But for every 100 tests conducted, fewer tests in India are showing positive compared to other countries.
The proportion of the population older than 65 years is 9.5 per cent in Alaska as compared with 19.1 per cent in Florida and 23.1 per cent in Italy, they explained.
With the New York area still deep in crisis, fear mounted over the spread of the scourge into the nation's heartland.
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte warned that the EU's very existence would be under threat if it could not come together to combat the Covid-19 pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus
The coronavirus crisis seems to be getting worse globally, but the US particularly is now seeing its fatality rate growing at faster rate than infections; three in every 10 deaths now are in the US
About 150 Italian academics have published a letter in financial daily Il Sole-24 Ore, owned by the Italian business lobby Confindustria, urging the government to unblock the economy
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While Spain has gone past the US in number of deaths and become second only to Italy, and in India a spike in Nizamuddin-related cases has made Delhi the second most affected
Having the right antibodies to the virus in one's blood - a potential marker of immunity - may soon determine who gets to work and who does not, who is locked down and who is free
The number of confirmed infections rose by over 25,000 in a day.
The number of deaths was 4,076 -- more than twice the 2,010 recorded late Saturday
Overall, Italy added 4,050 new infections Monday, bringing its official total to 101,739
Europe is now the most affected continent with 20,059 deaths from a total of 337,632 cases.
At least four countries with a collective population of more than 228 million people, including Iran, Germany and Britain, have urged their populations to stay indoors and limit contact with other peo
Italy announced its biggest day-to-day increase of infections, which rose by 6,600 with nearly 800 new fatalities from the virus that causes COVID-19
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The Mediterranean country's toll reached 3,405 after it recorded 427 new deaths on Wednesday.
The United States is urging Americans not to travel abroad at all and could announce restrictions at the U.S.-Mexican border on Friday
The number of infections has reached 24,747, a count released to the media by Italy's civil protection service said.
Under a government decree issued earlier in the week, people had been allowed to walk, jog or bike in parks as long as they kept at least a distance of 1 meter between each other.