* Suspected Coronavirus patient admitted in Himachal hospital

* 87 Iran returnees under watch in Gujarat

* Iran-returned Army officer quarantined in MP

* Navy postpones 'Milan 2020' naval exercise

* Indian U-16 football team's tour to Tajikistan cancelled

21 Italian tourists, 3 Indians sent to ITBP quarantine centre

* Italian tourist's wife tests positive for coronavirus

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DGCA orders airlines, airports to take specific measures to combat coronavirus

* IndiGo crew members who flew with corona-infected Hyderabad resident placed in home observation

* Italian tourist in Jaipur tests positive for coronavirus

* AI asks fliers who flew with coronavirus-infected person to follow protocols

* Luxury hotel in Delhi sends its restaurant staff on self-quarantine

* 6 suspected persons isolated in Agra

* Two Noida schools shut down

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* PM Modi urges people not to panic

* Regular visas issued by March 3 to citizens of 4 nations who haven't entered India suspended

* RBI steps in to calm financial markets

* HC seeks Centre stand on plea to evacuate Indian students stranded in Iran

* People under observation in India

* Coronavirus across the world

NEW DELHI: A day after two fresh cases of the novel coronavirus were reported in India, the health ministry on Tuesday said six cases with "high-viral load" were detected during sample testing in Agra and these people have been kept in isolation.Here are the top developments:A suspected coronavirus patient has been admitted to Indira Gandhi Medical College and Hospital in Himachal Pradesh's Shimla, a health official said on Tuesday.The 32-year-old man from Bilaspur is currently suffering from sore throat but is stable, IGMC senior medical superintendent Janak Raj said.He arrived from South Korea on February 29, he added.No symptoms suggestive of coronavirus have been found yet but as a precautionary measure, his samples will be sent for testing.The Gujarat government has decided to open isolation ward in each of the 33 districts for treatment of any suspected novel coronavirus case, while 87 people, who recently returned from the virus-hit Iran, have been kept under observation, said officials on Tuesday."As a precautionary measure, these 87 persons were kept under observation at their respective homes in different parts of the state," the state government said.An Army officer was admitted to the isolation ward of a military hospital at Mhow in Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday for suspected exposure to the coronavirus after returning from Iran, a health official said.The 32-year-old officer returned on February 25 from Tehran, Iran's capital, and was admitted to hospital after he complained of sore throat, said Dr Santosh Sisodia, district in-charge of Integrated Disease Surveillance Program."His condition is fine. He has been kept under medical observation in an isolation ward. His blood and swab samples are being sent to the National Institute of Virology in Pune for testing," Sisodia added.The Indian Navy on Tuesday postponed a multi-nation mega naval exercise 'Milan 2020' which was scheduled to be held off the coast of Visakhapatnam as part of precautionary measures against coronavirus infection.The Milan naval exercise was scheduled to be held from March 18-28 and over 40 countries were expected to participate in the exercise.The exercise has been postponed taking into consideration the "safety of all participants and travel restrictions imposed due to the spread of COVID-19", officials said.The Indian U-16 national football team's tour to Tajikistan has been cancelled due to coronavirus outbreak.The Indian U-16 boys, currently the U-15 SAFF Champions, were scheduled to depart to play two friendlies against Tajikistan U-16 National Team on March 5.The India Senior National Team is also slated to go to Tajikistan on March 31 to play against them. National team Director Abhishek Yadav said they are keeping a close tab on the situation.Twenty-one Italian tourists and three Indian tour operators have been sent to an ITBP quarantine facility in Delhi for suspected coronavirus exposure, official sources said.Health ministry sources said these foreigners, 13 women and eight men, were in the same group of which an Italian and his wife have tested positive in Rajasthan capital Jaipur.Three Indians, who were accompanying this Italian group as tour operators, have also been sent to the ITBP facility in Chhawla area of south-west Delhi, they said.All these people, staying at a five-star hotel in south Delhi, have been put in "preventive isolation" at the ITBP camp and their samples will be taken on Wednesday.The wife of the Italian tourist found to have been infected withalso tested positive for the virus in Jaipur on Tuesday and the samples are being sent to the National Institute of Virology in Pune for another test, an official said."The wife of the Italian tourist also developed symptoms and samples were collected. The report indicates positive signs of the virus in her. For further confirmation, we are sending her sample to the NIV, Pune," the official of the Rajasthan health department said.The Italian couple has been kept in isolation at the Jaipur's Sawai Man Singh Hospital in Jaipur.Rajasthan health minister Dr Raghu Sharma has instructed health officials to screen all those people who had come in contact with the Italian tourists.As coronavirus cases spread across the country, the DGCA on Tuesday asked airlines and airports to take specific measures such as providing protective gears like surgical masks and gloves to crew members and passengers and having multiple hand sanitising points in terminals.The aviation regulator stated that airports and airlines must ensure that each aircraft arriving from South Korea, Japan and Italy is subjected to disinfection process before the boarding begins for the next flight on the plane.Four IndiGo crew members, who were on a Dubai-Bengaluru flight on February 20 with a coronavirus-infected Hyderabad resident, have been under home observation since March 2, the airline said on Tuesday.On Monday, a 24-year-old software engineer from Hyderabad, who works in Bengaluru, was found to be the first confirmed case of novel coronavirus from Telangana The techie had worked with people from Hong Kong in Dubai last month, where he is suspected to have contracted the disease.He had returned to