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Coronavirus Outbreak Highlights: G20 leaders to support strengthening WHO's mandate, pledge $5 trillion for global economy

Coronavirus Outbreak Updates: G20 leaders committed to using all available policy tools to minimize economic and social cost of the COVID-19 pandemic and to restore global growth, market stability & strengthening resilience. G20 countries also committed to injecting over $5 trillion into the global economy.

Coronavirus Outbreak: In Maharashtra, police disrupting farm produce supply chains impairs farmers, lack of labour stalls harvest

A farmer in Latur said the price of watermelons he has harvested has collapsed because of lack of mobility.

Coronavirus Outbreak: Centre temporarily suspends toll collection on national highways to ease emergency services

'In view of COVID-19, it has been ordered to temporarily suspend the collection of toll at all toll plazas across India,' Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari announced.

'Cops haven't understood essential services': Doctors in Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad tell tales of harassment

Coronavirus Outbreak: staffers of the the home health care company, Portea Medical, were slapped by police in Lucknow and Hyderabad, said serial entrepreneur and company promoter K Ganesh. Both staffers were carrying oxygen concentration machines to elderly, home bound patients.

Coronavirus Outbreak: India must take cue from EU, US on addressing data protection concerns during pandemic

India, whilst dealing with the pandemic, also faces challenges on the privacy forefront specifically because there is no law in place for data protection.

Coronavirus Outbreak: The Disaster Management Act explained; it sits at the heart of fight against the pandemic

The Disaster Management Act provides the administrative framework to take measures to deal with such incidents and allows the government to access funds set up for this purpose.

Coronavirus Outbreak Updates: COVID-19 cases in India cross 600; Modi, Kejriwal say discrimination against medical staff won't be tolerated

Coronavirus Outbreak LIVE Updates: Repeat samples of three people, admitted at Pune's Naidu Hospital, have tested negative for COVID-19. They will be discharged from the hospital following due process, ANI reported.

Coronavirus Outbreak: Pandemic has done what trade war, terrorism, refugee crisis couldn’t, end globalism as we know it

Covid-19 is causing a twofold disruption to upend globalism — economic and cultural.

West Bengal converts state-run hospital in Kolkata into COVID-19 isolation and treatment facility

The West Bengal government has started discharging patients from a state-run hospital and stopped admitting new ones to the institute to convert the entire facility into an isolation and treatment centre for people suspected to be infected with coronavirus

Coronavirus Outbreak: Delhi govt asks zonal DCs to take 'strict action' against landlords evicting paramedics, doctors

The government on Wednesday gave power to zonal Deputy Commissioners to take "strict penal action" against landlords who have been forcing doctors and paramedical staff, engaged in fighting the novel coronavirus, to vacate their rented premises.