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At least a dozen nations planned to ease restrictions beginning on Monday. And President Trump increased his death toll prediction.

President Trump confirmed reports that his intelligence briefings addressed the virus in January, but argued that the information was not presented in an alarming way that demanded immediate action.

Some countries take tiptoe steps in easing restrictions.

At least 12 countries began easing restrictions on public life on Monday, as the world tries to figure out how to placate restless populations tired of being inside and reboot stalled economies without creating opportunities for the coronavirus to spread.

The measures, which included reopening schools and allowing airports to begin domestic service, offer a preview of how areas that have managed to blunt the toll of the coronavirus might work toward resuming pre-pandemic life. They also serve as test cases for whether the countries can maintain positive momentum through the reopenings, or whether a desire for normalcy could put more people at risk.

Most of the countries easing their restrictions are in Europe — including Italy, one of the places where the virus hit earliest and hardest, leaving more than 28,000 dead as of Monday. The country plans to reopen some airports to passengers.

In Germany, where widespread testing has helped keep the pandemic under control, children will return to schools. Neighboring Austria also plans to restart its school system.

In Lebanon, bars and restaurants will reopen, while Poland plans to allow patrons to return to hotels, museums and shops.

India allowed businesses, local transportation and activities like weddings to resume in areas with few or no known infections. Wedding ceremonies with fewer than 50 guests will be permitted, and self-employed workers like maids and plumbers can return to work.

Japan is set to announce an extension of its state of emergency through the end of this month while allowing public facilities like museums and libraries to reopen if they maintain social distancing controls.

China and South Korea, both of which appear to have emerged from brutal early encounters with the virus, have begun limited reopenings. Restaurants and art galleries are returning to a semblance of normal operation, although the introduction of hand sanitizer and other preventive measures remains a constant reminder of how Covid-19 has changed much of the world.

Other countries planning to lift some restrictions beginning on Monday include Belgium, Greece, Iceland, Hungary, Monaco, Nigeria, Poland and Portugal.

Trump predicts that the U.S. death toll could reach 100,000.

President Trump predicted on Sunday night that the death toll from the coronavirus in the United States may reach as high as 100,000, far higher than he had forecast just weeks ago, even as he pressed states to begin reopening their shuttered businesses.

Mr. Trump, who last month forecast that 60,000 lives would be lost, acknowledged that the virus has proved more devastating than he had expected but said he believes parks and beaches should begin reopening and schools should resume classes in person by the fall.

“We’re going to lose anywhere from 75, 80 to 100,000 people,” he said in a virtual “town hall” meeting on Fox News. “That’s a horrible thing. We shouldn’t lose one person over this.”

During the two-hour broadcast, he also acknowledged he was warned about the coronavirus in his regular intelligence briefing on Jan. 23 but asserted that the information was characterized as if “it was not a big deal.”

Mr. Trump confirmed reports that his intelligence briefings cited the virus even as he argued that it had not been presented in an alarming way that demanded immediate action.

“On Jan. 23 I was told that there could be a virus coming in but it was of no real import,” Mr. Trump said. “In other words, it wasn’t, ‘Oh, we’ve got to do something, we’ve got to do something.’ It was a brief conversation and it was only on Jan. 23.”

His comments come as warmer weather and fatigue over weeks of confinement lured millions of Americans outside this weekend, adding to pressure on city and state officials to enforce, or loosen, restrictions imposed to limit the spread of the coronavirus.

In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio pleaded with residents to resist the impulse to gather outdoors. In New Jersey, golf courses reopened and Gov. Philip D. Murphy said early anecdotal reports indicated that people were maintaining social distance.

In Texas, three movie theaters in the San Antonio area became some of the first in the country to reopen, a move that worried infectious disease experts but was applauded by those who went to the screenings.

Elsewhere, protesters pressing for the loosening of restrictions gathered in the capitals of Kentucky; Florida, where the governor has already announced a relaxing of restrictions; Oregon, where Gov. Kate Brown has extended a state of emergency through July 6; and Michigan, where protesters pressed Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to reopen the state completely.

