Medical team monitoring people who came in contact with coronavirus-hit techie: Karnataka Health Minister

Karnataka Health Minister B Sriramulu has said that a medical team is monitoring health condition of all those people who had stayed with coronavirus-hit techie who is admitted to a hospital in Hyderabad.

first confirmed case of vel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Telangana was reported from Hyderabad on Monday where a man from Bengaluru, who recently returned from Dubai, tested postive for virus.

"It has come to our kwledge that coronavirus-hit person in Hyderabad had gone from Bengaluru. refore, all members in house where he had stayed here have been identified and are under watch," Sriramulu tweeted on late Monday night.

minister said he has convened a meeting with additional chief secretary, commissioner and or senior officials of health department on Tuesday morning.

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"Our government has initiated all measures to prevent spread of this virus," minister said.

It is learnt that 24-year-old techie had t contracted it when he was in Bengaluru but all precautionary measures have been taken.

software engineer, who works in Bengaluru, had worked with people from Hong Kong in Dubai last month where he is suspected to have contracted virus, Telangana health minister E Rajender told reporters in Hyderabad.

man reached Bengaluru on February 19/20 and later went to Hyderabad in a bus.

He took treatment for fever after coming to Hyderabad and was admitted to a private super speciality hospital in city. As it did t subside, he came to state-run Gandhi hospital on Sunday evening, Rajender said. 

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