Coronavirus live updates: India's death toll nears 12,000-mark, total cases rise to 3.54 lakh

Read: Viral worry after early success: Why Covid cases have jumped in Bengaluru

Read: Cases rising across NCR cities, but Noida lags behind others in testing

While cases in Gurgaon shot from 903 to 3,477 in the first 15 days of this month, Noida, which just had 470 cases on June 1, reported 1,011 cases by June 15 and became the district with the highest Covid numbers in UP. During this period, Delhi has seen the worst of the outbreak — reporting more than 21,000 cases.

Telangana government promulgates an ordinance for deferment of salaries and pensions.

UK theatres adapt to social distancing

London's West End has traditionally drawn people from all over the world to see its shows but theatres have been forced to reinvent themselves because of the coronavirus outbreak.

More Americans have died of coronavirus than were killed in WWI, reports AFP.

740 new virus deaths in 24 hours lifts the total toll in the US to 116,854, Johns Hopkins University tally shows.

2003 deaths and 10,974 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

The total number of positive cases in the country now stands 3,54,065 at including 1,55,227 active cases, 1,86,935 cured/discharged/migrated and 11903 deaths, said the ministry.

Sensex drops 137.02 pts to 33,468.20 in opening session; Nifty falls 56.05 pts to 9,857.95.

2 new cases of Covid-19 reported in Nagaland, taking the total number of positive cases in the state to 181 including 78 active cases and 103 recovered: Nagaland Health Minister S Pangnyu Phom

China cancels over 1,200 flights, shuts schools over new coronavirus outbreak in Beijing

Beijing's airports cancelled more than 1,200 flights and schools in the Chinese capital were closed again on Wednesday as authorities rushed to contain a new coronavirus outbreak linked to a wholesale food market.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern orders the military to oversee New Zealand's borders after a quarantine bungle that allowed Covid-19 back into the country, reports AFP.

Japanese researchers confirm coronavirus testing in sewers as possible outbreak warning system.

Australia accuses China and Russia of virus disinformation

China and Russia were using the heightened anxiety around the coronavirus pandemic to undermine Western democracies by spreading disinformation online, Australia's foreign minister said.

To define containment zones with large outbreaks of covid-19 cases and activities to be done in containment zones, district technical committees headed by Civil Surgeons have been constituted to demarcate exact boundaries of specific area in all districts: Punjab Government

Beijing airports cancel 1,255 flights over coronavirus fears: AFP news agency

Beijing schools closed again as city finds 31 more coronavirus cases

Beijing shut all its schools again today as the city reported 31 new coronavirus cases, with authorities in the Chinese capital rushing to curb an outbreak linked to a wholesale food market.

Read: Indians’ screen time rises by 2 hours daily

The daily average screen time of Indians moved up by an additional two hours with work-from-home, school education, entertainment and streaming seeing a massive surge, as the country stayed locked down due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Read: Russia's Putin protected from coronavirus by disinfection tunnel

Russian President Vladimir Putin is protected from the novel coronavirus by a special disinfection tunnel that anyone visiting his residence outside Moscow must pass through, the state-controlled RIA news agency reported on Tuesday.The special tunnel, manufactured by a Russian company based in the town of Penza, has been installed at his official Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow where he receives visitors, it said.Demonstration footage of the tunnel, published by RIA, showed masked people passing through it being sprayed with disinfectant from the ceiling and from the side.

US death toll in pandemic exceeds one from World War I

The US death toll from Covid-19 now exceeds the number of American service members who died in World War I.The current pandemic mortality tally for the United States from Johns Hopkins University reached 116,526 on Tuesday. The number of Americans who died in World War I is 116,516.Both figures are far from precise, due to a lack of testing during the pandemic and the challenges of counting the dead in the trenches of World War I a century ago.