1. Turkey is seeing Asia’s steepest rise in infections; India’s trajectory also picking up

With its number of Covid-19 positive cases inching closer to the 10,000 mark, India has now become fifth-most-affected Asian country. Iran, one of the first to experience the outbreak outside China, is the worst hit with more than 70,000 cases. Turkey, at present, is witnessing the sharpest rise in infections among Asian countries, with its number of cases rising from 100 to 50,000 in just 23 days.

South Korea, which saw a surge in cases in early March, has since managed to contain the spread. Nearly three-fourths of all reported cases in South Korea have now recovered. Meanwhile, the recent surge in its number of coronavirus-positive cases propped up India’s trajectory.

2. New coronavirus cases in China near three-week high China, where the Covid-19 outbreak originally began, is again seeing a surge in new cases. The country added more than 100 cases in a single day for the first time in three weeks. Most of these cases were imported. The country had posed stringent restrictions on movement of people for over two months, and the measures were eased only a couple of weeks ago. China’s tally of cases currently stands at 82,160, of which 95 per cent cases have recovered already.

3. Russia sees sharpest single-day spike in cases