that has pervaded markets this week24x7 helpline for visa travel queries for foreigners in indiathe government has launched a helpline and an email id to answer queries regarding visa and travel restrictions as well as to facilitate foreigners in india in availing consular services amid coronavirus breakout the services have been issued by the bureau of immigration under the union home ministry and will be available round the clock the phone number is 01124300666 and the email id is supportcovid19boigovin a home ministry spokesperson tweetedavoid selfmedication with ibuprofen against covid19 symptoms whothe world health organisation on tuesday recommended that people suffering from covid19like symptoms should avoid selfmedicating with ibuprofen after french authorities warned antiinflammatory drugs could worsen the effects of the virus the warnings over the weekend by french health minister olivier veran followed a recent study in the lancet weekly medical journal that hypothesized that an enzyme that is boosted when taking antiinflammatory drugs like ibuprofen could facilitate and worsen covid19 infectionsfrance locks down as global virus panic spreadsfrance moved into a neartotal lockdown on tuesday over the coronavirus the latest country to impose draconian restrictions affecting the lives of hundreds of millions of people around the world european leaders also plan to ban all nonessential travel into the continent on tuesday in a bid to stem a pandemic that has killed thousands upended society and battered economies with french president emmanuel macron describing the battle against covid19 as a war governments around the world are scrambling to keep the public safe with measures rarely seen in peacetime slamming borders shut and forcing citizens to stay homemore on covid19coronavirus what are the symptoms52 testing sites for coronavirus in indiahelpline numbers for states and utsdo fever and cough mean you need covid19 testhow to stay safehow to quarantine yourself at homeindia enters critical phase in fight against covid19with confirmed cases of covid2019 crossing 100 in india we seem to have entered the most crucial phase in the spread of the virus analysis of weekwise data of confirmed cases in other countries that are struggling to contain this outbreak shows that confirmed cases spike after the number crosses 100 in france for instance the first case was reported on january 25 five weeks later the number rose to 57 but in the sixth week there were 613 cases which went up to 3640 and 4469 in the next two weeks similarly in italy till the third week after the first confirmed case the number was only 3 the cases then shot up to 650 3858 15113 in the subsequent weekswhy 6ft of separation is our best weaponas health officials everywhere race to bolster capacities and identify patients and atrisk persons social distancing has emerged as the watchword for fighting the pandemic social distancing is a means of preventing anybody who may have picked up the coronavirus germ from coming in close contact with healthy people in order to reduce opportunities for disease transmissionvaccine test opens as us volunteer gets first shotus