{"id":320905,"date":"2020-03-08T03:04:32","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T03:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=320905"},"modified":"2020-03-08T04:05:53","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T04:05:53","slug":"coronavirus-3-new-cases-reported-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/coronavirus-3-new-cases-reported-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: 3 new cases reported in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_319524\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-319524\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-319524\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/virus-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/virus-3.jpg 678w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/virus-3-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/virus-3-218x150.jpg 218w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/virus-3-615x420.jpg 615w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-319524\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Representational Imge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in India rose to 34, with three more persons tested positive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Two of these persons are from Ladakh with travel history to Iran while the other is from Tamil Nadu who had visited Oman, the health ministry said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThree more cases have been found positive for COVID-19. These include two from Ladakh with travel history to Iran and one (1) from Tamil Nadu with travel history to Oman. With these new cases, total number of cases are now 34 in the country. 31 cases are being treated in hospitals and are stable. Whereas the earlier three from Kerala have been discharged,\u201d the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The statement also said more than 150 people, who had come in contact with the American national who tested positive for coronavirus in Bhutan, have been put under Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In addition, 108 samples have been received from Iran today morning. These samples are being tested at the laboratory in AIIMS. Also, six scientists from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) have been stationed in Iran. Equipment and reagents, worth approximately Rs.10 crores have been dispatched to enable them to setup a lab there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As many as 52 laboratories are now operational across the country for testing COVID-19 virus. An additional 57 laboratories have been provided with Viral Transport Media and swabs for sample collection, it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In order to spread awareness, special COVID-19 mobile phone caller tune was launched by all telecom operators with basic infection prevention messages played when a caller dials-out. Over 117.2 crore subscribers of BSNL, MTNL Reliance Jio, Airtel and Vodafone-Idea are being progressively reached out to through SMSs and Call Backs, it added.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in India rose to 34, with three more persons tested positive. Two of these persons are from Ladakh with travel history to Iran while the other is from Tamil Nadu who had visited Oman, the health ministry said. \u201cThree more cases have been found positive for COVID-19. These include [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":319524,"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\/320905"}],"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=320905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320906,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320905\/revisions\/320906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/319524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}