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The deceased to precautions. No Minister of up seven more quarantine facil- had gone to Saudi Arabia in the Central Government will ities for COVID-19 patients, January end and came back on travel abroad in the upcoming especially for Indian citizens February 29. days. I urge our countrymen to being brought back from coro- Officials said the patient also avoid non-essential travel,” navirus-hit countries. ! " # had severe co-morbidities such Modi said adding that we can The facilities have been ! .48:67 &638 as history of hypertension, dia- break the chain of spread and set up at Jaisalmer, Suratgadh, (,-$'*./ betes and asthma and appen- ensure safety of all by avoiding Jhansi, Jodhpur, Deolali, he Indian stock markets dicitis. large gatherings. Kolkata and Chennai. “We are Tplunged into bear territory, level, slumping 868.25 points or ic, and expressed deep concern Coronavirus has continued Taking a cue, the expecting more civilians to be suffering their biggest ever 8.30 per cent to close at over the “alarming levels of to spread its tentacles in the Rashtrapati Bhavan closed all brought back to India. We are one-day plunge on Thursday as 9,590.15. inaction”. country taking into its grip 74 public tour visits from Friday ready with our facilities,” Army the coronavirus pandemic left This was the biggest drop US President Donald persons with 14 fresh cases, as a precautionary measure spokesperson Colonel Aman a trail of red across global for the benchmarks in absolute Trump suspended all travel including 10 from Maharashtra against the spread of deadly Anand said. financial markets. terms, eclipsing their previous from Europe, excluding the and one each from Delhi, pathogens. The Army is operating a The carnage on Dalal record one-day fall on Monday UK, to the US for the next 30 Ladakh, and Uttar Pradesh While Health Minister quarantine facility in Manesar Street eroded investor wealth (March 9). The markets have days. Countries across the besides one foreign national. Harsh Vardhan asked MPs to while the one in Hindon, near worth 11,27,160.65 crore, tak- now entered bear territory — world are imposing travel Meanwhile, urging people educate people about the dis- Ghaziabad, is being operated ing the total market capitalisa- that is more than 20 per cent restrictions, fuelling fears of a not to panic, Prime Minister ease in their respective con- by the Air Force. tion (m-cap) to 1,25,86,398.07 down from a recent high. The global recession, analysts said. crore on the BSE. Sensex and Nifty, which had hit All Sensex components Stock markets tumbled their lifetime closing highs on ended in the red. SBI was the across the globe and oil prices January 14 this year, closed at top loser, crashing 13.23 per slumped on Thursday after more than 2-1/2-year lows on cent, followed by ONGC, Axis President Donald Trump Thursday. Bank, ITC, TCS and Titan. banned all travel from main- The rupee sank by 60 paise “Global stocks including land Europe to the US for a to close at a fresh 17-month low India plunged into a bear mar- month to fight the coronavirus of 74.28 against the US cur- ket and oil slumped on pandemic, ramping up fears of rency on Thursday due to Thursday after US President O P ,+ over 6,000 Indian nationals in worldwide recession. heavy dollar demand as Donald Trump banned travel various provinces of Iran. After nosediving over investors rushed to prune riski- from Europe to stem the coro- Elaborating upon the 3,204.30 points on across-the- er bets amid coronavirus pan- navirus, threatening more dis- # " efforts undertaken by the board selling, the 30-share BSE demic fanning recession fears. ruption to the world Government to meet the crisis, Sensex closed 2,919.26 points Global markets reeled after economy. "## % the External Affairs Ministry or 8.18 per cent lower at the World Health Organization “Recession risk is rising said the focus is on containing 32,778.14. Likewise, the broad- (WHO) declared the coron- and the markets do not seem to $ #% % and stressed the point that er NSE Nifty gave up the 9,600 avirus outbreak as a pandem- be pricing that in fully. there is no need to panic. ! 67 &638 Indians were also advised to stay put wherever they are, $%& & gainst the backdrop of Dammu Ravi, Additional Acoronavirus becoming Secretary and Co-ordinator ! ! 67 &638 pandemic, the External Affairs (COVID-19) said. '( Ministry on Thursday advised MEA Raveesh Kumar said n a move to curb spread of Indians to stay put wherever the Government has received IChinese virus, the Delhi ' " ( ) * + #,# -, they are and travel only under requests from four countries Government on Thursday compelling reasons. for assistance in arranging pro- " declared coronavirus an epi- As the Government Minister Manish Sisodia also External Affairs Minister S tective gears like masks. They demic and ordered closure of declared COVID-19 as an epi- issued an order, saying, “All Jaishankar told the Lok Sabha include Bhutan, Iran, the New Delhi: The External schools, colleges and cinema demic, all the public spaces, educational institutions — that coronavirus outbreak was Maldives and Italy and India is Affairs Ministry on Thursday halls until March 31, but the Government, and private office schools, colleges, ITIs, poly- a matter of “great concern” and processing it. ! 46898*:67 &638 advised against holding this ongoing school examinations premises, malls, and shops, technics, universities and pri- the Government’s initial focus Earlier, such request was year’s IPL edition in wake of the will be held on schedule. have been notified to disinfect vate coaching and tuition cen- is to bring back Indian pilgrims received from China, and a hina on Thursday said the coronavirus scare, but left it to Also, people have been their premises. The Delhi CM tres — will remain closed till stranded in Iran. package was sent, he Cpeak of the novel coron- the organisers to take a final advised to stay away from pub- said, “Whatever we are doing is March 31, except for holding The Minister said there are said. avirus outbreak in the country call on it. This was stated by lic gatherings. to contain the outbreak of the examinations.” was over, hours after the World MEA Additional Secretary In a high-level meeting corona. I hope that all the He said the Delhi Health Organization (WHO) Dammu Ravi who has been with Health Minister Satyendra people will support us. We are Government schools will resort declared the epidemic out- appointed as the nodal officer Jain and health officials, noticing how rapid the out- to “zero paper attendance” from break as a pandemic. to coordinate efforts to deal Lieutenant Governor Anil break has been, but in India, we April 1. “The process of digitis- New cases keep declining with the coronavirus outbreak. Baijal and Delhi Chief Minister have successfully been able to ing exam result tabulation and and the overall epidemic situ- Responding to questions Arvind Kejriwal reviewed the contain the outbreak with the attendance records is underway. ation remains at a low level in beginning of the second quar- about IPL and other sporting preparedness to contain the support of the public. We shall Tablets will soon be provided to China, Mi Feng, a spokesper- ter,” said Peter Richardson, events, Ravi said the spread of coronavirus. remain alert to stop this disease all remaining Government son for the National Health Research Director, Government’s advice would be Soon after the meeting, from spreading.” school teachers,” he Commission, as saying at a Counterpoint Research. “not do it at this time but if the Kejriwal said, “All schools and Meanwhile, Deputy Chief said. Press conference here. Mi said the number of organisers want to go ahead, it colleges shall also remain Countries outside China new confirmed cases Hubei is their decision”. closed till March 31, except for ) will likely see a peak in coron- province’s capital city of “We are assessing a lot of the ones where the exams have Q 8 . & avirus infections in the May- Wuhan, also the epicentre of requests of this nature of sports been going on. 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