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Just for your understanding : COVID-19 is not airborne, for starters airborne virus means that it could be spread through air. COVID-19 Virus usually spreads when an infected person sneezes, coughs or speaks. They will not hang out in the air for long time, thus ending to floors and surfaces within no time.

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Worldwide, the number of Covid-19 cases is over 1.01 million; the death toll stands at 53,160 while 211,775 people have recovered.
*Data as per Friday 12:15 PM

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Magnus Carlsen has launched a chess tournament teaming up with chess24. The tournament is scheduled to run from April 18 to May 3 and the winner would be taking away more than $70,000.

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Hollywood Director Quentin Tarantino is planning to write a novel on ‘Once Upon a Time In Hollywood’.

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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos will be donating $100 million to help food banks that are facing shortages due to the coronavirus outbreak.

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William Lapschies, a 104-year-old in Oregon is the oldest-known survivors of COVID-19 (Washington Post)

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Italy and Spain starts to show some decreased (or in a way stable) hospitalisation and deaths and it’s a good news.

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The CIA is hunting for China’s authentic virus totals. Obtaining a more accurate count is critical to better understand how the virus will impact us.(NYT)

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The three-time Grammy winner Bill Withers is dead at 81. He defined 1970s soul with hits like “Ain’t No Sunshine” and “Lean on Me.” He died from heart complications, his family told the Associated Press.

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Austrian authorities are facing a class action lawsuit involving as many as 2,500 tourists over their handling of a coronavirus outbreak in the popular Austrian winter sports resort of Ischgl, in Tyrol province. Hundreds of early cases of coronavirus in Germany, Iceland, the UK, Norway, Denmark and Ireland can all be traced back to the resort, according to Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine.(TOI)