World Response To Virus

Do masks really work to keep coronavirus at bay? Health experts, around the world, are not too sure

With the virus spreading, demands for masks are increasing and UNICEF sent 6000 kgs of masks and protective suits to China.

Coronavirus outbreak in China: From emergency flights to isolation; here's what India, USA, Japan, Australia, EU, and others are doing to evacuate citizens

Many Asian countries – Hong Kong, Thailand, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan, Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia – have people who have been infected.

Coronavirus causes 25 new fatalities in China, taking the death toll to 132 people

Fever and weakness are the typical symptoms of the infection along with ten to 14 days as the incubation period.

Australian scientists grow coronavirus in the lab — game-changing tool to diagnose, develop vaccines

Chinese released genome sequence of the virus to help in diagnosis but the real virus help verify all test methods.

Coronavirus death tally jumps to 106 in China, confirmed cases of pneumonia stand at 4,515

Barring Tibet, all Chinese provinces have confirmed virus cases, posing a major challenge for the health authorities to contain.

36-year-old man in Mumbai has been admitted to the hospital due to possible coronavirus exposure

The man, a resident of Tardeo in south Mumbai, is currently kept under observation at Kasturba Hospital.

Two Bengaluru residents under observation for coronavirus after they return from China trip

They returned from China on 18 January and came to the hospital after developing a cold.

Severely investigate, punish violators, says Chinese authorities on wildlife trade ban

The ban states that animals can't be transported or sold in markets or online and legal breeding centres will be quarantined.

Coronavirus death toll in China rises to 80, Hong Kong bans visitors from Hubei province

France, Italy, Japan and the United States have all said that they were working to evacuate their citizens from Wuhan.

China goes into lockdown due to coronavirus, first death confirmed outside of epicenter

More than 18 million people are under the locked in China in an effort to stop the spread of the coronavirus that has killed 25.