What steps has the government undertaken in response to coronavirus?
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The Covid-19 pandemic is an unprecedented crisis that has exposed ... Here's a look at all the steps taken by the central government in the last few week
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Here’s a look at all the steps taken by the central government in the last few weeks.
Jan 31: Indian Army set up a quarantine facility to monitor 300 Indian students returning from Wuhan in China, the centre of the initial Coronavirus outbreak.
For the next one month, the government was busy with first the Union Budget on Feb 1 followed by the Delhi elections the next week. Soon after that the entire government machinery went on an overdrive preparing for US President Donald Trump's visit to India in the third week, which was followed by the deadly riots in Delhi that had captured the entire nation's attention while the coronavirus was spreading around the world.
Feb 27: Over a month after China’s lockdown of the Wuhan province on Jan 23, special flights of the Indian Air Force and Air India arrived in Delhi with more Indians and foreigners from Wuhan and the quarantined cruise ship Diamond Princess in Japan.
March 11: The World Health Organisation (WHO) formally designated Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) a ‘pandemic’.
March 12: Seven more quarantine facilities set up by Indian Defence Forces are ready in Jaisalmer, Suratgarh, Jhansi, Jodhpur, Deolali, Kolkata and Chennai.