Highlights: Telangana records 219 new Covid-19 cases taking total tally to 5,193

U.S. futures retreated along with Asian shares and the dollar climbed against major peers as investors gauged the danger of a second wave of coronavirus infections.

S&P 500 futures were down about 1.5%. Stocks in Hong Kong saw the bulk of selling, with losses also in Australia, Japan and South Korea. Declines were pared after key Chinese data showed some signs of economic improvement.

China has placed 10 more Beijing neighbourhoods under lockdown emergence of over coronavirus clusters, news agency AFP reported.

France recorded nine coronavirus related fatalities in the last 24 hours as on Sunday. The country's total death toll has reached 29,407 with under 30 fatalities for the fifth day straight.

Oil kept falling after its first weekly drop since late April as a fresh coronavirus outbreak in China and increases in cases elsewhere added to concern a second wave of infections will threaten a nascent economic recovery, news agency Bloomberg reported.

Covid-19 tally in Brazil surpassed surpassed 867,000 on Sunday with the death rising to 43,000, news agency ANI quoted the country's health ministry as saying.

The number of new confirmed Covid-19 cases have shot up to 79 in Beijing with health authorities adding 36 more to the tally for Sunday, the national health authorities announced early Monday

Pharma giant AstraZeneca has struck a deal with Europe’s Inclusive Vaccines Alliance to supply up to 400 million doses of an experimental Covid-19 vaccine.

The alliance forged by Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands to speed up production of a coronavirus vaccine is set to take delivery by the end of 2020 of a vaccine being tested by the University of Oxford.

Union home minister Amit Shah will hold an all party meet at 11am on Monday to review the Covid-19 health crisis in Delhi.

The Delhi-based parties, which are likely to attend the meeting, are the Congress, the Bharatiya Janata Party, the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in power in the national capital and the Delhi unit of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP).

The state has reported over 40,000 Covid-19 cases while the virus has claimed more than 1,200 lives so far.

France, which has reported at least 29,398 deaths from the coronavirus in hospitals and nursing homes, has begun to fully reopening its economy, including all restaurants, to accelerate the country’s recovery after virus crisis.

In the third phase of Vande Bharat Mission, a total of 226 stranded Indians from San Francisco were brought back to Delhi and Hyderabad on Sunday.

A total 7,887,221 people across the globe have contracted the coronavirus disease, while the death toll due to the infection has mounted to 432,632, according to data provided by Johns Hopkins University.