The government&nbsp;has suspended the visa on arrival facility for Japanese and South Korean nationals in wake of the coronavirus, according to news wire ANI. The government has asked the nationals of the two countries to approach&nbsp;Indian embassies in Tokyo and Seoul for visas.&nbsp;The government has also asked Iranian carriers to temporarily stop flying into India. While no Indian carrier flies to Iran, two airlines from Tehran &mdash; Iran Air and Mahan&nbsp;Air &mdash; fly to India. Iran Air has flights to Mumbai and Mahan&nbsp;to Delhi. Together they have five flights a week.

The government has suspended the visa on arrival facility for Japanese and South Korean nationals in wake of the coronavirus, according to news wire ANI. The government has asked the nationals of the two countries to approach Indian embassies in Tokyo and Seoul for visas. The government has also asked Iranian carriers to temporarily stop flying into India. While no Indian carrier flies to Iran, two airlines from Tehran — Iran Air and Mahan Air — fly to India. Iran Air has flights to Mumbai and Mahan to Delhi. Together they have five flights a week.

Japan says that it would ban people from more than a third of the world from entering the country to halt the spread of the novel coronavirus. The US is among a list of 73 countries to which the Japanese government also discouraged travel amid the steep global increase in the number of infections and fatalities. Japan raised its travel alert to Level 3 out of a possible 4, over which it advised against travelling to certain territories under any circumstances. The alert was extended on Tuesday to 49 countries.&nbsp;

The US has renewed sanctions waivers on Iran, allowing foreign companies to continue work at Iranian nuclear facilities to keep Tehran away from developing nuclear weapons amid the coronavirus pandemic. Media reports said that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin prevailed in an internal debate on the issue against Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who opposed extending the waivers. Mnuchin believed that eliminating the waivers amid the coronavirus pandemic might draw criticism against the US. Iran is among the countries that have been severely hit by the pandemic, but the US has shown little willingness to ease its notorious "maximum pressure" against Tehran.

As part of a combined effort involving seven Britain-based teams,&nbsp;Formula One team Mercedes has helped to develop a breathing aid that could keep coronavirus patients out of intensive care and ease some pressure on Britain&rsquo;s strained health service.&nbsp;Mercedes worked with engineers&nbsp;to adapt and improve a device that bridges the gap between an oxygen mask and the need for full ventilation.&nbsp;The device, known as continuous positive airway pressure, has been used extensively in hospitals in Italy and China to deliver oxygen to the lungs of coronavirus patients during the pandemic.

Nineteen people died while battling a forest fire in southwest China's Sichuan province, China's Official Xinhua News Agency reported.&nbsp;The fire started on a local farm in city of Xichang on Monday and quickly spread to nearby mountains due to strong winds.&nbsp;Over 300 professional firefighters and another 700 militiamen were sent to the rescue.

China on Tuesday said its official manufacturing PMI for March came in at 52.&nbsp;In February, the official manufacturing PMI plunged to a&nbsp;record low of 35.7.&nbsp;PMI readings below 50 signify a contraction, while figures above that level indicate an expansion.&nbsp;China&rsquo;s manufacturing activity slowed dramatically earlier this year as the government instituted large-scale lockdowns and quarantines to contain the spread of coronavirus.

Warehouse workers of Instacart and Amazon in New York walked off their jobs on Monday demanding greater safeguards against the coronavirus, even as both companies are hiring hundreds of thousands of new workers to handle a surge in delivery orders. Though the strike had little impact on consumers, the pressure is building on delivery giants to address mounting discontent among low-wage workers who are on the front lines of the pandemic, serving the needs of those who can keep safe working from home. US senators have also written to Amazon boss Jeff Bezos to express concerns. Amazon said it had adjusted its practices, including increasing cleaning of its facilities and introducing staggered shift and break times.

Donald Trump has said the US will be in 'a very good shape' in terms of the number of ventilators available by the time the coronavirus outbreak peaks.&nbsp;The president said at least 10 US companies were now making the medical devices, and some might be exported. The US has more than 160,000 confirmed virus cases and nearly 3,000 deaths. New York is the worst-hit place in America, with nearly 800 confirmed fatalities, according to Johns Hopkins University.

The death toll around the world due to coronavirus crossed 35,000 mark on Monday evening, with Italy heading the list casualties. Out of the 35,097 deaths 10,779 have died in Italy.&nbsp;While&nbsp;the number of cumulative cases rose to 737,929, US lead&nbsp;with 143,055, as per data from the Johns Hopkins University's Coronavirus Resource Centre.&nbsp;Spain was second with 7,340 deaths, followed by China with 3,308.&nbsp;Meanwhile, 156,652 people around the world have&nbsp;recovered, with nearly half of them in China.

The World Bank estimates that the cornavirus outbreak will cause economic growth to slow significantly this year in China and other East Asian-Pacific countries, throwing millions into poverty. Under a worse-case scenario, the region could suffer its sharpest downturn since a devastating currency crisis more than two decades ago, the bank said in a forecast released Monday. World Bank's report projects that growth in the region would slow to 2.1% this year from 5.8% in 2019 under a 'baseline' forecast in which economic recovery takes hold this summer. More than 11 million people could fall into poverty in the region in this scenario, the bank said.

