Coronavirus Updates: France reports 108 new coronavirus deaths in last 24 hours

Chhattisgarh's first case of novel Coronavirus has been identified. A 23-year-old woman who returned from the United Kingdom has been quarantined at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) at Raipur. AIIMS sources confirmed that her family members, who also travelled with her, have been isolated and their blood smaples have been sent for testing. The test reports are expected to come by 11 AM.

Trains to remain cancelled from March 20-31 in view of coronavirus, officials said

The much-awaited "Friends" reunion special has been postponed in the wake of the coronavirus scare. Sources told The Hollywood Reporter that the unscripted episode, set at HBO Max, was set to be shot next week at the iconic Stage 24 of the Warner Bros Studio lot in Burbank, where the original NBC series was filmed. The production will not go ahead at least until May due to rising health concerns amid the COVID-19 outbreak. A new date has not been set as yet as it is unclear when any programming would be able to resume work.

All India Trinamool Congress parliamentary party’s daily media briefings at the party office in the Parliament have been suspended from today, till March 31

The United States and Canada closed their shared border to "non-essential traffic" on Wednesday as US President Donald Trump moved to hasten medical equipment production and said hospital ships would be deployed in the battle against the coronavirus. Read more

The number of commuters on suburban trains of the Western Railway (WR) reduced by over 8 lakh on Tuesday, the day Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray appealed to people to avoid non-essential travel in view of the coronavirus outbreak in the state

With severe travel restrictions in both India and the US, and visa conditions that permit them to stay in the US only for physical classes, the anxiousness is gripping Indian students, who account for the second-largest number of international students only after China.

The meeting was scheduled for March-end in Sochi, Russia

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a $100-billion emergency aid package that ensures sick leave to Americans workers who fall ill from the new coronavirus, with more federal assistance in the pipeline. The bipartisan House-passed measure easily cleared the Senate by a vote of 90 to eight earlier Wednesday. Read more

New evidence from Europe and the US suggests that younger adults aren’t as impervious to the novel coronavirus that’s circulating worldwide as originally thought. Young people — from twenty-somethings to those in their early forties — are falling seriously ill. Read more

China on Thursday said no new domestic cases of the coronavirus were reported for the first time in the country, three months after the deadly virus broke out in Wuhan. China's National Health Commission (NHC) in its daily report on Thursday said no new domestically transmitted cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) were reported on the Chinese mainland on Wednesday. It, however, said 34 new confirmed COVID-19 cases were reported but they were all from those arriving from abroad. Read more

She has travel history to the United Kingdom, reports ANI

Pakistan has reported its first two deaths from the novel coronavirus in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, provincial Health Minister Taimur Khan Jhagra confirmed. The fist fatality involves a 50-year-old man from Mardan who had recently returned from Saudi Arabia, while the other deceased was a 36-year-old man from Hangu who had been undergoing treatment at the Lady Reading Hospital at the provincial capital Peshawar.

Two members of the US House of Representatives, Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida and Ben McAdams of Utah, said on Wednesday they had tested positive for the coronavirus, becoming the first members of Congress known to have contracted the respiratory illness. Diaz-Balart, a Republican, said in a statement he had been self-quarantining in Washington since voting on Friday on the floor of the House of Representatives. He said he had not returned home to South Florida because his wife's pre-existing conditions put her at exceptionally high risk. The 58-year-old congressman said he developed a fever and headache on Saturday evening and was notified "a short while ago" that he tested positive. McAdams said in a statement from West Jordan, Utah, that he had developed "mild cold-like" symptoms on Saturday evening after returning from Washington and isolated himself at home on Sunday. He and Diaz-Balart participated in House voting on a coronavirus response bill that went until late on Friday.

The central Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the country's coronavirus outbreak, reported no new infections for the first time, while imported cases surged by a record, led by new infections in the capital of Beijing. The new imported infections also accounted for all of the new confirmed cases in mainland China, placing more pressure on authorities to screen travellers at key travel hubs. Mainland China had 34 new confirmed cases on Wednesday, the country's National Health Commission said, more than doubling from 13 cases a day earlier. Of the 34 imported infections, Beijing accounted for 21 cases, a daily record for the city. That brings the total number of confirmed cases in mainland China so far to 80,928, the health authority said in a statement on Thursday. The death toll from the outbreak in mainland China had reached 3,245 as of the end of Wednesday, up by eight from the previous day.