Coronavirus in India live updates: Fourth positive case of COVID-19 reported from Gurugram

The Karnataka cabinet has decided to earmark Rs 200 crore to combat the spread of coronavirus in the state, Chief Minister Yediyurappa said on Wednesday.

The state finance department has asked all banks in the state to advise their customers not to visit bank branches/ATMs except in urgency and to use mobile banking or internet banking service in view of the corona scare

Pune collector Naval Kishore Ram has made stringent rules to implement the "work from home" policy by issuing orders that not more than 5 persons will be at one place in any establishment.

Telangana reported the sixth covid-19 positive case on Wednesday. The patient who came to the city from UK recently (nationality not confirmed yet) is currently housed at the isolation ward at the state run Gandhi Hospital.

In view of the Covid-19 threat, various regional offices (RO) of Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVs) have either cancelled or postponed several of the home examinations across the country.

A resident of Noida, who recently returned from Indonesia, has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, Gautam Buddh Nagar health officials said on Wednesday. The total number of positive cases for the COVID-19 in the district now stands at four, Chief Medical Officer Anurag Bhargava said.

The Jammu and Kashmir administration announced on Wednesday closure of the Vaishno Devi yatra and banning of all interstate buses as part of the precautionary measures to arrest the spread of coronavirus. "Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Yatra has been closed from today. Operations of all interstate buses -- incoming and outgoing from Jammu and Kashmir, banned from today," the Jammu and Kashmir Director of Information and Public Relations (DIPR) said in a tweet.

Electronics and Information Technology Department of Odisha government has asked the Software Technology Park and all IT/ITES companies to provide the history of foreign visits of their employees. The department has also directed that employees with a history of recent foreign visits should register with Odisha's COVID-19 online portal immediately.

Two more persons have tested positive for coronavirus in the city, taking the total number of cases in Karnataka to 13, Health Minister B Sriramulu said on Wednesday. The two patients--56-year-old man and 25-year-old woman--had returned from the US and Spain, respectively.

Maharashtra health minister Rajesh Tope on Wednesday said seven more laboratories will come up across the state for testing suspected novel coronavirus cases. At present, only three labs are operating in the state at Mumbai, Nagpur and Pune where samples of suspected persons are tested.