Malappuram District Collector chairs high-level meeting on coronavirus outbreak

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ANI | Updated: Feb 03, 2020 17:04 IST
Malappuram (Kerala) [India], Feb 3 (ANI): In wake of coronavirus outbreak, Malappuram District Collector Jafar Malik on Monday
chaired a high-level meeting to review the preparedness in hospitals to deal with the virus
The meeting comes after Kerala Health Minister KK Shailaja on Monday said that the third case of coronavirus tested positive in
Kasargod."Today one more case has tested positive from Kasaragod
The patient is under treatment in Kanjangad District Hospital in Kasaragod
The patient's condition is stable
The student had returned from Wuhan," Shailaja said.The virus originated in Wuhan in December and has since then spread to various cities
around the world.China has imposed quarantine and travel restrictions, affecting the movement of 56 million people in more than a dozen
cities, amid fears that the transmission rate will accelerate as hundreds of millions of Chinese travel for the Lunar New Year
(ANI)