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

"This Covid-19 situation is an unprecedented one and we need to break norms in order to tackle the crisis, while we also keeping in the mind the limited resources that we have," said Raghuram Rajan while interacting with Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.

Ex-chief of RBI says that India' capacities are limited in the long run, which is why an approach of prioritisation is required.

"We need to decide how do we keep economy together so that when we re-open it's itself able to walk off the sick bed&not be impaired at that point. Most immediately, I think keep people well and alive," he said.

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In a series of video dialogues Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will hold a conversation on the country's economy with former RBI chief Raghuram Rajan shortly.

The government has released forms for registration on the Indian embassy's website to find out the exact number of Indians stranded in the United States.

The government has hinted that it ready to undertake what could be the biggest repatriation operation of stranded Indian diaspora across the world.

The police has arrested 11,250 people for violating the lockdown put in place to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease, news agency ANI reported.

According to latest figures released by the ministry of health on Thursday morning, the country has recorded 1,718 new coronavirus cases and 66 deaths in last 24 hours taking the total count up to 33,050 while the death toll stands at 1074.

According to latest figures released on Wednesday, Britain has Europe's second highest Covid-19 death toll.

Data shows some 26,097 people died across the United Kingdom after testing positive for Covid-19 as of April 28

The International Labour Organization (ILO) said the risk of losing livelihoods due to the coronavirus pandemic fell on those workers in the informal economy, and three-quarters of them, some 1.6 billion people were at risk in the second quarter of 2020.

Oil prices extended a rally Thursday after data showed US crude stockpiles rose less than expected and on signs that falling production may offset a coronavirus-triggered demand shock.

The top US infectious disease official Dr. Anthony Fauci hailed Gilead Sciences Inc's experimental antiviral drug remdesivir to treat the coronavirus disease and patients given remdesivir recovered 31% faster than those given a placebo and that the results were highly significant.

US president Donald Trump on Wednesday accused the World Health Organisation (WHO) of misleading the US on coronavirus outbreak and said that the UN body was "literally a pipe organ for China."

"They misled us. We will have a recommendation pretty soon but we are not happy with the World Health Organization," Trump told reporters.

As US plans to reopen the economy in phases amid coronavirus concerns, 35 of the 50 states have released formal opening plans.

While president Trump has pushed for "Opening Up America Again," he also mourned the death of over 60,000 Covid-19 victims in US, "We mourn, and I have to say this so strongly we mourn every life tragically lost to the invisible enemy. And we are heartened that the worst of the pain and suffering is going to be behind us."