Rajasthan awaits tourist's test report, Gehlot tells officials to follow coronavirus guidelines

As Rajasthan authorities awaited a crucial medical test report to confirm if an Italian visitor here has coronavirus, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot instructed health officials to strictly follow Centre’s guidelines on containing disease.

Gehlot chaired a high-level meeting on Monday night after a 69-year-old Italian tourist reported positive for coronavirus following a test conducted at Jaipur’s Sawai Man Singh Hospital.

An earlier test conducted at same government hospital h, however, cleared man of virus.

Since two reports were contrictory, SMS Hospital sent ar sample to National Institute of Virology in Pune.

“ sample was dispatched from SMS Hospital to Jaipur airport last evening but it could be sent to Pune in a cargo plane on Tuesday morning,” hospital superintendent Dr D S Meena said.

“ sample has been received at NIV, Pune and report is likely to come this evening,” he said.

man, part of a group of 20 tourists, is mitted at an isolation ward at hospital. or members of group left for Agra and n New Delhi, according to officials.

Gehlot said Health Department should ensure that re is fear in public about coronavirus.

re should be short of facilities for screening and treating those suspected of carrying virus, he instructed.

In a statement on Tuesday, he said those who came in contact with Italian tourist should be screened after obtaining his travel history.

Those showing symptoms of disease should be kept in Isolation at home or in hospital, he said.

tourist arrived in Jaipur with his group February 28. He was taken to Fortis Hospital same night, and n to SMS Hospital next day.

While first test for swine flu and coronavirus cleared him of two diseases, second came out positive for coronavirus.

State government officials took part in a video conference on Tuesday with a top official from Centre, ditional Chief Secretary (Medical and Health) Rohit Kumar Singh said.

At Monday night’s meeting with Gehlot, Health Minister Raghu Sharma, Chief Secretary D B Gupta, ditional Chief Secretary (Medical and Health) Rohit Kumar Singh, Medical Education Secretary Vaibhav Galaria, SMS Medical College principal Sudhir Bhandari and or senior doctors were present. 

Im Credits: PTI