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The civil protection service said 108,237 people were either being treated in hospital or were recovering at home after testing positive - down 20 from the total reported on Sunday.

Officials said the suspect, identified as 51-year-old Gabriel Wortman, was also among the dead in the weekend attack. Police did not provide a motive for the killings.

He said the funds could be raised via the EU’s next multi-annual budget.

The authors identified the coordinated efforts of states and union territories in supporting the national Covid-19 plan as a key factor in India’s response.

The United States has by far the world's largest number of confirmed coronavirus cases, with more than 7,30,000 infections and over 39,000 deaths.

World Medical Association (WMA) urged WHO to provide increased participation to Taiwan and take notice of its insights in the future.

In 1982, ICOMOS suggested that April 18 should be celebrated as the International Day for Monuments and Sites.

To attain herd immunity, 50 per cent or more people in a population would need to have contracted the virus, and be cured of it, the study said.

More than half those questioned said air quality had improved as road traffic levels fell, while over one in four had seen more wildlife under lockdown measures to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus.

Moscow has officially recorded 18,105 cases as of April 17, equivalent to just over 0.1 per cent of its population.

US is currently testing roughly 145,000 people daily but experts say testing would have to increase as much as threefold to be effective.

In all, 341,551 people have been tested of whom 108,692 tested positive, it added.

Singapore on Friday reported 623 new cases of coronavirus, increasing the total number of infections to 5,050 with most of the cases linked to packed dormitories housing foreign workers, many of them Indian nationals.

Although phone calls are now made over airwaves that connect through cell towers, the appeal of talking hasn’t changed much from the earliest telephone days of the late 1800s.

A group of Indian doctors in the UK on visit visas to appear for international qualification exams also appealed to the government to consider a dispensation so they could contribute during the crisis.

With the tagline, Thank You: Food service workers', the Google doodle depicted an endearing animated figure cooking food, while managing packages for deliveries simultaneously.