- Monday, February 24, 2025
By: Kiran Paul
A positive case of Novel Coronavirus has been reported in Kerala, the Health Ministry said Thursday.
The patient is a student of Wuhan University. The central Chinese city of Wuhan is the epicentre of the outbreak.
The patient tested positive for Novel Coronavirus and is in isolation in the hospital, the ministry said.
The patient is stable and is being closely monitored, it said.
“We had sent blood samples of 20 people from Kerala, of which 10 returned as negative. Out of six that were pending, the sample of a female student from Wuhan has 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, she said.
A total of 806 people recently returned from China were under observation in Kerala for any signs of the virus, the state government said on Wednesday.
A senior Indian government official said bringing Indian nationals home from Wuhan was not the best option due to the risk of infection but that an aircraft was on standby and facilities to quarantine them have been identified.
Infections have been reported in at least 16 countries, with 105 confirmed cases, but no deaths have occurred outside China.
