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Apple updates coronavirus screening app with new symptoms, mask tips

New symptoms that could be signs of Covid-19 include chills, shaking with chills, muscle pain, headache, sore throat and loss of smell or taste

Online storytelling that will have kids entertained and adults nostalgic

Complicated times can be helped by simple measures.

Covid-19: Here's what is allowed in public places during Lockdown 3.0

Govt has extended the nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of coronavirus till May 17, and released a set of guidelines detailing things that are allowed or prohibited in public places

Contactless sales to benefit passenger car, two-wheeler segments: EY

Companies like BMW, Hyundai, Volvo and Peugeot have successfully deployed almost contactless online sales globally

Covid-19 Lockdown 3.0: Check what is allowed in your area, and what is not

The Union Ministry of Home Affairs has issued detailed guidelines specifying the activities allowed and not allowed in the three zones

Coronavirus impact: US sport shutdown will cost $12 billion, says report

Analysis of the magnitude of business losses includes superstar salaries to pay for stadium workers but it might be a conservative estimate because it does not include outdoor recreational sport

USFDA okays emergency use of Gilead drug for hospitalised Covid-19 patients

Gilead CEO Daniel O'Day has announced that the company is donating 1.5 million vials of the medicine

Banks to non-profit: How Luis Miranda made connecting with people his asset

Miranda tells Anjuli Bhargava how his life has been a series of happy accidents and unexpected connections

Tariff on China for mishandling virus outbreak 'certainly an option': Trump

US President Donald Trump said China 'mishandled the situation" after the coronavirus outbreak in its Wuhan city, but refrained from giving a definitive answer on retaliatory measures

Best of BS Opinion: Lockdown continues, India's economic growth, and more

Here is a summary of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day

Covid-19 lockdown: 70% listed firms may dip into reserves for April pay

This will make it tough for many of them to service their fixed costs, such salary and wages, as well as interest on their loan.

Covid-19 Factoid: India's confirmed cases have tripled during Lockdown 2.0

The US seems to have gone the Europe way in trajectory of Covid-19 infections - both took about 40 days to reach 1 million cases - but its death toll has been much less

India coronavirus dispatch: Detect, isolate, share data more transparently

From a pandemic patent pool, to courts working after the lockdown, and why coronavirus outbreaks could go on until 2024 - read these and more in today's India dispatch

RBI governor Shaktikanta Das to hold meeting with bank chiefs today

The meeting will take stock of implementation of several steps announced by the RBI, including moderation in interest rate and its transmission, as well as liquidity infusion measures for industry

World coronavirus dispatch: Hottest Silicon Valley start-ups are on sale

From the likelihood of European economy staying below last year's level through 2022, to the future of air travel for average travel - read these and more in today's world dispatch

Lockdown 3.0 opens livelihood door; travel by air, rail remains prohibited

Two-week extension allows relaxation for several businesses

Lockdown 3.0: Industry bodies welcome relaxations, some confusion remains

Reiterate demand for a stimulus package

Covid-19 impact: Sebi may tweak pay structure of top MF executives

Caps on variable pay, staggered bonus payouts among likely steps to rein in risky moves by fund managers

Govt relaxes workplace norms for firms allowed to operate during lockdown

Firms to earmark quarantine facilities and ensure all employees download the government's contact tracing mobile application

Aarogya Setu mandatory in containment zones; private firms question move

Privacy experts and technology lawyers have long questioned the efficacy of using contact tracing apps at large scale without adequate testing for coronavirus (Covid-19)