Three more persons — two of them Thai nationals — have tested positive for COVID-19 in Tamil Nadu. This takes the total number of persons who have tested positive in the State to six.
Health Minister C. Vijayabaskar, in a tweet, said: “The three patients were already quarantined and on the radar. They were admitted to isolation wards in government hospitals.”
He added that, so far, all six COVID-19 patients in the State were “imported cases”, with a travel history, and did not involve community transmission.
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Screening had been intensified at railway stations, at domestic and international terminals of airports and on the borders with States, he informed.
The Minister later told reporters that two of the new cases were tourists from Thailand, while the third person had arrived from New Zealand. The Health Department had begun tracing the contacts of all three persons. However, he refused to divulge details on where the three patients were admitted, citing “medical ethics”.
This story is from the March 22, 2020 edition of The Hindu.
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