Since the outbreak of deadly Coronavirus in Wuhan city of China and its widespread that pressed the alarm alert in India, on Thursday the primary case of the new strain of coronavirus (nCoV) was reported from Thrissur, Kerala. A woman studying medicine at a university in Wuhan, the epicentre of the nCoV outbreak, has tested positive for the virus that has killed 170 people in China and spread to other countries, including the US.

The student was hospitalised after symptoms of fever and pharyngitis were diagnosed. She was quarantined, alongside four others, within the isolation ward of the public-run hospital in Thrissur. “The student who has been tested positive for the virus is stable; there's nothing to worry,” State health minister K K Shailaja was quoted saying by the days of India. Wuhan returned five students came to the hospital of their own wish.

Among them, three were shifted to Thrissur Medical College Hospital by Thursday afternoon. Their swabs and blood are sent for examination.

In the meantime, at a high-level review meeting in Delhi, cabinet secretary Rajiv Gauba decided that each one those that have come from China after January 15, 2020, are going to be tested because the virus has a time period. aside from China, 15 other countries have reported a complete of 68 confirmed cases so far.

Dr M A Andrews, the medical college principal in Kerala, said the three had been shifted to the hospital’s specially prepared isolation ward Two more patients, including the scholar who tested positive, remain within the isolation ward. A final judgment on shifting them is going to be taken later.

On the opposite side, 1,053 people that have returned from Wuhan are under observation within the State. Of these, 15 are admitted to isolation wards of varied hospitals within the state. Of the entire 24 samples sent for tests so far, the results of 15 people are received and just one among them has tested positive.