{"id":330138,"date":"2021-01-09T05:15:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T05:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=330138"},"modified":"2021-01-09T12:25:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T12:25:09","slug":"number-of-cases-infected-with-new-coronavirus-strain-rises-to-90-in-india-health-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/number-of-cases-infected-with-new-coronavirus-strain-rises-to-90-in-india-health-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"Number of cases infected with new coronavirus strain rises to 90 in India: Health Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-329931 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/coronavirus-covid.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1254\" height=\"730\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/coronavirus-covid.jpg 1254w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/coronavirus-covid-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/coronavirus-covid-768x447.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/coronavirus-covid-1024x596.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/coronavirus-covid-696x405.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/coronavirus-covid-1068x622.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/coronavirus-covid-721x420.jpg 721w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1254px) 100vw, 1254px\" \/>The number of people who have been infected with the new strain of coronavirus has risen to 90 in India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cAll of them have been kept in single room isolation in designated Health Care facilities by respective State Governments. Their close contacts have also been put under quarantine. Comprehensive contact tracing has been initiated for co-travellers, family contacts and others,\u201d the Ministry earlier said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The situation is under careful watch and regular advice is being provided to the States for enhanced surveillance, containment, testing &amp; dispatch of samples to INSACOG labs, it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Union Health Ministry has said that about 33,000 passengers disembarked at various Indian airports from the UK from November 25 to December 23 midnight. All these passengers are being tracked and subjected by States\/UTs to RT-PCR tests and samples of those found positive be sent for genome sequencing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of people who have been infected with the new strain of coronavirus has risen to 90 in India. \u201cAll of them have been kept in single room isolation in designated Health Care facilities by respective State Governments. Their close contacts have also been put under quarantine. Comprehensive contact tracing has been initiated for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":329931,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[13816,4903],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330138"}],"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=330138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330139,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330138\/revisions\/330139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/329931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}