In Stillwater, Okla., officials abandoned a requirement that people wear masks in shops and restaurants after workers were faced with violent threats.

In Los Angeles, a website for residents to make testing appointments was deluged with visitors. Some Angelenos complained on social media that there were no time slots available for the free tests.

The website made its debut last week after Mayor Eric Garcetti declared that Los Angeles would become the first major American city to offer all residents tests for the virus, which health officials said on Sunday had caused 1,229 deaths in Los Angeles County. The city and county have the capacity to do 18,000 tests a day across 34 sites, Los Angeles officials said.

As the U.S. death toll neared 65,000 it emerged that the White House blocked Dr. Anthony Fauci from testifying about the response to the crisis before the House Appropriations Committee, a spokesman for the committee has told NBC News. However, he will be allowed to testify before the Senate Health Committee.

It also emerged on Friday that the Food and Drug Administration has granted the drug remdesivir, emergency use authorization to treat the most severely ill COVID-19 patients.

Meanwhile, demonstrations against stay-at-home orders were held across the country as protesters vented their frustrations about the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

Shouting “USA! USA!” protesters flew American and “Don’t Tread on Me” flags, outside the Capitol building in Albany, New York. There were similar scenes in Sacramento, California and rallies were scheduled in at least 10 states.

Some states slowly started to reopen, including Texas, where retail stores, restaurants, movie theaters and malls were allowed to open for business. In Louisiana, restaurants (except those in hard-hit New Orleans) are allowed to add outdoor tables.

India’s envoy in UAE reminds diaspora of rule of law amidst outrage over ‘Islamophobic’ slurs

India’s ambassador in the UAE has reminded the diaspora living in the Gulf country of the importance of adhering to the rule of law, saying discrimination is against “our moral fabric” as some Indians posted “Islamophobic” comments on social media platforms, triggering outrage from the Arab citizens.

Ambassador of India to the UAE Pavan Kapoor quoted a tweet of Prime Minister Narendra Modi who said that COVID-19 does not see race, religion, colour, caste, creed, language or borders before striking.

Air passenger traffic may witness 30 pc negative growth this fiscal: CARE Ratings

Air passenger traffic is expected to log a 30 per cent negative growth during this fiscal from earlier estimate of a 20-25 per cent negative growth amid coronavirus pandemic, ratings agency CARE Ratings said on Tuesday.

The agency also expects the airfare to rise in the wake of the social distancing norms.

All domestic and international commercial passenger flights are suspended since March 25 for the lockdown till May 3, as of now.

Russia’s confirmed coronavirus cases surge past 52,000

Russia recorded 5,642 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, bringing its nationwide tally to 52,763, the Russian coronavirus crisis response centre said on Tuesday.

Fifty-one people with the virus died in the last 24 hours, pushing the death toll to 456, it said.

Rajasthan ceases use of rapid testing kits as most results invalid

Rajasthan on Tuesday stopped using rapid test kits for coronavirus after receiving invalid and incorrect results for a large number of samples.

Health Minister Raghu Sharma said the kits were giving mere five percent correct or valid results and a report has been forwarded to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) in this regard.

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Coronavirus India update: With the addition of 1,553 cases and 36 deaths in 24 hours, India’s total number of coronavirus-positive cases reached 17,615 on Monday. Globally, 2,414,098 people have been infected and 165,153 have died so far, according to Worldometer. The central government on Monday said the Covid-19 situation was “especially serious” in Mumbai, Pune, Indore, Jaipur and Kolkata. In what could be abother cause for concern in India’s fight against coronavirus, it has come to light that over 80 per cent of the cases in India are asymptomatic, a TV new channel has reported, quoting senior ICMR scientist Dr Raman R Gangakhedkar.

World update on coronavirus: Coronavirus-related deaths in the US has topped 45,000, with New York recording nearly half of all fatalities. A top Wuhan laboratory official has denied any role in spreading the new virus, even as US President Donald Trump has been claiming that China could have deliberately caused the outbreak and threatening that it might have to face the consequences for it.

