Italy is set to lockdown at least ten million people in the region of Lombardy and eleven provinces in north and east of the country to fight coronavirus.

The death toll in Italy has passed 230, with officials reporting more than 50 deaths in 24 hours.

The number of confirmed cases jumped by more than twelve hundred to five thousand eight hundred and eighty three during last twenty-four hours.

Meanwhile, Iran has confirmed almost six thousand infections and one hundred forty five deaths.

Meanwhile, in China, about seventy people were trapped after a hotel collapsed being used as a coronavirus quarantine facility in Quanzhou city.

State media said, about forty people have been pulled from the rubble of the five-storey Xinjia Hotel.