New Delhi (NVI): Two Noida schools have been closed today amid coronavirus scare, a day after a Class 6 student’s father was detected with the infection.
The health department officials have visited the campus and collected blood samples of two kids, according to media reports.
The health authorities swung into action after they received reports that a school in Noida had asked parents to take their kids home since some children had attended a birthday party organised by the person who was on Monday tested positive for coronavirus.
Meanwhile, the Karnataka health department on Monday began the giant task of tracking and identifying all people who could have come in contact with the 25-year-old software engineer from Bengaluru who has tested positive for COVID-19.
The affected person, now in Telangana, is said to be working with a city-based software company; he had travelled to Dubai for a company meeting and interacted with software engineers from Hong Kong there.
The United States has also reported six deaths from the coronavirus, as the outbreak that started in China continues to spread to new countries around the world and the World Health Organization (WHO) has urged the countries to step up containment measures to rein in the infection.
South Korea has reported 600 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday. The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) also says three more people died overnight.
Total cases in the country now stand at 4,812, making it the largest outbreak outside China.
Deaths in Italy rose to 52, while Iran’s toll rose to 66. Italy is the hardest-hit country in Europe, while Iran has reported the most deaths outside China.
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO), General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that public health officials are operating in “uncharted territory” as they combat the spread of the novel coronavirus, which has infected more than 90,000 people across 73 countries and territories as of Monday evening.
The virus has spread to every continent except Antarctica since it was first identified in December last year in the central Chinese city of Wuhan.
To date, there have been 172 deaths reported outside mainland China, raising the global death toll to 3,115.
