As the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic outbreak continues to spread, the United States has now become the first country in the world to record more than 2,000 deaths due to the virus in one day. According to the Coronavirus Resource Center at the John Hopkins University, the US has registered 2,108 fatalities in the past 24 hours.

A report by the AFP news agency elaborates on the worsening COVID-19 situation in the country. The US has now recorded 18,586 deaths, a close second to Italy, which has recorded 18,849 deaths, the most fatalities in the world so far.

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Saturday stated that a total of 1, 61, 330 samples have been tested on April 10 out of which 6872 individuals were confirmed positive.

Today on 10th April 2020, till 9 PM IST, 15,663 samples have been reported. Of these, 433 were positive for SARS-CoV-2, an ICMR statement read.

An ICMR official said that a total of 213 testing laboratories are present in the country which includes 146 government and 67 private labs.

Amazon.com has started building a lab that will enable it to test employees for the Covid-19 virus, the latest step the online retailer is taking to try to protect its warehouse workers and delivery drivers who are getting essential products to customers sheltering at home.

Amazon acknowledges its ad-hoc effort may not accomplish much during the current pandemic.

In a bizarre incident, seven police Personnel and a judge in Punjab were among 10 people who were quarantined after an alleged thief tested positive for COVID-19, the police stated on Friday.

In the Focal point area of Punjab, two alleged snatchers were caught by the residents of the area and handed over to the police and were later produced before a court of judge Monika Singh. , Assistant Commissioner of Police Vhaibh Sehgal stated.

The Government has approved the proposal for grant of ex-gratia monetary compensation to over a one lakh workers and officers of the Food Corporation of India (FCI) including contractual labourers who are working non-stop to ensure the supply of food grains across the country amidst the lockdown due to coronavirus outbreak.

While there is already an existing provision of one-time monetary compensation to kin of FCI employees in case of death due to various unnatural causes, the approval now includes death due to COVID-19 as well.

The global coronavirus deaths on Friday crossed one lakh mark with the United States registering second-highest death of nearly 18,000 behind Italy.

As of 11:30 pm on Friday (IST), 100,376 deaths have been recorded with 1,650,210 global cases of COVID-19, John Hopkins University's coronavirus tracker showed.

The US has recorded 475,749 cases and 17,925 deaths while Italy has 147,577 total COVID-19 infections with 18,849 deaths.

Maharashtra government on Friday sent a senior IPS officer on compulsory leave for allowing DHFL promoters Kapil and Dheeraj Wadhawan to travel despite the ongoing lockdown, Home Minister Anil Deshmukh said.

The bureaucrat had issued a letter exempting the Wadhawans from the lockdown norms citing a family emergency.

India's largest airline IndiGo will fill its airport buses at 50 per cent capacity when service resumes. The airline will also discontinue on-board meal services, CEO Ronojoy Dutta told employees on Friday.

These along with frequent deep cleaning of aircraft are part of the multiple changes that the airline will do its protocols in order to keep crew and passenger crew safe when the airline starts operating again.

Pakistan has extended the suspension of all kinds of flight operations, including domestic and international, till April 21, in view of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic outbreak in the country. The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) of Pakistan also informed, in a separate notification, that all chartered and private flight operations will also remain shut between April 10 to April 21.

All small aircraft that don't fall under the notification will also have to take special permission from the government for taking flights.

The number of people who have tested positive for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Mumbai's Dharavi area has now reached 22, as five more persons from the slum tested positive for the virus infection here, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) informed in a statement on Friday.

The civic body of the Greater Mumbai area also stated that out of the five new COVID-19 cases in Dharavi, three are male patients and two are female. These cases were reported from the areas of the PMGP colony, Muslim Nagar, Kalyanwadi and Murugan Chawl.

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