The latest on the Delhi's list of SARS suspects is a 56-year-old American woman, who arrived on an Air-France flight on Friday night at the Indira Gandhi International airport and was shifted to Ram Mannohar Lohia hospital after she complained of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome symptoms.
Health officials at the SARS control room here said that she is being kept under observation in the isolation ward of the hospital. They refused to divulge the name of the woman.
"The clinical diagnosis show her to be a case of pneumonitis. But she has no history of contact with infected persons," a senior doctor said. He added the woman had come from Virginia and her blood and urine samples have been sent to the National Institute of Communicable Diseases. The reports are waited.
Meanwhile, the health officials insist that the two Air-India pilots who were suspected by the Indian Pilots' Guild to have SARS are only suffering from sore throat. "We have not received any samples of the two yet," a senior doctor at SARS control room said.