Coordinated Universal Time Updates (UTC/GMT)
00:13 Mainland China reported 40 new cases and 22 deaths at the end of March 8. Hubei province, which is the epicenter of the infection, reported 36 new cases and 21 deaths.
00:04 The UK government has set up a team to combat “interference and misguided data around the spread of coronavirus”. The team would verify the scope and effect of false data intended to deceive individuals, “whether for the purpose of causing harm or for political, non-public or monetary purposes.”
22:51 Saudi Arabia has suspended from and to the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, Lebanon, Syria, South Korea, Egypt, Italy and Iraq. Other people from those countries, or anyone who’s been there in the last 14 days, has been suspended.
Saudi Arabia has suspended to and from nine countries.
22:47 The number of cases shown in the United States has exceeded 500, and the virus has reached about 30 states. Two deaths were reported, bringing the death toll to 21. President Trump praised the White House’s readiness in a tweet, criticizing the media for making the government look “bad.”
22:29 Bangladesh has postponed an opportunity to celebrate the leader of the country’s independence movement, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. A rally planned for March 17 was postponed with foreign leaders such as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The country has detected its first 3 coronaviruses.
21:33 A third patient in England who tested positive for coronavirus has died, according to UK leading physician Chris Whitty. “The patient, who was being treated at North Manchester General Hospital, was over 60 years old and had significant underlying fitness problems. He had recently traveled from an affected area. The search for contacts is already underway,” Whitty’s said.
21:19 Canada received a plane to repatriate its citizens aboard the Cruiser Grand Princess, which is expected to dock in California after the discovery of cases of the new coronavirus in the shipment, the Canadian government said. The aircraft will take you from San Francisco to Trenton Canadian Forces Base in Ontario, after which they will be evaluated and placed 14 days, according to the release.
21:12 An Italian criminal was killed and several others were injured as a result of riots opposed to new regulations involving the coronavirus epidemic, a criminal rights organization said. The new measures come with restrictions on the family visits circle.
20:12 Qatar has banned arrivals of 14 for fear of coronavirus. The ban covers China, Egypt, India, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria and Thailand. Qatar Airways has already suspended flights to and from Italy.
20.05 hours Saudi Arabia has announced the suspension of all educational and Koranic activities of the kingdom’s mosques, according to state television.
20:03 New York may at some point have many positive cases of coronavirus, Mayor Bill De Blasio said.
19:51 The 71-year-old Portuguese president said he had canceled all public activities and would stay home. President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa recently won an academic organization from a school that closed after the detection of a student with COVID-19. Portugal has 25 instances and no deaths.
19:42 France has banned meetings of more than a thousand people to involve the virus. Earlier in the day, German Health Minister Jens Spahn also vigorously canceled occasions of the same size. “The coronavirus has been in Germany since Wednesday last week. Our priority now is to slow its spread,” Spahn said on Twitter. “The slower the virus spreads, the greater the coping capacity of the fitness formula.”
19:32 The largest school district in Northern California in the United States canceled categories for a week after discovering that a circle of family members in the district had been exposed to COVID-19. Gov. Gavin Newsom warned that additional closures are likely to occur as the virus spreads.
19:17 A prominent Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C. postpones all activities after declaring that one of its most sensitive leaders is the first user in the United States capital to test positive for coronavirus. The Reverend Timothy Cole, rector of the church, in solid state after being hospitalized on Saturday night.
“As a precaution, Christ Church has canceled all activities, adding devoted facilities up to additional notice. We propose that affected network members communicate with their fitness service providers,” a church said.
19:06 Saudi Arabia has postponed the Saudi Arabian Games, the largest event in the kingdom, until it realizes most due to fear of coronavirus, according to Al-Arabiya.
19:01 Inmates of four Italian criminals have rebelled against the country’s measures to combat the virus, adding a ban on visits by relatives in a circle, said a union of criminal guards. In a criminal near Bologna, two guards were injured and about 20 staff members had to leave the criminal after the inmates rebelled. The criminal is now being guarded by police officers, the ansa news firm reported.
Relatives of prisoners gather outdoor Poggorieale criminal in Naples, Italy
In a criminal in southern Rome, the police were called after about a hundred criminals barricaded the scene in a segment of the criminal. The detainees drew up a list of demands, adding the right to their relatives, and tried to negotiate with the criminal’s management, news firm Agi reported.
