13 Mar, 23:14 (IST)

World Health Organization (WHO) says "impossible" to say when Covid-19 pandemic will peak, reports AFP news agency.

13 Mar, 22:23 (IST)

India on Thursday recorded its second Covid19-linked death. A 69-year-old woman succumbs to the illness at Delhi's RML hospital.

13 Mar, 22:04 (IST)

Director-General, WHO: Europe has now become the epicenter of COVID19 pandemic, with more reported cases and deaths than the rest of the world combined, apart from China. More cases are now being reported every day than were reported in China at the height of its epidemic.

13 Mar, 21:10 (IST)

Telangana Health Minister's office: The lone Coronavirus patient from the state has recovered and is going to be discharged from the hospital soon.

13 Mar, 20:57 (IST)

Brazil president Jair Bolsonaro has tested positive for the COVID-19, according to local media reports, making him the first world leader to contract the deadly virus. Coronavirus Live Map: How to Track The Spread of COVID-19 Across The Globe With This Dashboard.

13 Mar, 20:54 (IST)

European Union warns 2020 growth 'very likely' to be below zero after #coronavirus outbreak, report news agency AFP.

13 Mar, 20:53 (IST)

Jammu and Kashmir NHM Director Bhupinder Kumar: A fresh positive case of Coronavirus has emerged from Jammu. The patient is a close contact of the first confirmed case in Jammu and Kashmir.

13 Mar, 19:58 (IST)

Ministry of Home Affairs: In view of Coronavirus all passenger movements through all the immigration land check posts at borders with Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar will be suspended from 15th March till further orders except those listed. Coronavirus Live Map: How to Track The Spread of COVID-19 Across The Globe With This Dashboard.

13 Mar, 19:44 (IST)

Punjab Government: All government and private colleges and universities will remain closed till March 31 in the state as precautionary measures to prevent the spread of Coronavirus Pandemic.

13 Mar, 18:19 (IST)

India vs South Africa ODI matches in Lucknow and Kolkata have been called off in view of COVID-19.

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New Delhi, March 13: The outbreak of coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19, has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation as the number of cases nears 130,000 around the globe. Coronavirus has claimed 1,016 lives in Italy. Besides, at least 15,113 people are infected with the virus. In India, a 76-year-old man from Karnataka who died on March 10 had coronavirus - the first fatality - the government said on Thursday. We will be giving live updates on the coronavirus outbreak here.

In Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's wife Sophie Gregoire Trudeau tested positive for coronavirus. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's aide, who recently met US President Donald Trump, has also been tested positive for coronavirus. Bolsonaro's press secretary, Fabio Wajngarten, visited the United States over the weekend, where he met with Trump, Pence and other White House officials at Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.

The White House, however, said on Thursday that Trump and Pence had no plans to undergo testing. As cases of coronavirus have been declining in China in the last few days, Beijing has asserted that the peak of the virus epidemic has passed. According to Johns Hopkins University, the outbreak has spread across the globe with more than 126,000 infections and more than 4,600 deaths. More than 68,000 people have recovered so far.