NewsGate Press Network:

Late on Thursday evening i.e. on 19-March-2020, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a novel way to fight CoronaVirus with a “Janata Curfew” to be imposed on national scale while India declared that no international flight will be allowed to land in India for a week beginning from Sunday, 22-March-2020.

These desperate steps are part of measures to contain the spread of CoronaVirus within Stage-Two situation.

Modi announced this in a special broadcast on Thursday evening.

Stage Two of the pandemic situation is when virus transmits from passengers coming from overseas to a local population.

If local spread is contained, then that is a good story and situation is classified as Stage-Two.

If pandemic virus spreads uncontrollably after an international passenger with positive condition goes undetected, then it becomes a dangerous situation. And is thereafter designated as Stage-Three of the pandemic calamity.

Many trouble spots in Europe including Italy are in Stage-Three category.

However India is trying hard to remain within lower limits of Stage Two and appears to be doing a good job.

Travel advisory issued by the Central Government had earlier announced curtailment of air travel from South-East Asia.

Added to this measure, travel advisory issued on Monday, 16-March-2020 had temporary halting air travel from UK.

This happened even as a fresh batch of Indians returning from overseas landed (photo above) at the IGI Airport Delhi on Sunday before they were shifted to ITBP’s Quarantine Facility at Chhawla,

These evacuated Indian who arrived on Sunday included students and tourists trapped in Milan, Italy following coronavirus outage.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) declared on 14-March-2020 that Europe is the new epicenter of coronavirus pandemic situation.

Chhawla Quarantine facility is maintained by Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force (ITBP) along with Safdarjung Hospital. Its deft handling of preventive measures being taken in these trying times has been acknowledged even by international experts.

Restrictions on movement of international passengers along the land border crossings, that came into effect on 15-March-2020, are along International Border (IB)  with Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh & Myanmar (Burma).

This announcement came-in  as total number of coronavirus cases rose to 107 by afternoon on Sunday, 15-March-2020.

Also Ministry of Health has issued an advisory relating to ‘who and when’ one should get tested for coronavirus.