India confirms first case of the coronavirus

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The country's health ministry said the virus had been found in a patient in Kerala.

China's National Health Commission, says the coronavirus has taken the lives of 170 people in China.The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare confirmed the country's first case in Kerala, a southwestern coastal state.that the patient is a student at Wuhan University in China and has been isolated in a hospital.

Meanwhile, the Philippines also confirmed its first case Thursday. Health Secretary Francisco Duque told reporters that the patient is a 38-year-old woman from Wuhan who arrived in Manila on Jan. 21. She was admitted to a hospital four days later with a mild cough but is currently not displaying any symptoms.

The World Health Organization will meet Thursday to decide if the outbreak should be considered a global health emergency.

 

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No way this isn't in Africa yet.. We probably just dont have the tools to correctly diagnose it yet!!!

So are they officially labeling it a pandemic?

Not one Indian in that photo.....

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