Coronavirus: Three people from Puducherry kept under home quarantine on return from China

Three people, including two medical students, are under observation after ir recent return from China where vel coronavirus has claimed 132 lives so far, officials said on Wednesday.

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Director of Health and Family Welfare S Mohan Kumar told reporters here that three- a businessman and two students purusuing medicine h reported ir travel history to China and have been kept under home quarantine as a precautionary measure. businessman hails from Karaikal while students belong to Puducherry and Karaikal. director said although "ne of m is symptomatic, y have all been kept under home quarantine as a precautionary measure. y would be under supervision of surveillance officers for 28 days."

Mohan Kumar said Health department h taken necessary precautionary steps to improve surveillance and to quarantine people with travel history to China. He said government run hospitals in four regions of Union Territory Puducherry, Karaikal, Mahe and Yanam and also privately run medical colleges have been directed to earmark six beds exclusively for vel coronavirus (nCOV) cases.

director said an isolation ward with eight beds has been set up at government run hospital for chest diseases in neighbouringGorimedu. All private medical colleges and hospitals have been asked to send travellers returning from China with complaints of upper respiratory tract infections to isolation ward in hospital for chest diseases. centrally-sponsored Jawaharlal Institute of Postgruate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER) hospital here has been designated as a tertiary care centre for patients who require ditional care. Samples of suspected patients will be collected at JIPMER and sent to National Institute of Virology at Pune, official said.

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