Face Of Nation International : (Source : Indiatoday And NDTV) : Three persons, suspected of being affected by the new coronavirus, have been kept under observation at an isolation ward of Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) Hospital in Delhi, news agency ANI quoted hospital authority as saying.
Minakshi Bhardwaj, Medical Superintendent at RML Hospital said that three suspected cases of coronavirus have been reported at the hospital and the patients have been kept in isolation for further treatment.
“The three — all men aged between 24 and 48 — were admitted on Monday and their samples have been sent for testing,” Minakshi Bhardwaj told PTI.
While two of the men are residents of Delhi, one hails from NCR.
Till Monday, a total of 33,552 passengers arriving in India from China in 155 flights have been screened.
On January 26, it was reported that over 100 people were kept under observation in Kerala and Maharashtra following screening for a possible exposure to novel coronavirus (nCoV). Samples of four other passengers tested earlier have been confirmed to be negative for nCoV by the lab.
Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan had earlier confirmed that no positive case has been detected in India so far though samples of seven passengers have been sent to the ICMR-NIV Pune lab.
Meanwhile, the death toll due to the coronavirus outbreak has reached 106 and over 13,000 new cases have surfaced in China.
A man was hospitalised in Pune on suspicion of possible exposure to the novel coronavirus during his recent visit to China, taking the total number of such admissions to six in Maharashtra so far, a senior official said on Tuesday.
The man was admitted in the isolation ward of the Naidu Hospital on Monday night for the symptoms similar to the novel coronavirus infection, Dr Pradeep Awate, Maharashtra state Disease Surveillance Officer, told news agency Press Trust of India.
“The number of the persons under observation in hospitals in Maharashtra has now gone up to six,” he said.
Four of the six persons are currently under observation in Mumbai while two in Pune, Dr Awate said.
He said blood samples of none of them has tested positive to the virus so far. No case of coronavirus infection has been found in Maharashtra yet.
A Health department official had said on Monday that the Maharashtra government will prepare a list of passengers who have returned to Mumbai from China, especially from the Wuhan region, since January 1 this year, and will enquire about their health condition.
As many as 3,756 passengers arriving from China were screened for the coronavirus at the Mumbai international airport between January 18 and 26, but no confirmed case of the deadly disease has been found so far in Mumbai.
Novel coronavirus (nCoV) is a large family of viruses that causes illnesses ranging from common cold to acute respiratory syndromes, but the virus that has so far killed 80 people and affected 2,744 in China is a novel strain and not seen before.
