Three more cases of COVID-19 were confirmed on Saturday — two from Ladakh and one from Tamil Nadu — taking the total number of cases in the country to 34.
“Two cases have been reported from Ladakh with travel history to Iran while one case has come in from Tamil Nadu with travel history to Oman. All the cases are stable,” said a Union Health Ministry release.
The Tamil Nadu patient, a 45-year-old man from Kancheepuram district, with a history of travel to Muscat in Oman, has been admitted to the isolation ward at the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital in Chennai.
Senior State health officials said the man was advised home quarantine after he landed and reported symptoms. His samples were sent for testing and the results were received on Saturday.
His family is under home quarantine, and efforts are on to isolate anyone else the patient might have come into contact with. The patient has become asymptomatic, according to Health Secretary Beela Rajesh.
This story is from the March 08, 2020 edition of The Hindu.
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