Highlights: Brazil set to pass 1.5 million Covid-19 cases, cities reopen anyway

Tamil Nadu crosses one lakh-mark in Covid-19 positive cases: health department

Early detection, timely clinical management of Covid-19 cases have resulted in increasing daily recoveries: Health Ministry

Highest single-day spike of 37 Covid-19 cases in Arunachal Pradesh, tally 232, active cases 160: Health official

837 new Covid-19 cases in Andhra Pradesh, tally 16,934, active cases 9,096; toll rises to 206 with 8 more deaths, according to the state government's bulletin.

The number of coronavirus cases in Russia reached 667,883 with as many as 6,718 new Covid-19 cases being reported in the last 24 hours.

In the last 24 hours, 982 new Covid-19 positive cases have been reported in the state. There are 7451 active cases, 17,557 discharges so far and 749 patients have succumbed to the infection: Uttar Pradesh Principal Secretary (Health) Amit Mohan Prasad

Suspension of scheduled international passenger flights extended till July 31, some on selected routes may be allowed on case-to-case basis: Aviation regulator DGCA

The total number of COVID-19 cases in Himachal Pradesh stands at 1,016, informed the State's Health Department on Friday.

Odisha on Friday reported its highest single-day spike of 561 Covid-19 cases, taking the state's tally to 8,106, while the death climbed to 29 with two more fatalities, a health department official said.

The Philippines' health ministry on Friday reported six additional novel coronavirus deaths and 1,531 more infections, its largest single-day increase in confirmed cases.

Poor Italians are significantly more likely to die of the coronavirus than higher-income groups, the country's first significant study into the disease's disproportionate social impact showed on Friday.

Italy is one of the world's worst-hit countries with almost 35,000 Covid-19 deaths since its outbreak emerged on Feb. 21 and it was the first European nation to report large-scale infections. (Reuters)

Indonesia reported 1,301 new coronavirus infections on Friday, taking the total number of cases to 60,695, health ministry official Achmad Yurianto said.

Yurianto also reported 49 new coronavirus deaths, taking total fatalities to 3,036, while he said 27,568 people have recovered from the virus. (AP)

The US government has donated 100 ventilators to Pakistan to help the country respond to Covid-19.

The US Embassy says the ventilators deliver on President Donald Trump’s “generous offer of these critically needed supplies.” The new ventilators are valued at $3 million.

Pakistan's Covid-19 tally crossed 221,000-mark on Friday, while 4,551 others succumbed to the viral disease.

Meanwhile, the number of recovered patients surpassed the number of active cases for the first time since the pandemic began in the South Asian nation.

According to the Ministry of National Health Services, “out of the total 221,896 COVID-19 positive patients, 113,623 have so far recovered from the disease across the country”.

The number of active Covid-19 infections stood at 108,273.

More than 230 tested positive for Covid-19 in Bihar, taking the total tally to 10914, state health department confirmed on Friday.