Coronavirus in India Live Updates: India has been anesthetize complete lockdown for 21 days starting today. All conveyance are banned while any quite non-essential movement outside the house has also been prohibited. Prime Minister Modi made the large announcement on Tuesday night and said that this is often the sole way India can fight coronavirus. Meanwhile, the coronavirus price in India has gone up to 11 with the death of a person in Tamil Nadu . Worldwide, over 18,000 people have died thus far and over 6,000 have died in Italy alone. Italy has now doubled the price in China, where the virus originated last year. the entire number of cases have crossed 4,00,000 across the planet . Follow live updates on coronavirus pandemic

  • Stay home, hear your wife, says CM Uddhav Thackeray
  • I am reception taking note of Mrs CM, you hear your home minister, there's no got to panic. Essential services are available, says Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray. 
  • Coronavirus cases touch 1000 in Pakistan
  • Latest number of coronavirus cases has hit 1000 in Pakistan. The country is under a virtual lockdown as all provinces have cut all modes of connection between one another .
  • All GoAir employees to possess salary cut in March
  • As the coronavirus pandemic has drastically impacted revenues of the aviation sector, GoAir CEO Vinay Dube stated on Wednesday that each one employees are going to be taking a salary cut in March. During the previous couple of weeks, GoAir has already taken some cost-cutting measures -- it's laid off its expat pilots, asked its employees to travel inactive without pay on a rotational basis, and announced that its top leadership would be taking a salary cut of up to 50 per cent.
  • 3 US sailors test positive for virus on carrier 
  • Three US sailors from the carrier USS Roosevelt are diagnosed with the novel coronavirus, the primary cases reported on a United States Navy ship currently on deployment, officials said on Tuesday. The three are evacuated and every one those that they had inherit contact with on the vessel, which has quite 5,000 personnel on board, are quarantined, Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas B. Modly told reporters, reports AFP.
  • Saudi Arabia reports first coronavirus death, an Afghani resident
  • Saudi Arabia has recorded its first death from the coronavirus during a 51-year-old Afghani resident, Health Ministry spokesman Mohammed Abdelali told a televised press conference on Tuesday. The man's health deteriorated quickly after reporting to a hospital ER within the city of Medina and he died on Monday night, Abdelali said.
  • African jazz legend Manu Dibango dies from coronavirus in France
  • World-famous singer and saxophonist Manu Dibango has died from a coronavirus infection at the age of 86 in France, his management team said on Tuesday. "It is with deep sadness that we announce the loss of Manu Dibango, our Papy Groove, who gave up the ghost on March 24, 2020, at 86 years old, further to Covid 19," read a press release on Dibango's Facebook page. Cameroon-born Dibango arrived in France within the early 1950s and studied jazz and saxophone within the northern city of Reims, where he started playing in clubs, consistent with a biography on his Facebook page, reports Reuters
  • Tamil Nadu gets 8th coronavirus testing lab
  • Tamil Nadu gets 8th Covid-19 testing laboratory at Government Rajaji Hospital, Madurai. Union Health Ministry has approved the testing facility, says state Health Minister C. Vijayabaskar.
  • Puducherry cancels exams for sophistication 1-9, all students declared pass
  • The Puducherry government has announced that students of Classes 1-9 won't need to appear for annual examinations under the present lockdown. The Directorate of faculty Education announced, As Puducherry is under lockdown and it's not feasible to conduct Annual Examination for the scholars of sophistication I to IX. Therefore, it's decided to cancel the examinations for the category I to IX & declare the scholars as "All Pass".
  • Pakistan suspends domestic flights as coronavirus cases near 1000
  • Pakistan has suspended all flight operations until April 2 to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus after the country reported nearly 1,000 cases from the COVID-19 infection, authorities said on Wednesday. The nationwide tally of the COVID-19 patients has soared to 990 with 410 cases in Sindh; 110 in Balochistan; 296 in Punjab; 78 in K-P; 80 in Gilgit-Baltistan; 15 in Islamabad; and one in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, The Express Tribune reported.
  • Kejriwal, Anil Baijal asks Delhi to follow lockdown, assures people
  • Delhi L-G Anil Baijal and CM Arvind Kejriwal holds joint news conference to assure Delhi residents that each one essential goods are going to be available during lockdown. Baijal says, "We will ensure strict implementation of lockdown in Delhi." Kejriwal added, "We all should stay home during lockdown period to combat coronavirus. we'll ensure essential services during lockdown period, request people to not panic."
  • Italy infections see slight dip but price goes up by 743
  • Italy on Tuesday received more reassuring evidence that its coronavirus infection rate was slowing because of a painful lockdown that other nations are beginning to apply at great economic cost. However, price in Italy again rose by 743 during a day. Health officials across the ravaged Mediterranean country are pouring over every new piece of knowledge to ascertain whether fortnight of bans and closures have made a dent within the crisis. Italy's 743 new deaths broke two days of successive declines that had taken the amount right down to 601 on Monday. It set a record of 793 fatalities on Saturday. But officially registered new infections rose just eight percent -- an equivalent as Monday and therefore the lowest level since Italy registered its first death on February 21, reports AFP.
  • UN expresses solidarity with India, WHO praises lockdown
  • The UN has expressed solidarity with India in its fight against coronavirus, with a top official at the planet body's health agency praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 21-day nationwide lockdown as a "comprehensive and robust" response to the raging COVID-19 pendamic. Globally, the price from the coronavirus has risen to 18,915 with quite 422,900 cases reported in over 165 countries and territories, consistent with data from Johns Hopkins University.
  • Rate of latest COVID19 infections in NY doubling every 3 days
  • The rate at which the deadly coronavirus is spreading in ny is "accelerating" sort of a bullet coming towards the region because the number of confirmed cases within the US state "is doubling about every three days," Governor Andrew Cuomo has warned. As of Tuesday, the entire number of confirmed cases in ny hit 25,665 and 271 people died. The US has the third-highest number of confirmed cases globally, behind China and Italy. consistent with the Johns Hopkins coronavirus tracker, there are a minimum of 55,041 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus within the us and over 700 people have died.

