Intensive screening, helpline number: India ready as coronavirus reaches Indo-Nepal border

Union Health Ministry has decided that it will be screening people entering from Indo-Nepal border in Uttarakhand after a positive case of coronavirus was detected in Nepal. Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan has anunced that re would be an extensive screening of people at border to prevent virus from entering India. Harsh Vardhan also h a talk with Uttarakhand Cheif Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat on same and stated that all possible aid would be provided to state with immediate effect. Twenty-eight cases of vel coronavirus have been confirmed outside Chinese mainland, 5 in Hong Kong, 2 in Macao, 3 in Taiwan, 4 in Thailand, 2 in Japan, 2 in South Korea, 2 in US, 2 in Vietnam and 3 in Singapore and 1 each in Nepal and France. 

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government has also urged people with travel history to China after January 1 this year to voluntarily report mselves to authorities if y experience symptoms related to dely coronavirus (nCoV) such as fever, cough and respiratory distress. Ministry h also issued a helpline number 011-23978046 in this regard.

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On Saturday, a high-level meeting was held in Delhi with  officials of Ministry of Health, scientists of ICMR, NCDC, and or experts to discuss preventive measures that would be taken by government if an outbreak would occur in country.  Health Ministry revealed that body in India has been tested positive for infectious disease so far. Eleven people, seven in Kerala, two in Mumbai and one each in Bengaluru and Hyderab who h come from China in recent days were kept under observation in hospitals to check for possible exposure to dely vel coronavirus. Amongst 11, four have been tested negative.

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(With ncy Inputs)