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

The total number of deaths from the coronavirus in France reached a new high on Saturday as the government included more previously unreported deaths in nursing homes.

3 more people (contacts of earlier positive cases) in Agra test positive for Covid-19, taking the total number of positive cases in the district to 48: Agra District Magistrate Prabhu N Singh

A person from Cachar in Assam who attended the Nizamuddin Markaz event in Delhi was tested positive for COVID-19, taking the total number of confirmed cases in Assam to 26, state Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.

President Donald Trump on Saturday doubled down on his support for a drug that is still being tested to treat the coronavirus, saying he might take the medicine himself and encouraging others with doctor approval to do the same.

Mexican Deputy Hugo Lopez-Gatell said on Saturday that decades of poor eating habits in the country have created an epidemic of obesity, diabetes and other related health complications that make its people more vulnerable to the novel coronavirus.

Madhya Pradesh: 3 patients have tested positive for coronavirus in Sendhwa of Barwani. Block Medical Officer says,"They are kin of a 90-year-old person who had died after returning from Saudia Arabia.However, his reports are awaited. We will collect samples of all people they came in contact with"

Sex workers residing in Nashik’s Bhadrakali are facing a financial crisis due to lockdown, in the wake of coronavirus outbreak. They say, "If all citizens of the country are getting help from govt why we should be left behind. Govt should help us too."

PadCare Labs, a start-up based in Pune developed a sanitisation unit to disinfect the surface area, in an attempt to fight coronavirus pandemic.

Seven new coronavirus positive cases were reported from Himachal Pradesh on Saturday.

As of Friday, Pakistan has 2818 confirmed cases of Covid-19 with 1131 in Punjab, 839 in Sindh, 383 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 175 in Balochistan, 193 in Gilgit Baltistan, 75 in Islamabad and 12 in PoK. 41 patients have lost their lives due to Coronavirus, reports news agency ANI.

The Mexican health ministry on Saturday registered 1,890 cases of the novel coronavirus in the country, an increase of 202 cases from a day earlier.

Three weeks after the United States and other countries took sweeping suppression steps that could last months or more, some public health specialists are exploring a different consequence of the mass shutdown: the thousands of deaths likely to arise unrelated to the disease itself.

US President Donald Trump told sports commissioners on Saturday he hoped that their leagues and competitions, which have been suspended by the coronavirus outbreak, would soon be back in action.

Assam Police have deployed drone cameras in Guwahati to monitor the situation amid lockdown due to Covid-19. MP Gupta, Police Commissioner, Guwahati, says, "We have arrested 75 people and seized around 2000 vehicles for violation of lockdown orders."

Covid-19 continues to spread through Turkey as a further 3,013 new cases of the disease and 76 more deaths have been reported on Saturday, the country's Minister of Health Fahrettin Koca announced.