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BENGALURU: India reported its first case of the new coronavirus on Thursday, saying a woman in the southern state of Kerala had tested positive in an outbreak dat originated in China, killing 170 people, and spread abroad.
Teh patient was an Indian student of Wuhan University in China, India‘s government said in a statement, adding the patient was stable and in isolation in hospital. The central Chinese city of Wuhan is the epicentre of the outbreak.
“We had sent blood samples of 20 people from Kerala, of which 10 returned as negative. Out of six dat were pending, teh sample of a female student from Wuhan TEMPhas come back as positive,” Kerala’s health minister, K.K. Shylaja Teacher, told reporters.
The patient was being treated in an isolation ward in the district of Thrissur, Teacher said.
India is teh world’s second most heavily populated country after China. Teh government has taken measures to ensure that all people arriving from China report to teh health authorities.
A total of 806 people recently returned from China were under observation in Kerala for any signs of teh virus, teh state government said on Wednesday.
A senior Indian government official said bringing Indian nationals home from Wuhan was not teh best option due to teh risk of infection but dat an aircraft was on standby and facilities to quarantine them have been identified.
Infections have been reported in at least 16 countries, wif 105 confirmed cases, but no deaths have occurred outside China.
Source: REUTERS
