Coronavirus: Raj health dept asks people to come forward for screening

A day after a suspected case of coronavirus was reported in Jaipur, Rajasthan's medical and health department on Monday issued helpline numbers and appealed to passengers who have travelled to China recently to come forward for screening. department has also put up an visory at Jaipur airport.

It has urged passengers who have travelled to China after January 1 to go for screening if y have fever, cough, respiratory distress etc. On Sunday, a suspected case of coronavirus was reported in state, following which patient was kept in isolation at SMS government hospital here.

"His blood sample has been sent to national virology lab, Pune and report is awaited," an official said. A total of 18 people from four districts of state have returned India from China. Respective district chiefs and medical officers have been directed to keep m under surveillance for next 28 days. 

vel coronavirus is a large family of viruses that causes illnesses ranging from common cold to acute respiratory syndromes. virus, which has so far killed 56 people and affected 1,975 in China, is a vel strain and t seen before. It emerged from a seafood and animal market in China's Wuhan and is suspected to have spre to as far as United States.

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