Coronavirus update: 10 under observation in hospitals in Maharashtra
India TV NewsTen persons are under observation at hospitals in Mumbai, Pune and Nanded for possible exposure to novel coronavirus while there is no confirmed case of the infection in the state, Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope said on Wednesday. The patients whose blood test reports do not indicate virus infection would be discharged if a second test also comes out as negative, authorities said. A 49-year-old man who returned from Wuhan on January 21 was admitted to Kasturba Hospital on Tuesday after he developed fever and cough, said Maharashtra State Disease Surveillance Officer Dr Pradeep Awte. Blood samples of these ten hospitalised persons were sent to the National Institute of Virology, Pune, and six of them tested negative while the reports of the remaining four individuals were awaited, he said.