The death toll due to Covid-19 rose to over 500 and the number of cases climbed crossed 15,000 in the country on Saturday, according to the Union Health Ministry. The coronavirus has killed more than 100,000 people in Europe, nearly two thirds of the overall global death toll.

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Cinema halls, shopping complexes, malls, religious places to remain closed till May 3: Health ministry

16:41 (IST), APR 19

54 other districts in 23 States/Union Territories didn’t report any cases in last 14 days. 2,231 patients have been cured so far in the country: Health Ministry.

16:38 (IST), APR 19

Department of Biotechnology designated central coordination agency for development of vaccine to fight Covid-19: Health ministry

16:37 (IST), APR 19

No relaxation from April 20 for containment zones in hotspots: Health ministry

16:33 (IST), APR 19

‘I thought I would never wake up,’ Belgian doctor says after surviving Covid-19

16:30 (IST), APR 19

High-level task force to work on frontiers of science related to vaccines and drug testing formed on Sunday: Health ministry

16:27 (IST), APR 19

Total cases rise to 15,712, death toll stands at 507 in India: Health ministry

16:21 (IST), APR 19

1,334 fresh Covid-19 cases reported since Saturday, 27 deaths in last 24 hours: Health ministry

16:18 (IST), APR 19

There are 755 dedicated hospitals and 1389 dedicated health care centers in the country, this takes the total dedicated facilities – where severe or critical patients can be treated – to 2,144: Health ministry

16:15 (IST), APR 19

We have done 3,86,791 tests so far. Yesterday 37,173 tests were done, out of these 29,287 tests were done in labs of ICMR network. 7,886 tested in private sector labs: Dr Raman R Ganga-khedkar, ICMR

16:11 (IST), APR 19

Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla writes to all chief secretaries of states and Union territories regarding e-commerce companies excluded from supplying non-essential goods, however they will continue to supply essential goods.

15:51 (IST), APR 19

CBDT takes steps to enable taxpayers to avail full benefits of various timeline extensions granted by the Centre due to pandemic situations

CBDT is revising the return forms for FY 2019-20 (Assessment Year 2020-21) which will be notified by the end of this month

15:49 (IST), APR 19

Stranded labourers to be allowed movement within state during lockdown, with conditions

15:48 (IST), APR 19

Prisons in Maharashtra have more inmates than their actual capacity. So we’ve decided to implement lockdown at Aurangabad jail -arrangements for food & stay of police personnel will be made inside jail. No one will be allowed to come out or go insideMaharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh 15:47 (IST), APR 19

Four new cases of Covid-19 in Jharkhand

3 new cases from Ranchi and 1 from Simdega. Total number of positive cases in the state rises to 38.

The Trump administration announces steps to speed up testing.

The Trump administration moved on Friday to dramatically speed up coronavirus screening, introducing an emergency hotline for private laboratories and new partnerships with companies developing tests that can detect the virus within an hour.

The unit within the Department of Health and Human Services that does biomedical research will award over a million dollars to two companies, DiaSorin Molecular and Qiagen, to speed up the development of the tests, the department announced on Friday morning.

The Food and Drug Administration said on Friday that a 24-hour emergency hotline would be created to help private-sector and academic labs authorize new tests and process the ones deployed.

Health and Human Services also made drastic changes to the team overseeing the distribution of tests to public and private labs, installing Adm. Brett Giroir, the assistant secretary for the agency, to oversee the efforts.

Dr. Robert R. Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Dr. Stephen Hahn, the F.D.A. commissioner, now must report to Adm. Giroir, said Alex M. Azar II, the health and human services secretary.The move was another indication of tension among top health officials as the Trump administration has struggled to catch up with the demand nationally at public health labs.

Coronavirus Live Updates: At Least 5 States Will Close All Schools, Affecting Millions.

Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, wife of Justin Trudeau, tests positive for the coronavirus. In the United States, stocks plunge despite the Fed’s $1.5 trillion offer to banks. China records lowest number of infections yet.

RIGHT NOW : All public schools in Ohio, Michigan, Maryland, Kentucky and New Mexico were told to close beginning next week.

