United Nations, March 13  Located in the middle of New York that is facing the coronavirus threat, the world organisation of 193 nations is hunkering down to meet the crisis with a test for Security Council cybermeetings, limiting participation in sessions, cancelling meetings and encouraging staff to work from home.

Ottawa, March 13 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's wife Sophie Gregoire Trudeau has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, his office has announced.
Justin Trudeau, who has been self-isolating at home with his wife, will not be tested "at this stage" because he currently has no symptoms, CTV News

Paris, March 13 Coronavirus has claimed 1,016 lives in Italy, officials said, adding at least 15,113 people are infected with the virus.
Civil protection officials say 1,258 have recovered, although the number of cases has gone up by 2,651 since Wednesday. Italy is the world's worst-hit country after China.
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Canberra, March 13 Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has used a landmark address to the nation to call for calm amid the novel coronavirus outbreak.
Morrison on Thursday night became the first prime minister to deliver a televised national address since former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd did so during the Global

New Delhi, March 13 The 112 people who were evacuated from Wuhan in China and kept in quarantine at the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) facility in Chhawla here have tested negative for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and they will start leaving the facility on Friday, officials said.

The ITBP officials sa

Seattle, March 13 Microsoft has cancelled its flagship developer conference 'Build 2020' in-person, scheduled to take place here from May 19-21.

The Microsoft aBuild' will now be a digital-only event this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

New coronavirus cases in Washington State h

Chandigarh, March 13  Two officer couples in Punjab have been self-isolating at home as a precaution to prevent the risk of spreading the coronavirus after returning recently from Italy and Switzerland, an official said on Friday.

They are Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Sandeep Garg, who is the Senior Su

Lucknow, March 13 After initiating a vigilance probe, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) set up to probe charges of corruption against IPS officers, has registered an FIR against IPS officer Ajay Pal Sharma.

Director General of SIT, R. P. Singh, said that on the directions of the government, an FIR under th

Baghpat (Uttar Pradesh), March 13 Rescue operations were resumed on Friday morning after a boat carrying more than a dozen people, mostly women, capsized in the Yamuna late on Thursday evening.

The operations were halted in the night briefly. The body of a young woman was fished out while ten others were resc

Bijnor, March 13 Seventeen police personnel in Uttar Pradesh's Bijnor district have been placed under suspension for staying away from duty on Holi.

Those suspended included SI Neeraj Kumar, whose leave ended on March 7 but failed to show up on duty. The rest are all constables.

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