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The number of cases in China has been generally declining after significant quarantine efforts, although the 11 new infections reported on Tuesday outside Hubei was the highest for five days.

In China, where the deadly new virus first appeared last December, the number of new cases being registered each days is meanwhile continuing to decline, with only 206 new cases reported to WHO on Sunday.

Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, who had been president twice and prime minister three times, is expected to lead his Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP or People's Front) party to a comfortable victory at the polls.

The declaration comes a day after President Ashraf Ghani said he would continue the partial truce at least until talks between Afghan officials and the Taliban kick off, supposedly on March 10.

Robin Vadakkumchery, who was the priest of St Sebastian Church at Neendunoki, in Kerala’s Kannur district, wasjailed for 20 years of rigorous punishment and fined Rs 3 lakh for committing the heinous crime.

The Sindh government had ordered the closure of private and government schools on February 27-28 after Pakistan confirmed its first two cases of the virus. One of the cases was detected in Karachi, capital of Sindh.

It is the first time in his seven-year papacy that he will miss the spiritual exercises that he initiated early in his pontificate to mark the start of each Lenten season.

The virus has spread to more than 60 countries around the globe, prompting the World Health Organization to raise its risk assessment to its highest level.

Pakistan's Parliament in 1974 declared the Ahmadi community as non-Muslims. A decade later, they were banned from calling themselves Muslims. They are banned from preaching and from travelling to Saudi Arabia for pilgrimage.

The ship, which was docked at the Yokohama port in Japan, has seen more than 600 infected patients during the quarantine, according to a study, published in the Journal of Travel Medicine.

Rutnam said his experience formed part of a wider pattern in government and that he plans to take legal action on the grounds of constructive dismissal.

The decision could again reshape politics in the Southeast Asian country less than two years after an alliance of Mahathir, and old rival Anwar Ibrahim , swept out the former ruling party that had been tarnished by corruption scandals.

'He put a bullet in the revolver, a 357 Magnum, and spun the cylinder. He killed himself with the first shot' in front of the woman, said a source.

Opposition politicians are seizing on what they call South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s mishandling of the coronavirus crisis, by not moving quickly to close its borders to China.

The World Health Organisation warned on Thursday that no country should make the mistake of assuming it will be spared from the virus.

California's fourth-largest city said it made the move to boost its coronavirus preparedness and raise public awareness of risks the virus may spread to the city.