{"id":320916,"date":"2020-03-09T04:25:57","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T04:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=320916"},"modified":"2020-03-09T04:28:12","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T04:28:12","slug":"coronavirus-outbreak-india-confirms-40th-case-as-3-year-old-child-in-kerala-tests-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/coronavirus-outbreak-india-confirms-40th-case-as-3-year-old-child-in-kerala-tests-positive\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus Outbreak: India confirms 40th case as 3-year-old child in Kerala 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-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\" \/>A three-year-old minor in Kerala has tested positive for coronavirus, taking the total number of affected people in the country to 40.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The child and his family have a travelled history to Italy. The child has been kept in isolation ward.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Sunday, the health ministry confirmed five new cases of COVID-19. These five cases have been confirmed from Kerala.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Indian Government 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 16th\u00a0review meeting on Sunday and the preparations to bring Indian citizens from Iran were elaborately discussed which are at an advance stage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">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, the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">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, it said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A three-year-old minor in Kerala has tested positive for coronavirus, taking the total number of affected people in the country to 40. The child and his family have a travelled history to Italy. The child has been kept in isolation ward. On Sunday, the health ministry confirmed five new cases of COVID-19. These five cases [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":319336,"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\/320916"}],"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=320916"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320920,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320916\/revisions\/320920"}],"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=320916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}