Kolkata: The state health department on Sunday said they have advised home isolation for 7 passengers in and around Kolkata who had traveled in the same flight with the Thrissur woman – India’s first coronavirus-affected patient who had arrived at the Kolkata airport on January 23 from China before heading to her hometown in Kerala.
A day after it was learnt that the Kerala woman, a student of Wuhan university in China, had traveled via Kolkata airport, the state government set off a search to track down the co-passengers and find out if any of them were from Bengal.
The search concluded on Saturday with the officials contacting all seven co passengers from Kolkata and were relieved to find that all of them were safe and none showed any signs of the infection till Sunday.
“All of them are safe. One of the seven persons is currently in Delhi while six others are at home. We have advised them home isolation for the next few days and have asked them to contact us if they develop any symptom during this period. Our officials are keeping regular contact with them and if required we will send their body fluid samples for the necessary tests,” said Ajoy Chakraborty, the director of health services, West Bengal.
02/02/20 Tamaghna Banerjee/Times of India
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A day after it was learnt that the Kerala woman, a student of Wuhan university in China, had traveled via Kolkata airport, the state government set off a search to track down the co-passengers and find out if any of them were from Bengal.
The search concluded on Saturday with the officials contacting all seven co passengers from Kolkata and were relieved to find that all of them were safe and none showed any signs of the infection till Sunday.
“All of them are safe. One of the seven persons is currently in Delhi while six others are at home. We have advised them home isolation for the next few days and have asked them to contact us if they develop any symptom during this period. Our officials are keeping regular contact with them and if required we will send their body fluid samples for the necessary tests,” said Ajoy Chakraborty, the director of health services, West Bengal.
02/02/20 Tamaghna Banerjee/Times of India
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