Highlights: Rajasthan reports 10 deaths and 382 new Covid-19 positive cases

Four top US public health officials and members of Donald Trump's coronavirus task force said on Tuesday that he has not asked them to slow down testing for the virus after the president suggested at a rally that it was a "double-edged sword."

Shahnawaz Hussain and Abbas Rizvi, two friends in Mumbai, are providing free oxygen cylinders to coronavirus patients and patients with other respiratory problems. According to the Public Health Department, the total positive cases in the state climbed to 1,39,010, including 69,631 recoveries and 6,531 deaths.

As many as 879 more people tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday in Telangana, taking the total count of coronavirus cases in the state to 9,553.

India's Covid-19 tally has goes up to 456,183, and the death toll has mounted to 14,476, according to the health ministry website at 8 am.

As many as 34 fresh cases of Covid-19 were reported in Indore on Tuesday, as per the data provided by the District Health Department.

The three chariots of Lord Jagannath and his siblings were not taken out of the Jagannathpur temple here on the occasion of Rath Yatra for the first time in three hundred years because of the coronavirus pandemic.

"There is a huge difference between a normal test and a coronavirus test. In this critical situation, private labs should not try to conduct coronavirus tests from a business perspective," said Telangana health minister Etela Rajender.

What needs to be done is to make countries understand that by acting in isolation “they are creating the situation that is getting out of control” — and that global coordination is key, said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in an interview with news agency AP.

The worst of the Covid-19 pandemic is yet to come in South Africa, warned top epidemiologist Salim Abdool Karim in wake of the country’s coronavirus tally crossing the 1 lakh-mark and death toll nearing 2,000.

Muslims expressed disappointment after Saudi Saudi decided to scale back this year's hajj pilgrimage due to coronavirus outbreak. However, many accepted it was necessary to curb the spread of the disease.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been ordered by a federal judge to wear a face mask in public, after the far-right leader repeatedly flouted the coronavirus containment measures in place in Brasilia.

South Africa will roll out the continent's first coronavirus vaccine trial this week, the university leading the pilot said Tuesday, as the country grapples with the highest number of cases in Africa, according to news agency AFP.

In view of the coronavirus pandemic, authorities in Saudi Arabia have decided to scale down hajj. Around 1,000 pilgrims will be allowed in the hajj.

Coronavirus is accelerating across Latin America and the Caribbean with over 100,000 coronavirus deaths, more than half in Brazil, and a total 2.1 million cases, according to an AFP count based on official figures.