World coronavirus dispatch: Will economy bear lingering scars of pandemic?

From rising Covid-19 infections in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, to Twitter cracking down on Chinese propaganda, and Japan's $298-billion stimulus - read these and more in today's world dispatch

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said the global economy is recovering more slowly than expected and will bear “lingering scars” from the coronavirus pandemic. The agency would release economic growth projections on 24 June that “will be, very likely, worse than what we had” in April, even as there remained “profound uncertainty” around the forecasts, said IMF Chief Economist Gita Gopinath. Earlier, the IMF had forecast a 3 per cent contraction in global economy for the current year. Read more here

Let’s look at the global statistics

• Total confirmed cases: 7,514,559
• Change over previous day: 154,320
• Total deaths: 421,458
• Total