A restaurant in Kolkata is now offering special masks attached with zips to all the visitors so that they can eat without having to take off the mask.

India's COVID-19 case tally has crossed the 50-lakh mark with a spike of 90,123 new cases and 1,290 deaths - the highest the country has seen in 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry said. The total number of people who have died because of the disease now stands at 80,776.

A study of sewerage samples by the country's premier research institute in modern biology, the CCMB, suggests that at least 6 lakh people in Hyderabad alone - about 6 per cent of its population - may have contracted the coronavirus. This, when according to the official figure, the overall number of COVID-19 cases in Telangana was under one lakh.

Netflix is ramping up its mobile-only subscription plans in Southeast Asia and expanding local content, senior executives told Reuters, just as arch-rival Disney arrives in the fast-growing market.

An incentive of Rs 5,000 will be given as a "gesture of gratitude" to those coronavirus survivors who donate their plasma, the Karnataka government has said, adding that system is meant to encourage survivors to help save lives of those still battling COVID-19.

An association of doctors from the city has moved the Delhi High Court seeking a direction to the traffic police to waive the e-challans issued against "all corona warriors", including doctors, during first two phases of the COVID-19 lockdown.

Speaking at the Hero Cycles-NDTV #TheCycleOfChange telethon, Dr Naresh Trehan, Chairman and Managing Director, Medanta - The Medicity talked about protecting the environment in the long run

In view of the growing demand for safety gear for the healthcare workers, the health officials in Betul district, of Madhya Pradesh have prepared their own personal protective equipment (PPE) with the help of prisoners of the district jail

India is part of a US-led global initiative to share information on integrating science into coronavirus response, according to a White House statement.

Coronavirus in China: According to the WHO, the number of cases of coronavirus rose because "increased searching and testing". First strain of the new coronavirus appeared in December in Wuhan. This has already spread in Thailand (two cases) and Japan (one case).