Longer lockdown essential to break chain of infection, says governmentIndia on Tuesday registered an increase of 1,211 COVID-19 cases and 31 deaths in the past 24 hours, making it the largest spike in cases since January. The total number of cases stands at 10,815, with 353 deaths. As many as 1,189 persons have been discharged after treatment, the Union Health Ministry said. The police had to resort to lathi charge to disperse them. Infections have ‘certainly’ not peaked yet, warns WHOSpain and Austria allowed partial returns to work on Tuesday but Britain and France extended lockdowns to try to rein in a pandemic which the World Health Organisation warned had not yet peaked.

Source: The Hindu April 15, 2020 01:52 UTC