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Coronavirus: 30 healthcare workers at AIIMS Delhi advised quarantine

They came in contact with a 72-year-old Covid-19 patient

Doctors attend to a patient who had come for check-up at a fever hospital, set up in the wake of of COVID-19 outbreak, in Hyderabad. Photo: PTI
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Doctors attend to a patient who had come for check-up at a fever hospital, set up in the wake of of COVID-19 outbreak, in Hyderabad. Photo: PTI

BS Web TeamAgencies New Delhi
Doctors, nurses and technicians are among 30 healthcare workers of AIIMS in Delhi advised to undergo quarantine after a 72-year-old man who visited the hospital's Cardio-Neuro Centre tested positive for Covid-19, sources said on Wednesday.

The patient had reported to the emergency with brain stroke symptoms around two days back and was immediately shifted to the Neurology ward N-S5 for evaluation and treatment.

"He was then subjected to radiological investigations like CT and MRI and was kept in a cubicle with other patients. He later complained of chest and respiratory distress after which his chest X-ray was done and and