Corona Crisis : 58 Indian Pilgrims Evacuated from Iran

Corona confirmed cases in India have gone up to  47 following Karnataka and Punjab reporting one case each.
Global corona cases have crossed 1,10,000
Germany has reported the first casualties from the Coronavirus outbreak.Two people have died from the Novel Coronavirus in the West German city of Essen and virus hotspot Heinsberg.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s proposed visit to Dhaka has been called off.
According to ANI news agency, IAF C-17 Globemaster ferried 58 Indian pilgrims from Tehran, Iran
Karnataka government has put Bengaluru IT firms on Corona high alert. Techies living in Bengaluru’s Whitefield apartment where the city’s first Covid-19 patient resides have been asked to work from home.
The Italian government has put the entire country on lockdown in order to combat the Covid-19. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte banned all but the most important travel. Social gatherings have been restricted after the Italians failed to take cognizance of the warnings amid the fast-spreading of Coronavirus.
Corona hit the air the travel badly resulting in the unusual dip in demand.  Consequently, domestic and international fares have been cut by almost 40 pc over the past 5-6 days. In some sectors, the flight charges have gone even below 2-AC train fares.
Crude prices fell by 33 percent overnight, the steepest since the Gulf War of 1991 in the backdrop od of fears of Coronavirus unbridled spread.