Bengaluru on the IndiGo flight of February 20, before travelling to Hyderabad in a bus.An Italian tourist in Jaipur has tested positive for novel Coranavirus, taking the total number of confirmed cases in India to six so far, Union health ministry sources said on Tuesday.The first sample collected from the tourist on Saturday had tested negative, but his condition deteriorated and a second sample was collected, which tested positive on Monday.Air India has asked passengers who travelled on February 25 with a person who tested positive for coronavirus, to follow Union health ministry protocols.The directive comes a day after the health ministry announced that a Delhi resident had tested positive for novel coronavirus, and asked the Air India crew who had flown the Vienna-Delhi flight on February 25 on which he was the passenger to stay in isolation at their homes for 14 days."This is for the attention of passengers who flew on AI-154 Vienna-Delhi of 25th Feb' 20," Air India tweeted. "One of the passengers has tested positive for #coronavirus. Please follow the protocol notified by the Ministry of Health regarding Corona Virus."A five-star hotel in the national capital has asked its staff, who were present at one of its restaurants where an individual tested positive for coronavirus dined on February 28, to go on self-quarantine for 14 days.The hotel said it has also enacted elevated precautionary operational protocols at the property as advised by the government."Government authorities recently confirmed that an individual who dined at La Piazza restaurant at Hyatt Regency Delhi on February 28, 2020, has been diagnosed with COVID-19," Hyatt Regency Delhi said in a statement.Six people who were in contact with the Delhi-based man who tested positive for COVID-19, have been put in isolation after tests showed them to display symptoms of the novel coronavirus infection.Their samples are being sent to NIV, Pune for confirmation.The six had come in contact with a 45-year-old patient from Delhi, whose case came to light on Monday, and they include his family members. According to government sources, the man, who is a resident of Mayur Vihar, had visited them in Agra.Two private schools in Noida cancelled classes on Tuesday for the next few days as a precautionary measure over the father of a student testing positive for, officials said.The two schools announced their closure in messages sent to the parents, a day after the Union Health Ministry reported two fresh cases of– one of them in Delhi.One of the schools, where the Delhi man's son is a primary class student, said it will remain shut from March 4 to March 6.The parent had thrown a birthday party last week for the child, triggering fears that the students who attended it might be at risk.Medical samples from five students from the school have been taken to check if anyone has been infected, an official said.Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday urged people to not panic and work together to prevent the spread of Coronavirus in the country after he held an extensive review on the preparedness for the virus."Had an extensive review regarding preparedness on the COVID-19 Novel Coronavirus. Different ministries and states are working together, from screening people arriving in India to providing prompt medical attention," he said in a tweet.In a tweet, PM Modi shared basic protective measures and said that these small yet important steps can help in ensuring self-protection.Assuring people of government's proactiveness in handling the COVID-19 outbreak, the PM said that the Centre is holding discussions and meetings across states and ministries.The Union health ministry has issued a travel advisory suspending all regular visas/e-visas granted on or before March 3 to nationals of Italy, Iran, South Korea, Japan who have not yet entered India.The advisory also suspends visa on arrival (VoA) issued by March 3 to Japan and South Korea nationals who have not yet entered India.Those requiring to travel to India due to compelling reasons, may seek fresh visa from nearest Indian Embassy/Consulate, said the advisory which brought the suspension with immediate effect.In view of the emerging global scenarios regarding COVID19, in supersession of all earlier advisories, the government issued the new travel advisory on Tuesday.Regular (sticker) visa / e-Visa granted to nationals of China, issued on or before February 5 were suspended earlier. It shall remain in force.The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said it is closely monitoring global as well as domestic situation regarding the impact of deadly coronavirus and ready to take necessary action to ensure orderly functioning of financial markets.Globally, financial markets have been experiencing considerable volatility, with the spread of coronavirus, triggering risk-off sentiments and flights to safe haven, the RBI stated.The outbreak of coronavirus and subsequent spread to geographies across the world has adversely affected the financial markets.The Delhi high court has sought the Centre's response on a plea by parents of Indian students stranded in Iran due to coronavirus outbreak for evacuating them.Justice I S Mehta issued notice to ministries of home, external affairs, health and aviation and asked them to file a status report on the steps being taken by them to evacuate the students.Central government standing counsel Anurag Ahluwalia, who appeared for the ministries, accepted the notice and said a status report would be filed on the steps being taken.The court, thereafter, listed the matter for further hearing on March 11.Apart from 6 people from Agra, one from Delhi and one from Telangana, India had earlier reported three cases from Kerala, including two medical students from Wuhan in China, the epicentre of the deadly novel coronavirus. They had self-reported on their return to the country and tested positive for the infection. They were discharged from hospitals last month following recovery.The infected person from Delhi had travelled to Italy, while the other patient who tested positive for the COVID-19 infection is from Telangana and had recently travelled to Dubai.Both the patients had self-reported after they developed symptoms.The total number of coronavirus cases across the world stands at 91,347. So far, 3,120 deaths have been reported, mainly in China where 2,945 have taken place, followed by Iran and Italy.48,284 people have so far recovered from the virus.