At least 5 states will close all schools, affecting millions.

At least five states and several large school districts moved on Thursday to close schools for at least two weeks, extreme measures that they hope will stem the spread of the coronavirus, but which come at the cost of upending the daily lives of 6 million schoolchildren and their parents.

All public schools, and many if not all private schools, in Ohio, Michigan, Maryland, Kentucky and New Mexico were told to close beginning next week, and the governor of Washington State ordered all schools shut in three counties near Seattle. The Houston Independent School District, the largest school district in Texas, also said it was closing for two weeks.

The actions came as the number of people who have been infected with the coronavirus in the United States jumped by nearly 400 on Thursday. The virus has been diagnosed in more than 1,650 people in 46 states and has killed at least 41 people, according to a New York Times database. The closings could have a severe effect on parents who will need to find child care, and on the many students who depend on the cafeteria for food and the school for shelter.

In Kentucky, for example, 75 percent of public school students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. In Ohio, there are more than 25,000 students who are defined as homeless.

Some of the largest school districts in the country have remained open amid the coronavirus threat. Officials in New York, home to the nation’s largest school district, have said closing its schools would be a last resort. In Los Angeles, the second-largest district, the superintendent said on Thursday night that schools would remain open for the time being, despite the teachers’ union calling on him to close it.

In addition to state-mandated closings, there are most likely hundreds of thousands of students whose schools have independently decided to suspend instruction. Even before some the state closures were announced, more than 10,000 schools had announced that they were closing, affecting millions of students, according to Education Week, a news organization that was tracking the closings.

Stocks plunge despite the Fed’s $1.5 trillion offer to banks.

Stocks plunged in the United States on Thursday, after President Trump’s latest effort to address the coronavirus outbreak — a 30-day travel ban on people from most European countries — disappointed investors who have been looking for Washington to take steps to bolster the economy.

Trading was turbulent, with a brief rebound after the Federal Reserve offered at least $1.5 trillion worth of loans to banks to help keep the financial markets working smoothly. But the downdraft gathered pace again by midafternoon.

The S&P 500 fell about 9.5 percent, its biggest daily drop since the crash in 1987 that came to be known as Black Monday. Stocks in the United States are now firmly in a bear market, meaning they have fallen at least 20 percent from the most recent peak.

The travel ban hit shares in Europe particularly hard, with major stock indexes there down more than 10 percent. It also battered airline stocks. And with oil prices falling, energy companies were among the day’s biggest losers.

On Friday in Asia, Japanese stocks dropped sharply in trading Other Asian stocks continued to suffer as well. In Tokyo and Seoul, South Korea, stocks dropped by nearly 8 percent. At one point, Japanese shares were down more than 10 percent.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the coronavirus outbreak:

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the coronavirus outbreak, which has spread to at least 114 countries, a pandemic with Italy tightening its quarantine and the US imposing a ban on flights to Europe.

As President Donald Trump announced new measures to address the United States growing outbreak, Italy further tightened the quarantine it imposed across the country earlier this week – with all but essential services and shops to close for two weeks – after leaders from the European Union promised to do “whatever it takes” to tackle the coronavirus, which first emerged in China at the end of last year.

Meanwhile, the virus appeared in new countries including Bolivia, Honduras and Turkey, while Indonesia, Bulgaria and Sweden recorded their first deaths.

More than 129,313 have been infected globally, according to the World Health Organization(WHO). Of those, over 68,335 have recovered, according to John Hopkins University, which is tracking the virus.

Here are the latest updates: WHO declares virus pandemic, govts step up response: Live updates

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corona-virus: Each and every symptoms, causes, treatment, types to latest updates

A corona-virus is a kind of common virus that causes an infection in your nose, sinuses, or upper throat. Most corona-viruses are not dangerous.

Some types of corona-viruses are serious, though. About 858 people have died from Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), which first appeared in 2012 in Saudi Arabia and then in other countries in the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Europe. In April 2014, the first American was hospitalized for MERS in Indiana and another case was reported in Florida. Both had just returned from Saudi Arabia. In May 2015, there was an outbreak of MERS in Korea, which was the largest outbreak outside of the Arabian Peninsula. In 2003, 774 people died from a severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak. As of 2015, there were no further reports of cases of SARS.

