Reportedly after a student from kerala, who returned from wuhan in china, tested positive for the coronavirus, the state health department has taken on the enormous task of undertaking contact tracing of people who may have been exposed to the virus. As per report the student returned to india on january 24 and went to the General Hospital in thrissur and informed health officials that she had come from China. She was told to remain under home quarantine by the hospital authorities. 

 

Apparently three days later on january 27, she began showing symptoms following which she informed the hospital about her condition and was shifted to the hospital in an ambulance led by a team of doctors headed by the thrissur district Medical Officer. Perhaps she was kept in an isolation ward at the hospital and her samples were sent to the National Institute of Virology in Pune. Her results returned positive for the virus on the evening of thursday, january 30. Around 23 students came as groups from wuhan and we are not sure if the four students who are on isolation including the one who is tested positive came as in a  single group. Anyway all the students came as groups only.

 

Moreover as of now the contact tracing is being done in the case of the one student only as the result was positive. He said “Her contact list from kolkata to thrissur would be thoroughly found out. Contact tracing of all 806 people who are under surveillance is not possible. Even the contact list of other three students, who had also been in isolation, wont be traced as their test results are negative. But they may be discharged later from hospitals as a preventive step". Perhaps 76 passengers were screened at CIAL on thursday out of no suspected cases were reported. 

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