Authorities in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday said a second coronavirus case has cropped up, with Health Minister C Viijayabaskar saying the 20-y...
Authorities in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday said a second coronavirus case has cropped up, with Health Minister C Viijayabaskar saying the 20-year-old man was a “domestic case” triggering speculation about community transmission, reported The Indian Express. The Union health ministry’s latest update has confirmed 169 cases in India so far with two of them from the state, one of the patients has recovered.
“A 20 years old passenger with travel history to Delhi who tested positive for COVID-19 is stable and under observation in Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital, Chennai,” the state government’s statement said, according to The News Minute. “He will be discharged after two consecutive samples tested negative.” The man is currently in isolation, and his condition is stable.
The state’s health minister said the man came to Chennai via train from Delhi on March 12, and added that officials were engaged in tracing all those who he came in contact with in the past few days. Viijayabaskar added that he had no history of travelling to another country.
“All I can say is that the first positive case in the state was imported since that patient had visited Oman,” the state health minister said. “This is a domestic case.”
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