More than 2,000 people dead , over 75,500 infected in at least 30 countries around the world, thousands of new cases every day, and three ...
More than 2,000 people dead, over 75,500 infected in at least 30 countries around the world, thousands of new cases every day, and three cases in India so far. The deadly Coronavirus epidemic in China has become a global healthcare crisis, and even though the number of new cases reported daily have reduced significantly this week, it has been hard to predict how long it will take to completely contain the disease.
The virus, officially named COVID-19 by the World Health Organisation, is believed to have originated in a live seafood market in Wuhan, a city in eastern China’s Hubei province. Since the outbreak in January, China has placed all of Wuhan in a state of lockdown, forcing residents to stay indoors while converting entire stadiums into makeshift quarantine camps.
While Chinese authorities work against time to battle the virus and travellers from China are being routinely screened and tested at airports around the world, a general panic has set in about Coronavirus among Indians. In Maharashtra’s Sindhudurg district, for instance, locals of the port town of Redi have been terrified by the docking of a Singaporean cargo ship carrying ten Chinese crew members. Even though the Chinese nationals tested negative for Coronavirus, fear among local residents forced the state...
