India may have its first casualty from the deadly COVID-19 coronavirus as 33-year-old labourer from Murshidabad, West Bengal who had recently returned from Saudi Arabia died on Sunday.
The Ireland national reportedly had high fever running when he landed in Bhubaneswar International Airport and was immediately taken for a mandatory thermal scanner screening after officials suspected him of carrying the virus.
As reports of coronavirus cases being reported from several parts of India, people are rushing to medical stores to buy protective masks, hand sanitizers.