World coronavirus dispatch: The virus may have become much less lethal

From lengths to which hedge funds would go to protect staff, to why financial hiring gets tougher, and how Wuhan may have eradicated the virus - read these and more in today's world dispatch

In a piece of welcome news, a group of doctors in Italy have said the coronavirus is losing its potency and has become much less lethal. The swabs that were taken for testing in Italy in the past 10 days showed, in quantitative terms, infinitesimal viral load compared with those taken a month or two ago, said the head of San Raffaele Hospital in Milan. The finding could be a major event in our effort to understand Covid-19 virus better. Read more here.

Let’s look at the global statistics

• Total confirmed cases: 6,166,978
• Change over previous day: 103,390
• Total deaths: