The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Tuesday advised states not to use rapid COVID-19 test kits for the next two days, after it received complaints about faulty kits.

Rajasthan government on Tuesday said it has stopped using the China-made rapid testing kits after they delivered inaccurate results. The state's health minister Raghu Sharma said the kits were of no benefit as they gave only 5.4% accurate results against the expectation of 90% accuracy.

After partial relief in lockdown at select places, the government is now looking at promoting blood donation, especially for Thalassemic and Hemophilic patients.

In a letter to state blood transfusion councils (SBTC), the National Blood Transfusion Council (NBTC) promoted voluntary blood donation programmes across the country. In the letter, it noted that due to the national lockdown from March 25, there was limited movement of Blood Mobile and Transportation vans, and blood donations.

The Centre on Monday added six more districts to the list from where no coronavirus case has been reported in the last 14 despite having a positive case earlier, taking the total number to 62

Luv Aggarwal, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, said during the daily briefing on Monday that Dungarpur and Pali in Rajasthan, Jamnagar and Morbi in Gujarat, North Goa in Goa and Gomati in Tripura are the six districts that have been included in the list from where no has been reported in the last two weeks.

Days after the US government allowed applicants for H-1B visas to continue in the country, President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a temporary suspension of immigration into the country.

In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens, I will be signing an Executive Order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States!, the US President wrote in a Twitter post.

The total number of coronavirus positive cases in India has reached 18,601 on Tuesday. And at least 590 have died due to the disease.

With 78 fresh coronavirus cases and two deaths on Monday, the total number of Covid-19 cases in Delhi rose to 2,081, the government authorities said. The death toll from Covid-19 in the national capital stands at 47, with 25 victims aged 60 and above.

The Kerala government on Monday revoked some relaxations it had provided under its revised guidelines for the lockdown. The move comes after the Centre chided it for diluting guidelines provided by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).

In a letter to the state government on April 19, the Centre took objection to the move to allow the opening of certain activities prohibited by the MHA in its revised guidelines.

Flipkart CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy has said the company respects the government's decision to reverse its previous order that allowed e-commerce companies to deliver non-essential items.

In a mail to employees, Krishnamurthy also encouraged them to explore innovative ways to drive value for the ecosystem including sellers, brands, kirana stores and customers.

Paytm Payments Bank (PPBL) said it has crossed Rs 1,000 crore in deposits through over 57 million savings account holders.

PPBL has been witnessing an accelerated rise in the deposits, as more people are embracing digital banking during Covid-19.

The global coronavirus deaths on Monday crossed the 1.7 lakh mark with the United States registering the highest death toll of over 42,000. The death toll in France has crossed the 20,000-mark while the total number of positive COVID-19 cases in Spain topped the 2 lakh-mark.

As of 8 AM (IST) on Tuesday, April 21, 2020, around 1,70,261 deaths have been recorded across the globe while the total number of confirmed cases has reached 2,475,841 -- the COVID-19 dashboard at the John Hopkins University's Coronavirus Resource Center showed.

The rumours over the coronavirus spreading during the last rites of those who lose their lives to the pandemic are a serious cause of worry. In what is the second such incident in Chennai over the last 10 days, a 55-year old doctor’s burial was opposed by local residents who had come out in protest.

Late Sunday evening, 55-year-old neurologist Simon Hercules, who was the managing director at a hospital in the state capital, had lost his battle with the COVID-19 at another private hospital in the city’s outskirts.

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