Patient in Chandigarh tested negative for coronavirus

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Chief nurse Ma Jing holds a patient's hand to comfort her in the ICU (intensive care unit) of Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, Jan. 24, 2020. By Thursday midnight, Hubei Province in central China reported 549 cumulative confirmed cases of the new coronavirus pneumonia, with 495 in Wuhan, the provincial capital.

Chandigarh,  A 28-year-old man with a travel history to China who was kept under observation at an isolation ward of the PGI here has been tested negative for coronavirus, the hospital said on Wednesday.

“His throat swab was sent to the National Institute of Virology in Pune and has tested negative for the novel coronavirus,” the PGI said in a statement.

He is stable and would be discharged soon, the statement added.

The patient, belonging to Mohali in Punjab, was the lone suspected case in the PGI. He was hospitalised with high grade fever and headache on January 27.