The global death toll due to coronavirus is increasing with each passing day with reports of more people being infected are pouring in from across the world.
India reported it's first coronavirus linked death on Thursday night where a man from Karnataka died on Tuesday due to the novel virus.
The second death was reported in national capital New Delhi on March 13 as the number of confirmed cases jumped to 42.?
A 68-year-old woman from West Delhi died after she came in contact with a positive case, according to health ministry officials.
Many states went into battle mode to contain the spread of virus, shutting down schools, colleges and theatres. Many public events, including the cash-rich IPL were postponed.
In the midst of the massive scare, there are several reports of people took the situation lightly.
The family of the 76-year-old Karnataka man who died due to coronavirus, apparently went against medical advice and forcibly discharged him from the hospital - not once but twice in the days before he died.
This according to statements released by Union Ministry of Health and a private hospital in Hyderabad. According to the statements, the family ignored medical advice at a hospital in Karnataka's Kalaburagi, or Gulburga and another one in Hyderabad. The man died on March 10 while he was being moved from Hyderabad to Gulburga.
The ministry's statement said the man had visited Saudi Arabia last month. He returned to India on February 29. Initially he did not have any symptoms, but he developed fever and cough in the first week of March.
In another development, the wife of the Bengaluru teche allegedly fled and later was tested positive for coronvirus, giving way to fears that she my have passed on the infection to others too. The 25-year-old-woman is currently in Agra, and is married to a Bengaluru techie working at Google. The couple were recently married and have a travel history to Greece. The man has already tested positive and their famly is put under quarantine.
In another news, students from IIT-Mumbai who were playing "truth or dare" on board a Chennai-Coimbatore bus, created a scare by saying she was infected with coronavirus, sending passengers in panic. The state public health workers were sent in to a tizzy due to the report. She was later traced to her campus and taken to the directorate of public health.
On Friday, the World Health Organization?(WHO) warned that Europe has now become the "epicentre" for the pandemic, called COVID-19, reporting more daily cases than China did at the height of its outbreak.
The pandemic's global death toll has reached almost 5,000, while the global number of cases has surpassed 132,000, according to the WHO, which is the health agency of the United Nations. About 68,000 victims have recovered, according to Johns Hopkins University, which is tracking the virus.