Coronavirus India update: The total number of coronavirus (Covid-19) cases in India has reached 23,502, according to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). A total of 541,789 samples from 525,667 individuals have been tested to date, ICMR has said. The death toll across India stands at 720. States with most number of cases at present are Maharashtra (6,430), Gujarat (2,624), Delhi (2,376), Rajasthan (1,964), Madhya Pradesh (1,699), and Tamil Nadu (1,683).

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal sid, “the clinical trial of plasma therapy conducted on four Covid-19 patients was satisfactory”.

Coronavirus world update: Globally, there now are 2,726,752 cases of coronavirus. The number of fatalities across the world stands at 191,061, and there have so far been 730,843 recoveries. Nations hit with most cases: US (880,204), Spain (213,024), Italy (189,973), France (158,183) and Germany (153,129). The race to develop an effective coronavirus vaccine gathered pace this week, as clinical trials on humans were approved in Germany and launched in the UK. In Britain, volunteers in a trial at the University of Oxford were on Friday given the first dose of a potential vaccine based on a virus found in chimpanzees.