Highlights: With 391 new Covid-19 cases in Gujarat, state tally rises to 11,380

The overall number of global coronavirus cases has increased to over 4.6 million, while the death toll has surpassed 311,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University, reports news agency IANS.

As of Sunday morning, the total number of cases stood at 4,634,068, while the death toll increased to 311,781, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed in its latest update.

Canada's parliament has gone virtual through the coronavirus pandemic, assembling MPs across six time zones and giving a rare peek at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's bookcase, a deer head and a stifled opposition,reports AFP.

Every Tuesday and Thursday over the past month 338 Canadian MPs logged into Zoom from home to question ministers in lieu of holding a daily in-person question period.

French health authorities reported 96 new coronavirus deaths on Saturday, as the country eases from a two month lockdown, reports Reuters.

In a statement, the health ministry said the figure had fallen slightly from 104 fatalities on Friday. This brings France's total to 27,625.

Teachers evaluating board exam answer sheets at an evaluation centre in Prayagraj followed the social distancing norms. Thermal screening of teachers was done and the premise was also sanitised, reports ANI.

Teachers evaluating board exam answer sheets follow social distancing at an evaluation center in Prayagraj. YC Tripathi,Principal,Bharat Scout&Guide Inter College says,"we're following all govt guidelines.Thermal screening of teachers is done&the premises is also sanitised"(16.5) pic.twitter.com/DM4lZxJ3ay

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The last tranche of the economic package announcement by Union finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will be held at 11 am today, reports ANI.

A total of eight vaccine candidates for Covid-19 are in the clinical trial while another 110 are in various stages of development across the globe, according to World Health Organisation (WHO) data, reports ANI.

Assam's Covid-19 tally stands at 95. State health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said early on Sunday that one boy from Sibsagar tested positive for Covid-19.

"One young boy from Sibsagar test #COVID19 positive. He is at present in our Jorhat Quarantine Centre. Total cases stand at 95 in Assam," Sarma said on Twitter.

The United States recorded 1,237 coronavirus deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing its grim total to 88,730, according to the latest real-time tally Saturday reported by Johns Hopkins University, reports AFP.

The country -- hardest hit by the pandemic in terms of the number of fatalities -- has now confirmed a total of 1,466,682 cases, the Baltimore-based school reported.

Brazil's COVID-19 death toll passed 15,000 on Saturday, official data showed, while its number of infections topped 230,000, making it the country with the fourth-highest number of cases in the world, reports AFP.

With 15,633 deaths and 233,142 confirmed cases, Brazil -- whose president Jair Bolsonaro has dismissed the disease as a "little flu" -- is at the epicenter of infections in Latin America.

Brazil has now overetaken Spain as the nation with the world’s fourth-highest number of confirmed Covid-19 patients.