Coronavirus: Third confirm case of deadly disease reported in Kerala
The state of Kerala has now reported the third confirm case of coronavirus. Kerala Health Minister KK Shailaja has validated the third case of deadly virus in India and stated that a patient has tested positive in Kerala’s Kasargod.
The third case of coronavirus is a student, who recently came back from China just like the first two cases of coronavirus discovered in parts of Kerala.
"The patient is under treatment at the Kanjangad District Hospital in Kasaragod. The patient's condition is stable. The patient had returned from Wuhan, China," Shailaja said.
All three cases of infectious disease have been reported from the state of Kerala where the government has kept approximately 2,000 people under observation at various hospitals, isolation centres and also homes.
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In accordance with the Health Minister Shailaja, the state of the third patient is also stable. "All 3 patients are being treated in isolation wards. Their condition remains stable. As of February 2, 104 samples have been tested of which only 3 has come positive," she added.
"A total of 1999 people have returned from the affected country recently. 1924 are under home quarantine and the remaining 75 are being monitored at various hospitals," said KK Shailaja.
In excess of 350 people have already lost their lives in China’s Wuhan city thus far and coronavirus has already infected more than 14,000 people in the country. The phenomenon has spread to around 25 countries thus far, including India and United States.
Be that as it may, India has evacuated as many as 650 people from China’s Wuhan city and flew them back as the life-threatening epidemic spreads across China and other nations.
