On Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin approved legislation which permits the government to declare a state of national emergency to control the COVID-19 pandemic from spreading further.

Now, all of Russian cabinet has the power to invoke national emergency!

At Thursday’s coronavirus briefing, US President Donald Trump endorsed scarves as a better option than masks. While referring to the question of advising citizens to wear masks, Trump claimed that scarves with more thickness than masks are more effective against the coronavirus.

Trump claims scarves offer better protection than masks, but is that true?

Inter Milan striker Romelu Lukaku has hit out at Serie A officials for letting the league continue despite a player being diagnosed of the coronavirus. Also read: Italian sports minister 'very, very doubtful' about Serie A returning in May Juventus defender Daniele Rugani was the first player in Serie A to be tested positive for coronavirus pandemic.

Milan star Lukaku lashes out at Serie A officials for continuing league despite COVID-19 scare

Spring break, considered a vacation ritual among American youth, has now created a new cluster of COVID-19! As reported by CNN, over 44 out of 70 people who went to Mexico from Texas two weeks ago are now down with the virus.

Vacation gone awry? Over 40 American students return home with COVID-19

While we are in the midst of a pandemic, hundreds of factories have shut, travel has been halted, planes are no longer flying. Many researchers claimed that the air has cleared out over major industrial cities in view of the coronavirus-induced shutdown.

Are coronavirus-induced lockdowns really slowing down climate change?

The US state of New York has reported over 90,000 positive cases of COVID-19 so far. During one of his daily briefings, Governor Andrew Cuomo claimed that the state has enough ventilators to last six days.

New York has enough ventilators for only six more days

The world has come to an abrupt halt, quite literally! As the killer COVID-19 pandemic slows down the economy, the streets look more doomsday than ever before! Turns out, the earth is also less noisy!

Earth is less noisy during COVID-19, say seismologists

More than 95 per cent people who died due to coronavirus-related complications in Europe were aged 60 and above, as per World Health Organization’s figures. The head of WHO in Europe, Dr Hans Kluge however added that age is not the risk factor for COVID-19.

Do old people constitute the majority of COVID-19 fatalities?

Weeks after testing positive for the coronavirus, actor Idris Elba on Wednesday took to social media to share a health update and said that he is still asymptomatic.

Idris Elba says wife Sabrina Dhowre and him are out of quarantine period but 'stuck in limbo'

A 54-year-old coronavirus patient died at a hospital in Madurai in the early hours of Wednesday, the first death recorded in Tamil Nadu due to the contagion, state Health Minister C Vijayabaskar said.

54-year-old man succumbs to COVID-19 in Tamil Nadu

Three more positive cases of COVID-19 surfaced in Mohali today; in all, there are now 4 confirmed cases at Mohali. All the affected patients are contacts of previously confirmed cases or with travel history to the UK.

Three more COVID-19 positive cases surface in Punjab's Mohali

All eyes will be on Prime Minister Narendra Modi today when he addresses the nation on the contagion. The rapidly spreading coronavirus has shaken the world and India is in stage 2 battle to contain it.

COVID-19: Setting the agenda ahead of PM Modi's address

An 18-year-old man, who recently returned from England, tested positive for novel coronavirus on Tuesday, making it the first confirmed case in West Bengal, news agency PTI report said quoting a senior official of the state government.

First COVID-19 case detected in West Bengal; 18-year-old with travel history to England 

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