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Monday, March 9, 2020

Over 100 Countries Have Been Hit By The Rapidly-Spreading Coronavirus

Over 100 countries have reported cases of the rapidly-spreading coronavirus that has infected over a lakh people and killed over 3,800, the World Health Organization (WHO) said

Eight new countries have reported cases in the last 24 hours. Maldives, Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Faroe Islands, French Guiana, Malta, Martinique and Republic of Moldova are the latest countries to be affected by coronavirus or COVID-19.

India has reported 41 coronavirus cases so far with the government taking several preventive measures such as not letting any foreign cruise ship to dock at Indian ports, suspended visas and e-visas to people from Italy, Iran, South Korea and Japan.

China - excluding the territories of Hong Kong and Macau - where the outbreak emerged at the end of December had over 80,000 cases, of which 3,097 were fatal.

More than 15 million people in Italy, second worst-hit country after China, are in lockdown Sunday as the government announced a spike in deaths, with infections soaring past 7,000, overtaking South Korea as the country with the highest number of cases after China.Italy's quarantine zones are home to a quarter of the country's population.

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