Four states that have reported their highest single-day jump in cases are Assam, Delhi, Odisha and Tripura

Last week, Kim Jong-un has made his 'first public appearance' after 20 days of absence.

Brent crude was up 47 cents, or 1.5 per cent, at $29.33 a barrel by 0121 GMT, having fallen nearly 1 per cent on Thursday

The spread of the novel coronavirus - and lockdown measures introduced to contain it - has ravaged the British economy, with many non-essential businesses told to close

The Labor Department's closely watched monthly employment report on Friday also showed the unemployment rate surging to 14.7% last month, shattering the post-World War Two record of 10.8%

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The officials said about 790 claims have been lodged claiming about Rs 15.75 crore with several non-life insurers.

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Saudi Arabia coronavirus cases exceed 35,000

Egypt's president expands powers, citing virus outbreak

Egypt's president expands powers, citing virus outbreak - Times of India

China admits coronavirus exposed 'shortcomings' in healthcare system

Czech Airlines to restart some flights after coronavirus grounding

Being ostracized: Virus leaves its mark for UK's elderly

Nepal confirms three new coronavirus cases, total infections reach 102: Health ministry

Nepal's coronavirus cases reach 109

Pakistan eases nationwide lockdown even as coronavirus cases rise

Coronavirus strikes staffers inside the White House

Ivanka Trump's personal assistant tests positive for coronavirus - Times of India

US labor market shatters post World War 2 records as coronavirus lockdowns bite

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Coronavirus: TN relaxes lockdown measures further

Testing in Hong Kong hospitals shows the regimen clears coronavirus in 7 days in the mildly ill.

The infrastructure can be used for random sample-based population surveillance

This comes as seed investments in India during the January-March quarter, which was hit by the lowest level in five quarters

Interview with Irene M. Shui, ScD, author of Risk of Intussusception Following Administration of a Pentavalent Rotavirus Vaccine in US Infants

Interview with Tarak K. Trivedi, BS, author of Hospitalizations and Mortality Associated With Norovirus Outbreaks in Nursing Homes, 2009-2010

Interview with Simon R. M. Dobson, MD, author of Immunogenicity of 2 Doses of Human Papillomavirus Vaccine in Younger Adolescents Versus 3 Doses in Young Women: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Interview with Lisen Arnheim-Dahlström, PhD, author of Association of Varying Number of Doses of Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus Vaccine With Incidence of Condyloma

Interview with Melissa A Simon, MD MPH, USPSTF member and coauthor of Screening for Hepatitis B Virus Infection in Pregnant Women: US Preventive Services Task Force Reaffirmation Recommendation Statement

Interview with Anthony S. Fauci, MD, author of Coronavirus Infections—More Than Just the Common Cold

In February 2020 the nature of the 2019-nCoV outbreak is still slowly coming into focus but it appears to be acting more like bad pandemic influenza (efficient spread, overall lower mortality) than like SARS (less efficient spread, overall higher mortality). Anthony Fauci, MD, of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) discusses the latest developments with JAMA Editor in Chief Howard Bauchner.

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Interview with Michael J. Barry, MD, Task Force member and coauthor of Screening for Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Adolescents and Adults: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement

Physicians in Lombardy, Italy, have been overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients requiring critical care. Based on an existing ECMO center network they developed an ICU network to rapidly identify, triage, and manage patients infected with SARS-2-CoV. Maurizio Cecconi, MD, of Humanitas University in Milan discusses the region’s approach to the surge, including clinical and supply management, health care worker training and protection, and ventilation strategies, with JAMA Editor Howard Bauchner.

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Critical Care Utilization for the COVID-19 Outbreak in Lombardy, Italy: Early Experience and Forecast During an Emergency Response

Coronavirus testing will help countries manage coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) but will raise questions about how to counsel patients about their test results. The CDC's Deputy Director for Infectious Diseases Jay C. Butler, MD, talks with JAMA Editor Howard Bauchner about what to advise healthy patients with positive PCR results, sick patients with negative test results, exposed health care workers, and more.

The strategy for managing the COVID-19 pandemic has shifted from containment to mitigation. What does that mean for US hospitals and health systems? Kaiser Permanente Executive Vice President Stephen M. Parodi, MD, discusses telemedicine, protecting health care workers, equipment allocation planning, and more.

The ARDS in COVID-19 patients appears more responsive to PEEP and prone ventilation, but seems to require prolonged ventilation and may be associated with myocardial injury. Michelle N. Gong, MD, MS, Chief of Critical Care Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, discusses her department's experience managing critically ill coronavirus patients, procuring diagnostic tests and personal protective equipment (PPE) for her staff, and more.

As COVID-19 spreads globally, populations who survive their illness will become immune. Mayo Vaccine Research Group Director Gregory Poland, MD, discusses antibody responses, duration of immunity, vaccine safety, and the prospects for using convalescent serum to passively immunize people unexposed to SARS-CoV-2.

Hospitals need ways to make rational, fair decisions about who gets ICU beds and ventilators if COVID-19 patients overwhelm capacity. Douglas B. White, MD, MAS, Director of the Program on Ethics and Decision Making in Critical Illness at the University of Pittsburgh, discusses a framework for those decisions and a guideline he helped develop for allocation of scarce resources in public health emergencies.

How does the current pandemic compare to historical infectious outbreaks and what can we expect in summer and fall of 2020? Nicholas Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH, director of the Human Nature Lab, Co-director of the Institute of Network Science, and Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University, discusses the epidemiology of COVID-19.

Noninvasive ventilation (NIV), working with dying patients’ families, use of experimental therapies, and more. JAMA Associate Editor Derek Angus, MD, MPH, Distinguished Professor and Chair of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, provides a COVID-19 ICU management update.

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Infectious epidemics have always driven change and triggered discrimination in human societies. Frank Snowden, DPhil, Professor Emeritus of History and History of Medicine at Yale University and author of Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present (Yale University Press, 2019), puts the COVID-19 pandemic in historical context.