International Football Association Board, working with FIFA, are looking to increase the number of substitutions for the teams to deal with the likely fixture congestion after football restarts.

Germany's top-flight will become the first of Europe's major leagues to return to the field in the post-coronavirus world.

Flamengo conducted coronavirus tests on 293 employees, including all players, their families and their helps at home.

With football around the world virtually shuttered amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the K-League has sold international broadcasting rights to more than 10 countries.

Lionel Messi and company took the fields at Joan Gamper training centre for individual sessions.

FC Barcelona Femeni topped the table by nine points ahead of Atletico Madrid and with the Liga Iberdola season unable to be completed, the Catalans have been awarded the title.

Watford join Brighton & Hove Albion and Aston Villa in publicly disagreeing with Premier League's plan to play the rest of the game at neutral venues.

Claire Williams said that it was scary that if racing doesn't restart soon due to coronavirus, Formula One could lose an 'awful lot of teams'.

In the wake coronavirus pandemic, the first 10 races of the 2020 calender have either been called off or postponed.

The IMF approved a disbursement to Nepal of about $214 million to help it cover the urgent balance of payments and fiscal needs stemming from the Covid-19 pandemic. The IMF said Covid is having a severe impact on Nepal's remittances, tourism, and domestic activity. It will substantially weaken the country's GDP growth, balance of payments and fiscal position.

Muslim theologists in Sri Lanka have urged the government to reconsider its decision on cremating the Muslims who died due to the coronavirus, saying the revised rule goes against the Islamic tradition.

The Ghaziabad municipal administration has appealed to residents welfare associations and local councillors to advise doctors and healthcare staff working in Delhi to stay there and not return home.

Out of the 17,974 Covid-19 cases in Maharashtra, 11,394 were reported from Mumbai alone.

Between the first case and the day the market closed on May 4, officials held several talks with sellers about shifting operations. The back and forth proved costly.

State Bank of India has closed down a section of the Local Head Office (LHO) here after an employee tested positive for COVID-19, a senior official said on Friday.

Social stigma and low testing are the key reasons for the high mortality rate among COVID-19 patients in West Bengal, where the disease, like elsewhere in the country, is still an urban phenomenon, experts say.

The Forum has written a letter to Chief Secretary Rajiv Sinha, who assured that the government will do whatever is needed for the safety and security of the doctors and health care workers in Bengal.

At least 22 migrant labourers, who had returned from Andhra Pradesh, escaped from a COVID-19 quarantine centre in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district, police said on Friday.

Overall, the national mortality rate was 3.34 as on Friday morning and the recovery rate stood at 29.35 per cent. India has confirmed 56,342 confirmed Covid-19 cases so far.

The apex court disposed of the plea challenging the guidelines issued by Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on May 1, allowing sales of liquor through direct contact sales during the lockdown period.

Between April 23 and May 2, at least 17 employees tested positive for the COVID-19 virus at the CATS control room. In the last one week, 29 more tested positive.

Then there are the particularly vulnerable tribal groups (PVTGs) which are not being able to access healthcare that is critical to their survival because of social distancing norms.

A bench of Justices Manmohan and Sanjeev Narula issued notices to the Centre, the Delhi government, the municipal corporations and 10 private unaided schools here seeking their stand on the plea by an NGO, Justice for All, by June 10 -- the next date of hearing.

As many as 3,817 prisoners were released last month on interim or regular bail, parole or extended parole.

Districts with high population and heavy inter-state movement of people will be selected for the study to represent the respective state, sources said.

The border guarding force has the maximum confirmed cases of the disease among the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs), also known as paramilitary forces.

The ministry asserted that if dos and don'ts are followed, the peak in number of COVID-19 cases can be avoided.

The high court, in its interim order passed on Thursday, had suggested the state should ensure that only those who have tested negative for COVID-19 are allowed to return.

The response from the Health Ministry came after a sudden spurt in the number positive cases in the past few days when the tally crossed the 3,000-mark each day.

India's financial capital has so far reported 11,219 positive cases and 437 deaths and is one of the worst-affected cities in Maharashtra.

The 77 had tested positive after coming in contact with a cook who had got infected, the prison department official said, adding that 26 jail staffers have also been infected so far.

The DRDO is making special N-99 masks, besides personal protective gear for chemical, biological, radiation and nuclear-related activities, and working on software, including one that will track people under quarantine.

Justice Bharati Dangre rejected Bhatt's plea after the prosecution told the court that a COVID-19 patient cannot be allowed to be freed on temporary bail.

Thirty-three CISF personnel deployed at the gallery's security unit have been asked to self-quarantine, Indian Museum director A D Choudhury told PTI.

An activist has moved the top court pointing out alleged racial attacks on people of North-Eastern like spitting on them, evictions from their homes and termination from their jobs among others.

State government's COVID-19 spokesman Subroto Bagchi said institutional quarantine period would now be of 21 days and home quarantine for another seven days.

Mass evacuations have begin to repatriate 14,800 Indians stranded abroad.

The DC said she will be admitted to Tanda's Dr Rajendra Prasad Government Medical College (RPGMC) in Kangra for treatment.

With the death of as many as 22 patients, the number of persons who died due to the infection rose to 343, the official said.

The three hotels -- the Ginger, Vivek Vihar and two 5 star hotels, Leela Ambience and Park Plaza -- have been kept at the disposal of Rajiv Gandhi Super Specialty Hospital which will oversee treatment of infected officials.

He also appealed to voluntary organisations, NGOs and people at large to come forward to promote voluntary blood donation to maintain ample blood stocks to meet any eventuality.

The state recorded 10 new cases on Friday, taking the toll to 1,132. While 34 people were discharged from the hospital within the last 24 hours.

India and Italy will work together for addressing the challenges of the post-COVID world, including through our consecutive presidencies of the G20, Modi wrote on Twitter.

Shahpur, a minority community-dominated area, is in 'Red Zone' as several coronavirus cases have been found in the locality.

Dr Chanudhary said the child's two consecutive reports were found negative for the infection with the last and second report coming on April 23 when she was admitted to a separate ward as her mother was still positive for the infection.

The constable was placed in isolation and 11 more police personnel were quarantined at separate places.

Two hospitals from Ahmedabad and one each from Chennai, Jodhpur and Bhopal will conduct clinical trials on four treatment protocols remdesivir, combination of lopinavir and ritonavir, hydroxychloroquine and lopinavir and ritonavir with Interferon beta-1a.