On Sunday, State health minister Raghu Sharma said that a suspected case of coronavirus has been reported in Jaipur, following which the patient has been kept in isolation.

He said that a doctor, who returned to India after completing the MBBS course in China, has been kept in isolation at the SMS Hospital on the suspicion of being affected by the virus.

Instructions have been given to conduct a screening of his family members too. The minister said that a blood sample of the patient was sent to the National Virology Laboratory, Pune. A total of 18 people from four districts had returned from China and district chiefs have been instructed to keep them under observation.

Source: ET Healthworld