Coronavirus news Live Updates: India's Total over 2500, World Bank approves $1B to combat outbreak

Congress chief Sonia Gandhi writes to PM seeking advance payment of 21 days' wages to MGNREGA workers, reports PTI 

2 resident doctors at Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital test positive for coronavirus, reports PTI. 

Supreme Court of India directs the media, including print, electronic and social media, to maintain a strong sense of responsibility and ensure that unverified news capable of causing panic is not disseminated, reports ANI 

Trained counselors and religious leaders should be there in the camps for Covid-19 people according to the SC guildlines, says ministry of haelth 

Till now, there are 1637 COVID19 cases, incl 386 new positive cases since yesterday. There've been 38 deaths. 132 people have recovered. The number of positive cases have gone since yesterday. One of main reasons for it is the travel by members of Tablighi Jamat. 

UN chief: 'COVID-19 worst crisis since WWII'

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that the world faces the most challenging crisis since World War II, confronting a pandemic threatening people in every country, one that will bring a recession "that probably has no parallel in the recent past."

There is also a risk that the combination of the disease and its economic impact will contribute to "enhanced instability, enhanced unrest, and enhanced conflict," the UN chief said at the launch of a report on the socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19.

CoronaVirus strikes younger demographics

Australia and New Zealand say a high proportion of those diagnosed with coronavirus in those nations are young people.

In New Zealand, 26% of confirmed cases are in people aged 20 to 29, and 21% of cases in Australia involve those in the same age range.

Telangana starts ration distribution

Rice and Rs 500/- distribution to migrants at Govt. High School, Raj Bhavan on Tuesday. Photo N Shiva Kumar Meru.

Stadium in Chandigarh converted into "temporary jail" for lockdown violators

A cricket stadium and a sports complex in Chandigarh, India have been converted into temporary jails for those who violate lockdown conditions.

Iran reports 3,000 new cases of coronavirus in one day