Italy's health professionals were paying a high price in this emergency. Fatalities linked to the COVID-19 included 31 doctors, of which at least five were family doctors who died in the last 24 hours, the Italian federation of general medicine physicians said on Wednesday.
A Delhi doctor who works at a mohalla clinic has tested positive for COVID-19. Doctor's wife and daughter have also been tested positive for coronavirus. All of them have been admitted to a hospital and kept in isolation.
As many as 50 persons with suspected symptoms were brought to different hospitals on Wednesday, taking the cumulative number to 813. In addition to the total lockdown, Telangana has strengthened surveillance, contact tracing and containment measures against the possible spread of the dreaded disease.
Coronavirus in Goa: The three COVID-19 patients are of age groups 25, 29 and 55 years. They have travel history of returning to Goa from Spain, Australia and the USA.
The United States is facing the brunt of deadly coronavirus as the country reported over 13,347 new cases and over 247 deaths in one single day. The total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in US has surpassed 68,203, becoming number 3 country to have maximum number of confirmed cases after China and Italy.
Coronavirus Outbreak: Reliance Foundation is already providing free meals to people across various cities in partnership with NGOs and has also said it would double the salaries of those who earn less than Rs 30,000.
COVID-19 positive cases are nearing 500,000 globally, as the death toll breached the 22,000-mark on Thursday. In India, 694 people have been infected with the virus and 16 have succumbed to the disease.
The AIIMS will soon begin a tele-consultation facility for its patients as it has shut down its OPD, including specialty services, and all new and follow-up patients' registration from March 24 till further orders.
One of Britain's biggest conference centers, the Excel Centre in London, is to be converted into a hospital to help coronavirus patients. Two wards capable of caring for 2,000 patients each will open next week. British Health Secretary Matt Hancock says the government is looking to build a volunteer army of a quarter of a million people to help deliver food and medicines to those quarantined during the coronavirus pandemic.
Puducherry government has decided to cancel the final exams for all students of class 1-9 in the Union Territory as part of measures to contain the spread of COVID-I9.
A Journalist who attended former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Kamal Nath press conference on March 20 has been found coronavirus positive. It is being learned that his daughter has also tested positive for COVID-19.
India has so far registered 560 positive cases of coronavirus, while the death toll stands at 8. The ministry in its updated figures on Wednesday morning stated the second death reported in Delhi was COVID-19 negative, thus bringing down the death toll to nine in India.
Bangladesh health authorities reported another COVID-19 death on Monday, taking the country's death toll from the outbreak to three, as the number of reported infections also rose to 33.
Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Wednesday appealed to the people to adhere to lockdown rules amid coronavirus outbreak in the country adding that the state will be enforced to impose a curfew if people don't follow it strictly and also giving out a warning that shoot-at-sight situation may arise if people are found violating the 21-day lockdown.
Coronavirus lockdown: It has instructed to permit open all retail, grocery, organised trade, including cash and carry and wholesale, chemist and pharmacies, in order to avoid inconvenience to consumers and also to prevent panic buying.
Coronavirus lockdown: Speaking at press briefing in Geneva on Monday, WHO Emergencies Programme Director Mike Ryan had said that it was important for India to ramp up measures at public health and societal level to control and suppress the disease.
Three new coronavirus positive cases have been reported in Gujarat taking the total number of confirmed cases to 38 till date. Meanwhile, India COVID-19 confirmed cases toll have surged to 562 while 10 have died.
Indian Defence forces have set up quarantine bases across the country for 5000 people who are suspected to be affected by coronavirus or are coming from coronavirus-affected countries. The Indian Army has set up quarantine bases for around 4000 people and Indian Navy and Indian Air Force set up facilities for 1000 people.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday made a number of announcements in relation to the filing of income tax returns, GST, issues related to insolvency, banking operations in order to minimise the impact of coronavirus outbreak on the business industry in the country. Take a look at them.
Five new coronavirus positive cases have been reported in Madhya Pradesh. Of the five new COVID-19 cases, four are residents of Indore and one is from Ujjain, informed Health Officer Dr. Praveen Jadia. With five new cases, there are now 14 COVID-19 infected patients in the state.
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