The Morning Filter Welcome to The Morning Filter, your guide to the busy news day ahead. Here are the latest updates and the big stories to follow today: 1. Coronavirus | PM's videoconference with CMs at 11 am The nationwide tally of confirmed COVID-19 cases crossed 7,500 on Friday with more than 250 deaths and Punjab became the second state to extend the lockdown beyond April 14, a day before Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets Chief Ministers to take stock of the situation. 2. Coronavirus | State Cabinet meetings post CMs' videoconference with PM 3. Coronavirus | Global death toll crosses 1,00,000 The worldwide number of fatalities from the novel coronavirus pandemic rose to 100,859 on Friday, according to a tally compiled by AFP at 1900 GMT from official sources. The number infected has crossed 1.6 million as of April 10. 4. Coronavirus | Italy eyes lockdown extension to May 3 Italy’s main newspapers said Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte will published a decree on either Friday or Saturday prohibiting people from taking walks or lounging in parks until May 3. 5. Coronavirus | G20 energy ministers scramble to finalise oil output deal The G20 talks, hosted by top exporter Saudi Arabia, are expected to seal the deal more widely with non-OPEC countries in the group including Mexico, the United States and Canada. Mexico was the lone holdout in an OPEC-led agreement reached after marathon overnight talks that would see output slashed by 10 million barrels per day in May and June and the cuts would gradually be reduced until April 2022. 6. Coronavirus | Saturday Night Live to return with remote episode The NBC show’s official Twitter account also posted a photograph of all of the cast members participating in a video chat from their home quarantines. Morning Filter will return tomorrow. | 
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