First coronavirus deaths in Australia, Thailand

Australia and Thailand announced their first fatalities from the novel coronavirus contamination on Sunday as the World Health Organization (WHO) cautioned that the window to contain the plague, which has killed 2,990 and influenced more than 87,000 individuals all around since its episode in China in December, was narrowing.

A 35-year-old Thai retail specialist, who likewise had dengue fever, kicked the bucket from the contamination in a Bangkok suburb, in the nation's first demise from the sickness, formally called Covid-19.

In Australia, a 78-year-elderly person who was cleared from the infection stricken Diamond Princess luxury ship in Japan kicked the bucket at a Perth emergency clinic on Sunday, nearby authorities said. The passings came a day after the US recorded its first casualty: a man in his 50s in Washington state.

President Donald Trump declared progressively forceful screening of voyagers destined for the US in a tweet on Sunday. "Notwithstanding screening explorers 'before boarding' from individual assigned high hazard nations, or zones inside those nations, they will likewise be tested when they show up in America."

China on Sunday announced a slight uptick in new cases in recent hours to 573, the first run through in quite a while that the number surpassed 500.

They remain on the whole kept to the hardest-hit territory of Hubei and its capital Wuhan – the focal point of the episode. Chinese authorities, notwithstanding, emphasised that endeavours to control the event are accomplishing positive outcomes, with the quantity of day by day new cases slanting lower as of late.

South Korea – which has the second most significant number of contaminations outside terrain China - announced 210 new cases and two additional passings from the infection, raising its aggregate to 3,736 cases and 20 fatalities.

Experts in the nation mixed to get control over open get-togethers in the government while numerous holy places stayed shut, holding on the web benefits.

Iran's loss of life from Covid-19 moved to 54 as the quantity of affirmed cases hopped medium-term by the more significant part, to 978 individuals. The new figures speak to 11 a more substantial number of passings than announced a day prior.

Italy is enduring the most noticeably awful episode of the infection in Europe, enrolling more than 1,100 affirmed cases since the disease became exposed on February 20. There have been 29 affirmed passings, and 105 individuals were accepting concentrated consideration treatment in a medical clinic - every one of them in three adjoining northern locales close to the business centre of Milan.

On Sunday, the Vatican immediately destroyed theory that the Pope himself had caught Covid-19 after he was seen hacking two or multiple times during his week by week Sunday appearance.

The spread of the infection additionally shut down France's notorious Louver Museum on Sunday, with labourers who monitor its celebrated trove of works of art frightful of being defiled by the progression of guests from around the globe.

The head of WHO Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in Riyadh on Sunday that the window is narrowing to contain the flare-up, however, while nations need to get ready for a pandemic, realities appear there's no such risk yet.

"We shouldn't surrender the control methodology since we see it's working in certain nations," he included.