Here are the top developments: 1 India In his monthly 'Mann ki Baat' broadcast, Modi said the country is in the middle of a 'yudh' (war) and asserted that people have to continue being careful and take precautions.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will interact with chief ministers via video conference on Monday morning on the way ahead in the fight against the novel coronavirus, amid indications that the discussions could also focus on a graded exit from the ongoing lockdown.

Union health minister Harsh Vardhan said the coronavirus situation is improving as many hotspot districts are moving towards being non-hotspot districts.

The minister visited AIIMS Trauma Centre to take stock of the preparedness to overcome Covid-19.

The government said the production capacity of PPE coveralls required by medical personnel treating Covid-19 cases in the country has been ramped up to more than 1 lakh per day, with Bengaluru emerging as a major hub for its production.

A group of senior tax officers has suggested a super-rich tax and a higher levy on foreign companies to keep the cash till running as part of short term measures to help the government fight the coronavirus pandemic. The suggestions are part of a paper titled 'Force', submitted by the IRS Association to the CBDT chairman P C Mody.

The inter-ministerial central teams visiting West Bengal to take stock of situation relating to COVID-19, toured several areas of Kolkata and Siliguri on Sunday to inspect if lockdown restriction were being followed. The team was escorted by sleuths of the Kolkata Police.

The Supreme Court heard 593 matters via video-conferencing and delivered judgement in 215 of them in a month during the unprecedented nationwide lockdown.

Bhopal Division of Indian Railways has converted 74 railways coaches into isolation wards to help the government fight the coronavirus pandemic. 2 States Delhi: There are 2,625 coronavirus cases in Delhi, out of which 111 were reported yesterday. The total number of active cases in the national capital stands at 1,518 while 869 people have recovered so far.

Uttar Pradesh: UP reported two more coronavirus-related deaths, taking their number to 29 as 50 new Covid-19 cases surfaced in the state. The total number of cases has jumped to 1,843.

Haryana: The state reported seven new cases of Covid-19, pushing total to 296.

Andaman and Nicobar: Four more people have tested positive for Covid-19 in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, taking the total number of cases to 33.

Uttarakhand: Two more persons, including a healthcare professional, at AIIMS, Rishikesh have tested positive for Covid-19 in Uttarakhand.

Maharashtra: The total number of positive cases in Maharashtra is 7,628, which is the highest in the country.

is 7,628, which is the highest in the country. Andhra Pradesh: Eighty-one more Covid-19 cases have been reported from Andhra Pradesh in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of cases in the state to 1097.

J&K: Twenty-nine more people tested positive for Covid-19 in Jammu and Kashmir, taking the total in the Union territory to 523.

Assam: Eight more Covid-19 patients have been discharged from hospital, taking the total number of coronavirus recovered persons in Assam to 27. Assam so far has 35 Covid-19 positive cases of which 27 have been discharged and one patient has died.

Rajasthan: A 60-year-old coronavirus-infected woman died and 69 more people tested positive in Rajasthan, bringing the number of confirmed cases to 2,152 in the state.

Kerala: A doctor and two health workers were among the 11 people detected with Covid-19 in Kerala, with the total positive cases so far touching 468.

West Bengal: A senior government doctor involved in the fight against Covid-19 and a 34-year-old man, both diagnosed with the diease, died at a hospital in Kolkata, taking the total number of the coronavirus cases in the state to 571.

Karnataka: Marking a dip, Karnataka reported just 3 new Covid-19 cases while a woman died of the disease and 24 people were discharged. The toll in the state rose to 19 while the total cases to 503.

Jharkhand: With six new Covid-19 positive cases in Ranchi, the tally of virus infected people in Jharkhand has climbed to 73.

Odisha: Three more people have been confirmed positive for coronavirus in Odisha, taking the total number in the state to 103.

Bihar: Four new Covid-19 cases were reported in Bihar, taking the total number of cases in the state to 255.

Himachal Pradesh: No fresh coronavirus case has been reported in Himachal Pradesh for the last 3 days. So far, 40 cases have been reported in the state, out of which 13 are active.

Chandigarh: There are 30 cases of Covid-19 in Chandigarh, out of which 17 people have been cured/discharged so far.

Tamil Nadu: 64 new Covid-19 cases and one death have been reported in Tamil Nadu, taking the total number of cases to 1,885 & deaths to 24.

Madhya Pradesh: Till date, 2090 cases of Covid-19 have been reported in Madhya Pradesh and 103 people have lost their lives.

Gujarat: 230 new Covid-19 positive cases and 18 deaths were reported in Gujarat in the last 24 hours, taking the total number to 3301.

Punjab: The total number of Covid-19 cases has reached 313 in Punjab, including 84 cured and 18 deaths, so far. 3 World The new coronavirus has claimed at least 202,994 lives worldwide since its outbreak in China in December. More than 2,902,450 cases were registered in 193 countries and territories.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will return to work at 10 Downing Street in London on Monday, three weeks after he was admitted to a hospital as his coronavirus symptoms worsened.

President Donald Trump tweeted that his coronavirus briefings were not worth his time, two days after sparking a furor by suggesting patients might be injected with disinfectant to kill an infection. The US has the most deaths of any country with 53,934.

The number of hospitalised Covid-19 patients in China's Wuhan, where the virus first emerged before turning out to be a pandemic, dropped to zero for the first time, marking yet another milestone for the city which was opened up on April 8 after a 76-day lockdown.

Spain's daily coronavirus death toll dropped to 288, the lowest since March 20, as the country eased its lockdown. The number has brought Spain's total toll to 23,190.

Russia has registered record 6,361 new coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 80,949, the national coronavirus response center said.

South Korea has confirmed 10 more cases of the coronavirus over the past 24 hours, a continuation of the country's slowing caseload. The fresh cases brought the country's total to 10,728 with 242 deaths.

Two new cases of Covid-19 have been identified in Birgunj, which took the total tally of infection-related cases in Nepal to 51.

Sri Lanka has reversed plans to end its virus lockdown on Monday, extending it for another week after a spike in coronavirus infections including at a naval base. The island nation on Sunday reported 460 positive cases in total with seven deaths.

The number of novel coronavirus cases in Iran has passed 90,000, as Tehran announced its lowest number of new deaths in weeks. Fresh 1,153 cases of the Covid-19 illness were reported since midday Saturday, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 90,481.

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said India's "people-driven" battle against COVID-19 is the only way for the country to overcome the pandemic, and asked people to shun any complacency that they will not be infected by the coronavirus because it has so far not affected the places where they live or work. Meanwhile, the countrywide death toll due to Covid-19 rose to 826 and the number of cases climbed to 26,917, according to the Union health ministry.