18:48 Saudi Arabia announced on Monday the suspension of schools, universities and school establishments due to fears of coronavirus, state media said quoting the minister of education. The country’s Minister of Education, Hamad Al-Sheikh, has ordered the status quo of virtual schools and distance learning mechanisms.
18:12 The state of Oregon in the U.S. It has announced seven new cases of coronavirus, bringing the state total to 14. Oregon has declared a 60-day state of emergency against the virus.
17:41 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country is contemplating expanding access restrictions for travelers from all countries. He said that if taken, the action would require anyone arriving in Israel to be quarantined at his home for 14 days and that a resolution would be taken on Monday. This resolution would well cut off all foreign tourism. Israel already asks for a quarantine car for travelers arriving from 15 countries.
People dressed in masks are noticed at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem’s Old City
17:41 Italy orders 22 million surgical masks, announced its civil coverage firm.
17:21 The death toll in Italy increased to 366 from 233 the day before, while the number of infections increased from 1,492 to 7,375 according to fitness officials. The case surge sets the record for a day in Italy and came hours after Rome imposed drastic measures to quarantine a quarter of the population. Italy is now just a moment for China in terms of the number of virus cases.
17:12 France has reported 1,126 cases of coronavirus and 19 deaths in total to fitness officers.
5:05 p.m. The capital of the United States has shown its first case of coronavirus. A man in his 50s tested positive in Washington, D.C., while another user who traveled to the city tested positive in Maryland, authorities said. The guy from Washington, D.C. was admitted to a local hospital Thursday and gave the impression that they had no history of foreigners and have no close contact with other cases shown in the United States, according to District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser.
16:50 The death toll from coronavirus is now 3600.
16:32 At least 10 other people died in the collapse of a hotel used as a coronavirus quarantine facility in eastern China, the government said Sunday. Twenty-three others are feared to have been trapped in the rubble.
Rescue teams pulled 48 other people out of the rubble, 38 of whom are still alive, the Ministry of Emergency Management said. The hotel in the coastal city of Quanzhou had been redesigned to space out other people who had recently had contact with coronavirus patients. The city has recorded 47 cases of viruses.
An employee dressed in a mask saves a child at the site where a hotel that used to quarantine other people collapsed
16:27 Egypt’s Ministry of Health has shown the first coronavirus death in the country. The victim is a 60-year-old Gerguy citizen, ministry spokesman Khaled Megahed said. The guy landed in Egypt a week ago and had maximum temperatures after arriving in Hurghada from the city of Luxor.
16:06 Iraq has shown two more coronavirus deaths, totaling to six, official news firm reported on Sunday.
16:04 Alitalia, the Italian airline, has announced that it will suspend all domestic and foreign flights to and from Milan Malpensa Airport from 9 March. Airport.
15:43 Iraq has shown two coronavirus deaths to its official news agency.
15:31 The US state of New York has shown cases of coronavirus, up from 89 on Saturday.
15:16 International Women’s Day protests, in which thousands of people took to the streets around the world, took up position despite fears of coronaviruses that forced several primary events to be postponed or cancelled. “I don’t care about coronavirus right now, I’m more worried about being raped or killed because I’m a woman,” a protester told Kyra Levine of the DW Women’s Day march in Berlin.
14:50 Britain’s largest supermarket, Tesco, has shown that it has imposed a restriction on the wholesale acquisition of various products at all its retail and online outlets. Customers will be limited to the purchase of five sets of parts such as gels and antibacterial wipes, dried pasta and UHT milk.
14:45 Two Italian Serie A football matches have run out of spectators despite calls from the country’s sports minister and the president of the players’ agreement to suspend matches altogether. Three more Serie A games were scheduled for later on Sunday, still unenthusiastic in the stadiums.
The Parma vs Spal Serie A setting takes position in spectators in Parma, Italy.
14:30 German Health Minister Jens Spahn has cancelled the occasions with more than 1,000 participants to involve the spread of the new coronavirus in the country. So far, Germany has filed at least 847 cases, according to the Robert Koch Institute, the official institute for disease control.
Meanwhile, German Football League general manager Christian Seifert hinted that spectators, like Italy, could be excluded from German matches or that matches could be postponed, but said the list of matches would not be shortened.
“There is no doubt that the season will have to be played until mid-May for players in foreign competitions. This is the only way clubs and the DFL can make plans with certainty for the coming season,” Seifert said in a statement.
