An 58-year-old Indonesian
man tested positive for coronavirus here on Tuesday, taking the total number of cases in Telangana to five.
The five include a 24-year-old techie who has been discharged from hospital after recovery.
"Even till this moment, no Telangana resident has tested positive for coronavirus on Telangana soil. Those who came from foreign countries, who came after being infected, they tested positive.
No case has been identified here," state Health minister E Rajender told reporters here.
According to him, the second positive case is a woman who came from Italy and the third a man from Netherlands.
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The fourth person, who tested positive, arrived from Scotland and the fifth patient from Indonesia.
Telangana started thermal screening much earlier at the international airport here and more than 66,000 people have been screened, the minister said.
The state government is tracing scores of people who came in contact with the five coronavirus positive people, he said, adding six labs have been readied in the state to test for the virus, he said.
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