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

MEA announces COVID-19 training programme for SAARC countries

Army doctor in Delhi tests positive, contact tracing begins

Fresh 1,463 infections reported in last 24 hours

Mumbai: Migrant workers come out on road; say want to travel back home

602 hospitals earmarked as dedicated COVID-19 facilities

Iran says virus deaths drop below 100 for first time in month

Govt sets up 20 control rooms to address wage-related issues

All flights, passenger train services to remain suspended till May 3

Prime Minister Narendra Modi extends lockdown till May 3

Maharashtra Covid-19 tally rises to 2,334 with 352 fresh cases; death toll 160

Virus cases about 2 million worldwide

China approves two experimental coronavirus vaccines to enter clinical trials

‘Encouraging’ results for drug, India joins trials

How Kerala managed to flatten the Covid graph

Free tests at private labs only for poor: Supreme Court

NEW DELHI: The death toll due to novel coronavirus rose to 353 with 29 fatalities reported since Monday evening, while the number of cases saw a record jump of 1,463 to go up to 10,815 cases on Tuesday, according to the Union health ministry.The number of active COVID-19 cases stands at 9,272 and as many as 1,190 people have been cured and discharged, and one has migrated, it said.The external affairs ministry on Tuesday announced rolling out of a training programme on management of coronavirus pandemic for healthcare professionals from Saarc countries from April 17.The training will be imparted by the ministry under its prestigious Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation programme."Taking forward @PMOIndia's vision on #PrepareNotPanic for #SAARCfightsCoronoa, @MEAIndia announces e-@ITECnetwork training programmes on #COVID19 for healthcare professionals for @SAARCsec countries starting April 17, 2020," a tweet by ITEC network said.An army doctor posted in Delhi tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday, official sources said.Following this, the place where he worked has been sanitised, they said."One army doctor in Delhi today tested positive. The contact tracing has been started," a source said.With the sharpest ever increase of 1,463 new positive COVID-19 cases and 29 deaths in the last 24 hours, the total number of coronavirus cases in India on Tuesday climbed to 10,815, said the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.The COVID-19 figure includes 9279 active cases, while 1190 patients have been cured and discharged or migrated as of Tuesday. The total deaths due to the infection stood at 353.Over 1,000 migrant workers who earn daily gathered in Mumbai on Tuesday demanding transport arrangements to go back to their native places, hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced extension of the coronavirus-enforced lockdown till May 3.A police official said the migrants were dispersed two hours later and have been assured accommodation and food till the lockdown lasts.A total of 602 hospitals have been earmarked as dedicated COVID-19 facilities in coordination with states with a capacity of 1,06,719 isolation beds and 12,024 ICU beds reserved for such patients in the country, the Union health ministry said on Tuesday.According to an ICMR official, 2.31 lakh tests have been conducted so far for COVID-19.The ministry officials said that to break the virus chain in a particular area, not a single case should be reported from there for at least 28 days.Iran said on Tuesday that the number of lives lost in the country to the novel coronavirus dropped to double figures for the first time in one month.Health ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said 98 deaths from the COVID-19 disease were recorded in the past 24 hours, bringing the overall toll to 4,683.These control rooms have been set up to address wage-related grievances of workers employed in the Central Sphere, the ministry said, adding that it would also work to mitigate the problems of migrant workers through coordination with various state governments.These call centres can be accessed by the workers through phone numbers, Whatsapp and e-mails.All passenger train services on Indian Railways, including Premium trains, Mail/Express trains, Passenger trains, Suburban Trains, Kolkata Metro Rail, Konkan Railway shall continue to remain suspended till the 2400 hrs of May 3.All domestic and international scheduled airline operations shall remain suspended till 11.59pm, May 3.Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday announced that the current lockdown will be extended till May 3, saying it is very necessary to contain the spread of the coronavirus pandemic in the country. In a televised address to the nation, Modi said implementation of the lockdown will be strictly ensured in coming days to ensure that the virus does not spread to new areas.The number of Covid-19 cases in Maharashtra on Monday crossed the 2000-mark, with 352 more people, including 242 from Mumbai, testing positive for the coronavirus. While the number of total cases has gone up to 2334, the death toll increased to 160 with 11 more people succumbing to the infection on Monday.New York's coronavirus death toll topped 10,000 and the worldwide number of confirmed cases hovered around 2 million on Monday. The brunt of the disease has been felt most heavily in New York, Italy, France, Spain and the United Kingdom.An online dashboard that tracks the global number of confirmed coronavirus cases, maintained by Johns Hopkins University, late Monday night showed the number of cases in the US approaching 683,000, with more than 2 million worldwide. The site was later adjusted to reflect nearly 582,000 cases in the US and 1.9 million cases worldwide. It was not immediately clear why the numbers changed.China has approved early-stage human tests for two experimental vaccines to combat the new coronavirus that killed over 100,000 people worldwide, state media Xinhua reported on Tuesday.The vaccines are being developed by a Beijing-based unit of Nasdaq-listed Sinovac Biotech, and by the Wuhan Institute of Biological Products, an affiliate of state-owned China National Pharmaceutical Group.India is part of the WHO ‘solidarity trials’ for the drug Remdesivir, which has shown encouraging results in serious Covid-19 patients needing enhanced oxygen and ventilator support, and will be able to access any benefits that accrue from the anti-viral medication once it is established for clinical use. The tests showed significant benefits for two-thirds patients with severe symptoms in 4 countries.As early as January 18, the state health department issued a Covid-19 alert and began to screen passengers arriving from abroad, initially from China. International arrivals were given a health card in which they had to list their travel details and health condition. Over the next week, it set up district control rooms, started procuring masks, gloves, other PPE and medicines.In a clarification that is expected to boost testing for Covid-19 by private labs, the Supreme Court has said its direction to provide free testing by non-government facilities will be applicable to economically weaker sections of society and people who can afford to do so will have to pay the cost of Rs 4,500 as fixed by the Centre. Testing in government hospitals is already free for all.