India recorded 62,714 cases of the coronavirus in the last 24 hours, the country’s health ministry said on Sunday, the highest single-day tally since mid-October last year.
On Friday, a temporary ban on gatherings of people from different households, with religious services and protests exempt, was announced for California’s largest city, Los Angeles.
Restrictions will be lifted in three phases, culminating in the curfew completely ending - with the exception of the holy city of Makkah — from June 21.
Ajmal Wazir said that the KP province had increased its coronavirus testing capacity to 1000 tests per day and soon it would be increased to 2000 tests.
India's 1.3 billion people will go under "total lockdown" for 21 days to combat the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Tuesday.
In occupied Kashmir, the situation continues to remain far from normal in the Kashmir Valley as well as Muslim majority areas of Jammu and Ladakh regions on the 96th-day on Friday.