A day after the Kerala government declared the novel coronavirus as a ‘state calamity’, the state’s Tourism Minister Kadakampally Surendran on Tuesday said the epidemic outbreak had begun affecting the tourism sector as hotel bookings have suffered mass cancellations.
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