Take precautions, be safe! WHO urges the globe to step-up fight against the novel coronavirus
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New Delhi, March 06: COVID-19 in India has set its foot and everyone here is busy creating awareness to contain the virus. While corona also stands as the warring foot for medical facilities across the globe, the World Health Organisation’s Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said that it is high time to act strongly towards containing the outbreak as it is spreading 17 times faster outside China.
He also pointed out that several nations are not taking requisite measures to contain the virus. It has claimed over 3,300 lives and infected more than 98,000 people world over. One more suspected case of corona virus was tested positive in India on Friday, taking the toll to 31 in the country.
Giving this information, Special Secretary of Health and Family Welfare Ministry, Sanjeeva Kumar in New Delhi said today, "the patient who has been quarantined in a hospital is stable now. The patient has a travel history from Thailand and Malaysia".
WHO is mobilizing the 🌍🌏🌎 to help all people Be Ready for the new #coronavirus. We are calling on our partners & people in all countries to join us in taking the actions needed to Be Safe, Smart & Kind to fight #COVID19. Learn more at https://t.co/M11m4O5zF2
— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) March 5, 2020
Meanwhile the MEA informed that the Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan visited Indira Gandhi International Airport last night to review the preparedness for universal screening. "The Minister also held meeting with the owners of hospitals situated in Delhi-NCR to review the preparedness. Several issues like provision of bed capacities in the hospitals for infected cases, isolation wards, protocol for sample collections and others were discussed at length during the meeting", MEA Kumar added.
"All international passengers are mandated to go for the universal screening at the airports. Nine more airports have been added for this purpose and now universal screening will be done at 30 airports in the country", he added. Also the Central Government has asked all its Ministries and Departments to exempt their employees from marking biometric attendance in Aadhar based biometric system till 31st of this month.
#CoronaAlert: Central Government asks all its Ministries and Departments to exempt their employees from marking biometric attendance in Aadhar based biometric system till 31st of this month.#CoronaVirusInIndia pic.twitter.com/9y0mA7uGtM
— All India Radio News (@airnewsalerts) March 6, 2020
Globally, more than 98,000 people have been diagnosed with the disease, the vast majority in China, with 3,015 deaths in China and 267 deaths across the globe, many in Italy and Iran. At the current rate of increase, the cases are easily to top the 100,000 mark sometime later on Saturday.