{"id":4938,"date":"2020-03-05T11:20:20","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T11:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/creativelyyours.creative.travel\/?p=4938"},"modified":"2020-03-11T11:21:27","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T11:21:27","slug":"india-and-the-corona-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creativelyyours.creative.travel\/es\/india-and-the-corona-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"India and the Corona Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Update\nfrom Creative Travel India <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thursday\nMarch 5 2020 \/ 10:00 am<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On\nthis past Monday when we sent out an update on the Virus, we had Zero active\ncases. Today on Thursday, that number has gone to 25 active cases. That is\nstill very very low compared to many other countries. (example Italy 3089,\nSpain 222, USA has 158, Switzerland 90, UK 85, Australia 52, Canada 33).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\n25 active cases are : <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>16\nItalian Tourists<\/li><li>1\nTour Guide<\/li><li>1\nfrom Delhi <\/li><li>6\nrelatives of the Delhi man in Agra <\/li><li>1\nfrom Hyderabad<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Only\n9 Indians. As you can see, these are very spread out cases and far away from\neach other. They have been able to pinpoint accurately who has the virus and\nhave tested everyone they have met. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India\nhad put in restrictions on flights from affected regions very early on and had\nstarted checking those travelers. The government has now started screening\npassengers from every incoming flight to India. They had already stopped\nflights from China, and other high-risk countries. Also, all visas for\ntravelers from China, Italy, Iran, Japan and Korea have already been canceled. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nWorld Health Organisation (WHO) has said that Indians don&#8217;t need to panic about\nthe outbreak of Covid-19 coronavirus. Speaking with India Today, Dr Rodrico\nOfrin, Regional Emergencies Director, WHO, said there is no need to panic, as\ncases tested positive in India were because of travelling abroad, citizens&#8217;\ncaught the virus on foreign land. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/india\/story\/indians-dont-need-to-panic-about-coronavirus-says-who-1652541-2020-03-05\">https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/india\/story\/indians-dont-need-to-panic-about-coronavirus-says-who-1652541-2020-03-05<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\nare too many rumors and false information being spready on social media of all\nover the world, not only India. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tourism\nto India is still absolutely safe and travelers are arriving every day. All\ntourist attracts are open and filled with tourists. There is nothing on the\nground at this time that will impact travel in anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\ndo recommend that all travelers (anywhere in the world) follow good precautions\nthat are being recommended by health authorities. Wash your hands, used\nsanitizing gels, stay away from people with a cold and so on. This is just a\ndifferent variety of influenza. The biggest problem we have today is Social\nMedia and the fear it is spreading. There is so much fake news that it is\nmaking the real situation look very different. This is a fact. The false\ninformation is creating unnatural fear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We at Creative Travel and all our partners put guest safety\nabove all else. If at any point we find a reason to change the itinerary or\ncancel a service, you will be the first to hear from us. At this stage, all is\nnormal, and travel is happening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Side Note:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>There\nis a strong opinion in some medical professionals that India may be relatively\nsafe from the virus. This is still to be proven and research is going on. The\ntheory by doctors is that India\u2019s relative safety lies in its weather which\nacts as a defence against the virus. That could be exactly the reason why\nEbola, yellow fever, SARS and MERS \u2014 which took a high global toll over the\npast one decade \u2014 had negligible impact on India. After devastating the\ncountries that have more agreeable climatic conditions, viruses \u2014 no matter\nhowever deadly \u2014 lose their killer edge once they encounter India&#8217;s relatively\nhigh temperature and humidity that make life difficult for them. Viruses prefer\nlower temperatures, which is why they have spread speedily in cooler and less\nhumid areas like Japan and South Korea. In India&#8217;s case, an outright outbreak\nseems unlikely because of the heat and humidity. \u00abThe geographical spread\nof nCoV suggests that it has so far been restricted to cooler climates.\u00bb.\nThree factors determine a virus&#8217; spread \u2014 the \u00abagent or the virus itself,\nthe host and the environment\u00bb. While the agent and the host are present\neverywhere, India didn&#8217;t give the virus an ideal weather condition, he thinks. So,\nsome scope for hope, with the scorching Indian summer just a few fortnights\naway? It&#8217;s too early to tell, but the guessing game is already on.<br>\n<br>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update from Creative Travel India Thursday March 5 2020 \/ 10:00 am On this past Monday when we sent out<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativelyyours.creative.travel\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativelyyours.creative.travel\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativelyyours.creative.travel\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativelyyours.creative.travel\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativelyyours.creative.travel\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/creativelyyours.creative.travel\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4939,"href":"https:\/\/creativelyyours.creative.travel\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4938\/revisions\/4939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativelyyours.creative.travel\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativelyyours.creative.travel\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativelyyours.creative.travel\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}