New Delhi (NVI): The total number of coronavirus cases have now surpassed 4.8 million around the globe with the virus claiming more than 3,18,000 lives till now, according to John Hopkins University tally.
In the US, the total coronavirus infections has crossed 1.5 million with more than 90,000 casualties being reported as the country reopens.
The US has set aside USD 11 billion to ramp up coronavirus testing as the country reopens.
Meanwhile, the coronavirus is spreading fast in the most remote parts of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest among the indigenous people, that evacuation of the most seriously-ill patients by plane has to be carried out.
In another development, just one week after a third of French schoolchildren went back to school in an easing of the coronavirus lockdown, there has been a worrying flare up of about 70 COVID-19 cases linked to schools
Morocco has extended its national lockdown to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus till June 10, according to media reports.
More than 1.7 million people have recovered or have been cured around the globe so far.
