United States is biggest overall donor to Geneva-based WHO, contributing over $400 million in 2019, roughly 15% of its budget

By Monday, 1,009 confirmed cases, including four deaths, had been reported in Hong Kong, 45 confirmed cases in the Macao and 393 in Taiwan, including six deaths, state-run Xinhua news agency reported

Coronavirus in India live updates: Arunachal Pradesh is the latest state to extend lockdown after Odisha, Punjab, West Bengal, Telangana, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu

Officials believe a three-week nationwide lockdown ordered by Prime Minister Narendra Modi will have slowed the spread of the virus in communities, giving them a chance to catch up in the race to stop a full blown epidemic

As many Muslim foreigners also attended the congregation, at least two cases of COVID-19 were also reported from Gaza among persons who had traveled to Pakistan to attend the Tableeghi congretaion in Lahore

India' ICMR says the number of tests done in the country so far is below its potential testing capacity. It now in the process of implementing random tests and aggressive surveillance in coronavirus hotspots in the country.

Once the pilot of Air India flight confirmed, the Pakistan ATC showered praise on Air India. \"We are proud of you that in a pandemic situation you are operating flights, Good Luck!\"

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Coronavirus in India Updates: According to Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, 328 new confirmed cases and 12 new deaths have been reported in the last 24 hours

Now all medical devices used to treat a patient - be it syringes, needles, cardiac stents, knee implant, digital thermometers, CT scan, MRIs, dialysis machines - will be regulated under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act

This new facility is targeted at people who do not have access to internet payment methods

Central government employees who are attaining the age of superannuation on March 31, 2020, in terms of Fundamental Rules 56 and due to retire, shall retire from central government services on March 31, 2020, irrespective at whether they are working from home or office, it said

Delhi Nizamuddin Markaz case: A total of 1,033 people have been evacuated from the Nizamuddin Markaz, so far. Among them 334 have been sent to the hospital and 700 to the quarantine center

Coronavirus infections have now exceeded 770,000 cases worldwide, killing more than 37,000, with the United States, Italy and Spain overtaking mainland China, where the virus originated late in 2019, in confirmed cases

Rothschild added, however, that it was still planning to pay out a dividend of 0.85 euros per share

It also said that the Director General Railway Health Services will issue detailed standard operating procedure for operation and use of these quarantine/isolation coaches/trains

China had built two major makeshift hospitals with 2,300 bed capacity in Wuhan in early February when coronavirus outbreak was at its peak

\"My advice to administration & police is to keep very strict watch on social distancing & home quarantine. Take deterrent actions for any violation & widely publicise. Separately, action to ramp up medical facilities to be expedited,\" LG tweeted

Carriers such as Air India have been permitted by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to fly special flights to transport test kits, medicines, relief material and Indians coming from abroad or foreigners going to their countries

There will be a 75 per cent cut on the salaries of the chief minister, state cabinet, MLCs, MLAs, state corporation chairpersons, and local bodies representatives in view of the financial state of Telangana