Coronavirus live updates: 204 railway coaches deployed in 4 states to boost Covid-19 capacity

President Emmanuel Macron announced that France is fully reopening its economy, including all restaurants, to accelerate the country's recovery after virus crisis.Macron said restaurants in the Paris region will be allowed to open indoor seating starting on Monday. Until then, only outdoor seating was permitted.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the country is emerging from the coronavirus crisis, but that the United States is struggling because it has a fragmented government system.In an interview on state television on Sunday, parts of which were reported before broadcast by news media, Putin said, "We are working quite steadily and getting out of this situation with the coronavirus confidently, with minimal losses."

Five states — MP, Rajasthan, Kerala, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab — and the Union territory of Chandigarh have managed to slow the incidence of Covid-19 cases with the positivity rate (confirmed cases per 100 tests) over the last three 14-day periods showing a downward trend.

Coronavirus claimed the lives of two more persons in Chhattisgarh while 113 fresh patients were detected across the state, Health Department officials said on Sunday. With these two deaths, the total number of fatalities due to Covid-19 in Chhattisgarh stands at 8.

With 34 fresh cases of Covid-19 reported in Uttarakhand on Sunday, the state tally has now shot up to 1,819. Meanwhile, a Covid-19 positive patient died at AIIMS Rishikesh on the day, taking the death toll of the virus in the state to 24. The hospital has claimed that the victim, a 61-year-old man, died due to "Septic Shock" and the underlying cause of the death was community acquired Pneumonia.

The total number of coronavirus cases in the state stands at 12,694 and 292 have succumbed to the virus so far, added the officials. At present, there are 2,835 active cases in the state