Highlights: G7 nations to collaborate while reopening economies, says US

An 11-year-old girl from Hyderabad, Ridhi, has raised ₹9.4 lakh for the poor amid nationwide lockdown over coronavirus. The grade 6 student collected money from various sources including Milaap, a crowdfunding platform, to support the poor.

A 66-year old man infected by coronavirus has died in Bengaluru. This death has taken the toll in Karnataka to 13, state health department said.

Nineteen more coronavirus cases have been reported from Agra, said District Magistrate Prabhu N Singh on Thursday. The total number of Covid-19 patients have gone up to 167 in the district.

Coronavirus cases in Bihar have gone up to 72 with two more people being tested positive on Thursday.

Pandemic will bring Asia's 2020 growth to a halt for first time in 60 years, said IMF.

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom appreciated India's collaboration with organisation in the systematic engagement of polio surveillance network across the country to fight against coronavirus.

An enterprising Japanese short-term rental firm is renting out its apartments to stressed couple who want some time apart during the coronavirus lockdown. This thoughtful step was taken by the Tokyo-based Kasoku, as reported by news agency AFP, to tackle 'coronavirus divorce'.

A new hoax is circulating online that India has outlawed social media posts about Covid-19. The claim is not true; officials told news agency AFP that the posts were “misleading and false”.

Coronavirus cases in India have jumped to 12,380, and the death toll is at 414, according to the data released by health ministry at 8 am on Thursday.

As many as 668 sailors assigned to the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle's naval group have tested positive for coronavirus, the country's armed forces ministry said.

The head of the World Health Organization said the agency would have to review ways to continue its work after President Trump announced he was halting US funding.

Brooklyn's Green-Wood cemetery is struggling to keep up with the coronavirus toll. It has seen cremations more than double and five times more burials than usual.

International Monetary Fund is facing a huge demand for support amid the coronavirus pandemic, said Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, adding that it was "a crisis like no other".

Michingan governor Gretchen Whitmer's orders to keep people at home met with protests across the Michigan Capitol. The lockdown was called a "disaster" and an "arbitrary blanket spread of shutting down businesses" by a protesting Michigan Conservative Coalition member.

US President Donald Trump said the country has passed the peak on new coronavirus cases. The US has the highest number of Covid-19 cases in the world.