14:29 The Egyptian team and foreign passengers on a Nile cruise ship where forty-five new suspected cases of coronavirus had been detected landed Sunday in the southern city of Luxor. The forty-five suspected patients will be quarantined, although 11 of them tested negative for the virus, Egypt’s fitness ministry said.
People wear masks in Cairo, Egypt
14:29 The number of coronavirus cases in the UK has increased to 273, according to the Department of Health and Social Affairs.
14:00 El Salvador has banned visitors from Germany and France because of COVID-19, having in the past banned visitors from Italy, South Korea and Iran, countries with the largest epidemics outside China. Germany now has the fifth highest number of coronavirus cases outside China, while France ranks sixth.
12:49 Saudi Arabia will block the Shia-majority Qatif region due to an epidemic. The work will prevent in all public and personal sectors even more important, the official news firm reported.
“Since the 11 registered positive instances of the new coronavirus come from QatifArray … wasArray … temporarily suspend access and leave Qatif,” the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
12:45 p.m. The Pope expressed his help to the coronavirus sufferers during a prayer and message transmitted live.
The 83-year-old man recorded a message from the Vatican library, which was broadcast live on a screen in St. Peter’s Square. The resolution was intended to deter others from meeting in front of its window in St. Peter’s Square, but other people gathered to look at the screens.
However, he gave the impression on his window and greeted the crowd for a few moments.
Spectators watch Pope Francis utter angelus prayers on screen in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Sunday
12:41 The European Central Bank in Frankfurt has ordered its 3,500 painters to make paintings from home to see how it will respond if the coronavirus outbreak worsens in Germany. It has cancelled the highest number of public occasions in the coming months, but will pass its rate resolution on Thursday.
11:27 The World Health Organization congratulated Italy on its “true sacrifices” after quading a quarter of the country.
“The Italian government and others are taking ambitious and courageous steps to stop the spread of #coronavirus and its country and the world,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a tweet.
“They make real sacrifices. @WHO stands in solidarity with Italy and is there to continue with you.”
The Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte agreed to strictly restrict the internal and external movements of the north, adding Venice and the monetary capital Milan, for almost a month. The region has 15 million inhabitants.
The decree only allows other people with a “serious” explanation of why they leave. But it allows other people living elsewhere, such as tourists, to leave.
10:41 Bangladesh, one of the countries with the highest population density in the world, recorded its first cases. Three other people aged 20 to 35, two of whom recently returned from Italy, tested positive.
10:39 At least 49 more people were killed by COVID-19 in Iran, the government said. There are 6,566 cases shown in the country and a total of 194 other people have died.
10:11 The head of the Italian region of Piedmont, Alberto Cirio, tested positive for coronavirus, according to the public television channel RAI. If confirmed, it would be time for the regional president to get sick in just 24 hours.
The domain around the northern city of Turin is the fourth most affected region in Italy. On Saturday, the governor of Lazio, the region around Rome, announced that he had been infected.
Albert Cirio, governor of Piedmont, was interviewed in Turin, Italy, in February.
10:08 German Health Minister Jens Spahn has called for the cancellation of major public events to help spread the virus. The government has been criticized for allowing primary sporting events such as the Bundesliga to continue while other countries have already disrupted public matches.
“We want immediate and specific support” for these companies, Spahn wrote.
Government leaders will meet later to discuss a reaction to the crisis. Germany has at least 847 cases shown, according to the Robert Koch Institute, the official institute for disease control.
Business newspaper Handelsblatt reports that executives are loosening regulations to allow for short-term paintings, as happened during the currency crisis. They would also possibly also relieve corporations working on a short-term schedule of having to pay social security contributions.
Other proposals come with the advent of a planned tax rebate, brought to the reunification of the country.
A larger audience built up close in a suffocating theater: for the transmission of the virus, a terrible scenario. The Bayreuth 2020 Festival has been cancelled for the first time in its 144-year history due to an epidemic. Rehearsals for the new production of the opera cycle “The Ring of the Nibelung” were scheduled to begin on April 1; however, now “Ring” cannot be released until 2022 at the earliest.
A day after Berlin announced that performances in the primary public halls would be cancelled until April 19, the city government also banned all occasions with more than 1000 participants. “The coronavirus continues to spread. At this stage, public life will have to be restricted,” said Berlin’s local fitness minister, Dilek Kalayci.
Many main concerts have been cancelled, adding Madonna’s last two dates from her “Madame X” tour in Paris. France banned public meetings of more than 1,000 people on Sundays. The Paris Opera also canceled its duties.
