Coronavirus In India: Mohali Woman With Travel History To Uk Tests Positive, Confirmed Covid-19 Cases Near 200: Expectations vs. Reality

Fresh cases of Covid-19 in Andhra Pradesh , Punjab and Bengal. With the amount of coronavirus cases on the increase in India, PM Modi has involved a janta curfew on March 22, saying no citizen, barring those in essential services, should get out of their house.

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Fresh case reported in Andhra Pradesh on Friday. State tally now at three

Gujarat reported two positive cases of novel coronavirus

2 IFS probationers who returned from study tour in Spain test positive


The novel coronavirus cases in India rose to 197 on Friday after three new cases were reported from Punjab, West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh .


In West Bengal , a person with recent travel history to the united kingdom tested positive for novel coronavirus on Friday. this is often the second confirmed case in Bengal. A Saudi-returned man tested positive in Andhra Pradesh on Friday. With a fresh case within the state, the Andhra tally now stands at three.



A 69-year-old woman, who recently returned from the uk , tested positive for coronavirus, taking the entire number of cases in Punjab to 3 . "The woman, a resident of Phase 3 A in Mohali, has tested (positive) for coronavirus," Mohali Deputy Commissioner Girish Dayalan told PTI.


The total number of confirmed cases in India was 195 on Thursday - each day when the country reported its fourth coronavirus death. The person, who died in Punjab, was an elderly and had co-morbid conditions like diabetes, cardiac ailments, the Union Health Ministry sai

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As Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged people to remain indoors and involved 'janata curfew', fresh cases in India were reported from Delhi, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand, Telangana. Gujarat reported its first Covid-19 patient on Thursday.


Third positive case of Covid-19 was detected in Andhra Pradesh on Friday after a person , who returned from Saudi Arabia on March 12, was found positive in Visakhapatnam.


In Delhi, four new cases were reported on Thursday, taking the entire within the capital to 14. The Delhi Health Department said new cases included two people from West Bengal , who had returned from Italy. they're now in quarantine at the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) Chhawala facility.


Of 14 in Delhi, three patients are discharged thus far . a complete of 1,96,200 passengers who have returned from the coronavirus-affected countries are screened at the Delhi airport till March 18 and placed under surveillance.


A Spain-retuned couple in Rajasthan tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday, taking the entire number of confirmed cases in Rajasthan to nine.

The couple, aged around 30, are kept in isolation at Sawai Man Singh Hospital. They landed at Delhi from Spain through Dubai on St Patrick's Day and reached Jaipur by a taxi within the early hours on Wednesday. After their one-hour occupy a hotel, they were moved to the Jaipur hospital at 4 am and kept in isolation there, he added.


Two Indian Forest Service probationers who recently returned from a study tour in Spain also tested positive for coronavirus, taking the entire number of confirmed cases in Uttarakhand to 3 . All three were a part of a 28-member group which had returned from the study tour in Spain recently.


Seven people, a number of whom had recently arrived from abroad, were on Thursday admitted to the isolation ward of a Kolkata hospital with coronavirus-like symptoms.


In Karnataka, a 35-year-old man from Kodagu, who had returned from Dubai, tested positive for coronavirus on Thursday, taking the entire number of cases within the state to fifteen . Two of 15 patients, who were undergoing treatment are going to be discharged on Friday.


Four people, meanwhile, had tested positive for Covid-19 in Maharashtra on Thursday. With this, Maharashtra tally has climbed to 49 cases, including three foreigners.


A 21-year-old student who returned from Ireland became Tamil Nadu's third coronavirus positive case while authorities said the second patient had not travelled to Nepal as suspected but ruled out community spread of the infection within the state.


JANTA CURFEW ON SUNDAY

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday asked the whole country to watch 'Janta curfew' on Sunday.


In a nearly 30-minute national broadcast, PM Modi asked people to remain indoors and work from home the maximum amount as possible while underscoring the risks of coronavirus, saying the planet has never seen a crisis as grave as this.


"Even war I and II didn't affect as many countries as coronavirus has done," Modi said, asking people to avoid this mindset that the disease won't affect India much when it's hit hard many developed countries.


Amid incidents of individuals resorting to hoarding food items in panic, Modi said "panic-buying" must be avoided and essential things, including medicines, shouldn't be hoarded, adding his government is functioning to make sure their supply.


Pitching for "social distancing", Modi involved 'Janta curfew' on March 22 from 7 am-9 pm, saying no citizen, barring those in essential services, should get out of their house, and asserted that it'll be a litmus test to point out what proportion India is prepared to require on the challenge of the coronavirus pandemic.

"This Sunday, that's on 22 March, all citizens must follow this curfew from 7 am until 9 pm. During this curfew, we shall neither leave our homes, nor catch on the streets and refrain from roaming about in our societies or areas. Only those related to emergency and essential services may leave their homes," PM Modi said.

 NO INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS IN INDIA FOR every week

No international commercial flight are going to be allowed to disembark its passengers, foreigners or Indians, on Indian soil after 1.30 am on March 23, aviation regulator DGCA said on Thursday.

While IndiGo said senior employees would take paycuts because the pandemic has caused a "precipitous drop by revenues", Vistara announced that within the interest of "customer convenience", it might be operating seven international flights from Delhi to Kathmandu and Singapore between March 20 and March 22.

SpiceJet also announced that it had been "forced" to suspend most of its international flights from Saturday onward thanks to the "unprecedented situation" arising over the novel coronavirus pandemic.