Coronavirus: 14 Italian tourists shifted to Gurugram's Medanta Hospital

The fourteen Italian nationals who tested positive for coronavirus, have been shifted to the Medanta Hospital in Gurugram. They were earlier kept at the Indo-Tibetan Border Police's (ITBP) Chhawla camp quarantine facility.

New Delhi: Fourteen Italian nationals, who have tested positive for coronavirus, have been shifted from Indo-Tibetan Border Police's (ITBP) Chhawla camp quarantine facility to the Medanta Hospital in Gurugram on Thursday.

The information was shared by the PRO Medanta Medicity in Delhi-NCR with reporters this morning.

"Medanta has received, at the special request of the government, 14 asymptomatic persons suspected to have COVID-19. These patients are housed on a completely separate floor, in an isolated quarantine floor, with no contact with the rest of the hospital," the PRO said.

The hospital has also deployed a separate team of doctors for treating these patients.

Earlier, two of these Italian tourists had tested positive for coronavirus at a Jaipur hospital. Out of 21 Italian nationals, 8 are male and 13 are female.

(ANI report)