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A nurse at a drive-up coronavirus testing station set up by the University of Washington Medical Center uses a swab to take a sample from the nose of a person in a car Friday, March 13, 2020, in Seattle. US hospitals are setting up triage tents, calling doctors out of retirement, guarding their supplies of face masks and making plans to cancel elective surgery as they brace for an expected onslaught of coronavirus patients. (Photo | AP)

How to know whether to test for coronavirus? Soon a dedicated Google...

Google is developing a website to determine whether a test is warranted and to facilitate testing for US citizens at...

14 March 2020 5:25 PM IST

Health and police staff are enforcing a containment zone around the house of a 76-year-old man who tested positive for the coronavirus after his death in Kalaburagi, Karnataka. tion of ward 30 in Kalaburagi City on Friday.

Containment zone thrown around house of first coronavirus victim

Health and police staff are manning checkposts around a 5 km radius and screening people for coronavirus symptoms

13 March 2020 8:26 PM IST

Mohammed Hussein Siddiqui, a religious leader from Kalaburagi who was confirmed to have died of lung complications. His samples returned coronavirus positive.

India's first coronavirus death: Man who died in Kalaburagi was...

The 76-year-old man had returned from Saudi Arabia last month

12 March 2020 11:19 PM IST

In this March 2, 2020 photo, a worker wearing a mask works at a factory producing bicycle wheel rims in Hangzhou in eastern Chinas Zhejiang province. (AP)

Can globalisation survive the corona shock?

The coronavirus could not have struck at a more ominous moment for globalisation

12 March 2020 3:00 PM IST

Workers wear masks as they manufacture shoes at a factory in the town of Xiangtang, Nanchang county in eastern Chinas Jiangxi Province. The ruling Communist Party has told local officials to help reopen factories that were idled by the most intensive anti-disease controls ever imposed. (AP)

All nations scramble for solutions as Made in China' coronavirus...

The saddest part is that mankind is unlikely to have learnt any lessons, as in the past

12 March 2020 1:11 PM IST

People walk across an unusually empty medieval Charles Bridge in Prague, Czech Republic. AP photo

Coronavirus repercussions on global economy profound

China's totals of 80,793 cases and 3,169 deaths are a shrinking portion of the world's more than 1,26,000 infections and...

12 March 2020 11:22 AM IST

An Indian medical officer offers hand sanitizer to a child during an awareness campaign against a new virus at a train station in Bangaloreon, March 11, 2020. The vast majority of people recover from the new virus. According to the World Health Organization, people with mild illness recover in about two weeks, while those with more severe illness may take three to six weeks to recover. (AP)

Coronavirus: India suspends visas till April 15

Government strongly advises people to postpone travel abroad

12 March 2020 10:26 AM IST

A man watches the screen outside BSE building as the Sensex nosedives. (PTI)

Sensex nosedives over 1,800 points amid global selloff; Nifty gives up...

Stocks tumble after WHO says coronavirus is now a pandemic

12 March 2020 10:14 AM IST

File photo of Tom Hanks (left) and his wife Rita Wilson attending a function in Los Angeles on November 7, 2018. Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson have both tested positive for coronavirus, the US actor said Wednesday. Hanks, 63, said he and Wilson came down with a fever while in Australia, and will now be isolated and monitored. (AFP)

Tom Hanks says he and wife Rita Wilson have tested positive for...

Hanks tweeted: To play things right, as is needed in the world right now, we were tested for the coronavirus, and were...

12 March 2020 9:57 AM IST

Mohammed Hussein Siddiqui, who passed away in Kalburagi, Karnataka on March 10.

Man with Covid-19 symptoms dies, docs waiting for confirmation

The 75-year-old man had returned from Saudi Arabia last month

12 March 2020 9:39 AM IST

Check-in gates are quiet at SeattleTacoma International Airport due to travel restrictions worldwide on account of the coronavirus scare. (AFP)is seeing a global slowdown as a result of fears over the novel coronavirus, COVID-19.

Top US official says outbreak will get worse in coming days

Total number of COVID-19 cases has shot up to 1050 including 29 deaths, and the worst is yet to come

12 March 2020 9:06 AM IST

The Amazon headquarters sits virtually empty on March 10, 2020 in downtown Seattle, Washington. In response to the coronavirus outbreak, Amazon recommended all employees in its Seattle office to work from home, leaving much of downtown nearly void of people. The Amazon Spheres conservatory, located on the Amazon campus, serves as an employee lounge and workspace. (AFP)

Life turns upside down for Indian Americans in US

Work-from-home has become the norm, and travel plans to India have been cancelled

12 March 2020 8:56 AM IST