Coronavirus Pandemic | Live Updates on Covid-19 – Part 1

NY Governor Andrew Cuomo announced insurance companies must waive off #coronavirus testing costs, including emergency room, urgent care and office visits. He says, “We can’t let cost be a barrier to access to #COVID19 testing for any New Yorker.”

March 3, 2020

Bloomberg reports World’s Richest Lost $444 Billion After Hellish Week 

March 3, 2020

Bloomberg has released a shocking update that due to the coronavirus outbreak; the combined fortunes of the world’s 500 richest people has fallen by $444 billion. The Covid19 continues to spread, and with it, fear has made grip over the market rattling equity markets worldwide. The Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled more than 12%, the biggest five-day slide since the depths of the 2008 financial crisis, in a rout that vaporized more than $6 trillion from global stocks.

The drubbing more than erased the $78 billion in gains that the 500 wealthiest people had amassed since the start of the year through last week, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

The world’s three richest people — Amazon.com Inc.’s Jeff Bezos, Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates and LVMH Chairman Bernard Arnault — incurred the biggest losses, with their combined wealth dropping about $30 billion.

With one more detected case; Russia’s total coronavirus case reaches 6

March 2, 2020

Portugal confirms first coronavirus case, Germany’s total cases reach 158

March 2, 2020

India gears up to fight against Covid19 as two more cases got confirmed

March 2, 2020

Health Minister Harsh Vardhan briefed a press conference today that India will now screen passengers coming from 12 countries, including Vietnam, Malaysia, Nepal, Indonesia, Iran and Italy.

The screenings will take place in 21 airports, 12 major seaports and 65 minor ports.

So far, a total of 3,217 samples have tested negative for coronavirus, five tested positive and 23 are still under testing, Vardhan added.