Coronavirus: No public gatherings to be allowed in Maharashtra
March 12, 2020 20:46
No permission will be granted for public gatherings in the state in view of the coronavirus threat, Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope said on Thursday evening.
With one more person testing positive for the disease in Pune earlier in the day, the number of confirmed coronavirus patients in the state increased to 12 -- nine in Pune, two in Mumbai and one in Nagpur.
"All passengers from seven countries will be quarantined (whether they have symptoms of the disease or not)," the minister told reporters.
Officials had said earlier that passengers with travel history to China, Italy, Iran, Republic of Korea, France, Spain and Germany after February 15 will be kept under quarantine by default.
Tope said all the 12 confirmed patients in the state were stable and "asymptomatic", which meant they did not show any severe symptoms of the disease.
To prevent spread of the virus, district collectors and commissioners have been instructed not to allow public gatherings, nor should there be any official programmes, the minister said.
Even political or religious gatherings should not be allowed, the collectors have been told, Tope said.
-- PTI
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