4th case: No travel history to COVID-hit countries
The patient was admitted to a premier private hospital along EM Bypass in a critical condition with severe respiratory distress and high fever.
The patient was admitted to a premier private hospital along EM Bypass in a critical condition with severe respiratory distress and high fever.
Mamata Banerjee today warned people who have come from abroad recently they would be taken to government quarantine centres if they do not remain in home quarantine for 14 days.
She said that employees would be allowed to leave the office an hour early to avoid overcrowding in public transport.
The director of health services, West Bengal, Dr Ajoy Chakraborty, said a Kolkata-based youth with recent travel history to nCoV-affected London was brought to the state-run ID Hospital at Beliaghata today and his swab sample tested positive at the National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD).
The patients are undergoing treatment in different hospitals in Kolkata.
Filming was due to have started in Venice, where the final two days of the city’s annual Carnival Festival were cancelled.
The deceased was identified as Jinarul Sheikh hailing from Belepukur area under Nabagram block in Murshidabad district.
But lack of preparedness exposed how most of the state-run teaching hospitals are yet install ventilators required for emergency treatment of nCoV patients with severe respiratory trouble in the isolation wards.
The Calcutta University authorities have also notified a set of advisories for its students in the wake of the outbreak of coronavirus that has so far infected 28 persons in India.
A Central Tibetan Administration official said as the deadly Wuhan coronavirus continues to spread across the world bringing the death toll to nearly 1800, Tibetans of the Tawu region in Tibet wrote to Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama seeking his advice.
