{"id":320002,"date":"2020-02-14T03:59:04","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T03:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=320002"},"modified":"2020-02-14T03:59:04","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T03:59:04","slug":"chinas-coronavirus-death-toll-nears-1500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/chinas-coronavirus-death-toll-nears-1500\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Coronavirus death toll nears 1500"},"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-319336 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/cornavirus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"583\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/cornavirus.jpg 583w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/cornavirus-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/cornavirus-522x420.jpg 522w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 583px) 100vw, 583px\" \/>Death toll in China&#8217;s coronavirus epidemic has risen to 1,483 with Hubei province, the epicentre of the outbreak, reporting 116 new fatalities, China\u2019s health officials said on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">So far more than 50000 people have been infected, the vast majority of them in China&#8217;s Hubei province.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Many countries\u00a0have confirmed cases and several nations have evacuated their citizens from Hubei.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Three deaths have been recorded outside mainland China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Passengers on a cruise ship that spent two weeks at sea disembarked in Cambodia on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Union Health Minister of India Harsh Vardhan on Thursday briefed media on Coronavirus Surveillance at Points of Entry is continuing at 21 Airports, 12 major ports, 65 minor ports and at 6 land crossings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cPolitical commitment at the highest levels of the Government, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is leading the government\u2019s response against Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID2019). India is prepared through its various timely measures and sturdy systems of surveillance for Novel Coronavirus,\u201d Dr Harsh Vardhan stated as he addressed a press conference on the status update, actions taken and preparedness on Novel Coronavirus disease in India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Dr. Harsh Vardhan said that a high-level Group of Ministers has been constituted under his Chairmanship to monitor the situation.\u00a0 He added that regular reviews are held with all related Ministries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe have good and effective co-ordination among ministries, robust surveillance system, network of laboratories to support diagnosis, upgraded medical facilities, trained health work force and media presence that can reach even remote areas. We have put all these resources at our disposal to prevent \/ contain outbreak of novel coronavirus in India\u201d, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Death toll in China&#8217;s coronavirus epidemic has risen to 1,483 with Hubei province, the epicentre of the outbreak, reporting 116 new fatalities, China\u2019s health officials said on Friday. So far more than 50000 people have been infected, the vast majority of them in China&#8217;s Hubei province. Many countries\u00a0have confirmed cases and several nations have evacuated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":319336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[666,12470],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320002"}],"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=320002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320003,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320002\/revisions\/320003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/319336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}