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State broadcaster Doordarshan as well as private TV networks NDTV and CNN-News18 said 21 Italian tourists had been tested in New Delhi. read more...
When the coronavirus outbreak began in China, a wave of mistrust toward Chinese people swept through Italy. Now, as Italy combats its own outbreak, some Italians are taken aback that they are being treated as a risk.
State broadcaster Doordarshan as well as private TV networks NDTV and CNN-News18 said 21 Italian tourists had been tested in New Delhi.
A group of Italian tourists have been put in quarantine in India, with 17 testing positive for the new coronavirus, a source told AFP Wednesday. Italy is a hotspot of the deadly virus with 79 deaths and more than 2,500 infected, while India's official case total stands at only 21. After two out of a group of 23 tourists who arrived in the country last month tested positive in the western state of Rajasthan, the other 21 were put under quarantine...
"From now on, all flights and passengers will be part of universal screening, not just the 12 countries which we had listed earlier," said the Health Minister
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