Photos: Coronavirus scare reaches India with cases reported from Delhi

A day after the national Capital reported its first confirmed case of coronavirus, India is experiencing limited local transmission, where all infections have occurred locally but can be traced back to a patient zero who was infected in another country with ongoing transmission. Delhi so far has reported 28 confirmed cases with three each in Hyderabad and Kerala.

Updated on: Mar 05, 2020 2:33 PM IST

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A group of visitors seen wearing protective masks following cases of coronavirus in India, at North Block, in New Delhi. With 29 confirmed coronavirus (Covid-19) cases in India, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said “From now on, all flights and passengers will be part of universal screening, not just the 12 countries which we had listed earlier.” (Burhaan Kinu / HT Photo)

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The country is at a tipping point where the outbreak can head either way, and training hospital staff on infection-control and identifying labs and hospitals in both the government and the private sector for exigencies is critical, the experts said. (Burhaan Kinu / HT Photo)

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Beds are seen through the main door of an isolation ward at MMG hospital, in Ghaziabad. Two floors in the new super-speciality block of Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi have been set aside for isolating persons suspected to have been infected by the novel coronavirus. (Sakib Ali / HT Photo)

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Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, the other nodal centre for COVID-19, also has a 32-bed isolation facility. Besides the two nodal centres, the Delhi government has asked 25 other hospitals—19 government-run and six private—that usually treat H1N1 (swine flu) patients to set up isolation wards. (Sakib Ali / HT Photo)

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Indian nationals who were airlifted from coronavirus-hit Wuhan city of China, at ITBP’s quarantine facility in Chhawla, New Delhi. Fourteen of the 21 Italian nationals taken to the ITBP quarantine facility were tested positive. (HT Photo)

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A view of The Shreeram Millennium School at Sector 135, in Noida. Panic struck as three children attended school after attending a party hosted by a Coronavirus patient in Delhi. The school is shut till March 9 and is undertaking fumigation and sanitising measures. (HT Photo)

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Visitors seen wearing protective masks at Gandhi Medical College and Hospital in Hyderabad. The number of coronavirus infections in Hyderabad rose to three on Wednesday with two persons testing positive in preliminary checks. (PTI)