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Italy sports minister calls for ‘immediate’ halt to Serie A over coronavirus

11:28 pm March 8, 2020

Rome : Italy’s Sports Minister Vincenzo Spadafora called Sunday for an immediate suspension of the Serie A season due to the coronavirus outbreak that has killed 233 people in the Mediterranean country. “The FIGC (Italian Football Federation) should consider immediately STOPPING Serie A,” Spadafora wrote in a statement on his Facebook page. “It makes no sense right […]

Indian among 15 new coronavirus cases in UAE

3:44 pm March 7, 2020

Dubai: An Indian national is among 15 new cases of the deadly coronavirus in the UAE, taking the total number of confirmed infections in the country to 45, health officials have said. The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) on Friday said in a statement that 13 out of 15 new cases in the UAE […]

41 people put under home isolation in Mizoram

11:20 pm March 6, 2020

Aizawl: At least 41 people, who recently returned from foreign countries, have been put under home isolation in Mizoram, as a precautionary measure, and 14,868 persons have been screened for coronavirus, a senior official said on Friday. State Health secretary H Lalengmawia told PTI that 41 people who have recently returned from China, Singapore, Macau, […]

Coronavirus cases to single-digit in Wuhan, China reports rise in 'imported cases'

Empty roads, no vehicles turn Wuhan into a ‘ghost town’

5:56 pm March 6, 2020

Aurangabad: Deserted streets, no private vehicles on the roads and public transport virtually absent – all these tell the grim story of Chinese city of Wuhan, the ground zero of the coronavirus outbreak, according to a student who recently returned from the neighbouring country. Ashish Kurme, an MBBS student studying at a university near Wuhan, […]

Japan to quarantine visitors from China, South Korea over virus

7:16 pm March 5, 2020

Tokyo: Japan will quarantine people coming from China and South Korea for two weeks on arrival to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, the country’s prime minister said Thursday. “We will strengthen immigration quarantines on people from the two countries,” Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told a cabinet-level taskforce meeting on the virus. “We will […]