NE NEWS SERVICE
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, FEB 2
Even as India is carrying out a massive evacuation of its citizens from Wuhan in China, a second positive case of Novel Coronavirus has been detected in Kerala.
The patient, who has a history of travelling to China, has been kept in an isolation ward in a hospital. He is said to stable and is being closely monitored, official said. The state government has raised the level of alert after the detection of the second case.
Kerala’s health ministry said no personal information can be divulged as per the World Health Organisation (WHO) emergency guidelines.
On Saturday, the state government had said that the country’s first cononavirus-infected patient, a woman who returned to Kerala from China last week, was recovering fast.
According to a medical bulletin the first patient who is also an isolation ward in the Thrissur medical college hospital, was responding well to treatment.
Kerala has mounted a huge operation where at least 1600 people are under observation while 30 have been admitted to different hospitals. Health authorities have also alerted Kolkata international airport, where the woman spent four hours in transit after landing on December 23 before taking a flight to Kochi.
On Saturday, an Air India aircraft evacuated 324 Indian from Wuhan International Airport and flew them to Delhi. They were taken to two quarantine facilities.
The coronavirus death toll in China has gone past 300 while more than 14,000 cases of infections have been reported.
