8.20 am: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Monday that the handling of the novel coronavirus crisis by the Shiv Sena-led Maharashtra...
8.20 am: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Monday that the handling of the novel coronavirus crisis by the Shiv Sena-led Maharashtra government resembled a “circus”, and not governance.
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Coronavirus: Maharashtra’s handling of crisis resembles a ‘circus’, claims Rajnath Singh
8.15 am: Poland will close 12 coal mines for three weeks from Tuesday to curb the spread of the coronavirus, Reuters reports. Nearly 20% of the cases reported in Poland is of miners.
8.10 am: New York City, which was the worst-hit region in the US, opened on Monday as several people returned to work. Nearly 22,000 people died in New York.
New York City, hit hard by an epidemic that has killed nearly 22,000 residents, begins reopening as the coronavirus infection rate plummets https://t.co/cMsDXkof1H pic.twitter.com/TYyaNbvxus
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 9, 2020
8.05 am: Mexico reports 2,999 new coronavirus cases in a day, taking the total tally to 1,20,102 on Monday, Reuters reports. The country’s toll rose to 14,053.
8 am: Qatar will remove lockdown from June 15, Reuters reports. It will be done in four phases.
7.50 am: Several critics accuse Brazil of manipulating coronavirus data instead of showing the actual situation.
Critics are accusing President Jair Bolsonaro of manipulating the figures showing the spiralling coronavirus death toll in Brazil, after his government first stopped...
