Covid-19 updates: Coronavirus kills more than 1,000 in a single day in Italy

"Mamata didi from Bengal, our bothers from different states requested us to take care of their people in Delhi. I would like to tell them, irrespective of who is from which state or has migrated from where, every person living in Delhi is our responsibility and each one of them will be taken care of. They are our own," Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal.

"There are a total of 39 coronavirus positive cases in Delhi today. 29 of them had come from outside and were kept in quarantine and 10 of these are cases of local transmission," says Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal.

"We have adequate facilities in the cases of coronavirus start rising by 100 in a day, we are hoping that it would not. The lockdown is done in order to combat the coronavirus spread but we have to be prepared," says Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal.

Indian Army has code-named its anti #COVID19 operations as Operation Namaste. Army has, so far, established eight quarantine facilities across the country.

China's President Xi Jinping on a phone call with United States President Donald Trump said that China and United States must united to fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

President Donald Trump said on Friday he spoke with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping and discussed "in great detail" the coronavirus pandemic, which has so far killed more than 24,000 people globally. "China has been through much & has developed a strong understanding of the virus," Trump said on Twitter. "We are working closely together'', reports Reuters.

Covid-19 stocks the global economy and the outlook is highly uncertain and negative. Several nations are battling its exponential contagion. Countries are shutting down to prevent being sucked into a kind of black hole, says RBI governor Shaktikanta Das.

Monetary policy committee refrains from giving out growth, inflation outlook for coming fiscal on uncertain outlook: RBI Governor.

Food prices may soften further on back of record foodgrain production: RBI Governor

The outlook is now heavily contingent upon the intensity, spread and duration of the pandemic. There is a rising probability that large parts of the world will slip into recession, says RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das.

MPC (Monetary Policy Committee) noted that global economic activity has come to a near stand-still as Covid-19 related lockdowns and social distancing in affected countries. Expectations of a shallow recovery in 2020 from 2019's decade low in global growth have been dashed, said RBI governor.

RBI is at work; calibrating action to meet any liquidity mode, says Shaktikanta Das, RBI governor.

Living in extraordinary situation; war effort needs to be mounted against coronavirus using conventional, unconventional tools, says RBI governor Shaktikanta Das.

RBI advances monetary policy committee meeting to Mar 25-27: Governor Shaktikanta Das.

RBI governor Shaktikanta Das while addressing the media on Friday announced that the repo rate has been cut by 75 basis points to 4.4 per cent.