Coronavirus live updates: Arvind Kejriwal, Amit Shah discuss Covid-19 situation in Delhi

It is expected that we would need 15000 beds by the end of June. We will even use space available in banquet halls, hotels and stadiums if required. We are working accordingly: Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain

A Mohali-based cosmetics company is making sanitisers, a handicraft manufacturer in Nagaland is selling masks, Gurgaon-based apparel exporters are assembling PPE suits and a Vapi-based paper company is constructing cardboard beds for quarantine centres — several small and big businessmen have temporarily left their earlier field of work and switched to more relevant and in-demand products to survive and thrive in these Covid-19 times. Some of them even plan to export their new products. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

A Brazilian Supreme Court justice ordered the government of President Jair Bolsonaro to resume publication of full Covid-19 data, including the cumulative death toll, following allegations the government was trying to hide the severity of the pandemic in Latin America's biggest country.

The political leader was admitted to Dr Rela Institute and Medical Centre at Chromepet on June 2. "His condition deteriorated rapidly on Tuesday night. We could not bring him back," said a senior doctor.

N95 masks, bought by government agencies at Rs 12.25 including taxes in September 2019, cost them Rs 17.33 in January 2020, Rs 42 by March-end and up to Rs 63 by the middle of May, an increase of over 250% since the beginning of the year. Yet, the price regulator NPPA has decided not to cap the price of N95 masks as it “may disincentivise domestic manufacturing”.