Coronavirus LIVE updates: India cases spike to 26,496, death toll at 824

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A well being-worker conducts thermal screening of residents in the Mudiali region which was sealed adhering to detection of a COVID-19 good scenario, all through ongoing nationwide lockdown to contain the pandemic, in Kolkata. Photo: PTI

Coronavirus India update: Neighbourhood and standalone shops had been allowed to resume business enterprise from Saturday but these in markets will continue being shut until May well three for the countrywide lockdown to contain the coronavirus. All shops may perhaps open up in rural parts but malls will stay shut in all destinations, said the Home Ministry in an buy late Friday night time.

Coronavirus world updates: The pandemic has so considerably killed extra than 203,289 persons throughout the world and infected extra than two,921,201. The amount of COVID-19 instances in the US is extra than the subsequent six countries taken together: Spain (219,764), Italy (192,994), France (159,495), Germany (154,545), United Kingdom (a hundred and forty four,635) and Turkey (104,912).