Covid-19 updates: Russian PM Mikhail Mishustin tests coronavirus positive

West Bengal home secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay on Thursday said that a total of 2,368 students were being brought back home from Kota where they were stranded due to the lockdown.

Russia's coronavirus case tally has mounted over100,000-mark after record daily rise. Total cases in Russia climbed 106,498 on Thursday, the country's coronavirus crisis response centre said.

In the last 24 hours, 101 people died due to the virus taking the total toll to 1,073.

Union minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday tweeted that the railways is ensuring ample availability of essentials in every corner of the nation. It is transporting 1,15,000 litres of Milk and 8 tonnes of medicines from Salem in Tamil Nadu to Dimapur in Nagaland.

"Railways is committed to fulfil the needs of people from Northeast India," he said.

British PM Boris Johnson chaired a meeting of his top ministers on Thursday day after his fiancee gave birth to a boy.

The cabinet discussed how to ease Covid-19 restrictions as the number of cases continue to rise in the country.

State-run Industrial Training Institute (ITI), Cuttack has developed a portable walk-in kiosk for collecting samples from suspected coronavirus-infected persons, an official said on Thursday.

The total Coivd-19 toll in Brazil has surpassed 5,000 making its overall pandemic-related toll the ninth-highest in the world.

Kerala government heaved a sigh of relief after Governor Arif Mohammed khan signed the ordinance to cut salaries of government employees. Earlier opposition Congress and BJP have asked the Governor not to give his nod. The government was forced to bring ordinance after Kerala High Court stayed its order to cut the salary. Reeling under severe financial constraints the government is planning to cut ₹2000 crore through this.

The total number of coronavirus cases in Rajasthan rose by 86 taking the tally to 2,524, said the State Health Department on Thursday.

The US government, through its aid agency USAID, has announced an additional grant of $3 million to help India combat the coronavirus pandemic.

Chinese President Xi Jinping hailed China's battle against COVID-19 as a major strategic achievement.

China's National Health Commission (NHC) on Thursday said the country reported only four new confirmed Covid-19 cases on Wednesday, taking the total number to 82,862, while no death due to the disease was registered.

After 28 cops tested positive for coronavirus in Uttar Pradesh, police personnel has ordered over 10,000 personal protective equipments.

Seventeen year old climate activist Great Thunberg has donated a $100,000, which she won from a Danish foundation, to United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) as she believes "Like the climate crisis, the coronavirus pandemic is a child rights crisis"

Mayor Eric Garcetti said that Los Angeles will be Unites States' first major city to offer free Covid-19 tests to all residents of the county regardless of their symptoms.

“So long as Covid-19 spreads, we have to scale up our response,” Mayor Eric Garcetti said in an emailed statement, calling the coronavirus a “silent killer.”

A sliver of hope ran through a nation ravaged by a new virus and shuttered at home after a top US government scientist announced Wednesday that data from ongoing federal trials demonstrated that an antiviral drug can significantly shorten the duration of the illness and hasten recovery.

The Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation has transformed buses into mobile clinics collect throat swab samples from suspected coronavirus patients.