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    Coronavirus outbreak: 69-year-old Italian tourist first confirmed case in Rajasthan

    Written by Hamza Khan
    | Jaipur |

    Updated: March 4, 2020 5:46:10 am





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    In the first confirmed case of coronavirus in Rajasthan, a 69-year-old tourist from tested positive for the virus a second time on Tuesday, and his wife, too, has reportedly tested positive.

    D S Meena, superintendent at the government-run Sawai Man Singh Hospital here, said the wife has been exhibiting symptoms of the disease and her samples are being sent to National Institute of Virology, Pune, for confirmation.

    The 69-year-old man was kept in isolation after exhibiting symptoms of the disease. The “patient is in isolation and stable”, the Press Information Bureau said in a statement on Tuesday.

    Officials said 24 people – 21 Italian tourists and three Indians: a bus driver, conductor, and tourist guide – who had come in contact with the Italian national have been shifted to the Indo-Tibetan Border Police () quarantine facility in Delhi and will undergo tests.

    The Italian tourist had arrived in Jaipur from Udaipur on February 28. He had checked into a hotel but had to be taken to a private hospital and kept…

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