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14 Italian tourists with nCoV shifted to Medanta

March 05, 2020

Fourteen Italian nationals, who have tested positive for coronavirus, have been shifted from the Indo-Tibetan Border Police's (ITBP) Chhawla camp quarantine facility to the Medanta Hospital in Gurugram on Thursday.


The information was shared by the PRO Medanta Medicity in Delhi-NCR with ANI this morning.


"Medanta has received, at the special request of the government, 14 asymptomatic persons suspected to have COVID-19. These patients are housed on a completely separate floor, in an isolated quarantine floor, with no contact with the rest of the hospital," the PRO said.


The hospital has also deployed a separate team of doctors for treating these patients.Earlier, two of these Italian tourists had tested positive for coronavirus at a Jaipur hospital. Out of 21 Italian nationals, 8 are male and 13 are female. -- ANI


Image: The ITBP quarantine facility at  Chhawla camp 
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