{"id":320986,"date":"2020-03-12T08:35:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T08:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=320986"},"modified":"2020-03-12T09:09:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T09:09:42","slug":"coronavirus-cases-climb-to-73-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/coronavirus-cases-climb-to-73-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus cases climb to 73 in India"},"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 total number of confirmed coronavirus cases rose to 73 in India on Thursday. The number of cases across the globe has risen to more than 120000 with over 4000 deaths.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Indian government in a statement released informed that all existing visas, except diplomatic, official, UN\/International Organizations, employment, project visas, stand suspended till April 15.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The government took the decision after detailed deliberations on preventive measures, actions taken and preparedness for Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday said that around 6,000 Indians are currently stranded in Iran. Of them, 1,100 are pilgrims from Maharashtra and Jammu and Kashmir. There are 300 students as well. Jaishankar also asked Indians to avoid all non-essential travels after the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared coronavirus a pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A medical team is being sent to Italy to conduct test on the stranded Indians. Those testing negative will be allowed to travel back to the country, Jaishankar said in the Lok Sabha.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">US President Donald Trump has announced a 30-day ban on all travel from Europe to United States to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus. However, Trump specified that the restriction would not apply to the United Kingdom.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The total number of confirmed coronavirus cases rose to 73 in India on Thursday. The number of cases across the globe has risen to more than 120000 with over 4000 deaths. The Indian government in a statement released informed that all existing visas, except diplomatic, official, UN\/International Organizations, employment, project visas, stand suspended till April [&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\/320986"}],"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=320986"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320990,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320986\/revisions\/320990"}],"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=320986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}