Thrissur:Health authorities in Kerala on Friday shifted a female student, who has been tested positive for the novel coronavirus, from the general hospital to the Government Medical College here, official sources said.
The medical college student from Wuhan University was shifted to an isolation ward set up in the Medical College Hospital in the early hours on Friday, they said.
The patient had been kept in an isolation ward of the general hospital here since she approached the doctors with symptoms of novel coronavirus.
The decision to shift her to the Medical College Hospital was taken after state health minister K K Shailaja held a high-level meeting at the medical college hospital here on Thursday midnight to take stock of the situation after the positive case of novel coronavirus was detected in the state.