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After arriving from Shanghai Shenhua - football club in China, Nigeria's Odion Ighalo was asked to stay away from Manchester United's training base in Carrington because of coronavirus possibility.

The swab samples of 40 of the total 41 people quarantined in Maharashtra after returning from the Chinese regions affected by novel Coronavirus outbreak have tested negative, the state government said on Wednesday.

The Economist Intelligence Unit has revised downwards its global growth forecast for 2020 to 2.2%, from 2.3% previously, citing new risks that have emerged following the novel coronavirus outbreak in China.

Chinese behemoth BBK Group's smartphone brand iQOO has confirmed that its first phone for China will be dubbed as iQOO 3 5G and the compnay will be holding a soft launch event to unveil the same here on February 25.

Parineeti Chopra is busy shooting for her upcoming sports drama - 'Saina' and is currently in Lakshadweep. The actress is receiving flak for her 'insensitive' post about coronavirus on Instagram.

China's central bank said Sunday it will offer a 300 billion yuan (USD 43 billion) boost next week to help businesses involved in fighting the virus epidemic which has swept China and infected thousands.

Just the other day all was good in China. The dragon was rising, other countries were quivering. Then suddenly we have a shift. We go from Karo Na Pyaar Hai to Corona Virus Hai. If we look back at history, and mind you, that is a very stupid sentence because you can’t look forward at history. Although, if history does repeat itself, then when you look back at history, you are also looking forward at the same time. Anyway, please stop arguing. Looking back at history, humanity has suffered so many great diseases. The Loci, the Bubonic Plague, Kim Jong-il, all spring to mind. Along with misery, these diseases had another great point in common. Everyone and their sick mother would dispense advice on how to cope and identify this disease. Some say this continuous stream of unsolicited advice is worse than the disease itself. In the days of the Bubonic plague, the top 5 pieces of advice were (a) Avoid monkeys, (b) Avoid monkey bars, (c) Avoid hairy people, (d) Don’t park too close to the curb, and (e) Return your monkey. All these were erroneous. Mostly because the plague was not caused by baboons, but by a French doctor called Dr Moreau. Who, truth be told, may have had a pet baboon. Although some argued that was simply his hirsute, muscular wife. So, you see from all this, a lot of ‘fake’ news, to quote Donald Trump, is being dispelled. What’s true for before is true for now. So let me, as a humanitarian first, and a medical professional without a degree second, help people understand, myths and facts about today’s Bubonic Plague – The Coronavirus. Which goes by many different names but since those are in Mandarin and Cantonese, we will stick to the virus, corona.

The 15 Kerala students who were standed in China’s Hubei province following the refusal by airlines to fly them out are now back in their homes after screening at the Kalamassery Medical College.

From disinfection and street patrols to food and medicine delivery in quarantine wards, robots are being deployed at the front lines to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, which has claimed hundreds of lives in China.

The genome sequence of the novel coronavirus strain separated from pangolins was 99 percent identical to that from infected people, indicating pangolins may be an intermediate host of the virus, a study has found.