- Andhra Pradesh has launched "COVID-Pharma", a mobile app.
- Madhya Pradesh Government with set up Deendayal Committees to ensure benefits of welfare schemes reach people during Coronavirus crisis.
- Asian Development Bank has approved $1.5 billion loan to India to help fund its fight against coronavirus pandemic.
- King George Medical University in Uttar Pradesh has become 1st government hospital in-country to successfully launch plasma therapy treatment for COVID-19 patients.
- Tripura has become 2nd corona free state in the north-east region after Manipur.
- Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a Mobile Virology Research and Diagnostics Lab (MVRDL).
- DRDO has developed Mobile Virology Lab. It will carry out COVID-19 diagnostics and virus culturing for various therapies.
- IIT-Delhi has developed "Washkaro" app to warn COVID-19.
- Karnataka Government has launched "Apthamitra" helpline and app to fight COVID-19.
- Globally remittances are projected to decline sharply by about 20% this year due to the economic crisis induced by pandemic and shutdowns, according to World Bank report on, the impact of COVID-19 on migration and remittances.
- Remittances to India are likely to drop by 23% from USD 83 billion last year to USD 64 billion this year due to coronavirus pandemic.
- Spain's best-known bull-running festival in the northern town of Pamplona has been cancelled because of coronavirus pandemic.
- Dr Harsh Vardhan has launched interactive platform "COVID India Seva".
- Manipur has become 2nd state after Goa to be corona free.
- IIT-Ropar (Punjab) has developed and designed a "WardBot" to deliver medicines and food to COVID-19 patients.
- Delhi Government has launched 'Assess Karo Na' Mobile App.
- S&P Global ratings has projected India's GDP Growth Rate at 1.8% for financial 2020-21 on account of lockdown to contain COVID-19 pandemic.
- Chief Minister of Chhatisgarh Bhupesh Baghel, has recently launched a website "cghaat" to provide home delivery of fruits and vegetables during the lockdown.
- YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has launched YSR Nirman and AP Industries COVID-19 Portals to fight against coronavirus pandemic.
- Jharkhand hospitals have deployed 'COBOT-Robotics' robots to serve food, medicine to COVID-19 patients without human intervention.
- Goa has become 1st state to use Ayurveda to COVID-19 patients.
- Asian Development Bank has increased the size of its COVID-19 response package to $20 billion.
- Russia's Defence Exports company Rosoboronexport has committed $2 million (Rs.15.3 crore) to PM Cares Fund.
- Government of India plans to set up a chain of 20 lakh retail shops called "Suraksha Stores".
- Under western railway, Ahmedabad Railway Station at Kalupur, Gujarat becomes the first station of Indian Railways (IR) to install a "Walk Through Mass Sanitizing Tunnel".
- Union Minister for HRD Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank has launched a web portal YUKTI (Young India Combating COVID with Knowledge, Technology and Innovation) in New Delhi.
- Asian Development Bank assured of $2.2 billion (Rs.16,500 crore) support package to India fight against COVID-19 pandemic.
- Hindustan Unilever has partnered with United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) to support India to combat COVID-19.
- SAARC Development Fund (SDF) has allocated $5 million for COVID-19 related projects.
- Arunachal Pradesh Government has launched the app 'COVID CARE'.
- Chhattisgarh Police developed the app "Raksha Sarv" which will enable them to track quarantined people.
- Airtel Payments Bank has partnered with Bharat AXA General Insurance to launch COVID-19 insurance policy.
- Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has launched a 5T plans to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. These 5T pillars are Testing, Tracing, Treatment, Teamwork, Tracking.
- US has announced $2.9 million aid for India through US Agency for International Development (USAID).
- The Government of Telangana invested swiftly to deploy India's first automated 'COVID-19 Monitoring System App' by Vera Smart Healthcare.
- Former Libya Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril passed away due to COVID-19.
- Ministry of Civil Aviation has launched an initiative called 'Lifeline UDAN' to help India fight against COVID-19.
- "V Shape Tunnel " has been installed in Telangana to sanitize people.
- Punjab has launched an on-demand delivery of essentials goods and groceries through its COVA app.
- Mizoram Government has launched "mCOVID-19" a mobile application to provide all necessary and correct information in the fight against COVID-19.
- PhonePe has launched coronavirus hospitalisation insurance policy "Corona Care".
- World Bank has offered $1 billion to Indian Government for a proposed India COVID-19 emergency response and health systems preparedness project.
- Government of India has launched 'Aarogyasetu' a mobile app to bring the people of India together to fight against COVID-19.
- BharatPe inks partnership with ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company limited to introduce "COVID-19 Protection Insurance Cover".
- Andhra Pradesh Government has set up "Mobile Hand Wash Facilities".
- DRDO has designed a casualty evacuation bag to transport or isolate persons infected with COVID-19.
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