Govt readies to fight coronavirus with evacuation requests, border checks

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As the Coronavirus threat intensifies, the government has begun continuously monitoring the situation across sectors so that timely action can be taken to prevent a crisis in India. So far, no one in the country has tested positive for the latest strain of the pathogen.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi directed government machineries to take up the issue on a war footing, following which the first big meeting on the matter took place last Saturday.

At that meeting, chaired by P K Mishra, principal secretary to the PM, top bureaucrats from across ministries such as health, civil aviation, home affairs and external affairs