{"id":319630,"date":"2020-02-03T06:05:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T06:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=319630"},"modified":"2020-02-03T06:16:59","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T06:16:59","slug":"cabinet-secretary-holds-review-meeting-on-novel-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/cabinet-secretary-holds-review-meeting-on-novel-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabinet Secretary holds review meeting on Novel Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-319632 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/virus-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"503\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/virus-1.jpg 503w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/virus-1-300x290.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/virus-1-434x420.jpg 434w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/>Cabinet Secretary on Monday held a high-level review meeting on the preparedness for Novel Coronavirus with Secretaries of Health and Family Welfare, External Affairs, Home Affairs, Civil Aviation, Dept of Health Research, and representatives from ITBP, AFMS and NDM. Cabinet Secretary has held six review meetings so far.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A new Travel Advisory has been issued urging everyone to refrain from travel to China; travellers on return could be quarantined. Also, anyone with travel history of China since January 15, 2020 and from now on could be quarantined.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As of today, 58,658 passengers from 445 flights have been screened. Total of 142 symptomatic travellers picked up by the IDSP have been referred to the isolation facilities. 130 samples have been tested of which 128 have been found to be negative. The two positive cases found in Kerala are being monitored and are clinically stable, the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The second batch of 330 passengers (including 7 Maldivan citizens) from Wuhan had arrived in India. Of these, 300 (including 7 Maldivan citizens) are housed at ITBP Chawla Camp and 30 are in Manesar. They are being effectively monitored.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cabinet Secretary on Monday held a high-level review meeting on the preparedness for Novel Coronavirus with Secretaries of Health and Family Welfare, External Affairs, Home Affairs, Civil Aviation, Dept of Health Research, and representatives from ITBP, AFMS and NDM. Cabinet Secretary has held six review meetings so far. A new Travel Advisory has been issued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":319632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[12470],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319630"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319630"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319634,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319630\/revisions\/319634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/319632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}