  • US reports 700 coronavirus deaths, total infections at 54,000
  • Nearly 10,000 new coronavirus cases were reported across the us on Tuesday alone, taking the entire number of infections to around 54,000, while the amount of fatalities surged by 150 during a day, bringing its total to about 700. ny saw a minimum of 53 deaths and about 5,000 new cases on Tuesday. the town has thus far reported quite 25,000 COVID-19 cases and 210 fatalities.
  • US Coronavirus Task Force expresses concern over situation in ny 
  • Expressing "deep concern"over the rising number of the novel coronavirus cases in ny and its metropolitan area, members of the US Coronavirus Task Force have urged all those that have left the town within the previous couple of days to self-quarantine themselves to stop the spread of the deadly disease.
  • Mizoram man tests positive for coronavirus
  • A sample of a Mizoram person tested positive at Guwahati Medical College Hospital. Assam Health department Principal Secretary Samir Sinha confirmed it. Mizoram authorities have also confirmed the case. The patient is now admitted at Zoram Medical College. he's an Aizawl resident.
  • Wuhan resumes bus services, China reports 47 new imported cases
  • Wuhan, the epicentre of the novel coronavirus pandemic, on Wednesday resumed bus services within the town for the primary time since the nine-week lockdown whilst 47 new imported cases were reported from the country, threatening a second wave of infections. China on Tuesday decided to lift the three-month lockdown on quite 56 million people within the central Hubei province.
  • Five in Indore test positive for coronavirus; MP cases rise to 14
  • Five persons admitted in several hospitals of Indore have tested positive for the coronavirus, taking the amount of COVID-19 cases in Madhya Pradesh to 14, health officials said on Wednesday. None of the patients in Indore have history of visit abroad. The five COVID-19 patients in Indore include a lady from neighbouring Ujjain while others are residents of Indore, Chief Medical and Health Officer Dr Anusuya Gawli said. Earlier, six positive coronavirus cases were reported from Jabalpur and one each from Bhopal, Gwalior and Shivpuri.
  • Pilibhit man tests positive despite no travel history
  • Pilibhit resident tests positive. He has no travel history. A 33-year-old resident of Pilibhit has tested positive for coronavirus. He doesn't have any travel history, it's a confirmed case of contact transmission, says Dr Sudhir Singh, King George's Medical University, Lucknow.

  • Second death in Delhi tested negative for coronavirus
  • The Union Health Ministry has said the second death in Delhi that was reported earlier has tested negative for coronavirus.
  • MHA asks states to prevent rumour-mongering, panic-buying
  • Centre asks states to see rumour-mongering about shortage of food, essential commodities. during a communication to chief secretaries and DGPs of all states, the ministry asked them to require action to allay apprehensions and maintain peace and tranquillity, and inform people about the supply of food, medicine and other essential commodities.
  • Amazon India is additionally suspending services of non-essential goods
  • Amazon India is additionally suspending services of non-essential goods. Flipkart has already made an identical announcement of suspending all services. Amazon India has said they're going to be giving priority to supplying essential goods amid the lockdown while they're going to get in-tuned with customers who ordered goods of lesser priority.

  • Bengal turns govt hospital into coronavirus isolation facility
  • The West Bengal government has started discharging patients from a state-run hospital and stopped admitting new ones to the institute to convert the whole facility into an isolation and treatment centre for people suspected to be infected with coronavirus, a senior health official said on Wednesday. "From Tuesday, we've started discharging patients who are in better condition from Medical College Hospital, Kolkata. we've also stopped admitting new patients, especially those that are pregnant and are referring them to other hospitals," the official said.