The number of Coronavirus cases in India has risen to 33,050 while another 67 deaths have taken the total death toll in the country to 1,074, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Thursday.
Meanwhile, the United States recorded 2,502 coronavirus deaths in the past 24 hours, according to the latest real-time tally on Wednesday reported by Johns Hopkins University.
After two days of a relative easing in the toll on Sunday and Monday, the numbers have spiked again the past two days.
Here are all the live updates:
1:00 PM: Varanasi will be under complete lockdown till May 3.
"There will be complete lockdown in the limits of Varanasi municipal corporation till May 3. Home delivery to be done for people in case they need anything. People will be allowed to move out of the limits only on health and medical grounds," says DM Varanasi, Kaushal Raj Sharma.
12:55 PM: Out of the 646 samples tested yesterday for COVID19, results of 27 are positive: King George's Medical University (KGMU), Lucknow
12:10 PM: The number of coronavirus cases in Nashik district of Maharashtra has gone up to 276 as 71 more people have tested positive for the disease, an official from the district administration said. Most of the new cases are from the district's Malegaon town.
12:00 PM: Treatment with antiviral drug remdesivir may not significantly speed up recovery from COVID-19 in critically ill hospitalised patients compared to placebo, according to the first randomised trial of its kind published in The Lancet journal.
10:22 AM: "There will have to be rethinking on everything in global economy once we are out of this pandemic," EX-RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan tells Rahul Gandhi.
10:20 AM: The Indian Embassy in Washington has started to contact the Indian nationals who wish to return home once the international travel lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic is lifted.
9:25 AM: Twenty-nine more COVID-19 cases have been reported from Agra, taking the total number of coronavirus cases in the district to 433, said District Magistrate Prabhu N Singh.
Fourteen people have died due to the virus in the district while 74 patients have recovered.
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