The Morning Filter Welcome to The Morning Filter, your guide to the busy news day ahead. We hope you are staying home and staying safe. Here are the latest updates and the big news stories to follow today: 1. Coronavirus | Latest numbers The number of positive cases reported in India stands at 23,063 with 719 fatalities. The national lockdown has ensured that the growth of cases in India has remained linear and not exponential, the government has said 2. Coronavirus | PM to interact with village panchayats via video link on Friday Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address village panchayats across the country on Friday to mark the National Panchayati Raj Day. Due to coronavirus-induced lockdown, he will interact with the participants through video-conference. 3. Coronavirus | Virus warnings for Ramzan as some pandemic shutdowns ease Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said across India, imams, ulema and Muslim organisations have unanimously decided that Muslims will not congregate in mosques, and religious places during Ramzan. The world inched toward a new phase in the coronavirus crisis on Thursday, as some countries like Vietnam and New Zealand with few new cases moved toward ending their pandemic shutdowns. 4. Coronavirus | CRPF to conduct passing-out ceremony via video conference The CRPF will conduct the passing-out ceremony for its current batch of trainee officers via video conference on Friday in view of the coronavirus outbreak, officials said. 5. Coronavirus | Plea in Delhi High Court to provide protective kits to sanitation workers The plea, which is likely to come up for hearing on Friday, also sought direction to the authorities to carry out testing of all the sanitation workers and their immediate families for COVID-19. 6. Coronavirus | Kerala govt files statement in High Court on IT deal with U.S. firm for processing patients’ data The Kerala government has filed a statement in the High Court rejecting charges of illegality in its IT contract with a US firm for processing data related to COVID-19 patients and contended that initiation of penal actions for breach would fall within the ambit of Indian IT Act. The case has been posted for Friday for further consideration. 7. Coronavirus | Nitish Katara murder: No risk of COVID-19 infection to Vishal Yadav in prison, police tells HC Vishal Yadav, serving life term for the murder of Nitish Katara, sought parole on the ground that he could get infected by coronavirus or tuberculosis as he had earlier suffered from TB in view of overcrowding and poor sanitation facilities in the prison. The petition is listed for hearing on Friday. 8. Coronavirus | Puducherry CM, Ministers undergo tests for COVID-19 Health Department sources said results of the tests after examination would be available on Friday. 9. Coronavirus | Southern U.S. States largely go it alone in reopening decisions Georgia Governor Brian Kemp plans to have many of his State’s businesses up and running again as soon as Friday. 10. Coronavirus | Japan officials puzzled by outbreak on docked cruise ship The outbreak on the Italian-operated Costa Atlantica surfaced Tuesday when officials from Nagasaki and Mitsubishi Heavy Industry, which is in charge of repairs and maintenance on the ship, announced that a crew member developed a cough and fever. By Thursday, 47 crew have tested positive for the virus, a Nagasaki prefectural official Hironori Hashiguchi said. The ship has 623 crew, including a Japanese translator, and no passengers. Nagasaki is getting support from a military medical team and plans to test all the remaining crew by Friday. 11. Coronavirus | Pandemic forces global climate protest to be held online The student group Fridays for Future, whose Greta Thunberg -inspired street protests have in the past drawn huge crowds worldwide, says it will use online streaming and videos on social media to demand more action from leaders to curb global warming. Morning Filter will return tomorrow. | 
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