Coronavirus outbreak: Back from China, man kept under watch in Miraj

An air passenger arriving from China has been isolated and kept under observation for the new coronavirus in a civil hospital of Miraj town in Sangli district of Maharashtra, taking the number of such people to six in the state, said a health department official on Monday.

 

The swab sample of the passenger, who had travelled to the coronavirus-affected China, has been sent to Pune-based National Institute of Virology for analysis, he said.  With this, six patients have been kept in observation wards in the state (in various hospitals) - of which four are in Pune, while one each in Mumbai and Sangli, he said.