India's 1st nCoV patient discharged from hospital
February 20, 2020 12:39
A woman medico, who was India's first novel coronavirus patient being treated at the Government Medical College hospital in Thrissur was discharged on Thursday, official sources said.
The decision to discharge her from the hospital was taken by the Medical Board, which met and examined the results of the woman's samples that had tested negative for the second time, they said.
Dr Amar Fettile, state nodal officer of public health emergency said, "1st patient of novel Coronavirus has been discharged. The patient has to undergo 14 more days of home isolation. All three persons who tested positive for Coronavirus have been discharged now."
The discharge of the student marked the recovery of all three cases of infection in India reported from Kerala. Two other students -- one from Alappuzha and another Kasaragod -- had been discharged recently after they too tested negative for the virus in fresh tests days after being infected by it.
The woman, India's first coronavirus patient had been undergoing treatment in the isolation ward of the Medical College Hospital here since her return from Wuhan in China last month.
All the three residents of Kerala had earlier tested positive for the coronavirus on their return from Wuhan, the epicentre of the deadly outbreak that has left over 2,000 people dead in China, triggering a scare in the state. -- PTI
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