4.41pm: WHO says India needs to increase testing WHO’s regional director said his advice for India was “more and more testing”. Persons tested positive will then be moved to isolation wards and observation centres,” Ernakulam sub-collector Snehil Kumar Singh told The NewsMinute. 9.24 am: 147 coronavirus patients in India, highest in Maharashtra The health ministry says that, as of 9 am on March 18, India has 147 coronavirus patients. Naval Kishore Ram, District Magistrate of Pune, Maharashtra: One more person has tested positive for #Coronavirus in Pune. pic.twitter.com/TqENpcImnl — ANI (@ANI) March 18, 2020

Source: Huffington Post March 18, 2020 03:15 UTC