Highlights: World Bank approves $1 billion emergency financing for India
PM Modi is set to share a video message with the nation tomorrow at 9 in the morning. On Thursday, coronavirus deaths in country climbed to 53 and the positive cases being at 2,069. Global death toll due to Covid-19 has crossed 50,000.
Coronavirus deaths in India on Thursday climbed to 53, while the number of positive cases crossed 2,000. Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that he will share a video message with people at 9am tomorrow. It is expected that it will be centered around the coronavirus pandemic that made the PM declare a 21-day nationwide lockdown. More than a million people have been infected by Covid-19 and the global death toll has crossed 50,000.
Here are the major highlights of the day on coronavirus pandemic:
Mexico's coronavirus death toll rises to 37
Mexico on Wednesday reported 37 deaths from Covid-19, up from 29 a day earlier, its health ministry said. It also said that the number of coronavirus cases in the country rose to 1,378 from 1,215 the previous day.
Coronavirus cases would hit one million mark in next few days: WHO
The head of World Health Organization (WHO) has said that the number of confirmed coronavirus cases would hit one million "in the next few days."
"I am deeply concerned about the rapid escalation and global spread of infection," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual news conference on Wednesday.
In the next few days we will reach 1 million confirmed cases and 50,000 deaths worldwide," he said.
US President Trump casts doubt on Chinese coronavirus figures
US President Donald Trump has cast doubt on the accuracy of official Chinese figures on its coronavirus outbreak after an intelligence report by US lawmakers accused Beijing of a cover up. Saying "how do we know if they are accurate", Trump told a press conference on Wednesday that "their numbers seem to a little bit on the light side."
First published: Apr 02, 2020 05:30 IST