Karnataka Health Minister B Sriramulu has said that a medical team is monitoring the health condition of all those people who had stayed with the coronavirus-hit techie who is admitted to a hospital in Hyderabad. The first confirmed case of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Telangana was reported from Hyderabad on Monday where a man from Bengaluru, who recently returned from Dubai, tested positive for the virus. "It has come to our knowledge that the coronavirus-hit person in Hyderabad had gone from Bengaluru. Therefore, all the members in the house where he had stayed here have been identified and are under watch," Mr Sriramulu tweeted on late Monday night.
The software engineer, who works in Bengaluru, had worked with people from Hong Kong in Dubai last month where he is suspected to have contracted the virus, Telangana health minister E Rajender told reporters in Hyderabad. The man reached Bengaluru on February 19/20 and later went to Hyderabad in a bus. The techie was suffering from fever and approached Apollo Hospital in Secunderabad for the treatment. "He got the treatment at an outpatient at that hospital for five days. As there was no relief, the hospital referred him to Gandhi Hospital," His samples were sent to the National Institute of Virology in Pune and those tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Now, the authorities are trying to identify at least 80 people who came in contact with the software engineer since his return. Those being checked include his family members and bus passengers.