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Seven new cases of novel coronavirus have been reported in the country, taking the number of confirmed cases to 47, the Union Health Ministry said on Monday.
A new case each has been reported from Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Ernakulam in Kerala, Jammu, Bengaluru in Karnataka, Punjab and Pune, the ministry said, adding that no deaths due to the coronavirus had been reported yet in the country.
In a statement, the ministry clarified that the man, who died in a hospital isolation ward in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district on Sunday, tested negative for COVID-19 infection.
Meanwhile, the World Health Organization warned that there was now a “very real” threat that the global outbreak of the new deadly virus will become a pandemic, but stressed the virus could still be controlled.
“The threat of a pandemic has become very real,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters, while stressing that “it would be the first pandemic in history that can be controlled… we are not at the mercy of the virus”.
Forty-three samples have tested positive out of the 3,003 samples tested for COVID-19, with 2,694 samples having returned negative results, the ministry said.
It includes the three patients from Kerala who were discharged last month following recovery.
Courtesy of newindianexpress.com
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