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•24,16,135 were infected; 1,65,939 have died and 6,32,983 have recovered.

•The UK has greenlit a $300 million rescue package to stop thousands of startups collapsing during COVID-19. Half that cash will be government money issued via convertible notes.

•Conspiracy theories blaming Bill Gates for the coronavirus pandemic are exploding online. A New York Times analysis found more than 16,000 Facebook posts linking Gates with the virus, as well as 10 YouTube videos espousing the conspiracy theories that had garnered 5 million views.(Business Insider)

•With the Covid-19 outbreak seemingly under control, the administration of Hong Kong has moved to arrest pro-democracy activists who brought the city to a standstill last year, protesting against China’s control. Hong Kong is governed under China’s “One Country Two Systems Policy” but Beijing has the ultimate say in policies, including on the appointment of the city’s chief executive.(TOI)

•Governments face pressure to ease lockdowns. Coronavirus deaths in the U.S. topped 40,000 as the pandemic showed some signs of easing in some states, ramping up pressure to re-evaluate stay-at-home orders.(WSJ)

•A gunman disguised as a policeman killed at least 16 people, including a female police officer, in the worst mass shooting in Canada’s modern history.

•US oil prices plunged more than 28% to nearly $13 per barrel on Monday, their lowest level since 1999.

•Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has come under criticism for joining protesters demanding that restrictions on movement introduced to stop the spread of coronavirus be lifted.

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23,55,676 were infected; 1,62,032 have died and 23,55,676 have recovered.

While regular, 20-second handwashes are a must, the method used to dry hands can also help reduce microbial contamination not just on hands but also on the body and the environment outside the washroom. And according to researchers, including those from University of Leeds in the UK, using paper towels are substantially more effective than jet dryers for removing viruses, including SARS-CoV-2 that causes Covid-19.(TOI)

Americans are worried about lifting stay-at-home orders too quickly amid the coronavirus pandemic, which has dramatically upended life in a month marked by business shutdowns, job losses and illness(WSJ)

In New York’s outbreak is easing according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo. He said that the pandemic is starting to wane in the state as the number of people hospitalized for there was below 17,000 Saturday, compared with about 18,000, which is the peak figure.

Forty-four suspected Boko Haram militants in Chad have died in detention from apparent poisoning, the country’s public prosecutor says.(BBC)

Month-long lockdown has brought his country’s coronavirus outbreak under control, says Germany’s Health Minister.

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•22,56,844 were infected; 1,54,350 have died and 5,71,851 have recovered.

•Paul O’Neill, 84, a former U.S. Treasury secretary and Alcoa chief executive whose independence and blunt speaking style led to clashes with President George W. Bush, died early Saturday at his home in Pittsburgh.

•China has revised its official death toll from the novel coronavirus, raising the number of fatalities attributed to the pandemic by more than a third. Officials in Wuhan, where the virus was first reported late last year, on Friday added 1,290 coronavirus deaths to the city’s toll. They also added 325 confirmed cases to the city tally.

•NASA on Friday has set the date for when it will fly its astronauts from Florida’s Kennedy Space Centre again: May 27. The announcement marks a significant milestone in NASA’s winding, at times tortuous, journey to regain its human spaceflight wings since it retired the Space Shuttle programme in 2011.

•The One World: Together At Home show will see more than 100 artists including the Rolling Stones and Billie Eilish play live from their homes. The eight-hour event run by the Global Citizen movement and the World Health Organization (WHO) is being live-streamed and broadcast on TV. American TV personalities Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon will host the show, which will also feature Taylor Swift, Jennifer Lopez, Chris Martin, Pharrell Williams, Rita Ora, Sam Smith, Elton John and Paul McCartney.(BBC)

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•Facebook will alert users who interact with COVID-19 misinformation and redirect them to the WHO website. The new policy only applies to misinformation which the company believes will cause “immediate physical harm,” such as claims about fake cures.(Business Insider)

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•20,81,969 were infected; 1,38,487 have died and 5,25,884 have recovered.

•The Small Business Administration said funding has been exhausted for the $350 billion Paycheck Protection Program, and it won’t be accepting new aid applications or enrolling new lenders.

•The new coronavirus kills by inflaming and clogging the tiny air sacs in the lungs, choking off the body’s oxygen supply until it shuts down the organs essential for life. But clinicians around the world are seeing evidence that suggests the virus also may be causing heart inflammation, acute kidney disease, neurological malfunction, blood clots, intestinal damage and liver problems. That development has complicated the treatment of the most severe cases.(Washington Post)

•Seventy-two families in South Delhi have been ordered by the government to self-quarantine after a pizza delivery boy tested positive.

•The Trump administration is expected today to weaken regulations on mercury and other toxic metals released from oil and coal-fired power plants.

•Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe declared a nationwide state of emergency over coronavirus and plans legislation to give ¥100,000 (more than $900) to every person in the country.

