TIMES OF INDIA
THE TIMES OF INDIA | Mar 11, 2020, 10: 07: 57 IST
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in India has now gone past 60. For the first time in India, a combination of two anti-HIV drugs was administered on a patient who had difficulty breathing. Stay with TOI for all updates.
Covid-19 scare: Hundreds of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh students stranded as Italy on lockdown.
Hundreds of Telugu students from AP and Telangana are stranded in Italy as the Mediterranean country went into lockdown to tackle the sudden surge in Covid-19 cases. The students are in places such as Padova, Rimini, Modena, Milan — all declared red zones for the virus. With Italy registering 97 deaths on March 9, more government restrictions, especially in travelling, have been placed from Tuesday.
Ministry of Health’s travel advisory.
People with travel history to Italy, S Korea need ‘negative’ Covid-19 certificate to enter India, reports PTI.
People travelling from or having visited Italy and South Korea will now have to mandatorily submit certificate of having tested negative for COVID-19 from laboratories authorised by the health authorities of their countries. This measure came into effect from 0000 hrs of March 10 and is a temporary measure till cases of novel coronavirus subside.
President Kovind’s scheduled programme in UP’s Sonbhadra district on March 15 cancelled amid corona scare, reports IANS.
President Kovind was scheduled to attend Vanvasi Samagam and also inaugurate the newly-built school and hostel of Seva Samarpan Sansthan of Akhil Bhartiya Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram at Seva Kunj Ashram, Chapki in Sonbhadra district.
Coronavirus conference gets cancelled because of coronavirus, reports Bloomberg.
The Council on Foreign Relations has cancelled a roundtable called “Doing Business Under Coronavirus” scheduled for Friday in New York due to the spread of the infection itself. CFR has also cancelled other in-person conferences that were scheduled from March 11 to April 3, including roundtables in New York and Washington and national events around the US.
Tracking the spread of novel coronavirus.
Australia ramps up virus spending, issues Italy ban, reports AFP.
Australia banned travel fro