A special ward set up at the SCB Medical College Hospital here to keep coronavirus patients in isolation has fallen vacant after a lone suspected coronavirus patient was discharged on Saturday.
The hospital authorities allowed the suspected patient, an engineer, to leave when his blood samples sent to the Pune-based National Institute of Virology (NIV) were found to be negative for coronavirus.
The patient, a native of Jagatsinghpur, is working as an engineer at a Beijing-based company and has returned from China recently.
Earlier, blood samples of a woman medical student from Cuttack and another medico from Phulbani had been sent to the NIV following their return from China. Samples of both were found to be negative for coronavirus.
On Friday, a three-member Central team visited the SCB hospital and held discussions with the doctors about the situation arising out of the coronavirus scare.