In a shocking turn of events, a 16-year-old boy from Madhya Pradesh died of cardiac arrest after playing PUBG on his phone for 6 hours straight. Furkhan Qureshi, a class 12 student, became agitated and started shouting at other players before collapsing on the floor, according to his family. The boy was declared 'brought dead' upon arrival at the hospital. The doctors have told ANI that excitement of the game may have caused an adrenaline rush which may be the reason for a cardiac arrest. A case has been registered and investigation is underway. 

Despite a nationwide lockdown a Czech theatre company has found a way to entertain the masses.
A Prague-based&nbsp;studio projected one of their past performances called 'Family' onto the side of an apartment building on the outskirts of the capital.
People watched from their windows, from lawn chairs or as they strolled by.

American snack and beverage company PepsiCo's India arm has announced that its foundation will&nbsp;provide 25,000 COVID-19 testing kits and over 5 million meals to aid those affected by the coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic in India. The multinational has partnered with the&nbsp;Akshaya Patra Foundation for meal distribution and the&nbsp;Smile Foundation for providing dry food ration to the needy. Additionally, PepsiCo&nbsp;will match all employee donations two-fold and donate the cumulative funds to the NGOs it is working with.&nbsp;

Can't find a mask? The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention now has a guide to help you make your own. In a video shared by CDC, US Surgeon Director-Director&nbsp;Dr. Jerome Adams shows how you can make your own mask with some fabric and two hair ties. Watch and learn!&nbsp;

In a bid to scale up testing facilities, a private laboratory in Delhi has started India's first drive-through testing facility for Covid-19. Located in Punjabi Bagh, Dr Dangs Lab stated that every test would take around 20 minutes and will be conducted only on prior appointment, that can be booked online.&nbsp;It is mandatory for those getting tested to have a doctor's prescription. Priced on similar lines as the government approved test, each car will be required to maintain a 30 metre distance from another. The facility, divided into four stations, has the capacity to test 30 to 50 patients a day. Taxis and two-wheelers, however, are not permitted.

A 190-year-old railway bridge&nbsp;from the British era near Lonavala&nbsp;at the Pune-Mumbai&nbsp;Expressway was demolished by the&nbsp;Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation on Sunday. The out-of-use&nbsp;Amrutanjan Bridge was a major root of traffic jams and accidents on the expressway and its demolition will make movement between Mumbai&nbsp;and Pune&nbsp;smoother.&nbsp;

According to a study by researchers at the University in Hong Kong, the novel coronavirus can remain infectious on face masks for up to a week, and last on banknotes, stainless steel and plastic surfaces for more than four days. However, the virus can be killed by household disinfectants, bleach or frequent hand washing with soap and water, said the researchers in the study published in medical journal The Lancet. The researchers tested how long the virus could remain infectious at room temperature on a variety of surfaces. On printing and tissue paper it lasted less than three hours, while on treated wood and cloth, it had disappeared by the second day. On stainless steel and plastic it was present for between four and seven days.

While factories and other industrial units remain closed as&nbsp; part of the 21-day nationwide lockdown in India to contain the spread of the novel&nbsp;coronavirus, the Yamuna river witnessed an improvement in its water quality. According to the vice chairman of the Delhi Jal Board, the positive change may be attributed to the stoppage of industrial pollutants drained into the river. A video of the same was also shared by the Ministry of Jal&nbsp;Shakti&nbsp;on Twitter. A few days ago, data from the Central Pollution Control Board revealed that the health of the Ganga&nbsp;river had also improved significantly.

French doctors are looking at&nbsp;sandworm blood&nbsp;as a beacon of hope for patients with respiratory trouble caused due to the novel&nbsp;coronavirus. Two Paris hospitals will start tests of a treatment based on the hemoglobin of lugworms, which they hope, may be effective in increasing levels of oxygen in the tissues of Covid-19 patients. According to a biology researcher, the blood of sandworms stores oxygen for up to six hours between tides. Now, the two hospitals will test whether the blood is safe to inject directly into humans and if it oxygenates&nbsp;the tissue. The trial will occur in phases, administering gradual doses after seeking consent in patients. The unusual treatment is still in its early stages.

To prevent pandemics in the future, the&nbsp;United Nations&rsquo; biodiversity chief has called for a global ban on wildlife markets. While speaking to British publication The Guardian Elizabeth Maruma Mrema&nbsp;shared that&nbsp;wet markets that sell live and dead animals for human consumption must be banned. She&nbsp;also cautioned&nbsp;that it&nbsp;could have unintended consequences on communities that depend on wild animals to sustain livelihood. She suggests finding alternatives for those communities and close the hole of illegal trade in the future.

