Coronavirus latest
Canadian PM Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie Gregoire Trudeau are in 14-day isolation after she tests positive.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is being tested after aide tests positive.
In the UK 800 people are infected with 10 dead. Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta and Chelsea player Callum Hudson-Odoi catch virus.
England’s local elections, due in May 2020 have been postponed to 2021.
In Scotland, an elderly patient who has tested positive for Covid-19 has died in a hospital in the Lothian area.
Singapore denies entry to some travellers from Europe.
Australian Home affairs minister Peter Dutton, with coronavirus, met Ivanka Trump and US Attorney General Bill Barr last Friday. Stocks plunge despite the fed’s $1.5 trillion offer to banks. In the US more than 1650 people in 46 states are diagnosed infected and have killed 41 people. Disney to shut California park starting Saturday over coronavirus. According to a projection by the physicians for the United States Congress expects between 70 to 150 million people in the country, 20 and 45 per cent of the US population will eventually get infected with the novel coronavirus.
India reports its first death, a coronavirus 76-year-old man in the southern state of Karnataka, as it suspends trading for 45 minutes.
Kenya, Ghana and Gabon report first cases.
A philippine diplomat at the UN tests positive.
China has recorded the lowest number of infections yet.
In Italy Mayor of one town complained that doctors were forced to decide not to treat the very old, leaving them to die, patients with coronavirus-caused pneumonia were sending home as Italy’s death toll passed 1016 and 15113 infected, a rise of 23 per cent, according to the country’s Civil Protection Agency.
Anyone with a new persistent cough or a high temperature will now have to self-isolate and stay at home for seven days and schools are being urged to cancel planned trips abroad.
English football authorities have also suspended top-level fixtures including Uefa Champions League and Europa League until 3 April.
Belgium, Switzerland, France, Germany, India and some US states including Ohio, Michigan, Oregon, Maryland, Kentucky, Washington, and New Mexico become the latest places to close schools.
The Czech Republic and Slovakia close borders to foreigners except those with residence permits and Malta announce mandatory quarantines for new arrivals.
Nearly 4, 600 people have died and over 126, 000 have been infected globally, of which 68 000 victims have recovered according to WHO and Johns Hopkins University.