It'll take more than bravado to survive Coronavirus scare: Anand Mahindra

We will need to 'ensure that we all follow practices which limit the import and spread of the virus', he Anand Mahindra in a Twitter post.

Mahindra Group Chairman Anand Mahindra on Tuesday expressed confidence that the world will survive the raging Coronavirus epidemic scare, but cautioned that this would not be done through “bravado”; we would need to “ensure that we all follow practices which limit the import and spread of the virus”, he said in a twitter post.

A partly humourous image that he attached to the tweet showed the various epidemics and threats of the past that we had been able to overcome, such as SARS, H5N1 bird flu and “Doomsday prediction of Nostradamus for 1999”, among others.

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“An interesting & brave reaction to Covid-19 that is making the WhatsApp rounds. True, we will survive this. But it will require more than bravado. We need to ensure that we all follow practices which limit the import & spread of the virus,” he noted in his post.

To survive Coronavirus, he said, all the practices that limit the import and spread of virus must be followed. To overcome… “it requires more than bravado,” he said.

Coronavirus is spreading at a rapid speed. According to the World Health Organization, there are 89,527 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 3,056 deaths reported globally across 67 countries so far. Coronavirus death toll in China climbed to 2,943 on Monday.

India on Monday reported three new Coronavirus cases — one each in Delhi, Telangana and Jaipur — prompting the government to issue a travel advisory to affected countries and widening screening at airports and sea ports.

Coronavirus: China toll soars to 213, WHO declares world health emergency

Hubei province, the epicentre of the outbreak, reported 5,806 confirmed cases, including 204 deaths.

The death toll in China's novel coronavirus outbreak has climbed to 213 with the number of confirmed cases totalling to 9,692, China's national authorities announced on Friday.

Hubei province, the epicentre of the outbreak, reported 5,806 confirmed cases, including 204 deaths, official media reported.

A total of 213 people have died of the disease as of Thursday, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

Chinese health authorities announced that 9,692 confirmed cases of pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus had been reported in 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps by the end of Thursday.

About 20 countries, including India, have reported confirmed cases of the virus in travellers coming from China.

China said it has full confidence and capability to win the fight against the epidemic.

The WHO has declared the novel coronavirus outbreak a global health emergency.

The UN health agency on Friday declared an international emergency over the deadly novel coronavirus from China -- a rarely used designation that could lead to improved international co-ordination in tackling the disease.

"Our greatest concern is the potential for the virus to spread to countries with weaker health systems," World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said as he announced the virus as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC).

Reacting to the announcement, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying in a press statement said, "Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus epidemic, the Chinese government has been taking the most comprehensive and rigorous prevention and control measures with a high sense of responsibility for people's health." Many of these measures go well beyond the requirements of the International Health Regulations, she said.

"We have full confidence and capability to win this fight against the epidemic," said the spokesperson.