WHO says the coronavirus pandemic is clearly"accelerating" as the number of deaths stands at more than 16,500, with over 350,000 confirmed infections. Here's the latest:Tuesday, March 24, 2020India's 1.3 billion people will go under "total lockdown" from 1830 GMT on Tuesday for 21 days to combat the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said.
The Games were scheduled for July 24-August 9, but after telephone discussions between IOC President Thomas Bach and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a historic joint decision was taken to delay the Olympics — the first time that has been done in peacetime. A closure of schools and universities will also be extended to mid-April, while cafes, sports clubs and gyms will be shut for the next two weeks and restaurants will be restricted to home delivery only.
Vatican employees in three different offices expressed alarm on Tuesday that superiors adopted different policies about working from home. The Arab world's biggest economy has also closed down cinemas, malls and restaurants, halted flights and suspended the year-round umrah pilgrimage as it steps up efforts to contain the virus.The famed shopping malls of the United Arab Emirates were deserted on Tuesday after the government ordered shopping centres to close for two weeks in an attempt to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
In Geneva, WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris told reporters there had been a “very large acceleration” in infections in the US. The total number of people diagnosed with the disease increased by 1,762 in the past 24 hours, to 24,811, he added on state TV.South Africa's coronavirus cases leapt again, to 554, the most of any country in Africa, as its 57 million people rushed to prepare for an unprecedented lockdown that begins Thursday.
President Rodrigo Duterte can reapportion the executive department's budget under the legislation, which will also punish people disobeying quarantine orders and spreading “false information” about the outbreak, legislators said. The state of national emergency will last for three months but can be extended by Congress.
Intimidating. Given the last time a cabbie was sleeping & refused to take a cop to a brothel was reportedly raped by the cop. Police in India do have weird pathologies they draw from their weird political bosses they confuse for the Indian constitution that pays them! UN coe
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