Accordingly unconfirmed reports on malayalam channels says that a student who returned from china is the one confirmed of having coronavirus. Recently fhe kerala government has confirmed the case and state health minister kk Shailaja is expected to address a press conference at 3 pm on the same. The government release stated “One positive case of Novel coronavirus patient, of a student studying in wuhan university, has been reported in Kerala. The patient has tested positive for Novel coronavirus and is in isolation in the hospital. The patient is stable and is being closely monitored".
Furthermore health officials from the state of kerala also confirmed on thursday that one person had tested positive for the new strain of coronavirus (nCoV). The National Institute of Virology (NIV) in pune, where the samples were sent, confirmed the presence of the virus. Earlier, it was reported that 806 people in kerala were kept under home isolation and another 10 were being monitored in isolation wards in hospitals. It’s been reported that over 500 indian students, many of whom are from telangana and kerala, are studying in colleges and universities in wuhan, though a large number had departed prior to the outbreak due to Lunar New Year celebrations.
Perhaps earlier this week, the government announced that it was preparing to evacuate indian citizens stranded in wuhan city, in the Hubei Province of china, the epicentre of the novel coronavirus outbreak. Those arriving in india from wuhan are required to undergo a mandatory 14-day quarantine on arrival in the country.
