The worldwide march of the new virus triggered an energetic appeal from the WHO for governments to take out all the stops to slow the epidemic, as it drained colour from Holi celebrations, closed Bethlehem’s Nativity Church and obstructed Italians from visiting senior relatives in retirement home.
The U.N. health agency advised all nations to push this infection back, a call to action enhanced by figures revealing about 17 times as numerous brand-new infections outside China as in it. The infection has infected almost 98,000 individuals and eliminated over 3,300
In India 31 positive cases have actually been reported from Delhi, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Telangana. States such as Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh have also kept some individuals under quarantine.
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Passengers get to the Chennai international airport wear masks in the wake of coronavirus disease on March 6, 2020.|Picture Credit: R. Ragu
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According to officials of Airports Authority of India (AAI), they received instructions to evaluate all passengers.
Authorities said, the screening of travelers from the 12 countries consisting of China, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Nepal and Indonesia and those getting here from other staying countries are done independently in two different parts of the terminal.
They included that there is likely to be a dip in the number of individuals who have taken a trip from Chennai airpo