The number of coronavirus patients in India rose to 74 with 14 fresh cases, including nine from Maharashtra and one each from Delhi, Ladakh, Uttar Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh as well as one foreign national, the Union Health Ministry said today.
All schools, colleges and cinema halls in the national capital will remain shut till March 31 amid the coronavirus outbreak, the Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced on Thursday. Coronavirus has also been declared as an epidemic in Delhi.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today tweeted no ministers in his government will go abroad in order to minimise the risk of being infected with the highly contagious novel coronavirus or COVID-19.
The head of World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday said the coronavirus outbreak "is a controllable pandemic" if countries step up measures to tackle it.
"We are deeply concerned that some countries are not approaching this threat with the level of political commitment needed to control it," WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told diplomats in Geneva, according to a statement.
The United States this morning also suspended all travel from Europe for the next 30 days, except the United Kingdom.