American Airlines, the world's biggest carrier in terms of passengers, is seeking $12bn as a bailout from the US government to help it through the Covid-19 crisis.&nbsp;The funds were allocated to the airline in the $2.2tn economic stimulus package approved by the US government last week. American Airlines hopes the financial support means pay cuts and involuntary furloughs can be avoided.&nbsp;The carrier says there will be reduced flight schedules over the next few months and the company will therefore offer enhanced voluntary leave and early retirement options to its staff.

Britain's Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle&nbsp;have made it clear that will be asking the US government&nbsp;for help with security costs. The couple issued a statement after US President on Twitter states that the US will not pay for their protection.&nbsp;A spokeswoman for the couple said, "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have no plans to ask the US government for security resources. Privately funded security arrangements have been made". The controversy erupted after it became public that they&nbsp;had recently relocated to Los Angeles.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who is self-isolating after testing positive for the coronavirus, took to social media once again and in a significant departure from the Conservative Party roots and former prime minister Margaret Thatcher's infamous declaration that "there is no such thing as society", the British Prime Minister&nbsp;delivered a contradictory message as he asked public to follow social distancing norms to help collectively control the spread of the deadly virus. &ldquo;We are going to do&nbsp;it,&nbsp;we are going to do it together. One thing I think the coronavirus crisis has already proved is that there really is such a thing as society," he said in a video posted on Twitter on Sunday evening.&nbsp;

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&nbsp;is in&nbsp;quarantine after an aide on parliamentary affairs tested positive for coronavirus.&nbsp;Netanyahu's&nbsp;office said the step was a precaution and is being taken even before the epidemiological investigation has been concluded. So far, 4,347 Israelis have tested positive for the coronavirus, with the vast majority of cases mild and 134 recoveries. Sixteen patients have died and 95 are in serious condition.

Seven days after it was confirmed that he had tested positive for coronavirus,&nbsp;Britain's Prince Charles came out of self-isolation on Monday.&nbsp;The 71-year-old heir to the British throne had been self-isolating on the Queen's Balmoral estate in Scotland after he had been tested by the National Health Service in&nbsp;Aberdeenshire&nbsp;last week.&nbsp;His Clarence House royal office said the prince was in "good health" and was following the government's restrictions as he carries on working from home.&nbsp;His wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, had tested negative for the deadly virus at the same time, but the 72-year-old had also been self-isolating separately in Balmoral.&nbsp;

China's manufacturing sector has steadily resumed production, with 98.6 per cent of major industrial firms resuming work amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said on Monday. Around 89.9 per cent of employees in industrial companies with an annual revenue of more than $2 million have returned to their workplaces.&nbsp;In Hubei, where the pandemic originated in its capital Wuhan last December, the average work resumption rate of industrial firms has&nbsp;surpassed 95 per cent so far.&nbsp;Meanwhile, 76 per cent of small and medium-sized enterprises nationwide have also resumed operations.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;

Shopkeepers in the city at the centre of China's virus outbreak started reopening on Monday but customers were scarce. This after authorities lifted more anti-virus controls that kept tens of millions of people at home for two months. Some 70-80% of shops in Chuhe Hanjie pedestrian mall in Wuhan were open Monday, but many imposed limits on how many people could enter. Customers have been made to wear masks, cooperate with fever checks and show the health code before they are allowed to enter the shopping area.

The lockdown in the UK to try to slow the spread of coronavirus could go on for six months and the country may not return to its normal way of life until the autumn, according to a&nbsp;key government doctor. Deputy chief medical officer for England, Dr Jenny Harries, said at Downing Street&rsquo;s daily press conference, that the effectiveness of the current restrictions would be reviewed at the end of the original three-week period.&nbsp;She added that&nbsp;lifting lockdown too soon could risk second wave of infection.

US President Donald Trump insists that the United States government won&rsquo;t pay for the security of Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, if they live in the United States. Unconfirmed reports say the couple and their 10-month-old son Archie recently flew to Los Angeles, where Meghan was raised. Responding to reports that the couple has moved to California, Trump tweeted on Sunday saying, he was a great friend and admirer of the Queen &amp; the United Kingdom, but added that the US will not foot the bill for Harry and Meghan's security. The former royals have been based in Vancouver, since late last year. Last month, Canadian authorities said they would stop paying for the couple&rsquo;s security once they ceased to be working royals.

President Donald Trump on Sunday extended the voluntary national shutdown for a month, bowing to public-health experts who told him the coronavirus pandemic could claim over 100,000 lives in the US. Trump, who has largely avoided talk of potential death and infection rates, cited projection models that said potentially 2.2 million people or more could have died had the country not put social distancing measures in place. The U.S. had more than 139,000 COVID-19 cases reported by Sunday evening, with more than 2,400 deaths. "The peak, the highest point of death rates, remember, this is likely to hit in two weeks. Nothing would be worse than declaring victory before victory is won - that would be the greatest loss of all", said Trump from the Rose Garden.

Pakistan Army has deployed troops across the country, including Pakistan occupied Kashmir to assist civilian authorities in containing the spread of Covid-19. The deployment was approved by Chief of Army Staff Gen Qamar&nbsp;Javed&nbsp;Bajwa on the request of the Interior Ministry. Pakistan is under lockdown&nbsp;with&nbsp;only hospitals, shops selling food items, medical stores, and food and medicine manufacturing industries open. 12 people have succumbed to Covid-19, and 25 have recovered&nbsp;in the country that has seen over 1200 infections.&nbsp; &nbsp;

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