1. Maharashtra Sunday reported 30,535 fresh cases of COVID-19. This is the highest number of daily cases Maharashtra has ever reported since March 2020.
2. Rajasthan has decided to impose a night curfew (11 pm to 5 am) in eight cities from today. From March 25, the state government has also made negative COVID-19 reports mandatory for people who are entering the state.
3. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla tested positive for Covid-19 on March 19, a press release announced on Sunday. Birla has been admitted to AIIMS Covid Centre in Delhi, where he is getting treated since March 20.
4. Delhi reported 823 new COVID-19 cases, 613 recoveries and one death on Sunday.
5. Punjab reported 2,669 new COVID-19 cases, 1,331 recoveries and 44 deaths on Sunday.
6. Germany is set to extend a lockdown to contain the Covid pandemic into its fifth month, according to a draft proposal, Reuters.
7. The Chilean Ministry of Health reported on Sunday 6,836 cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), for a total of 931,939 cases, as well as 99 more deaths, bringing the death toll to 22,279.
8. Turkey on Sunday reported 20,428 new COVID-19 cases, including 965 symptomatic patients, as the total number of positive cases in the country reached 3,013,122, according to its health ministry.
9. Greece has ended its ban on flights from Turkey, Albania and North Macedonia, the civil aviation authority announced on Sunday in a statement, Reuters reported.
10. Another 5,312 people in Britain have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total number of coronavirus cases in the country to 4,296,583, according to official figures released Sunday.