Covid-19: Coronavirus cases rise to 1,251 in India, death toll 32

Two tweets by Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro in which he questioned quarantine measures aimed at containing the novel coronavirus were removed Sunday, on the grounds that they violated the social network's rules, reports AFP.

New York state's death toll from the coronavirus outbreak climbed Sunday above 1,000, less than a month after the first known infection in the state, reports news agency AP.

Most of the deaths have come in just the past few days.

New York City reported in the evening that its toll had risen to 776. The total number of statewide deaths isn't expected to be released until Monday, but with at least 250 additional deaths recorded outside the city as of Sunday morning, the state's total fatalities was at least 1,026.

Mexico's health ministry on Sunday confirmed 145 new coronavirus cases and four new deaths in the last 24 hours, for a total of 993 cases and 20 deaths: Reuter

Traders queued up early morning to enter the APMC Vegetable Market in Navi Mumbai, Maharasthtra during restriction under Section 144 due to COVID 19 pandemic.

A school in east Delhi has been converted into a temporary shelter home by the government to accommodate the homeless and migrant workers amid the Covid-19 lockdown, reports ANI.

An official of Delhi Civil Defence, Shailendra K Nirala said that there are around people in the Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya in Ghazipur.

Shailendra Kumar Nirala, Delhi Civil Defence: These people were waiting at Anand Vihar Bus Terminal to leave Delhi. We motivated them and asked them to stay here. All arrangements have been made for them. #COVID19 https://t.co/pK0TaGkFI6

— ANI (@ANI) March 30, 2020

South Korea reported 78 new coronavirus cases on Monday, taking the national tally to 9,661, news agency Reuters reported quoting the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC).

The death toll rose to 158, from 152 a day earlier, while 195 people recovered from the virus, according to the KCDC.

Oil prices slumped in Asian trade on Monday, tracking falls on stock markets after a sharp escalation in the coronavirus crisis over the weekend, reports AFP. US benchmark West Texas Intermediate fell 3.9 percent to trade at $20 a barrel, while international benchmark Brent crude was off 4.9 percent at $23 a barrel.

The falls came after the death toll from the pandemic surged past 30,000 at the weekend as cases in hard-hit Europe and the United States rocketed.

An FIR was registered on Saturday against Congress MLA Shailesh Pandey in Chhattisgarh for allegedly violating prohibitory orders under Section 144 of the CrPC after he announced distribution of free ration and a crowd gathered outside his residence in Bilaspur: ANI

Defending himself, Pandey said that he was trying to help the needy. "When I saw the crowd outside my bungalow I called Police asking them to disperse the crowd. I was trying to help needy people, there is nothing wrong in it. Why didn't Police stop the crowd?," he said.

US President Donald Trump on Sunday said that the peak death rate in the United States from the coronavirus pandemic was likely to hit in two weeks and extended "social distancing" guidelines until April 30, reports AFP.

According to a tally by Johns Hopkins University, there are nearly 140,000 confirmed virus cases in the United States and more than 2,400 people have died.