The medical fraternity of Kolkata got the first ‘corona scare’ with aThai patient succumbing to her ailments at a private south Kolkata hospital in the city. She was reportedly suffering symptoms similar to that of the dreaded Corona virus, sources said.
Sources in the Health Department which immediately rushed to the hospital in quest of further details said another Chinese national had been admitted in the isolation ward of the Beliaghata Infection Disease Hospital with similar symptoms.
The sources in the private hospital where the Thai woman died later said they were cooperating with the Government and would pass all the details about the demised patient. “We are preparing to send her blood serum for examination to Pune institute of virology,” said a doctor adding however even the Pune Institute did not have the facility for testing Corona virus and hence the samples would have to be sent to the USA for examination.
“The State is on high alert and we have been screening people travelling in and out of India via Nepal border too,” a health official said.