Mumbai(Maharashtra): One person suspected of being affected by the novel coronavirus has been kept under observation at an isolation ward in Maharashtra, while over 52,000 travellers have been screened at the airport here for the disease till now, the health department said on Tuesday.
The lone patient has been kept under observation at an isolation facility in Pune-based Naidu Hospital, it said. Until now, 87 travellers were admitted at various isolation facilities in the state after they showed symptoms of the viral infection (officially called COVID-19), whose outbreak was first reported from the Chinese city of Wuhan in December-end.
Of these, 86 people have been already discharged, said the department. No positive case of the infection has been reported in the state till now.
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Health Minister Rajesh Tope said they have provided more manpower for the screening of the travellers arriving at the Mumbai international airport from nine countries from where COVID-19 cases have been reported cases. "Since travellers from nine countries, including China, are being screened at the international airport, the health department and Mumbai Municipal Corporation have made available additional personnel," Tope said.