Day: March 18, 2020

Greek police use tear gas on migrants at Turkish border

6:26 pm March 18, 2020

Thessaloniki (Greece): Clashes broke out overnight on Greece’s border with Turkey early Wednesday, after 500 migrants attempted to break down a border fence and enter Greece. Greek police said they used tear gas to repel the push to break down the fence south of the Kastanies border crossing. They said Turkish authorities also fired tear […]

Internet disruption reported in southeast Iran amid unrest

103-year-old Iran woman survives coronavirus: report

6:21 pm March 18, 2020

Tehran: A 103-year-old woman in Iran has recovered after being infected with the new coronavirus, state media reported, despite overwhelming evidence the elderly are most at risk from the disease. China makes 2-week quarantine compulsory for foreign returnees as ‘imported’ cases rise The unnamed woman had been hospitalised in the central city of Semnan for […]

44-yr-old Coronavirus: NDA suspends large gatherings, expeditionsgaon resident tests positive of coronavirus

Coronavirus: IIT Bombay announces closure of activities

10:49 am March 18, 2020

Mumbai: In view of the novel coronavirus outbreak, IIT Bombay has announced a virtual shutdown of its campus at Powai here till March 31. Woman presumed to be US national hospitalised following symptoms of fever In the Tuesday night decision, the IIT-B decided to ask students to vacate hostels by March 20 evening. “An emergency […]

Italy struggles to make room for onslaught of virus patients

10:41 am March 18, 2020

Brescia: Three weeks into Italy’s coronavirus crisis, Dr. Sergio Cattaneo has seen an unused ward outfitted into an intensive care unit in six days, a hospital laundry room converted into a giant stretcher-filled waiting room and a tented field hospital erected outside to test possible new virus patients. But Cattaneo, head of anesthesiology and intensive […]

After criticism, Mexico president to tone down some events

10:33 am March 18, 2020

Mexico City: Mexican President Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador on Tuesday finally moved to scale back the large-scale public appearances that appeared to contradict official admonishments for people to avoid large crowds to contain the spread of the new coronavirus. Poland bans domestic flights, warns of virus spread Lpez Obrador said at his morning news conference that he […]