Coronavirus outbreak

Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi today took to Twitter to share an image of social distancing being practiced. People in the picture were standing on circles which were drawn away from one other.

Doctor Sanjay Kumar has urged people to help the doctors in curbing the spread the of coronavirus by following lockdown orders and staying at their homes

The ICMR had already confirmed earlier that in India, coronavirus is at Stage 2, which means local transmission.

Brazilian President Bolsonaro diminished threat posed by the novel coronavirus by citing the country's younger population and warmer climate

The world's largest democracy announced a total lockdown of 21 days starting midnight on 25 March, 2020 in a bid to curb the spread of Wuhan coronavirus.

It now emerges that on the 31st of December, Taiwan had written to the WHO (World Health Organisation) raising questions about the human-to-human contact aspect of the virus and the WHO had summarily ignored Taiwan.

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao said that if the violators continue to defy the prohibitory orders during the lockdown, then his government will have no other option but to issue shoot at sight orders and call in the army.

Over 90,000 NRIs have landed in Punjab in a month. The state had declared lockdown after the first coronavirus death.

The state of Uttarakhand has been under lockdown since March 22. The Australian woman was sent to quarantine in Haldwani.

277 Indians rescued from Iran amidst coronavirus outbreak.