8 under watch in Maha for coronavirus infection

January 29, 2020 07:55

A total of eight patients, five of them in Mumbai, are under observation in Maharashtra for suspected coronavirus infection, a health department official said.

Six patients were already under observation and two more people, who complained of cough and mild fever, symptoms similar to the coronavirus, were put under medical watch on

Tuesday evening, he said.

Five of them are in Mumbai-based Kasturba Hospital, while two are in Pune's Naidu Hospital, said Dr Pradeep Awate, the state's disease surveillance officer.

One patient has been admitted in Civil Hospital in Nanded district in the Marathwada region of central Maharashtra, he said.

So far, state officials have screened 3,997 people at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai to check their possible exposure to the new virus which

originated from China's Wuhan city, Awate said.

No positive case of the deadly virus has been found in Maharashtra yet.

Novel coronavirus (nCoV) is a large family of viruses that causes illnesses ranging from common cold to acute respiratory syndromes. However, the virus that has so far killed 80 people and affected 2,744 in China is a novel strain and not seen before.

-- PTI

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