Thomas Schaefer, the finance minister of Germany's Hesse state, has reportedly committed suicide amid fear of how to cope with the economic fallout due to coronavirus pandemic, state premier Volker Bouffier said Sunday.

The US has become the new epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the world. With over 148,000 positive coronavirus cases and more than 2,400 deaths already registered, the United States is on the top of the list of most cases in any country.

President Donald Trump on Sunday said that the United States will be witnessing a peak in the death rate from the coronavirus pandemic in about two weeks.

Soon after the lockdown was lifted in Hubei province, people tried to move out from the coronavirus-hit place. And Chinese officials were thrashed by the mob who tried to stop them from moving out in panic.

Netherlands government has ordered to retract around 600,000 made in China face masks from the Dutch hospitals after they were found defective and not able to provide any safety against the deadly coronavirus.

Ambika, a 72-year-old elephant, was gifted to the US in 1961 on behalf of children of India. The animal has been 'humanely euthanized' by the veterinarians at a Washington national zoo, said officials on Saturday.

A couple of days back, News Heads had reported that the new cases have jumped from 250,000 to 500,000 in one week and now it has been seen that another 150,000 cases have added in just 48 hours, according to a data shown on Worldometer.

A fake message is being circulated on social media with claims that there is not a single death in Israel due to coronavirus. It also mentions that there’s a cure for coronavirus. The message then highlights a supposed cure for the pandemic – a combination of lemon, water, and bicarbonate (baking soda). Further the message even presents an explanation that the mixture “alkalizes the immune system” and that’s why “people of Israel is relaxed about this virus”.

Donald Trump is being portrayed as a deceitful leader of the US in an advertisement on the TV channels, and he is up for a fight against it with legal measures. A 30-second video ad juxtaposes a number of Donald Trump's statements to underline his alleged non-serious behaviour towards the global crisis of coronavirus that has infected around 600,000 people across the world and claimed nothing less than 27,500 lives till Friday night.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday announced that he has been tested positive for the coronavirus and he has gone under self-isolation to fight against it.

Italy has recorded around 1000 deaths due to coronavirus on Friday, highest toll for a day in the world. Five weeks after the coronavirus was reported in Italy, the total number of people infected with it has reached 86,500, even more than the United States and China.

A message is being forwarded on the social media with claims that Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has been tested positive for coronavirus. This came soon after the news of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson testing positive to the coronavirus. But all thanks to Pak PM Imran Khan's live appearance on TV, the news gets cleared on its own.

Quarantine violators in Philippines were abused after five men were allegedly locked in an animal cage, claimed the Human Rights Watch and warned it to be a subject to 'cruel mistreatment'.

The United States now has the most number of Coronavirus cases in the world, overtaking China where the Covid-19 pandemic had started in December last year. By Thursday evening, the United States had 83,507 positive cases, nearly 2,000 more than the number of cases in China. However, the deaths remain highest in Italy, Spain and China.

Coronavirus cases have crossed the 500,000 mark, doubling in a matter of just one week as the Covid-19 pandemic accelerated. The total number of global cases was 532,000 at 8:30 am (IST) on March 27 (Friday). The first case of coronavirus was registered in Wuhan Province of China in December last year. Since then it has spread to over 192 countries, killing over 24,000 people. Roughly 120,000 people have recovered from Covid-19.

China has allegedly blocked a draft to discuss the global crisis due to coronavirus pandemic at the UNSC. The Covid 19 was first reported in Wuhan province which then led to the worldwide outbreak. More than 19,500 people have been reported dead and over 400,000 positive cases of coronavirus have been reported across the globe.

A US scientist on Wednesday claimed that there is a high possibility that the novel coronavirus may become seasonal flu in future, focusing on the urgent need of developing a vaccine before the next outbreak.

Chinese students are paying tens of thousands of pounds to grab a seat on private jets to make an escape from coronavirus hit the US, said a report. Amid a rising number of deaths and positive cases of Covid-19 in America, the World Health Organization has warned that the US may become new epicentre of the global coronavirus pandemic. Over 780 people have died in America so far.