Number of deaths cross 40,000 mark in USA, cases across World cross 24 Lakhs

Coronavirus-related deaths in the US exceed 40,000 with nearly half of all casualties in New York state, as protests against "stay at home" orders flared in a number of states.
Italy reports lowest number of deaths in a week, while the pace of new infections also slowed. Spain registered its lowest daily death toll in almost a month.
New Zealand will relax some of its restrictions - among the most stringent in the world - from next Monday.
Globally, more than 2.4 million people have been diagnosed with the virus while over 168,000 have died, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. More than 643,000 people have recovered.
China has said Australia's calls for an investigation into the origins and spread of the virus are baseless.
France becomes fourth country to pass 20,000 death toll

France officially registered more than 20,000 deaths from coronavirus infections, becoming the fourth country to go beyond that threshold after Italy, Spain and the United States, and the pace of increase of fatalities sped up again after several days of slowing.

But the number of people in intensive care fell for the 12th consecutive day, suggesting the national lockdown put in place more than a month ago is having positive effects in containing the disease.

France's public health chief Jerome Salomon told a news briefing the coronavirus-linked fatalities were up 2.8 percent, at 20,265, versus an increase of 2 percent Sunday.