Coronavirus updates: Trump extends US 'social distancing' guidelines to April 30

With certain areas witnessing a significant jump in number of Covid-19 cases, the health ministry is now identifying emerging hotspots for the infection to put in place a rigorous cluster isolation and containment strategy and avoid possibility of community transmission. Read more

US President Donald Trump told reporters on Sunday that hospitals not using ventilators must release them and that there was the hoarding of the devices.

Total positive cases in Rajasthan rise to 59

Three more persons in West Bengal tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday, taking the total number of such cases in the state to 21, an official said.

Pakistani squash great Azam Khan has died of coronavirus in London, his family said. Azam, who won the British Open title successively between 1959 and 1961, had tested positive for COVID-19 last week and died at London's Ealing Hospital on Saturday.

With the launch of rockets on hold for the time being, Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) is busy developing a simple-to-operate ventilator in order to meet the country’s emergency demand for the key ICU medical equipment needed for critical Covid-19 patients. S Somanath, director of Thiruvananthapuram-based Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), told TOI, “We are designing a ventilator and making hand sanitisers and distributing them.”

Two officers have been also suspended and two served showcause notice.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra called upon telecom companies to make their services free for a month to enable the poor migrant labourers reach out to their near and dear ones. In separate letters to Airtel chief Sunil Bharti Mittal, Reliance chief Mukesh Ambani, and heads of BSNL and Vodafone, she highlighted the plight of lakhs of migrant labourers walking down to their native places, without food, medicines and shelter.

Around 8,000 to 10,000 migrant workers reached at different ‘disaster border relief camps’ in Gopalganj, Siwan, Saran, Kaimur and Buxar districts by end of the day. Majority of them reached through Beltharia check-post in Gopalganj and Karmanasa check-post in Kaimur, a home department official told TOI on Sunday.

An Army doctor in Kolkata and a junior commissioned officer (JCO) in Dehradun tested positive for Covid-19 on Sunday, increasing the cases of confirmed coronavirus cases in the over 13-lakh force to three now. Read