Here is a look at the latest updates on the outbreak of coronavirus in India and around the world —

mortality rate in India around 3.3 per cent

Keep taking proper precautions, together we will certainly defeat COVID-19: PM

Three lakh more Rapid Antibody Test kits sent to India from China: Indian envoy

Shah reviews lockdown situation, takes stock of supply of essential commodities

Worldwide death toll from the coronavirus pandemic rises to 154,188

GoM reviews ways to mitigate hardships of poor people

Humanity will overcome pandemic, says PM Modi

26 Navy personnel test positive at Mumbai's naval base

China's imported cases reach 1,566; revised death toll 4,632

Ministry of external affairs goes the extra mile to help the Dominican Republic

MEA in overdrive in Covid war

Rate of growth in Covid-19 cases down 40% since April 1

MP, Maharashtra report big drop in cases; Gujarat sees surge

Kerala & Tamil Nadu on way to flattening Covid-19 curve?

US surpasses 700,000 coronavirus cases

Trump cautiously moots reopening parts of America for business even as toll mounts

COVID-19 in India: 991 cases, 43 deaths in last 24 hrs

NEW DELHI: The number of cases reported in India now stands at 14,792, of which 12,289 are active cases, according to the Union ministry of health. A total of 488 people have died from the infection, so far.Across the world, coronavirus deaths passed 150,000 on Friday, while in the US the number of infected patients touched the 700,000-mark.The Union health ministry on Saturday said the mortality rate for COVID-19 cases in India is around 3.3 per cent, while over 13 per cent patients have recovered so far.Addressing a daily media briefing about the novel coronavirus situation in the country, joint secretary in the health ministry Lav Agarwal said data indicates that of the people who died due the infection 14.4 per cent were between 0-45 years, 10.3 per cent between 45-60 years, 33.1 per cent between 60-75 years and 42.2 per cent were aged 75 and above."We saw that 75.3 per cent deaths were among those aged 60 or above and in 83 per cent cases there were co-morbidities," he said and reiterated that the elderly and those with co-morbid conditions are at high risk.Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday urged the citizens to keep taking proper precautions and said that together we will certainly defeat the coronavirus pandemic."There is no need to panic. Please keep taking the proper precautions. Together, we can certainly defeat the COVID-19 pandemic," Modi said in a tweet.The Prime Minister was responding to a tweet by Union minister of consumer affairs, food, and distribution Ram Vilas Paswan.Three lakh more Rapid Antibody Test kits being used for the quick detection of the COVID-19 have been dispatched to India from the Chinese city of Guangzhou, the Indian envoy said on Saturday, as India ramped up the global hunt to procure more coronavirus testing kits to tackle rising cases of the infection.About three lakh Rapid Antibody Test kits were airlifted to Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu from Guangzhou, Indian Ambassador to China Vikram Misri said.This is in addition to 6.50 lakh Antibody Tests and RNA Extraction Kits dispatched from China earlier this week.Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday reviewed the prevailing situation in the country during the ongoing lockdown and took stock of the supply of essential commodities, officials said.During the meeting, he was apprised about the steps taken by the home ministry to provide support to migrant workers who are stranded in different parts of the country.Shah also reviewed the working of a 24x7 control room set up to monitor the coronavirus pandemic and coordinate with states and Union territories.The worldwide death toll from the novel coronavirus pandemic rose to 154,188 on Saturday, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP.More than 2,251,690 declared cases have been registered in 193 countries and territories since the epidemic first emerged in China in December. Of these cases, at least 497,600 are now considered recovered.Defence minister Rajnath Singh chaired a meeting of a Gorup of Ministers (GoM) with a focus on finding ways to mitigate the hardships being faced by people across the country.Government sources said the GoM on coronavirus crisis also reviewed various measures being initiated by concerned ministries to allow partial economic activity in "non-hotspot zones" from April 20.It was the fifth meeting of the GoM headed by the defence minister.Humanity will surely overcome the coronavirus pandemic, PM Modi as he hailed the efforts put in by various ministries to help people during the lockdown, and in the fight against COVID-19. "The world is fighting COVID-19 together. Humanity will surely overcome this pandemic," Modi wrote on Twitter while retweeting a tweet by the Indian Embassy in Switzerland.In a major outbreak in the Indian Navy, at least 26 sailors have tested positive for the highly contagious coronavirus in Mumbai, which comes at a time when Covid-19 has adversely hit operations of at least four US and one French nuclear-powered aircraft carriers.Sources said the sailors, who are from the main shore-based logistics depot INS Angre of the Western Naval Command, have been quarantined at the naval hospital INHS Ashwiniin Mumbai.China's imported cases of coronavirus increased to 1,566 with 27 fresh ones, while its revised death toll stood at 4,632 with 50 per cent jump in fatality figures from the epicentre Wuhan, health officials said. The country's National Health Commission (NHC) announced the revised national figures, taking note of Wuhan's new data.India this week managed to send an emergency aid comprising 200,000 HCQ tablets to Dominican Republic (DR) located in the Caribbean. After exploring several options unsuccessfully, the MEA got the consignment on a Blue Dart flight from Delhi-Mumbai in the wee hours of April 15 which was then sent to DR on a Delta cargo leaving Mumbai on the same day.As India scours the world for emergency acquisitions of everything from masks and goggles to testing kits and ventilators, the foreign office has become a part of the frontline warriors battling to contain Covid-19 in India, with embassies and consulates calling every diplomatic IOU to get the needed medical equipment.India witnessed a significant decline of 40% in growth of Covid-19 cases since April 1, compared to a fortnight earlier, while the rate of doubling of cases fell from every three days before the national lockdown began to 6.2 days currently, the government said on Friday. The Centre said social distancing and containment measures were working.A day after registering the highest single-day rise in Covid-19 cases for any state with the addition of 361 cases, MP reported just 61 new infections on Friday. Maharashtra too reported a sharp dip as the countrywide count of fresh cases dropped to a five-day low of 905. Gujarat, meanwhile, reported 170 cases, the highest reported by any state on Friday.Fresh daily cases in Kerala have dropped to single-digit level in the past one week while the number of people getting discharged from hospitals in Tamil Nadu exceeding those getting admitted.Kerala has reported just 32 new cases from April 11 to 17 while 129 patients have recovered from the infection during this period. In Tamil Nadu, more people are getting cured than those getting infected. On Friday, when the state reported 56 new cases, 103 patients got discharged from hospitals.With the highest number of cases and deaths of any country in the world, the US had recorded 700,282 cases of COVID-19 and 36,773 deaths as of 8:30 pm (0030 GMT Friday), according to the Baltimore-based university. On Friday, the global death toll from the virus crossed 150,000.The US began re-opening for business in some thinly-populated states largely unaffected by the coronavirus pandemic under President Trump’s three-phase guidelines unveiled on Friday, even as the national toll spiked up to over 33,000 dead with record daily fatalities in trade- and business-heavy states such as New York and Michigan.