Coronavirus live updates: 'Don't make Corona warriors unhappy,' SC says

Jharkhand's total cases reach 1,607

Active cases stand at 969; 8 deaths reported: State Health Department

3 Army personnel among six new Covid-19 cases in Arunachal

Six more people, including three Army personnel, have tested positive for COVID-19 in Arunachal Pradesh, taking the total number of cases in the state to 67, a health department official said on Friday. Three Army men tested positive for the disease in Singchung sub-division of West Kameng district on Thursday night, while two persons were detected with the infection in Changlang and one in Longding, he said.

Maharashtra minister tests positive for Covid-19

SC tells governments 'not to make Corona warriors unhappy'

SC takes serious view of alleged non-payment of salary and non-arrangement of proper accommodation for doctors and healthcare staff for quarantine purposes. SC also expressed anguish over allegations about doctors being not paid full salary for months both in private and government hospitals. SC said, "this issue should not engage court's and it should be settled by government."

Small molecules that can block novel coronavirus identified

The team of researchers at the University of Georgia (UGA) in the US noted that the SARS-CoV-2 protein PLpro is essential for the replication and the ability of the virus to suppress host immune function. The compounds, naphthalene-based PLpro inhibitors, are shown to be effective at halting SARS-CoV-2 PLpro activity as well as replication, according to the research published in the journal ACS Infectious Diseases.

Odisha reports 112 new Covid cases, one more fatality

The number of infections rises to 3,498, toll climbs to 10: Health department

'New simplified Covid-19 antibody test developed'

Scientists have developed a new simplified Covid-19 diagnostic test that can be ramped up to analyse thousands of blood samples at labs lacking the resources of commercial medical centres, an advance that may help scale up testing for the deadly disease. According to the researchers from the University of North Carolina in the US, there is a need for widely applicable surveillance testing to gain a better understanding of infection rates, especially the number of people with mild or no symptoms of Covid-19, who can still be carriers of the disease.

SC asks Centre to file affidavit within 4 weeks on legality of March 29 circular that mandated payment of full wages during lockdown

SC seeks Centre's stand on a PIL seeking refund of air tickets which were booked for travel during lockdown period

Airlines tell SC that they would sit with Civil Aviation ministry to sort out this issue but say that no airline across the world are refunding.

Why don’t they send those details to us? Names, age and reports- all details are needed. Ask them for a list of these numbers along with the (Covid-19) positive reports of those people: Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on MCD's claim of 2098 Covid deaths in Delhi

The lockdown will not be extended: Delhi health minister Satyendar Jain

92 more cases & 4 deaths reported in Rajasthan today

Total number of cases in the state is now at 11,930, including 2818 active cases, & 269 deaths: State Health Department

New Covid cases cross 10,000-mark for first time in India

India recorded over 10,000 new COVID-19 cases in a day for the first time, taking the tally to 2,97,535, while the death toll rose to 8,498 with a record single-day spike of 396 fatalities, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The country has registered 10,956 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours till Friday 8 am.

Tamil Nadu Secretariat will be shut down on June 13 and 14 to carry out disinfection work

Nicholas Burns stresses on maintaining discipline, use of masks to prevent spread of Covid-19

Crises like Covid are existential, will reshape world relations: Nicholas Burns

Trump does not believe in cooperation, he wants to go alone: Nicholas Burns

US, India, China needed to put differences aside to combat a crisis like Covid-19, but that has not happened: Nicholas Burns

Read: Alarming rise in coronavirus cases as US states roll back lockdowns

Cases are rising in nearly half the states, according to an AP Press analysis, a worrying trend that could intensify as people return to work and venture out during the summer. There is no single reason for the surges. In some cases, more testing has revealed more cases. In others, local outbreaks are big enough to push statewide tallies higher.