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A special control room has been set up in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly to provide a platform to the MLAs to register their suggestions and complaints related to the state government's fight against Covid-19, reports news agency IANS.

Assembly Speaker Hriday Narayan Dixit said that the decision to this effect was taken on the advice of Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla during his last video conferencing with the presiding officers of the State Assemblies.

Asian markets rise again, buoyed by a further easing of coronavirus lockdown measures, as the crude market's rollercoaster ride sees US benchmark WTI surge more than 15 percent, boosted by bargain-buying, reports news agency AFP.

Nineteen more people have tested positive for Covid-19 in Rajasthan, taking the total number of cases to 2,383, according to ANI.

Out of the 19 new cases, five are from Jaipur, 11 from Ajmer, one each from Udaipur, Banswara and Jodhpur, as per the state's health department release

Long queue of vehicles were seen at Delhi-Gurugram border on Wednesday morning as police personnel checked passes of people commuting through the route, as a preventive measure against Covid-19.

Haryana: Long queue of vehicles seen at Delhi-Gurugram border as Police personnel check passes of people commuting through the route, as a preventive measure against #COVID19 amid #CoronavirusLockdown. pic.twitter.com/X6CASMkV2T

— ANI (@ANI) April 29, 2020

A 77-year-old man has tested positive for Covid-19 in Bhubaneswar, said Odisha's health department, according to news agency ANI.

He is a close contact of a previous positive case and contact tracing is on.

With this, the total positive cases in the state stand at 119.

India's death toll from Covid-19 crossed the 1,000-mark on Wednesday, according to figures released by the Union health ministry at 8 am.

There are 22,629 active cases in the country, 7,695 patients have been cured/ discharged while the death toll has now risen to 1,007.

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday the United States was considering having passengers on international flights from coronavirus hot spots be tested for the virus, reports Reuters.

"We're looking at doing it on the international flights coming out of areas that are heavily infected," Trump said at a White House event. He said his administration was working with airlines on the plan, which could happen "in the very near future."

He said Brazil was one of the countries "getting to that category" of being a hot spot.

Faridabad deputy commissioner's order also said that vehicles engaged in the movement of essential goods and banking services will be exempted. Order to remain in effect till 3rd May 2020.

Vehicles engaged in the movement of essential goods & banking services to be exempted. Order to remain in effect till 3rd May 2020: Yash Pal, Deputy Commissioner, Faridabad #Haryana #COVID19 https://t.co/tlIdGtgKpQ

— ANI (@ANI) April 29, 2020

Haryana has banned travel of government employees and common people from neighbouring states and districts to Faridabad district, reports ANI.

Only doctors, paramedical staff, police and bank employees will be permitted on producing their identity cards, till 12 pm today, Faridabad's deputy commissioner Yash Pal said.

The portals of the Kedarnath temple in Uttarakhand were opened at 6:10 am today. 'Darshan' for the devotees is not allowed at the temple as of now because of the coronavirus pandemic: ANI

Oil prices climbed on Wednesday, trimming some of this week's steep losses after US stockpiles rose less than expected and hopes grew for demand to pick up as some European countries and US cities moved to ease coronavirus lockdowns, reports Reuters.

The number of daily deaths from coronavirus rose again in the US Tuesday, a tally from Johns Hopkins University showed, as the country's total fatalities surpassed those of Americans in the Vietnam War.

In a 24-hour period to 8:30 pm (0030 GMT), there were 2,207 additional deaths, the Baltimore-based university said, after the daily toll had fallen to around 1,300 on Sunday and Monday.

The total number of US deaths from new coronavirus have reached 58,351, passing the 58,220 which the National Archives records as US losses from combat and other causes, including accidents, in the years-long Southeast Asian war.

The US on Tuesday became the first country in the world to have more than one million cases of coronavirus. The number of people infected by the coronavirus in the United States crossed one million and the fatalities jumped to nearly 59,000, reports news agency PTI.

It accounts for nearly one-third of the 3.1 million cases globally.