Coronavirus Outbreak: Today, five new cases of coronavirus were confirmed in Kerala. With this, the number of people infected with this virus has increased to 39 in the country. Kerala Health Minister KK Shailaja, while confirming the coronavirus cases in Pathanamthitta district of the state, said the family behaved irresponsibly. These people did not inform the authorities about their arrival from Italy.


Kerala Health Minister KK Shailaja: 5 more #Coronavirus cases have been reported in Pathanamthitta. We are tracing their contact history. They are under medical treatment. People coming from other countries should show responsibility&get a medical checkup done as they reach India pic.twitter.com/sigTOXcwuU — ANI (@ANI) March 8, 2020 Advertisement

The infected members of the family include a 54-year-old man, his 53-year-old wife, and a 24-year-old son. Two 65-year-old relatives of the family and his 61-year-old wife are also infected with the virus. Till Saturday, there were 34 cases of people infected with this virus in India. On Saturday, a new case came out of Ladakh and Tamil Nadu.

Tamil Nadu Health Secretary Beela Rajesh: A person has been identified positive with #Coronavirus and is under surveillance here at a hospital. We are tracing contact history. Further, we are screening every person coming from outside. pic.twitter.com/wY87FwAdEh — ANI (@ANI) March 8, 2020

Following are the events of the Coronavirus in the country and the world:

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Sunday that his government, taking precautionary measures to deal with the coronavirus, has ordered DTC and cluster buses, metros and hospitals to be infection-free on a regular basis.

Increasing the facilities to deal with the coronavirus, the Union Health Ministry has asked the AIIMS administration to set up separate beds for suspected Covid-19 patients in a part of the new emergency branch of the Jai Prakash Narayan Apex Trauma Center.

After some passengers of Qatar Airways flight to Kochi were found infected with the coronavirus, the airline said on Sunday that it was working closely with the Indian health authorities in this matter.

Reliance Jio and BSNL have started sending 30-second awareness messages on coronavirus as caller tune to people on their service network.

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare: In order to spread awareness, a special COVID-19 mobile phone caller tune has been launched by all telecom operators with basic infection prevention messages played when a caller dials-out. — ANI (@ANI) March 8, 2020

The Arunachal Pradesh government has decided to temporarily suspend the Protected Area Permit (PAP) issued to foreigners to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

Scientists at the National Institute of Virology (NIV) in Pune, Maharashtra have been involved in testing ’24 hours’ samples to detect deadly coronavirus by wearing protective gowns, goggles, N-95 masks and protective gloves such as gloves. At the same time, its partner centers spread across the country are also examining such samples.

A 15-year-old teenager who arrived in Chennai from the US via Doha was found suffering from fever during a medical examination at the airport, after which he was sent to the hospital for monitoring.

Coronavirus cases in foreign

Eight new cases of coronavirus have been reported in Singapore, with which the number of people infected with it has increased to 138 in the country.

In China, 27 more people died due to coronavirus on Sunday, which is the lowest number of deaths in a day in the last nearly one month. Also, since January, for the first time, the number of people infected with this virus has been recorded below 50.

Iran’s Ministry of Health gave information about 49 more deaths due to coronavirus on Sunday. Since the beginning of the outbreak of the virus in the Islamic Republic, it is the highest number of deaths in a day.

Iran reports 49 new #CoronaVirus deaths, raising the death toll to 194: AFP News Agency https://t.co/ZebOgNeC4E — ANI (@ANI) March 8, 2020

Ten people were killed in the collapse of a hotel being used as a separate center in Fujian province of southeast China amid the threat of coronavirus.