All the Irish Patrick’s Day parades, in addition to Dublin’s main birthday party that attracts around 500,000 revelers from around the world each year, are cancelled due to fears about the spread of COVID-19, the state television channel RTE reported on Monday. The high-profile March 17 parades in Ireland were also cancelled in 2001 for an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.
With quarantine measures in place in northern Italy, spectatorless football matches and the order of Italian Prime Minister Guiseppe Conte to close museums, theatres and cinemas, it is not surprising that the Vatican has closed the doors of its museums, adding the Sistine. Chapel (above), probably until April 3. In the Vatican itself, five other people are lately quarantined.
This annual music, film and generation festival in Austin, Texas generally attracts more than 400,000 visitors. But less than a week before its March 12, 2020, start date, organizers will cancel to prevent the coronavirus from spreading. However, there is a ray of hope: it cannot be postponed or cancelled altogether.
The International Film Academy has announced that it will postpone its award ceremony, also known as the Bollywood Oscars, due to fears similar to the coronavirus outbreak. According to official figures, India has so far emerged unscathed from the epidemic. Actor Shah Rukh Khan (pictured) was one of the stars expected on 27 March; a new date has not yet been decided.
James Bond would possibly have a little more free time than the name of the franchise’s upcoming film suggests: “No Time to Die,” manufacturers postpone the film’s release until November. Daniel Craig’s last release in 007 was originally scheduled for April. It is the first Hollywood box office hit to replace its release schedule in reaction to the coronavirus outbreak.
The launch of the world’s most prestigious architectural biennial has also been delayed. Instead of opening in May, it will run from August 29 to November 29, 3 months later than planned. The theme of the occasion takes on a new dimension amid existing developments: “How do we live together?”
Scheduled to take a position from March 10-12, the e-book fair was cancelled “reluctantly,” organizers said, after several top publishers such as HarperCollins and Penguin Random House withdrew from the occasion to avoid exposing their staff to the virus. The London Book Fair attracts more than 25,000 authors and connoisseurs from the e-book industry.
The largest music industry fair in Europe also announced that it would postpone the event, which was to celebrate its fortieth anniversary from 2 to 4 April. Although it was thought to be “the only culprit and fair decision to be taken,” the cancellation will inevitably affect many small businesses in the music industry, said Christian Hoppner, general secretary of the German Music Council.
Change of plans for fans of e-books: The Leipzig Book Fair, scheduled from March 12-15, has been cancelled due to the spread of the new coronavirus, an exhibition spokesman announced on March 3. The largest e-book fair in Germany is expected to attract 2,500 exhibitors from 51 countries.
Preparations for the world’s largest exhibition were already in full swing when organizers canceled it at the last minute. Due to the persistent viral threat, participants at the Berlin fair had to prove that they had not led to one of the areas of threat explained. With 170,000 visitors from around the world, this proved to be a very unlikely task and the screen may not open on March 4 as planned.
Every April, thousands of design professionals, artists and corporations from Milan to notice the newest in furniture and interior design. This year, however, organizers announced that it would move in June due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Milan is the capital of the Lombardy region, which has experienced the highest percentage of Italian cases of coronivirus. Some airlines have even suspended flights.
There may not be a more symbolic position of Italian’s rich lyrical culture than Milan’s La Scala opera house. From now on, your seats will remain empty until March 8. The Italian prime minister has called for the suspension of cultural events and the office respects the rules. At the time of writing, Italy has more cases of new coronavirus than any other outdoor country in Asia.
The reigning K-pop boys’ organization, BTS, does wonderful business at each and every concert, however, in the wake of the virus in South Korea, the band canceled the April 4 dates at Seoul’s Olympic Stadium, which seats 69,950 people. “The scale of the epidemic is to be expected,” the organization said. On Tuesday, instances in South Korea reached 5,100 with the majority of infections in the city of Daegu.
No, we did not describe the task of containing the new coronavirus, however, the new film starring Tom Cruise which was intended to have a three-week filming in Venice. The film has been postponed, the Paramount Pictures film studio announced Monday. Cultural events in Venice have been greatly affected by the epidemic. The last two days of the annual Lagoon City Carnival festival were also cancelled.
On 28 February, the Swiss government banned more than a thousand people from access until 15 March, becoming the first European country to do so as a preventive measure to combat the spread of the disease. As a result, many concerts and occasions have been cancelled, adding concerts through Carlos Santana (pictured) and Alice Cooper at the 15,000-person Hellenstadion in Zurich.
