Amid rumours and speculations that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Central Government may extend the 21-day lockdown over coronavirus, the Centre clarified that there was no plan to extends the restrictions beyond April 14.

The 21-day lockdown came into force on Tuesday midnight after an announcement by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Amid reports of lakhs of stranded trucks carrying various items, the Centre on Sunday said that the transportation of all goods, without distinction of essential and non-essential, have been allowed.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had on Tuesday announced a 21-day lockdown till April 14 to combat the spread of novel coronavirus.

The global coronavirus death toll crossed 33,000 on Sunday, as New York state in the United States alone reported around 1,000 deaths on this day, which is more than 40% of the country's death toll. The death toll in Italy, which had crossed 10,000 on Saturday, stood at 10,774 by the end of Sunday.

The numbers, however, look especially grim for the US. With 132,637 confirmed COVID-19 cases, the number of affected people in the US is the highest in the world.

Delhi police's cybercrime unit has detected a fake Unified Payments Interface (UPI) ID created with a motive to cheat the donors of the newly launched PM CARES Fund to fight the coronavirus outbreak, a senior official said on Sunday.

Anyesh Roy, DCP (cybercrime) said in a tweet that the fake UPI was created with the ID pmcare@sbi, which is similar to the correct ID pmcares@sbi.

Amid an exodus of thousands of daily wage earners from Delhi-NCR to their far-flung homes, at towns and villages across North India, Nodia administration passed an order to give 28-day mandatory leave to any employees infected with coronavirus. Along with that the industries closed due to the lockdown will also have to pay their dail wagers along with leave during the 21-day nationwide lockdown due to coronavirus outbreak.

In the order passed late on Saturday night by the Gautam Buddh Nagar district administration, any worker or employee infected with the virus and quarantined either at hospital or at home will be given the paid leave by their employer across Noida and Greater Noida.

Following Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla's appeal, nearly three dozen MPs have allocated Rs 1 crore from their Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) fund to local authorities to tackle the coronavirus pandemic.

In a letter to all Lok Sabha members on Saturday, Birla said the country is passing through a tough phase due to coronavirus (Covid-19) and as public representatives it is our duty to stand with the people.

The coronavirus outbreak has led to a 900 per cent uptick in hate speech toward China and Chinese people on Twitter, according to a report by a tech startup.

People are spending more and more time on social networks, communication apps, chat rooms and gaming services, and the problems endemic to these platforms -- hate, abuse, toxicity and bullying -- have become accentuated, the Israel-based company L1ght said in its report.

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday said it has enrolled first patients from Norway and Spain in the Solidarity Trial, which will compare the safety and effectiveness of four different drugs or drug combinations against COVID-19.

More than 45 countries are contributing to the Solidarity Trial, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Director-General of the WHO, said at a presser in Geneva.

Hundreds of people, most of them migrant labourers and semi-skilled workers, were seen on Friday crossing the Delhi border on foot at Ghazipur in an effort to reach their homes in different districts of Uttar Pradesh in the wake of the coronavirus lockdown. Notably, this comes at a time of when social distancing is being repeatedly emphasised to contain the spread of the virus, but conditions have forced the working class to traverse the distance by foot, braving the risk of the disease, when they see no other option.

Amid nationwide lockdown over the coronavirus crisis, National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) 2020 for admission into medical colleges across the country has been postponed.

In view of the hardships faced by the parents and the students due to COVID-19 epidemic, the National Testing Agency has postponed the ensuing NEET (UG) May 2020 examination scheduled to be held on May 3, 2020, the Ministry of Human Resource Development said.

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