Five admitted to hospitals in Maharashtra; 39,784 screened till now amid coronavirus outbreak
Hindustan TimesFive travellers are currently admitted to hospitals in Maharashtra over suspicion of being infected by the novel coronavirus, the state’s health department said on Tuesday. Five travellers are currently admitted to hospitals in Maharashtra over suspicion of being infected by the novel coronavirus Of them, three are being treated at Naidu Hospital in Pune, while two are at civic-run Kasturba Hospital in Mumbai, according to a health department release here. A total of 39,784 travellers have been screened at the Mumbai international airport since around mid-January for coronavirus, whose outbreak was reported in December-end from China’s Wuhan city, it said. Since around mid-January, Maharashtra had 228 travellers coming from coronavirus-affected areas and 70 of them, who showed symptoms similar to the viral infection, were kept at isolation facilities, it said.