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Number of coronavirus positive cases in India have risen to 84: Un Health Ministry
High time to beware and take precautions as India has officially recorded only 83 cases of the coronavirus and two deaths.
This has raised hopes that the coronavirus that has infected more than 130,000 people and killed 5,000 worldwide might largely pass the world’s second-most-populous nation by.
But with only about 5,000 Indians tested, some experts doubt the official figures and warn that if there is a major outbreak, the country of 1.3 billion is woefully unprepared.
“It’s hard to imagine there are only so few cases in India,” Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, told.
“India’s a big country where a lot of people live in very close, compact spaces. It is unclear to me why India would somehow magically skip this pandemic.”
In many states of India at hospitals, railway stations, airports special help desks are been made by government.
Those arriving, including Indians, who have travelled to virus hotspots such as China and Italy must be quarantined for 14 days. At land borders there is “robust screening”.
More than a million air passengers have been screened and authorities have stepped up efforts to identify those with the virus and people in contact with them.
