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Chennai records third positive COVID-19 case, patient returned from Ireland
The third confirmed case of novel coronavirus was reported in Chennai, Tamil Nadu on Thursday after a student who recently returned from Dublin, Ireland tested positive for it, State Health Minister C Vijayabaskar took to twitter to divulge the information.
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The 21-year-old man is being treated at Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital (RGGH), he said.
“His condition is stable and he is kept in isolation ward,” Vijayabaskar tweeted.
The patient reached Chennai on March 17. After initial screening, he was home quarantined. The following day, he was admitted to RGGH with symptoms and samples were sent for further medical examination.
On Thursday today, the test results turned out positive.
While, the state's first confirmed coronavirus case, a 45-year-old man, has been discharged following treatment, a 20-year-old man, who arrived here from Delhi, tested positive for the virus yesterday.
Tamil Nadu's second COVID-19 patient - a 20-year old man who tested positive for coronavirus days after his arrival here from Delhi is doing well and stable and as many as 10 people who came in contact with him have been quarantined, the government said on Thursday.
There is no community spread of the infection in Tamil Nadu and instructions have been given to screen passengers arriving at the domestic airport terminal here as well, the government asserted.
While a senior doctor at the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital here, said the man is "under treatment, doing well and stable," Health Minister C Vijayabaskar told reporters that 10 people who came in contact with him have been quarantined overnight.
On Wednesday, the man was placed in isolation ward of the RGGH here after test at the State-run King Institute of Preventive Medicine and Research confirmed that he has tested positive for coronavirus.
The Minister said more people who came in contact with the man were being traced and they will also be quarantined.
Instructions have been given to screen passengers at the domestic airport terminal and an inspection will be done in this regard, he said adding "there is no community spread of the infection in Tamil Nadu."
A new mobile application has been developed for contact tracing of positive patients and it will be implemented on a pilot basis, he said.
Vijayabaskar said a 45-year old man belonging to Kanchipuram near here (who was the first patient for COVID-19 in Tamil Nadu) has been advised home quarantine for more 14 days though he has been discharged following tests that confirmed his negative status.
(With inputs from PTI)
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