The Hamburg Ballet John Neumeier has cancelled guest performances in Macau and Singapore due to the coronavirus outbreak. In the program, “The Lady of Camellias”, which tells the story of a famous Parisian courtesan and “Nijinsky”. It has not yet been resolved whether the will will take position at another time. In the spring of 2021, the Hamburg Ballet plans to take an excursion to Japan.
Author: Sarah Hucal
09:00 The death toll of the so-called coronavirus hotel has increased to 10. A hotel that had been moved to a quarantine facility in the Chinese city of Quanzhou collapsed on Saturday night.
08:52 Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis has asked Italy to prohibit its travels in Europe.
“I think it is that prime minister (Giuseppe) Conte asks all Italians not to leave Italy at all,” said the billionaire populist.
“It is transparent that Italy, unfortunately, has it under control,” said Babis, who also asked the Czechs in Italy to return home.
08:26 Bulgaria has reported its first 4 cases. This means that all EU Member States, with the exception of Cyprus, have reported cases of COVID-19. Tensions have erupted in ethnically divided Cyprus after the border with the Turkish separatist aspect closed to fears of infection.
Read more: Cyprus: protesters, police crash at a closed checkpoint
08:15 The Bahrain Grand Prix has announced that it will only compete. On Saturday, he stopped selling tickets to the event from March 20 to 22, which holds 70,000 spectators. So far, another 85 people in Bahrain have been infected, 4 of whom have recovered. Recently, he asked all recent travelers to Lebanon, Egypt, Italy or South Korea to quarantine the property for two weeks.
07:45 Moldova recorded its first case of COVID-19, with a 48-year-old woman hospitalized after a recent to Italy, according to the Ministry of Health. Its neighbours have already reported cases: Ukraine has at least one infection and Romania at least 11.
06:11 The American cruise ship Grand Princess will dock in Oakland, U.S. media reports. The shipment ran aground in front of San Francisco. U.S. Vice President Mike Pence announced in the past that the 3533 passengers and equipment would be evaluated for COVID-19 after learning that 21 of the other forty-five people tested on board had the virus. The infections raised fears of a repeat of its sister shipment, the Diamond Princess, which had about 700 coronavirus infections among its 3,711 passengers and equipment, resulting in at least seven deaths.
Read more: What you want to know about coronavirus
05:16 Italy has already closed cinemas, theatres and museums throughout the country. This also has to hit a quarter of its population in strict quarantine.
04:21 Four other people died in the cave of a hotel in Quanzhou, China. It was used as a quarantine facility for other people suspected of having a coronavirus. Local media said 49 had already been rescued from construction that collapsed on Saturday.
03:49 North Korea has released more than 3,600 people who were quarantined. The country, which insists that it has not had a case of single viruses, has imposed strict restrictions and closed its borders. Tourists have been banned and foreign trains and flights have been suspended.
02:19 The Arctic Winter Games have been cancelled due to coronavirus problems. The games, which were scheduled to begin on March 16, are known as a game birthday party and circumpolar world culture.
02:09 Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has shown that the Lombardy region and a dozen provinces in northern Italy will be blocked.
Read more: Italy considers coronavirus quarantine The Lombardy region
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has shown a blockade in northern Italy.
01:11 U.S. President Donald Trump said he was not involved in the virus approaching the capital, Washington DC. “We did a wonderful job,” he said, adding that he would continue to have “big rallies.”
00:57 A U.S. Marine has become inflamed with the virus. He is the third member of the U.S. service. To be affected. The Washington DC-area Marine had recently returned from a trip.
00:43 China reported 27 more deaths on Sunday, with 44 new cases of infection. Only 3 of the cases occurred outdoors in Hubei province, which is the epicenter of the virus.
00:37 The death toll in the United States reached 19 on Saturday, while two others died in Washington state. The state of New York has declared a state of emergency. A cruise ship has recently been stranded outside San Francisco, with inflamed passengers.
00:33 The Italian government plans to quarantine the Lombardy region and the neighbouring provinces, adding the cities of Milan, Venice and Modena. The death toll from coronavirus in Italy has increased to 233, he added. Those who died as a result of headaches similar to the contraction of the virus were on average more than 80 years old, predominantly male and had at least two underlying fitness problems.
Read more: Italy considers coronavirus quarantine The Lombardy region
00:24 A 64-year-old patient in Argentina has died as a result of coronavirus, the first such death in Latin America.
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