But In early 2020, following a December 2019 outbreak in China, the World Health Organization identified a new type, 2019 novel corona-virus (2019-nCoV). Often a corona-virus causes upper respiratory infection symptoms like a stuffy nose, cough, and sore throat. You can treat them with rest and over-the-counter medication. The corona-virus can also cause middle ear infections in children.

What Is a Coronavirus? Corona-viruses were first identified in the 1960 s, but we don’t know where they come from. They get their name from their crown-like shape. Sometimes, but not often, a corona-virus can infect both animals and humans. Almost everyone gets a corona-virus infection at least once in their life, most likely as a young child. In the United States, corona-viruses are more common in the fall and winter, but anyone can come down with a corona-virus infection at any time.



Common Symptoms of Corona-virus

The symptoms of most corona-viruses are similar to any other upper respiratory infection, including runny nose, coughing, sore throat, and sometimes a fever. In most cases, you won’t know whether you have a corona-virus or a different cold-causing virus, such as rhinovirus.

You could get lab tests, including nose and throat cultures and blood work, to find out whether your cold was caused by a corona-virus, but there’s no reason to. The test results wouldn’t change how you treat your symptoms, which typically go away in a few days. But if a corona-virus infection spreads to the lower respiratory tract, it can cause pneumonia, especially in older people, people with heart disease, or people with weakened immune systems.

A Chinese man visiting the Philippines died Feb. 1, becoming the first corona-virus patient to die outside China. The man was 44 and had been quarantined in isolation along with his female traveling companion, who also tested positive for the new corona-virus. The man developed both pneumonia and the flu while in the hospital. The eighth case is a man in his 20 s from Boston who had just returned from Wuhan, according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. He will remain in isolation until cleared by health officials.

The CDC confirmed the seventh case of the disease in a man from California. The man had recently returned from Wuhan and lives in Santa Clara County, in the San Francisco Bay area. Worldwide the number of cases is nearing 119,246, the majority of them in China, and the number of deaths is 4300. All but one of the deaths have been in China, according to the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control.

In the U.S., foreigners who have traveled to China in the past two weeks will be barred from entering the the country, the government said Friday, as the White House declared a national public health emergency over the new corona-virus. As part of that proclamation, any citizen returning to the U.S. who has been to Hubei province in China in the past 14 days will be under mandatory quarantine for 14 days, which is thought to be the incubation period for the virus. Any citizen who’s been to the rest of China within the past 2 weeks will get a health screening when they get back to the U.S. They’ll then be asked to self-quarantine for 14 days. Their movements will be monitored.

How many people have been diagnosed with the virus, and how many have died?

According to European CDC, the majority of the confirmed cases – nearly 15,000– are in China. Another 134 are confirmed outside of China in 23 countries. These include: Thailand, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia, South Korea, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam, Cambodia, Nepal, the Philippines, India, SriLanka, Germany, France, Italy, United Kingdom, Russia, Finland, Spain, Sweden, United States, Canada and Australia.



What to Do About Corona-virus

There is no vaccine for corona-virus. To help prevent a corona-virus infection, do the same things you do to avoid the common cold:

Wash your hands thoroughly with soap and warm water or with an alcohol-based hand sanitizer.

Keep your hands and fingers away from your eyes, nose, and mouth.

Avoid close contact with people who are infected.

Get plenty of rest.

Drink fluids.

Take over-the-counter medicine for a sore throat and fever. But don’t give aspirin to children or teens younger than 19; use ibuprofen or acetaminophen instead.

You treat a corona-virus infection the same way you treat a cold. A humidifier or steamy shower can also help ease a sore and scratchy throat.

Even when a corona-virus causes MERS or SARS in other countries, the kind of corona-virus infection common in the U.S. isn’t a serious threat for an otherwise healthy adult. If you get sick, treat your symptoms and contact a doctor if they get worse or don’t go away.