Coronavirus India News Highlights: COVID-19 toll in New York climbs to 3,200; surpasses 9/11 deaths

# NYC virus deaths exceed 3,200, topping World Trade Center deaths.

# Death toll reaches about 11,000 across the U.S.

– AP

Time not yet ripe to ease lockdown, says expert task force set up by Kerala govt; recommends 'phased approach' to removal of restrictions. (PTI)

The hospitalization of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the first head of government to be stricken by the coronavirus, has pushed this matter to the fore in the United Kingdom. Johnson was moved to the intensive care unit of a London hospital after his COVID-19 symptoms worsened.

Unlike its ally and fellow western democracy, the United States, Britain hasn't had a septuagenarian holding the highest office since Churchill, so matters of prime ministerial health have not been a national concern for seven decades.

The measure of a nation — its DNA, or sometimes its political system — becomes more visible when its leader is stricken in office. How to respond, and what to tell — or not tell — the populace?

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COVID-19 crisis can push around 40-crore informal sector workers in India deeper into poverty, a report by theInternational Labour Organisation(ILO) has suggested. (PTI)

21 new COVID-19positive cases have been reported in Madhya Pradesh's Bhopal today. Positive cases rise to 83 in Bhopal.

A total of 1,14,015 samples have been tested as on April 7, 2020, 9 pm IST. 4,616 individuals have been confirmed positive among the suspected cases and contacts of known positive cases in India.

Today, till 9 pm, 12,584 samples have been reported. Of these, 285 were positive.

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India has reported a total of 4,789 COVID-19 positive cases with the death toll rising to 124 in the country.... Read More

40 new COVID-19positive cases have been reported in Telagana today. Total positive cases in the state stand at 348.

Number of coronaviruscases in J&K rises to 125 after 15 new infections were detected, officials have said.

UK has registered a daily record of 786 coronavirus deaths in the past 24 hours, news agency AFP has reported.

New York has reported 731 coronavirus-related deaths in the last 24 hours, its Governor Andrew Cuomo has said.

A panel ofministers have advised Prime Minister Narendra Modi to partially lift the lockdown, which was imposed on March 25 to control the spread of the coronavirus outbreak, people with knowledge of the matter said.

Areas with large clusters of COVID-19 cases will remain closed, the people said, asking not to be identified as the discussions are private. The panel, headed by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, recommended cities can open markets on alternate days after the three week period ends. States can allow harvesting of crops across the country, they added.

– BloombergQuint