A 500-bed exclusive Covid-19 hospital in Odisha's Bhubaneswar&nbsp;was inaugurated via video conferencing. The opening of the SUM Hospital was also attended by Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan&nbsp;in Delhi. The hospital will offer free stay, treatment and food for all patients.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Workers in Wuhan, the Chinese city at the epicenter of the coronavirus, have begun bringing down barriers that were erected at the start of the outbreak. The city has been in a complete lockdown since January to stem the spread of the Covid-19 outbreak. As the barriers were gradually removed, shoppers and vendors celebrated and bustled with activity. While people have been allowed to travel around and out of Wuhan under strict rules, the quarantine is officially set to be lifted sometime in the week.

To keep up with the need of the hour, that is social distancing, entertainment company&nbsp;PVR Ltd. is looking at seat distancing post the nationwide lockdown. PVR&nbsp;CEO&nbsp;Gautam&nbsp;Dutta&nbsp;told PTI, that&nbsp;there is a need to ensure that customers feel safe about returning to the movies. Not only that, social distancing will be ensured at the ticket-booking level and all theatres will be regularly sanitised. The seat distancing will be practised for at least a couple of weeks or a month to gain confidence of the customers, say reports.&nbsp;

Space agency NASA&nbsp;knows how to keep you entertained during the lockdown&nbsp;period as the world grapples with the coronavirus&nbsp;outbreak. NASA&nbsp;is offering some out-of-this-world virtual tours! You get step inside its&nbsp;Armstrong Flight Research Center and the&nbsp;International Space Station. Explore&nbsp;360-degree visualizations&nbsp;of other planets and stars and more!

To enable families of those who succumb to Covid-19 find closure, a medical centre in Israel has found a new way. Families can say goodbye to their loved ones through an aquarium designed at the Sheba medical centre. In case a family wishes to bid farewell, the body will be placed in the aquarium and the family can see it through the window. However, the hospital will not force anyone to do so, it's purely based on choice.&nbsp;

We have only 10 years left to save the most threatened sea turtle population in the world, according to a group of conservation scientists from organisations including UK-based&nbsp;Fauna &amp; Flora International. To ensure the stabilisation of the&nbsp;Eastern Pacific leatherback population, expanded action has to be taken immediately, they said. This must continue within the decade or the species will be lost forever. According to the study, which was published in the journal&nbsp;Nature, in the&nbsp;2019-2020 nesting season, no&nbsp;leatherback turtle nests were recorded in Nicaragua, the region with the three most important nesting sites in the world.

As India grapples with the coronavirus pandemic, people began counting blessings to uplift their mood. During the ongoing 21-day nationwide lockdown, it was reported that the pollution levels have fallen across several cities.&nbsp;Twitterati took it upon themselves to create hilarious memes and posts of what all they could view from their homes with the improved air quality! From one netizen being able to see Burj Khalifa from Noida&nbsp;to another being able to spot Canada from Punjab, their creative minds ran endlessly to make people laugh with their jokes.

It's been nine years since an American astronaut was&nbsp; launched into space aboard a rocket from the US soil. But, that's changing as&nbsp;NASA&nbsp;along with SpaceX&nbsp;is launching&nbsp;a manned&nbsp;Demo-2 flight test from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. If everything goes as planned, the agency is eyeing at a date in mid May but that could be postponed due to the coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic. The mission is the final test before NASA&nbsp;transitions to operational crewed flights to the space station.&nbsp;

If you're feeling anxious while at home during the lockdown, here's help. 'Wellbeing Volunteers United' is a free hotline for those struggling to cope with the lockdown. Started by Dr. Prakriti Poddar, trustee of the Poddar Foundation, the hotline&nbsp;has about&nbsp;500 trained volunteers who will talk you through your concerns via video sessions. They also have&nbsp;counselling psychologists and pyschiatrists&nbsp;on the portal.&nbsp;

A tiger at New York's&nbsp;Bronx Zoo has tested positive for Covid-19, shared the U.S. Department of Agriculture.&nbsp;The 4-year-old Malayan tiger Nadia and six other tigers and lions that have also fallen ill are believed to have been infected by a zoo employee who wasn&rsquo;t yet showing symptoms. The finding raises new questions about transmission of the virus in animals. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which confirmed Nadia&rsquo;s test result, said that there are no known cases of the virus in U.S. pets or livestock. Previously,&nbsp;Hong Kong agriculture authorities concluded that pet dogs and cats couldn&rsquo;t pass the virus to human beings but could test positive if exposed by their owners.

Indian Railways' Rail Coach Factory in Kapurthala has created a low-cost ventilator amid shortages in the country. Called Jeevan, the prototype is now seeking clearance from the ICMR. The device will cost around Rs 10,000 without the compressor and once the approval has been granted the authorities will be able to produce about 100 such ventilators a day, according to reports. The emergency ventilator was produced with locally sourced parts and is an original design, created from scratch.

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