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DGCA exempts flight crew from breath analyser tests at 4 Kerala airports
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 10 (ANI): Directorate of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has exempted flight crews from Breath Analyser (BA) tests for 15 days at Kerala's Calicut, Kannur, Trivandrum and Cochin airports in the wake of novel coronavirus outbreak.
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As Singapore raises health alert status, how are businesses affected by Co
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Singapore, Feb 10 (ANI): Singapore's health authorities upgraded the nation's health alert status to orange, the second-highest level on its DORSCON (Disease Outbreak Response System Condition) four-point scale. This follows several locally transmitted cases of the Wuhan novel coronavirus (2
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151 passengers screened for coronavirus at airports in Assam
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Guwahati (Assam) [India], Feb 10 (ANI): As many as 151 passengers have been screened at various airports in the state for coronavirus till Sunday, informed Health and Family Welfare Department, Assam.
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21,023 travellers screened for coronavirus at Mumbai airport till Feb 9
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Feb 10 (ANI): As many as 21,023 travellers have been screened for coronavirus at Mumbai Airport till Sunday out of which 151 came from areas affected by the virus, claim Public Health Department, Maharashtra.
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Test report of student in Thrissur negative for nCoV
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Thrissur (Kerala) [India], Feb 9 (ANI): The laboratory test report of the student who is currently in the isolation ward at the Government Medical College Hospital Thrissur medical college here tested negative for novel coronavirus infection (nCoV).
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PM Modi offers assistance to China in its fight against coronavirus
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 09 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expressed solidarity with people of China and their leader, President Xi Jinping, in their battle against novel coronavirus, and offered India's assistance to Beijing in facing the challenge, sources told ANI on Sunday
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All 406 Wuhan returnees at ITBP facility in Delhi test negative of coronav
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 09 (ANI): All 406 people housed at a quarantine facility of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) here have tested negative for the novel coronavirus infection, the ITBP on Sunday.
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Volunteers in Wuhan comb communities to ensure no coronavirus patient left
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Beijing [China], Feb 9 (ANI): Workers and volunteers with red sleeves, loudspeakers, and digital thermometers are combing communities in Wuhan, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak, to ensure no confirmed or suspected patients of the deadly virus are left unattended.
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Coronavirus can spread by direct transmission, aerosols, says official
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Beijing [China], Feb 9 (ANI): Local authorities have said that the novel coronavirus can spread through direct transmission, contact transmission, or aerosol transmission.
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Coronavirus fatalities surpass SARS death toll, over 800 dead
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Beijing [China], Feb 9 [ANI]: Surpassing the fatalities caused by SARS epidemic in 2003, the death toll due to the novel coronavirus has reached 810 in China.
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Banarasi silk saree trade affected due to coronavirus outbreak
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Feb 7 (ANI): The 'Banarasi saree' trade is among the many industries in India that is facing the brunt of travel and export-import restrictions imposed due to the outbreak of the deadly novel coronavirus in China.
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India has offered to test samples of coronavirus for other Southeast Asian
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 7 (ANI): The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has offered to test samples of novel coronavirus (nCoV) for other Southeast Asian countries as well, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan informed the Rajya Sabha on Friday.
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