Six put under observation for attending Noida Coronavirus patient's party test negative

Amid dely Coronavirus outbreak, six people from ida who h been put under observation for suspected Coronavirus infection after y attended a birthday party hosted by an infected Delhi resident, have tested negative for virus. 

However, District Magistrate BN Singh said that se will be put under home quarantine for next 14 days. He also ded that district ministration has t issued any school closure order.

Speaking to media Singh said, "Coronavirus samples taken from 6 people in ida tested negative but y will need to be under home quarantine for next 14 days and if symptoms develop, y can be retested again. Government and ministration are keeping a watch close watch and re is need to panic."

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Earlier, a school in ida was shut down on Tuesday after first Coronavirus patient from Delhi was found to have come in contact with several of its students at a birthday party he attended.

Anurag Bhargav, Chief Medical Officer of Gautam Buddh Nagar,, said, "Several schoolmates of child of a COVID-19 infected man came into contact with him at a party. We have closed down school to sanitise it. infected man is mitted to a hospital in Delhi."

Union Health Ministry informed on Tuesday that six positive cases of dely Coronavirus (COVID-19) have been reported in India so far.

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Coronavirus outbreak

Global deaths due to coronavirus outbreak on Monday rose above 3,000 with new count in China mainland rising to 2,912. dely virus, that originated in China late last year, continues to spre around world and has infected more than 80,000 people. While most of cases are from Hubei province of China and city of Wuhan ( epicentre of outbreak), or countries including Iran, Italy, Japan and Philippines have also reported deaths related to vel coronavirus.

First detected in city of Wuhan, in Hubei Province of China, virus outbreak has w spre across 20 countries since December 2019. World Health Organisation (WHO) has dubbed virus as COVID-19. 

On March 1, UN Humanitarian Chief Mark Lowcock released $15 million from Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to help fund global efforts to contain virus. anuncement came soon after WHO upgred global risk of coronavirus outbreak to "very high" – its top level of risk assessment. WHO has said re is still a chance of containing virus if its chain of transmission is broken. 

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(with ANI inputs)