Maldives confirms first two cases; two resort islands locked down
Government advisory
All those who have traveled in Qatar Airways flights QR 126 Venice to Doha and QR 514 Doha to Kochi have been asked to immediately report to the nearby hospitals
Kerala: Five who tested positive had dodged screening at airport despite showing symptoms
North Korea releases 3,600 quarantined over virus
Paraguay reports its first case
Another stranded cruise
Malaysia and Thailand have barred a cruise ship carrying about 2,000 people from docking
- The Costa Fortuna was first turned away from Phuket on Friday
- On Saturday the vessel tried to dock in the northern Malaysian state of Penang but was also refused entry
- The ship is carrying 64 Italians
- The ship is now heading to neighbouring Singapore
Kerala reports five new cases; India’s total up to 39
- All the five hail from Pathnamthitta district
- While three of them had returned from Italy on February 29, two others were their relatives
- They have been isolated in Pathnamathitta general hospital and are under observation
- India’s first three positive cases had been reported from the state
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- India now has 34 confirmed cases
- New York has declared a state of emergency as cases statewide climb to at least 89
- Washington, D.C. has identified its first presumptive case
- A hotel used as a quarantine collapsed in China, leaving dozens trapped in the rubble and 4 dead
- The Pope has canceled his main public appearances and will stream them online
- Italy is preparing to lock down the Lombardy region, which includes the nation’s financial hub, Milan
Italy shuts down North, imposes lock down on 16 million people
- The government said it was a “national emergency”
- Venice and Milan hit
- Number of infected cases surged more than 5,000
- Italy, which is suffering the worst outbreak in Europe, noted that the measures “very rigorous” but necessary to contain the contagion and ease the burden on Italy’s strained health care system.
Cathay Pacific to temporarily suspend Japan flights from Monday
- Flights to and from Hong Kong and four Japanese airports and cities — Tokyo’s Haneda airport, Fukuoka, Nagoya and Sapporo — will stop from Monday until March 28, and halted for Narita airport and Osaka’s Kansai airport from March 13
- Japan last week said travelers from China, including Hong Kong and Macau, as well as South Korea will be quarantined for 14 days
- It also suspended visa exemptions for Hong Kong, Macau and South Korea
Varanasi school tackles corona with ‘karo na’ list
The school has started a ‘corona class’ for students in which they are given information about the virus and the precautionary measures needed to escape being infected.
Buy chicken, get onions free in Kolkata
With the widespread panic over coronavirus pulling down the price of chicken to Rs 100 a kilo following sliding demand, traders in West Bengal are offering the additional incentive of 250 gm of free onion to attract the buyers.
4 killed as hotel used as quarantine facility collapses in China
Official media reported on Sunday that authorities pulled out 42 people from the debris
WHO calls for robust measures to contain spread of COVID-19
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Saturday that the spread of COVID-19 can be significantly slowed or even reversed through implementing robust containment and control activities as the number of cases worldwide has surpassed 1,00,000.
Mainland China reports 44 new virus cases as spread continues to slow at epicentre
China’s new confirmed case count of the COVID-19 coronavirus fell by roughly one half, according to official data, as the disease continues to subside in its country of origin.
Three more test positive for COVID-19 in India, total cases now 34
Three more persons have tested positive for COVID-19, taking the total number of coronavirus affected patients in the country to 34 as on Saturday.
Egypt says cruise ship quarantined over new virus cluster
A cruise ship on Egypt’s Nile River with over 150 tourists and local crew was in quarantine Saturday in the southern city of Lu xor, as 45 people on board tested positive for the new coronavirus, authorities said.
Italy heads for lockdown as coronavirus spreads
Italy’s government plans to place large parts of the north in corona virus lockdown as Italian cases soared past 200 on Saturday and the Vatican announced Pope Francis’s Angelus prayer would be live streamed.
S.Korea reports 93 new corona virus cases, for total of 7,134
Argentina announces first coronavirus death in Latin America
A 64-year-old man died in Argentina as a result of the new corona virus, the first such death in Latin America, health authorities announced Saturday.
