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State Health and Family Welfare Minister C Vijaya Baskaralso said there was no need for any panic as preventivemeasures had been put in place and the government was payingmore attention after one person tested positive for the virusin neighbouring Kerala. As of date, 78 people who had arrived from China wereunder government monitoring, he said.
“Public Health Department doctors are in touch with allthe 78 on a daily basis. Nobody is affected, none of them isin a hospital. They are in their homes. They are in housequarantine,” the Minister told reporters here.
“So far there is no positive case of coronavirus in Tamil Nadu,” Vijaya Baskar said.He stressed on personal hygiene and advised people to wash their hands multiple times daily.Responding to a question on the status of some Tamil Nadu medicos studying in China’s Wuhan city, the epicentre of the virus, he said the Chinese Embassy has informed the state government that they were safe.
“We are taking all follow-up action to ensure their wellbeing,” he added. The novel coronavirus epidemic death toll in China hastouched 170 with over 7,000 others being infected while itspread to at least 17 countries.
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