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WHO to convene emergency meeting on Thursday on China virus
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Jan 29 (ANI/Xinhua): The World Health Organisation (WHO) will convene an emergency meeting on Thursday over the deadly coronavirus outbreak in China, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a tweet on Wednesday.
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Remain calm, don't overreact, WHO confident of epidemic prevention: Chines
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 28 (ANI): Chinese Ambassador to India Sun Weidong on Tuesday urged the international community to "remain calm and not overreact," hours after the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) approved the Air India flight to Wuhan for the evacuation of Indian citizens
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Equities slide as China virus fears intensify, metal and banking stocks pl
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Jan 27 (ANI): Equity benchmark indices slipped during early hours on Monday as investors globally were increasingly anxious about the economic impact of China's new coronavirus.
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American quarantined in Nepal on suspicion of novel coronavirus infection
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], Jan 26 (ANI): An American tourist was quarantined in a hospital here on the suspicion of being infected with the novel SARS-like coronavirus, authorities told ANI on Sunday.
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No case of coronavirus virus in India, 4,359 passengers screened at airpor
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 26 (ANI): No case of the novel SARS-like coronavirus has been reported yet in India so far, said the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare while adding that a total of 4,359 passengers arriving from 22 flights were screened for the illness on Sunday.
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No Indian affected so far, says MEA amid Wuhan coronavirus scare
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 26 (ANI): No Indian in Wuhan or the Hubei province in China has been found to be infected by the new strain of the deadly SARS-like virus that is spreading fast worldwide, the government said here on Sunday, adding that the Indian Embassy in Beijing is in constantly in
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Hong Kong declares virus outbreak an 'emergency'
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Hong Kong [China], Jan 25 (ANI): Hong Kong on Saturday declared the outbreak of the new strain of SARS virus as an emergency, the city's highest warning tier and cancelled all official celebrations for the Chinese New Year.
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Nepal quarantines 2 amid Coronavirus scare
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], Jan 25 (ANI): Two people who returned to Kathmandu from China have been kept under observation at a government hospital in the Nepali capital, hospital authorities said on Saturday, due to possible exposure to the deadly new strain of SARS-like virus that has killed dozens
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Coronavirus outbreak: India screens 43 flights, 9156 passengers arriving f
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 22 (ANI): Secretary at the Union Health Ministry, Preeti Sudan, on Wednesday informed that a total number of 43 flights and 9156 passengers arriving from China have been screened for novel coronavirus illness at seven different airports across the country so far.
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Equity indices move up marginally led by rally in IT, pharma stocks
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Jan 22 (ANI): Equity benchmark indices ticked up during early hours on Wednesday tracking a bounce in Asian markets as China's response to a virus outbreak tempered fears of a global pandemic.
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Seven Indian airports to scan passengers coming from China after deadly vi
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 21 (ANI): The Ministry of Civil Aviation on Tuesday directed seven airports across the country - Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, and Cochin - to make arrangements for screening of passengers arriving from China in the wake of outbreak of an infe
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Coronavirus threat: Mandatory health screening of passengers from China at
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 21 (ANI): In the backdrop of the threat posed by coronavirus, the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) has mandated the health screening of passengers coming from China at Kolkata, Delhi and Mumbai airports.
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