faring   SAARC Nations Coronavirus Cases, Deaths: The eight SAARC nations -- India, Pakistan, the Maldives, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan -- account for just 1.28 per cent of the world total of 24,80,503 coronavirus cases.

Global deaths top 170,000; Singapore extends partial lockdown till June 1   The coronavirus pandemic has killed more than 170,000 people globally, close to two thirds of them in hardest-hit Europe, according to an AFP tally. In total, 170,226 people have died from the virus around the world, including 106,737 in Europe.

‘Covid-19 pandemic a result of humans not respecting space that wildlife needs’   In an interview to indianexpress.com, National Geographic Explorer Kartick Satyanarayan talks about Covid-19 and its impact on humans and wildlife, and how lockdown is a time to re-evaluate human relations with nature.

'Our orders binding on you': MHA to Bengal after Mamata opposes Centre's Covid-19 team   The TMC responded to the Home Affairs letter by saying that while states were busy fighting coronavirus, the Centre was fighting the states.