{"id":320912,"date":"2020-03-08T18:06:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T18:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=320912"},"modified":"2020-03-08T18:06:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T18:06:34","slug":"coronavirus-outbreak-india-confirms-39-positive-cases-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/coronavirus-outbreak-india-confirms-39-positive-cases-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus Outbreak: India confirms 39 positive cases of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-320692 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/virus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"819\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/virus.jpg 819w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/virus-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/virus-768x418.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/virus-696x379.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/virus-771x420.jpg 771w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/>The health ministry on Sunday confirmed five new cases of COVID-19 which takes the toll to 39. These Five new cases have been confirmed from Kerala. All of them have travel history to Italy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">In a statement released today, the government said, &#8221; it is keeping a close watch on the situation and a number of measures have been taken to contain the spread of COVID-19. Cabinet Secretary took the 16<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0review meeting today and the preparations to bring Indian citizens from Iran were elaborately discussed which are at an advance stage.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">&#8220;Since the disease has spread over more than 90 countries with over 1 lakh cases worldwide,\u00a0the States\/ UTs have been asked to enhance community surveillance as per the list of passengers provided to the States\/UTs.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">&#8220;In view of rising cases from France, USA, Spain, it was decided to have dedicated aerobridges of these countries also in addition to the 12 countries,&#8221; the statement added.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The health ministry on Sunday confirmed five new cases of COVID-19 which takes the toll to 39. These Five new cases have been confirmed from Kerala. All of them have travel history to Italy. In a statement released today, the government said, &#8221; it is keeping a close watch on the situation and a number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":320692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[12470,12750,466],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320912"}],"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=320912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320913,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320912\/revisions\/320913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/320692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}