Tamil Nadu Records 10 Fresh COVID-19 Cases

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Tamil Nadu has reported 10 fresh coronavirus positive cases, revealed authorities.

Of the five, two each came from the UAE and Singapore, while one arrived from France.

The rest five cases were reported from Chengalpattu (three), Kancheepuram (one) and Tiruppur (one).

COVID-19

The start of the year 2020 has an outbreak of a new coronavirus (2019-nCoV). In early December 2019, a number of pneumonia cases were reported in individuals exposed to a seafood and animal wholesale market in the city of Wuhan, Hubei province, China.

‘In Tamil Nadu, there are currently 31 active COVID-19 cases.’

Soon this new virus strain that was not reported in humans previously, was discovered to be the cause of the outbreak and worse was that the pneumonia could turn fatal. Within a month of the outbreak on 30 January the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the 2019-nCoV outbreak a global emergency.

Source: IANS