Trump Suspends Travel from Europe to US for 30 Days Amid Growing Fears
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# 1 Indian American Weekly: Since 2006 VOL 14 ISSUE 11 ● NEW YORK / DALLAS ● MAR 13 - 19, 2020 ● ENQUIRIES: 646-247-9458 www.theindianpanorama.news Trump suspends travel from Europe to US for 30 No More 1947 No More 1984 days amid growing fears of spread of Coronavirus No More 2002 Europe is furious over the ban NO More 2020 WASHINGTON (TIP): President Donald Trump announced, March 11 that he is suspending all travel from Europe, excluding the UK, to the US for the next 30 days to stop the spread of the coronavirus that has claimed 37 lives and infected 1,300 in the country. In a televised address to the nation from his Oval Office in the White House, Trump said the new rule would be coming into effect from Friday, March 13 midnight and there would be exemptions for Americans returning to the US after undergoing multiple screenings. The President said the European Union had "failed to take the same precautions" as his administration had implemented to contain the coronavirus outbreak. This is not a financial crisis. This is just a temporary moment in time that we will overcome as a contd on Page 32 nation and a world," Trump said. Air India announces COVID-19 Shocks: World stocks Government of India justifies total temporary suspension plunge into bear market, oil slumps visa suspension over COVID-19 NEW YORK (TIP): NEW DELHI of services to Rome, Global stocks plunged (TIP): Amid Milan, Seoul into a bear market growing concern and oil slumped over the spread of MUMBAI (TIP): Air India on further on Thursday , SARS-CoV-2, Wednesday, March 11 night announced March 12, after Union Health temporary suspension of its flight stimulus efforts from Minister Harsh services to Rome, Milan and Seoul. the European Central Vardhan and While services to Rome (Italy) are Bank failed to calm External Affairs being discontinued from March 15 to investors alarmed by Minister S. March 25, flight operations to Milan U.S. moves overnight Jaishankar made Health Minister Harsh Vardhan requested (Italy) and Seoul in South Korea will to restrict travel from statements in the MPs to discourage large gatherings as a preventive measure. Photo / Courtesy PTI remain suspended between March 14 Europe over the spread of COVID-19. Lok Sabha, and March 28, an airline official said. Trading was halted for 15 minutes shortly after the open in detailing the government's response to the WHO-certified The decision came following the New York after the S&P 500 index fell more than 7%. It was pandemic. government suspending all visas, except recently trading down 8.20%. contd on page 32 contd on Page 32 a few categories such as diplomatic and employment, till April 15 to prevent the spread of coronavirus on Wednesday. New Jersey Declares State of Emergency to Combat Spread "All existing visas, except diplomatic, official, UN / International organi- of COVID-19, First Death Reported from Bergen County zations, employment and project visas, stand suspended till 15th April 2020. TRENTON, NJ (TIP): As part of the 19. Executive Order No. 103 declares a This will come into effect from 1200GMT state's coordinated response to address state of emergency and public health on 13th March 2020 at the port of the novel coronavirus outbreak, New emergency across all 21 counties in New departure," an official statement said. Jersey Governor Phil Murphy on March Jersey, allowing state agencies and Visa-free travel facility granted to 9 declared a State of Emergency and a departments to utilize state resources to Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI) Public Health Emergency, effective assist affected communities responding NJ Governor Phil Murphy declared on March card holders is also kept in abeyance till immediately, to ramp up New Jersey's to and recovering from COVID-19 cases. 10 a State of Emergency after several April 15, it said. contd on Page 32 efforts to contain the spread of COVID- contd on page 6 Coronavirus outbreaks have occurred in the state. THE INDIAN PANORAMA 2 CORONAVIRUS CRISIS FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2020 WHO declares COVID-19 a pandemic Typhus outbreaks he World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the There were various typhus epidemics Tcoronavirus outbreak a pandemic. throughout history, but perhaps one of The Director-General of the World the most notable outbreaks was in 1848 Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom when the infectious disease killed over Ghebreyesus, officially characterized 20,000 people, mainly Irish immigrants COVID-19 a pandemic at a media who had fled to Canada to escape the briefing. Great Irish Famine. A raging fever, red The WHO panellists said it's still not spots over the arms, back and chest, too late. Officials wanted countries to delirium, gangrenous sores pull out all stops to fight the accompanied by the