MP: Toddler among 2 hospitalised for suspected nCoV infection

In the wake of rising novel coronavirus infection across the nation, a 19-year-old man and a 2-year-old boy were hospitalised in MP's Indore after they were detected with possible symptoms. As a precautionary measure, they were admitted to the isolation ward and their blood samples have been sent to Pune-based NIV.

Indore (MP): Two people, including a two-year-old boy, were admitted to a hospital here on Wednesday for possible exposure to novel coronavirus.

According to the official, both of them had recently returned to India from different cities in China, where the deadly infection has so far claimed the lives of 490 people.

"A 19-year-old man and a two-year-old boy were admitted to the isolation ward of the Maharaja Yeshwantrao Holkar Hospital on Wednesday morning for suspected coronavirus infection," P S Thakur, superintendent of the government-run hospital, said.

They were hospitalised as a precautionary measure and their swabs and blood samples were sent to the Pune-based National Institute of Virology (NIV), he added.

The two-year-old boy had returned from Shanghai with his parents on February 1, Thakur said, adding that as coronavirus symptoms were not found in his parents, their swab and blood samples have not been sent for analysis so far as per the directives.

(PTI report

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