Highlights: Maharashtra reports 4,841 Covid-19 cases today

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta informed the Supreme Court that ICSE will also cancel class X and XII board exams. However, ICSE doesn't agree to give option to students to write exams later.

Assam reported 88 new Covid-19 cases, pushing the tally to 6,370 in the state, Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said. There are 2,400 active cases in the state, while 3,958 patients have been discharged from hospitals after recovering from the disease, he said, reports PTI.

CBSE will not conduct the class 10th examination while the students of Class 12th will be given an option of appearing in exams after conditions are conducive, the Solicitor General told the Supreme Court on Thursday. CBSE on Thursday told the Supreme Court about its decision on conducting the pending board exams that was scheduled to be held from July 1 to 15.

Indonesia reported 1,178 new Covid-19 infections on Thursday, taking its total number of cases to 50,187. Health ministry official Achmad Yurianto said there were 47 more deaths recorded, with total fatalities now at 2,620, the highest virus death toll in East Asia outside of China, reports Reuters.

Karnataka Health Minister B Sriramulu said that a seal down has been implemented at four locations in Bengaluru and more testing is being done in these locations. He mentioned that arrangements have also been made to test senior citizens, reports ANI.

Seal down has been implemented at four locations in Bengaluru. More testings are being done in these locations. We have also made arrangements to test senior citizens: Karnataka Health Minister B Sriramulu. #COVID19 https://t.co/Kv4LchoflW

— ANI (@ANI) June 25, 2020

Three engineering students have developed a sensor-enabled touchless hand sanitizer that has been installed at a School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) exams centre in Shivamogga. The SSLC exams began today for which about 8,48,203 students will be appearing.

Over 30 personnel attached to Naval Air Station INS Parundu have tested positive for coronavirus, district officials said on Thursday, but the forward operating base was 'operational', news agency PTI quoted defences sources in Chennai as saying.

With 4,044 new cases reported in the last 24 hours, Pakistan's infection tally has gone up to 192,970, the health ministry said on Thursday.

According to the ministry of national health services, 148 more people have died due to infection taking the country's death toll to 3,903.

India’s Hetero Labs Ltd has priced its generic version of remdesivir to treat Covid-19 at 5,400 rupees ($71) per 100-milligram vial, the drugmaker said on Wednesday.

The firm said it would supply 20,000 vials of the drug.

Amid concern of Covid-19 outbreak and the need to ensure social distancing to prevent the virus from spreading, the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay will go completely online next semester, its director said on Thursday. The decision, the first by any IIT, followed deliberations that went on till late night Wednesday.

A total of 76 more Covid-19 cases have been reported from Rajasthan in the last 24 hours which takes the total number of cases in the state to 16,085 on, the state health department said on Thursday.

The State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA) will hold a meeting in the evening with home isolation rules for Delhi on agenda. The Delhi government has opposed the current format of home isolation rules, decision on it to be taken in the meeting, reported news agency ANI.

Even as the country has declared itself coronavirus-free, Vietnam has no plans to open up to international tourists yet amid fears of a second wave, the prime minister said on Wednesday.

Germany’s Covid-19 infection rate fell to the lowest in almost three weeks, while the number of new cases remained well below the level at the height of the outbreak, reports Bloomberg.

Pakistan-based Sumaila and Kamal Kalyan, a resident of Jalandhar, got engaged online in 2018. The duo was scheduled to marry in India in March, however, could not due to Covid-19 restrictions in place.

Sumaila has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi, through the media, to allow visas for her and her family members, news agency ANI reported.