Coronavirus live updates: NCR can't be separated, have to save entire unit, says Kejriwal

US virus layoffs top 45 million as 1.5 million file new claims, reports AFP.

Nearly 500 medics die of Coronavirus in Russia, reports AFP.

The head of the state health watchdog said that 489 medics in Russia who tested positive for Covid-19 died due to the infection, a far higher figure than given before. Previously a health ministry official on May 26 gave a death toll of 101, reports AFP.

In this context, I met Delhi CM, senior officials of Center and Delhi-NCR today to discuss a strategy: Amit Shah

Three people have been tested positive for Covid-19 in Kangra and Solan districts, taking total number of cases to 589 out of which 201 cases are active, reports ANI quoting state health department

Uttar Pradesh records 604 new Covid-19 cases in last 24 hours, reports PTI.

Read: Health minister Harsh Vardhan launches India's first mobile lab for Covid testing.

"To ensure testing facilities in far-flung areas, such innovations have been developed in the interior, inaccessible parts of the country," said Union health minister.Explaining the scope of this lab, Vardhan said, "It has the capability to perform 25 RT-PCR tests per day, 300 ELISA tests per day and additional tests for TB, HIV as per CGHS rates."

Singapore to hold political campaigns for general elections on TV, reports PTI.

For the first time, Singapore will hold political campaigns on television and do away with the physical rallies if the General Election is held during the phase II of the city-state's reopening after the Covid-19 circuit breaker. Political parties and candidates will get free airtime on Mediacorp's Channel 5 should the next General Election fall during phase two of the reopening during the pandemic, the Elections Department (ELD) said.

Central govt to provide 500 additional ventilators, 650 more ambulances to hospitals in Delhi: MoS Home G Kishan Reddy

Read key points on FM Nirmala Sitharaman's address ahead of the launch of 'Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan'

The initiative will cater to the need of job creation in rural areas and thereby also lay the foundation for a more prosperous rural India: Secretary, ministry of rural development

The finance minister says, "the campaign will be spread across 125 days and aims to work in mission mode to help migrant workers."

It will involve focused implementation of 25 different types of works to provide jobs and create infrastructure in the rural regions of the country with a resource envelope of Rs 50,000 crore: Finance minister

"We have found that migrant workers returned in large numbers to districts spread over six states - Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and Rajasthan," says Nirmala Sitharaman