At least 2 million people confirmed with coronavirus: 120,450 died Live updates

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  Some 19,29,922  people around the world have now been confirmed to have the new coronavirus, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. More than 120,450  have died, while nearly 500,000 have recovered.
• The WHO is due to release its latest strategic advice on tackling the outbreak, which will include six criteria for lifting restrictions on movement.
• More than 10,000 people have now died from coronavirus in New York state.
• India has extended a nationwide lockdown until May 3.Iran said the number of lives lost in the country to the novel coronavirus dropped to double figures for the first time in one month.
  Iranian Health ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said 98 deaths from the COVID-19 disease were recorded in the past 24 hours, bringing the overall toll to 4,683.
  "Unfortunately, we lost 98 of our compatriots infected with the disease in Iran... but after a month of waiting, this is the first day that the death toll has been double figures," he told a televised news conference ,
•     Spain reported 567 deaths from the new coronavirus, a slight increase after a one day decline, bringing the total number of fatalities to 18,056 - officially the third highest in the world behind the United States and Italy.  
• The number of new infections rose by 1.8 percent to 172,541 cases, according to the health ministry, the smallest increase since the country imposed a nationwide lockdown on March 14 to curb the spread of the virus.The number of coronavirus cases in Russia has crossed 20,000, while the death toll is nearing 200, authorities said.
  A total of 2,774 more people tested positive for COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, bringing the overall case count to 21,102, Russia’s coronavirus task force said in a statement.
  The death toll has risen to 170 after 22 more fatalities, while recoveries reached 1,694 as 224 more patients were discharged from hospitals.

  Turkey to release prisoners to ease overcrowding

  Turkey's parliament has approved legislation that will free some 90,000 prisoners to ease overcrowding in prisons amid the coronavirus pandemic.
  However, that does not include journalists and activists, who will remain behind bars.
  The legislation, approved early on Tuesday, reduces some sentences and places 45,000 convicts, currently serving terms in open prisons, under temporary house arrest.