Italian couple tested positive for coronavirus travelled to 6 Indian districts

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Italian couple tested positive for coronavirus travelled to 6 Indian districts
Italian couple tested positive for coronavirus travelled to 6 Indian districts

New Delhi : The National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune, has confirmed that the 69-year-old Italian tourist, admitted in city’s SMS hospital, is suffering from Covid-19 (the disease caused by the Coronavirus).

The Italian couple was part of a 21-member group, which landed in Delhi on February 21 and visited six districts of the state till February 28. The rest of the group is in Agra.

The government officials announced that they landed in Delhi on February 21 and from there they were taken to Mandawa in a private tourist bus. The group stayed in a local hotel in Mandawa, they added.

On February 22, they went to Bikaner and then left for Jaisalmer, the next day. They were in Jaisalmer on February 23 and 24 and before leaving for Jodhpur on February 25. From Jodhpur, they went to Udaipur on Feb 26, where they stayed for two days.

On February 28, the group came to Jaipur where the 69 year old woman complained of breathlessness and was taken to a nearby hospital.

On February 29 around noon, he was shifted to the isolation ward of Ithe nfectious Diseases Hospital (IDH) of SMS Medical College where he was screened for novel coronavirus and H1N1.

“While in isolation ward, the screening test result of COVID-19 was received at 11pm which was negative. The patient was shifted to H1N1 ICU for observation,” said SMS Medical College principal Dr Sudhir Bhandari.

On Monday, she was tested positive for the COVID-19.

“The patient is in isolation and is stable,” the health ministry said in a statement.

The chief secretary said all medical colleges in the state have been asked to set up rapid response teams to test and monitor anyone who came in contact with the Italian tourists.

"The rapid response teams will screen people in Mandawa, Bikaner, Jaisalmer, Jodhpur, Udaipur and Jaipur and sanitise hotels and other places the tourists visited," he said.