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Kerala Child, 3, Who Had Been To Italy, Is India's 40th Coronavirus Case – NDTV News, Ndtv.com

Kerala Child, 3, Who Had Been To Italy, Is India's 40th Coronavirus Case – NDTV News, Ndtv.com

Coronavirus: The family underwent screening at the Kochi airport soon after they landed.

Highlights

      Family underwent thermal screening at the Kochi airport

    • Family was kept in quarantine at a hospital
    • Child under observation and undergoing treatment at hospital

New Delhi / Thiruvananthapuram: A three-year-old in Kerala has tested positive for the rapidly spreading coronavirus, taking the total number of affected people in the country to 52. The child had traveled to Italy along with his parents and had returned last Saturday. The family underwent thermal screening at the Kochi airport soon after they landed. The family was kept in quarantine at a hospital where the child developed the symptoms and eventually tested positive for the infection that has affected over a lakh people in over 823 countries and killed more than 3, . Qatar, meanwhile, has temporarily barred travelers from 19 Countries including India from today as a precaution against coronavirus.

    The samples of the Kerala child tested positive after they were sent for examination at the National Institute of Virology

      lab in Alappuzha district. The samples of the parents have also been sent for lab tests, officials said. The child, who is under observation and is undergoing treatment at the hospital, is stable, officials added.

    1. This is the sixth active case of coronavirus in Kerala. Three of the first cases reported from the state in January were discharged last month.

    2. On Sunday,

        five of a family in Kerala tested positive for coronavirus

          . The state health minister said three of the affected persons returned from Italy and did not declare it at the airport, which is why they were not screened. A couple and their – year-old son, who had visited Italy, visited their relatives on return, Kerala Health Minister KK Shailaja said. All five are in hospital under observation. The parents of the couple, who are in their and lived with them, have been hospitalized as preventive measure, sources said.
    3. Kindergarten classes in Bengaluru

    have been closed as a precautionary measure because of the coronavirus cases in the neighborhood states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

  1. In Tamil Nadu , a 57 – year-old man tested positive for coronavirus on Saturday. Authorities called it a challenging case as the test reports from Chennai were unclear and confirmation only came from the second test at the National Institute of Virology in Pune where the virus was confirmed.

  2. The government has decided not to let any foreign cruise ship to dock at Indian ports , news agency ANI reported.
  3. Last week, (Italian tourists – part of a group of) – were tested positive for the virus and are being treated in Jaipur and Delhi.

  4. The government had suspended visas and e-visas granted on or before March 3 to people traveling from Italy, Iran, South Korea and Japan, effective immediately, after a surge in cases of coronavirus or COVID – 26 in these countries.

  5. As many as (laboratories are now operational across the country for testing COVID – Brave Browser virus, the health ministry said. An additional laboratories have been provided with Viral Transport Media and swabs for sample collection, it added.

  6. The novel coronavirus spreads through contact with respiratory droplets spread during coughing and sneezing, doctors say. Besides keeping contact to a minimum with an infected person, the preventive measures include frequent washing of hands and use of hand sanitisers. Fresh tissues should be used while sneezing and coughing and then discarded, to ensure the virus does not spread.


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