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US deaths from the novel coronavirus topped 75,000 deaths on Thursday, after the White House shelved a step-by-step guide prepared by health officials to help states safely reopen. Deaths in the United States, the epicenter of the global pandemic, have averaged 2,000 a day since mid-April despite efforts to slow the outbreak.

Since reporting its first cases in mid-February, the Islamic republic has struggled to contain the spread of the virus that causes the Covid-19 disease. Health ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said 55 new virus fatalities in the past 24 hours took the overall death toll in the health crisis to 6,541.

A magisterial inquiry into the death of a 27-year-old man on April 12, who allegedly committed suicide at a quarantine centre set up at Galgotias University, has revealed negligence on the part of health workers who had initially examined him in the district hospital.

Seven persons were arrested in Noida’s Sector 105 for allegedly duping US citizens by informing them about non-existent violations on their social security number (SSN).

Aarogya Setu, the government's mobile application developed to track Covid-19 patients, has emerged as a powerful tool to curb the spread of the virus as it helped alert authorities about more than 650 hotspots across the country and over 300 "emerging hotspots" which could have been missed otherwise, Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said.

India’s Covid-19 count is nearing 60,000 mark with 59,662 cases after new cases topped 3,000 for the third consecutive day. The overall death toll too was just short of 2,000 at 1,981. Overall, 3,294 fresh cases were reported from states in past 24-hour. Stay here for all live updates

Three accidents were reported in urban and rural areas of Coimbatore district on Thursday.

A 19-year-old girl was electrocuted at Kunnakombai near Colakombai village in Coonoor taluk on Thursday.

At least five persons were killed and 10 others injured after a fire broke out at a chemical factory near the Bangladeshi capital, officials said on Sunday.

Malaysian police said 13 bodies, believed to be of Indonesian illegal immigrants, were found washed ashore after their boat capsized in bad sea conditions

Former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa's son was arrested on Saturday along with four other people over money laundering allegations.

Many millions of dollars of the devices were sold to the Thai army and other security forces around the world. A court in Thailand has convicted a local businessman of fraud for selling fake bomb detectors to the Thai government, five years after a court in the United Kingdom sentenced the British head of the company that supplied them to seven years in prison in a scandal that was worldwide in scale

While the city teeters on the edge of becoming a red zone with increasing number of novel coronavirus cases every day, Gurugram has only one functioning Covid hospital at the moment.

Officials of the district administration had to face the ire of DLF-2 residents on Friday as several of them defied lockdown orders and protested against the proposed takeover of two guest houses in the area for setting up Covid quarantine centres. The authorities were finally forced to shelve the plan.

Sixty four people who flew from Singapore to Delhi on Friday were sent to various quarantine centres in the city. Of them, 16 have been sent to Lemon Tree, three are staying in Sky City Western Hotel, four in an Oyo room while 41 people are in community centres located in Shukhrali and Dundahera.

Just three days after its last order notifying containment zones, the district administration on Friday added 11 new containment zones in the Gurugram block. Most are in old Gurugram. The district now has 32 containment zones.

Five days after three doctors working in the Covid hospital of BPS Khanpur Medical College, Sonipat, were found positive of coronavirus, 11 junior doctors who were their contacts have been sent in 14-day quarantine.

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As China limps back to normalcy after COVID-19 outbreak, job prospects in the country seem to be truly bleak especially for the nine million students or so who are due to graduate in June.

China's Hong Kong affairs office on Wednesday condemned Hong Kong protesters as a "political virus" who seek independence, warning that the city will never be calm unless what it said were violent black-clad protesters were all removed.

The coronavirus outbreak exposed "shortcomings" in China's public healthcare system, a top health official admitted Saturday, saying that reforms are underway to improve the country's disease prevention and control mechanisms.

Aarogya Setu, a government app developed for tracking Covid-19 patients, has become the most downloaded healthcare application and also featured among the top 10 downloaded apps in the world in April, Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said on Friday. Close to nine crore users had downloaded the Aarogya Setu mobile application till May 4.