On Friday, April 17, Hindi media outlet News24 shared a video on Facebook titled, “कोरोना ने बदला इबादत की तरीका,दिल्ली के जामा मस्जिद का माहौल क्या है?” This translates to – “Cororna has changed the ways of worship, what is the atmosphere in Delhi’s Jama Masjid?”

Two new cases of coronavirus, were reported in Kerala on Sunday, taking the total number to 401, while 13 people were cured, the health department said.

Mangaluru: As Wenlock Hospital has been converted as corona hospital, all the heads of private medical college hospitals have been instructed to treat Wenlock Hospital's Out Patients and In Patients at a government hospital fare or at the charges of Wenlock Hospital, said Deputy Commissioner Sindhu B. Rupesh.

Two new COVID-19 related fatalities have been reported in Karnataka, taking the death toll in the state due to the coronavirus infection to 16, the health department said on Sunday.

Kasaragod, Kerala's COVID-19 hotspot, is the only district in the southern state lacking adequate health infrastructure.

In spite of treating the highest number of COVID-19 patients in the state with meagre infrastructural facilities and even without the support of a medical college in the north Kerala district, no deaths have been reported due to coronavirus.

In the latest development of COVID-19 spread in Dakshina Kannada, the District reported first death due to virus. A 50-year old woman hailing from Kasaba village of Bantwal Taluk in the District breathed her last on Sunday afternoon at the city's Wenlock Hospital here.

Karnataka DGP Praveen Sood on Sunday warned penal action against misuse of passes issued for movement of people and vehicles for essential duties during the lockdown, and said, having a pass is no licence to roam around.

A one-and-a-half-month-old baby has died of coronavirus infection at a hospital in Delhi, officials said on Sunday, in perhaps the first fatality of an infant due to COVID-19 in the national capital.