AMN / NEW DELHI
Government has constituted a task force to prevent the spread of the coronovirus infection in the country. The task force comprises of Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, Minister of State for Home Affairs G Kishan Reddy and Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri.
Talking to reporters outside parliament, Kishan Reddy said, the task force will meet today and consider all the measures for precaution from Novel Coronavirus.
Latest News on Coronovirus in India
- India reported the third case of the fast-spreading coronavirus from north Kerala’s Kanhangad on Monday after the affected person returned from Wuhan last week. Kerala has been put on high alert.
- The Centre has set up a task force to monitor the situation arising out of the novel coronavirus with representatives from the ministries of health, home, civil aviation and women and child development.
- Out of the 198 samples tested for the novel coronavirus, 195 have tested negative.
- Close to 100 people, with a history of travel to China, are under quarantine in different hospitals across India.
- The Union health ministry on Monday updated its travel advisory, which was issued on Sunday, asking people to refrain from travelling to China and said travellers on return from the neighbouring country could be quarantined.
- India also temporarily suspended e-visa facility for Chinese travellers and foreigners based in China in view of the outbreak, which has prompted the World Health Organisation (WHO) to declare it as a global health emergency.
- India completed the evacuation of its nationals stranded in Wuhan on Sunday with around 650 people brought back in two phases.
- Six Indians down with fever and other flu-like symptoms, however, were not allowed board the second Air India flight on Sunday.
- One of them, a woman from Andhra Pradesh, released a video asking the government to evacuate them. The young woman said she doesn’t have the symptoms of the coronavirus anymore.
- Among all the panic, a Chinese woman and Indian man got married in Madhya Pradesh’s Mandsaur on Sunday. Zhihao Wang and Satyarth Mishra met while they were studying in Canada five years back. Zhihao said their courtship lasted for a few years before they decided to get married with the blessings of their parents.