India has reported a total of 30 positive cases with the latest being a PayTM employee in Gurgaon.
16 Italian tourists have also tested positive and have been quarantined in Delhi.
India will now screen all international travellers entering the country through airports and ports. Lucknow has banned all meat sales.
Coronavirus death toll in Italy has now crossed 100 while over 90,000 people across the world have been infected.
Coronavirus has killed 92 people in Iran where India intends to set up a laboratory so that Indians there can be tested. An estimated 1,200 Indians, mostly students and pilgrims, are in Iran.
Two samples that were sent from Hyderabad to the NIV laboratory in Pune have tested negative for COVID-19. So far, only one confirmed case has been reported in Hyderabad.
The India-EU Summit which was to be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been postponed in wake of the coronavirus epidemic.
The Delhi government has decided to shut all schools till March 31st as a precautionary measure against the coronavirus outbreak.
Authorities at the Lucknow airport have sent a passenger who reported high temperature on arrival. The passenger, a resident of Kanpur, was returning from Abu Dhabi. He was sent to Lok Bandhu Hospital in Lucknow for screening for coronavirus.
Foreigners with travel history to Italy, South Korea must submit ‘negative‘ certificate.
A 16-year-old Indian girl in Dubai has tested positive for the deadly coronavirus, bringing the total number of confirmed infection cases in the UAE to 28, according to media reports. Health officials here confirmed on Wednesday that a new coronavirus case was detected in the girl who attended an Indian school in Dubai, Al-Arabiya website reported.
The girl tested positive for the COVID-19 after she contracted the infection from her father who travelled overseas.
Courtesy: msn.com