smell of rotting transmission of the virus and aggressive flesh were its symptoms. public health action from the beginning Much later, during World War I the of the outbreak can do that. disease ran rampant among the armies "All countries can still change the of the Eastern Front, with an estimated course of this pandemic. If countries 150,000 dying in Yugoslavia alone. Three detect, test, treat, isolate, trace and million people are also thought to have mobilize their people in the response," he died from typhus during the Russian said. “We are deeply concerned by the Civil War, with 25 million to 30 million alarming levels of spread and severity cases reported in 1922, considered the and by the alarming levels of inaction.” peak of the epidemic in Soviet territory. Iran and Italy who are at the new front SARS-CoV outbreak lines of the battle against the virus that started in China have recorded increased Severe acute respiratory syndrome numbers of cases and deaths over the (SARS) caused Asia and Canada to fall past few weeks. into chaos between 2002-2003. Caused by “They’re suffering but I guarantee you the highly infectious coronavirus other countries will be in that situation SARS-CoV, the disease quickly spread soon," said Michael J Ryan, WHO's to 37 countries globally within a matter Executive director, who also believed of weeks. SARS symptoms included there is underdiagnosis of the virus in fever, chills and body aches and usually some countries. progressed to pneumonia. The WHO has to date confirmed The SARS epidemic that began in 124,519 global cases and 4,607 deaths. Hong Kong between November 2002 and July 2003 almost became a pandemic after claiming 922 lives, with 8,422 Deadliest infectious disease confirmed cases worldwide. The WHO outbreaks in history announced the mortality rate as 10.9%. SARS was contained in 2003, and no Before the novel coronavirus, many cases of SARS have been reported since momentous epidemics and pandemics 2004. altered the course of human history, Swine flu killing large percentages of the global Swine flu killed approximately 2 population. million people between 1957 and 1958, The sudden outbreak is a reminder while 1 million people each died in the that throughout history, mankind has flu outbreaks in Russia and Hong Kong survived many similar epidemic in the years 1889-1890 and 1968-1969, diseases that have caused huge numbers respectively. The swine flu pandemic of of death and suffering. Many of the 2009 killed an estimated 284,500 people. worst worldwide outbreaks have killed Caused by the H1N1 influenza virus, millions. swine flu infected its first known victim Infamous ‘Black Death’ in central Mexico in March 2009. By April it had reached California, The plague has killed far and away the infecting a 10-year-old, and then quickly most people – claiming tens of millions spread around the world, triggering of lives around the world. fears and mass panic. The fears Throughout history, plague epidemics reflected the unusual nature of the have erupted in several eras, becoming virus, which contained bits and pieces known under different names such as of bird, swine and human flu viruses, a Athens, Antoninus, Cyprus and combination never before detected. Justinianus. Ebola outbreak About a third of Europe’s population was wiped out in the 14th century by The Ebola outbreak that erupted in bubonic plague, also known as the Black West Africa between 2013 and 2016 Death because it forms black spots on the caused more than 11,300 deaths. The skin, making it one of the deadliest West African Ebola outbreak started in recorded in human history. Guinea in December 2013, and the virus Black Death, which caused great spread to 28,616 people in West African destruction across Europe between 1347 countries such as Liberia and Sierra and 1351, is estimated to have killed 75 Leona. The epidemic, which ended in million to 100 million people. The June 2016, was recorded as the deadliest epidemic started in southwest Asia and Similar to the disease caused by the Cholera Ebola outbreak in history in terms of reached Europe in the late 1340s. Ebola or dengue viruses, viral The cholera epidemic that broke out the number of people infected and Three centuries later, between 1647 hemorrhagic fevers (VHF) are in Asia and Europe in 1817-1824 killed amount of deaths. and 1652, bubonic plague swept into contagious, continuous and for the most approximately 1,500 people between the Ebola virus was first detected in 1976. Spain. Some 76,000 people died in the part, lethal. VHF outbreaks swept years 1899 and 1923. The biggest cholera Its suspected origin is forest bats. It is Great Plague of Seville, about a quarter through Mexico between 1545 and 1548 outbreaks were in Japan in 1817, in not an airborne virus but is transmitted of the Andalusian city's population at and killed an estimated 5 million to 15 Moscow in 1826 and Berlin, Paris and through blood, vomit, diarrhea and the time.