• According to Focal Person for COVID-19 Khursheed Gilani, CEO Health Dr Ejaz and DSP(City) Nadeem are also among the victims of coronavirus pandemic.

• "Our crisis-related measures are temporary, targeted and proportionate...to the severe risks to our mandate that we are facing," Lagarde told members of the European parliament.

The Spanish top flight recommences on Thursday following a three-month break enforced by the coronavirus pandemic, with league leaders visiting Real Mallorca on Saturday.

• Public and private events, the retail and hospitality industries and all public transport were allowed to resume without the distancing rules still in place across much of the world.

• Researchers also calculated that the interventions had caused the reproduction number -- how many people someone with the virus infects -- to drop by an average of 82 percent, to below 1.0.

• After companies worldwide closed their doors and airlines grounded planes towards the end of the first quarter, oil dropped off a cliff, causing prices to briefly turn negative.

• Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said the capital's general lockdown and pass system would end on Tuesday, allowing residents to travel freely for the first time since late March.

• It reported 8,985 new infections of the virus, taking the nationwide case tally to 476,658.

• The ministry's data said that 206 new deaths due to COVID-19, besides fresh 9,983 positive cases were reported during the past 24 hours across the country.

• Sobyanin said on television on Thursday that he would give details of a gradual withdrawal from most lockdown measures "over the month of June, up to July 1".

• Nations like France and South Korea began resuming face-to-face classes as they got their outbreaks under control, but Philippine authorities see the risk as too great.

• The majority of new infections in Poland, which depends on coal for 80 percent of its power, are employees of a dozen coalmines and their family members, according to the health ministry.

• The chief executive of London's Heathrow, John Holland-Kaye, told the City AM newspaper it could lead to the loss of potentially 25,000 jobs at his airport -- a third of staff.

• Mishustin said in a televised meeting that a government order had been signed allowing Russian citizens to leave the country to work, study or take care of sick relatives.

• Police officers played a key role in enforcing a lockdown in the country of 168 million people before it was lifted at the end of May.

• The reported death toll of 7,135 is lower than other badly-hit countries, but India's epidemic is only expected to peak in July. Many experts say the toll is higher.

• "Everybody must wear masks when attending places like stores or any other place where it is not possible to observe social distancing carefully," he said on state television.

• The top court during Ramzan had ordered all provinces to open shops, markets on weekend.

• The Southeast Asian country has tested more than 274,400 people for the virus, according to a document by its COVID-19 task force.

• In a bulletin, the ministry said total confirmed cases have risen to 22,474 while deaths have reached 1,011.

• Imran says entire world has eased restrictions realizing the fact that lockdown does not eliminate the virus but it only helps slow spread of the disease

• China accused Australia of playing "petty tricks" and the Chinese ambassador to Australia said Chinese consumers could boycott Australian products if Australia pursued the inquiry.

• “The longer these measures are in place, the more severe will be its impact on the economy,” warned SBP.
• The central bank stated that disruption caused by COVID-19 is ‘more widespread and prolonged.’

• The ministry said strong demand for telecommuting amid the coronavirus outbreak and advanced chips was offset by weakening global consumption for products from textiles to plastics.

• The new cases raised the cumulative total to 8,329 cases.

• 1,447 people also tested positive for coronavirus in the province.

• Antibody injections instantly arm the body with the ability to neutralize the virus and the treatment could be a game-changer for those in early stages of infection

• China made no annual growth target this year for the first time since 2002, and pledged more government spending as the COVID-19 pandemic hammers the world's second-biggest economy.

• Tesla Inc sold 11,065 Shanghai-made Model 3 electric sedans in May, up 205pc compared to April.