Coronavirus outbreak: 3 more test positive in India, 2 from Ladakh, 1 in Tamil Nadu

The girl tested positive for the illness early on Saturday and is receiving treatment in the infectious diseases unit of the state hospital, health minister Chris Fearne said, adding she "is doing well"

As a precautionary measure to control the spread of coronavirus in Karnataka, the state government has planned to suspend biometric attendance for the time-being at its offices, also in corporate and IT companies, medical education minister Dr K Sudhakar said

An Iranian lawmaker has died from coronavirus, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Saturday, in an another sign the disease is spreading within state institutions.

The Union health ministry has made functional 52 laboratories for testing samples while 57 labs have been designated for helping in sample collection for coronavirus to enhance capacity for diagnosis and detection of the disease. As on March 6, a total of 4,058 samples from 3,404 individuals have been tested by the network.

In wake of coronavirus outbreak, Jammu District Magistrate Sushma Chauhan on Saturday issued closure orders for all government and private schools up to the Primary level with immediate effect in the district till 31st March.

Jammu and Kashmir reported its first case of coronavirus, sources told ANI on Saturday. With the new confirmed case, the number of people infected with coronavirus in the country reached 32. The person is receiving treatment at government medical college in Jammu, sources added

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte plans to declare a nationwide public health emergency following confirmation of the country's first community transmission of the disease, the presidential aide said on Saturday.

The novel coronavirus outbreak has made international scenario more complex, defence minister Rajnath Singh said on Saturday, emphasising on the preparedness to tackle challenges that might not allow adequate reaction time.

In a unique bid to raise awareness about how to prevent the spread of coronavirus, the Central government is reaching out to the people with caller tunes on BSNL and Jio networks. The caller tunes urge the people to wash their hands at regular intervals and maintain at-least a metres distance from a person who has a cold or a cough.

Two out of three suspected coronavirus patients have been tested positive in the preliminary test reports received by medical authorities on Saturday. All three are from the same family and had arrived at Amritsar’s international airport from Italy on March 3.

The world’s largest diamond cutting and polishing centre in Surat is staring at severe liquidity crisis because of huge payment overdues by traders in Hong Kong and China in the aftermath of coronavirus outbreak. Industry estimate put the payment overdues in China and Hong Kong in the past one month at Rs5,000 crore.

China's exports plummeted in the first two months of this year on the back of a coronavirus epidemic that forced businesses to suspend operations, disrupting the world's supply chains. Exports fell 17.2% from a year ago, the biggest drop since February 2019 during the trade war with the United States, and imports dropped 4%, according to customs data released Saturday.