•Warren Buffett will ‘let everybody know’ once he invests the bulk of Berkshire Hathaway’s $128 billion cash pile, Bill Ackman says. The famed investor may be keeping a low profile to avoid spiking prices while he’s buying stocks during the coronavirus-driven market meltdown.(Business Insider)

•Apple announced the new iPhone SE, a smaller, cheaper iPhone that’s about half the price of the iPhone 11. Apple is making the phone available to preorder on Friday before it starts shipping on April 24.

•The Saudi sovereign wealth fund Public Investment Fund (PIF), Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s key investment tool, is in talks to buy English Premier League side Newcastle United for about $445 million, Wall Street Journal reports.

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•20,06,513 were infected; 1,28,886 have died and 5,01,758 have recovered. The total positive cases crossed 2 million today.

•China is racing to contain a new outbreak of coronavirus in communities along its northern border with Russia.

•U.S. retail sales suffered the biggest plunge on record in March, dropping 8.7 percent as the pandemic shut stores and wallets.(NYT)

•Airline stocks are set to surge after the ‘big 4’ accepted more than $15 billion in government bailouts. Delta, American, United, and Southwest expect to receive payroll support from the US Treasury(Business Insider)

•Apple has released a tool that shows how whether people are obeying lockdown and social distancing rules. The tool gathers location data from Apple Maps users to glean trends in people’s movements.

•New guidance issued by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) states that “emerging evidence now suggests” that the transmission of the coronavirus SARS-Cov-2 which causes Covid-19 “is probable” from a pregnant mother to her foetus.

•WWE has been deemed an “essential business” in Florida, said Orange County mayor Jerry Demings on Monday, allowing the company to resume live TV shows from its Orlando training facility and Full Sail University in Winter Park during the coronavirus outbreak. 

•Germany will begin reopening its economy on Monday, Chancellor Angela Merkel said, with schools to restart in phases beginning in early May.

•As of April 15, 15 countries had not reported a Covid-19 case, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. They are: Comoros, Kiribati, Lesotho, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, North Korea, Palau, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tajikistan, Tonga, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.

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•19,42,360 were infected; 1,21,726 have died and 4,65,073 have recovered.

•Apple and Google say their coronavirus-tracking tech will remain “opt-in” only, and governments won’t be allowed to require people to use it. The two companies say only public health authorities will be able to build apps that use their API (Business Insider)

•President Donald Trump has claimed “total” power to lift the nationwide coronavirus lockdown, contradicting governors and legal experts. But legal experts say the president does not have the authority to reverse a public health restriction put in place at the state or local level.(BBC)

•There are 70 coronavirus vaccines in development worldwide, with three candidates already being tested in human trials, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), as drugmakers race to find a cure for the deadly SARS-CoV-2 pathogen. And the furthest along in the clinical process is an experimental vaccine developed by Hong Kong-listed CanSino Biologics Inc. and the Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, which is in phase 2. The other two being tested in humans are treatments developed separately by US drugmakers Moderna Inc. and Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc., reported Bloomberg, citing a WHO document.(TOI)

•JPMorgan Chase’s first-quarter profit tumbled 69% and the bank set aside $6.8 billion to cover potential losses on loans to consumers and businesses struggling to stay afloat during the coronavirus shutdown.
The U.S.’s biggest bank was the first to report earnings since the coronavirus pandemic hit the U.S. economy in March, when government orders to stay home led businesses and factories to close and put millions out of work.(WSJ)

•In the U.S., more than 582,594 confirmed cases and 23,649 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins.

•In India Prime Minister Narendra Modi extended lockdown by another 19 days till May 3, as India continued to record a surge in the Covid-19 outbreak.

•Italian officials announced 3,153 new confirmed cases on Monday, the lowest daily increase since April 7, bringing the total number of confirmed infections to 159,516. In Spain, the death toll reached 17,489

•Measles have started to show up in several areas.This may occur as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, officials say, because some vaccination programmes are having to be delayed.

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•18,70,076 were infected; 1,16,052 have died and 4,41,323 have recovered.

•Spain has suffered greatly from the coronavirus pandemic, with more than 17,200 deaths and 166,000 infections. But the country is now taking its first steps to loosen severe restrictions that forced businesses to shut.

•Bangladesh executed Abdul Majed, a former army officer convicted of assassinating its independence architect and first president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975, Saturday midnight. Majed was hanged at 12.01 am at the Dhaka Central Jail.

•Israel on Sunday approved a tight quarantine of several areas of Jerusalem, including the historic Old City, in a bid to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Israel’s health ministry has documented over 10,000 cases of the novel coronavirus and over 100 deaths.

•A small chloroquine study in Brazil was halted over the risk of fatal heart complications. Coronavirus patients who started taking a higher dose of the drug being touted by Trump developed irregular heart rates that increased their risk of a potentially fatal arrhythmia. (NYT)

•Trump retweets call to fire Anthony Fauci after the coronavirus expert says earlier measures ‘could have saved lives’.

•Violent storms, tornadoes shift to East Coast after leaving at least 19 dead, 1.3 million without power.(Washington Post)

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