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The US has become the first country in the world to record more than 2,000 coronavirus deaths in a single day.(BBC)

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Worldwide Coronavirus Statistics:17,15,143 were infected; 1,03,874 have died and 3,89,374 have recovered.

*Data as per Saturday 12:15 PM

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A Chinese study conducted in two hospital wards in Wuhan suggested virus particles can travel four meters, or 13 feet, from infected patients, twice the distance many governments recommend as a safe distance.(Washington Post)

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Apple and Google are teaming up to build software that would alert people if they had been in contact with someone who was infected.

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Major oil-producing nations collectively called the OPEC+, including Saudi Arabia and Russia, finally came to terms and agreed to cut oil production by 10 million barrels a day (equivalent to 10% of global oil supply), in May and June. Mexico had held out on the agreement on Thursday, but an intervention by the US resolved the standoff.

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Brazil has become the first country in the southern hemisphere to surpass 1,000 deaths with coronavirus. Experts say the actual figure is much higher

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