2- yr- old in MP hospitalised for suspected nCoV infection

06 February,2020 05:00 AM IST |   | 


The two- year- old boy had returned from Shanghai with his parents on February 1 2- yr- old in MP hospitalised for suspected nCoV infection Indore: Two persons, including a boy, 2, were admitted to a hospital here on Wednesday for possible exposure to novel coronavirus ( nCoV), an official said. The official said 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.

u201c A youth, 19, and a two- yearold boy were admitted to the isolation ward of the Maharaja Yeshwantrao Holkar Hospital on Wednesday for suspected coronavirus infection,u201d P S Thakur, superintendent of the 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, he added. The boy had returned from Shanghai with his parents on February 1, Thakur said, adding that coronavirus symptoms were not found in his parents.

A man, 41, quarantined in Surat on Tuesday for suspected nCoV infection walked out of the civil hospital without giving his blood samples for testing, police said. Agencies

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