{"id":320804,"date":"2020-03-06T07:08:20","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T07:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=320804"},"modified":"2020-03-06T07:08:20","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T07:08:20","slug":"coronavirus-cases-rise-to-31-in-india-as-delhi-resident-tests-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/coronavirus-cases-rise-to-31-in-india-as-delhi-resident-tests-positive\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus cases rise to 31 in India as Delhi resident tests positive"},"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\" \/>The number of coronavirus cases in India rose to 31, as another Delhi resident has tested positive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The person has a travel history of Thailand and Malaysia, the Health Ministry said on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The patient is in hospital quarantine and stable, the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As per the latest advisory, all international passengers irrespective of nationality are mandated to undergo universal medical screening. Adequate screening measures have been setup and nine more airports have been added to the existing 21, bringing the total to 30 airports, as of today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In addition, a day-long national level training on\u00a0Covid-19\u00a0has been organized by Ministry of Health &amp; Family Welfare and WHO. This was inaugurated by Health Secretary Preeti Sudan.\u00a0 It is being attended by 280 health officials from all states, &amp; hospitals of railways, defence, and paramilitary forces. It was also virtually attended by 1000 nodes across the country, it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of coronavirus cases in India rose to 31, as another Delhi resident has tested positive. The person has a travel history of Thailand and Malaysia, the Health Ministry said on Friday. The patient is in hospital quarantine and stable, the statement said. As per the latest advisory, all international passengers irrespective of nationality [&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":[12470,574],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320804"}],"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=320804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320845,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320804\/revisions\/320845"}],"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=320804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}