Covid-19 Highlights: India switches off lights; diyas, candles lit at PM's call

8 new Covid-19 cases found in Noida, district count goes up to 58.

Delhi Police appeals to citizens to not come out of their houses to celebrate Shab-e-Barat on April 8/9, amid coronavirus lockdown; Police also urges cooperation from religious laders and RWAs in maintaining lockdown.

Uttarakhand Police use drone cameras to keep an eye on public movement in Dehradun amid coronavirus lockdown.

34 new coronavirus positive cases reported in Andhra Pradesh; The Total number of positive cases in the state rises to 226: Andhra Pradesh Health Department

A 60-year-old woman, who was brought dead at Pune's Sassoon Hospital on April 3, has been found Covid-19 positive. She had earlier tested negative: Sassoon Hospital officials in Maharashtra.

Ordnance Factory Board has planned for 280 isolation beds across 10 hospitals spread over 6 states in the country. Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd Bengaluru has isolation ward facility with 3 beds in ICU and 30 beds in wards. In all, 93 persons can be accommodated at HAL facility

Two Covid-19 ( one 60-year-old and one 71-year-old) patients pass away in Chennai, taking the death toll in the state to 5: Tamil Nadu Health Department

Covid-19 deaths reach 11 in Gujarat, with one more woman succumbing to the disease in Surat today. Positive cases also rise to 122 as 14 fresh cases came into the light today in the state. Maximum 55 cases in Ahmedabad: State Health Department.

Delhi: A possibly infected Covid-19 patient jumped from the third floor of AIIMS Jai Prakash Narayan Apex Trauma Center today and suffered a fracture in his leg. His condition is stable. His Covid-19 test result is awaited, reports news agency ANI.

Two more nursing staff of Delhi State Cancer Institute have been tested positive for Covid-19. Earlier, four staff including a doctor were found positive at the hospital, reports ANI.

Two more Covid-19 deaths reported in Tamil Nadu. State toll rises to 5, reports PTI.

Thailand reported 102 new coronavirus cases and three more deaths, the country's public health ministry said on Sunday.

Panama's health ministry on Saturday registered 1,801 cases of the novel coronavirus in the Central American county, an increase of 128 cases from a day earlier. The number of deaths increased by five to 46.

To meet the critical shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) for healthcare and other front line workers battling the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers in the US have designed low-cost plastic face shields which are being made available to manufacturers.

Our strategy for the containment of Covid-19 is satisfactory. We are yielding good results from our strategy for tracing, isolation, testing & treatment. PCR test is going on in 9 laboratories. We have tested more than 8000 samples so far: Kerala Health Minister KK Shailaja