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The state on Sunday confirmed two other cases and locked down a long-term care facility where a resident and a worker also tested positive for coronavirus and 50 residents and staff are showing symptoms.

The coronavirus, which appeared in China in December 2019 and has stricken more than 83,000 people around the world, killing nearly 3,000, has already exposed significant vulnerabilities in the ability of the US to respond to serious health emergencies.

The National Health Commission (NHC) said it received reports of 573 new confirmed cases of novel coronavirus infection and 35 deaths on Saturday from the Chinese mainland. Among the deaths, 34 were in Hubei and one in Henan Province.

Many of these countries have added China, Japan, Singapore and Italy -- where major outbreaks of the virus have occurred -- on their quarantine lists.

China's manufacturing plunged in February by an even wider margin than expected after efforts to contain the virus outbreak shut down much of the world's second-largest economy, an official survey showed.

The retaliation came after bombardment, which Ankara blamed on Damascus killed 33 Turkish soldiers.

New infections have slowed in China, which has nearly 2,800 deaths out of nearly 79,000 cases. However Iran has emerged as a new hotspot for the virus, with at least 26 deaths and more than 245 infections so far.

The full extradition hearing is then set to resume for three weeks in mid-May, when witnesses will be called and cross-examined, with an eventual ruling expected by August at the latest.

The baby factories, relatively common in Nigeria, especially in the southern part, serve as small facilities that house pregnant women and offer their babies for sale.

The foreigners who were evacuated along with the Indian nationals included two from Sri Lanka and one each from Nepal, South Africa and Peru.

The virus has spread to more than 30 countries, killing over 2,700 and infecting 80,000, mostly in China.

The US president had said, "As far as the individual attacks, I heard about it, but I didn't discuss that with him (Modi). That's up to India."

The incident came to light after another family allegedly found a living larva in a container of the same milk powder brand, Gallia, manufactured by French firm Danone.

The historic peace deal would see the US withdraw thousands of troops, winding down America's longest war launched after the 9/11 attacks.

France has reported four other new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, including two people returning from Italy, bringing the total number of infections to 17.

While safe in Canada, which granted her a one-year stay after she was freed from jail, Asia Bibi is yet to taste true freedom.