Third Coronavirus case confirmed in Kerala
- The third novel coronavirus case has been reported in India, with another Keralite student who returned from Wuhan university on Monday testing positive for the infection.
- The medical student is in an isolation ward at Kanhangad district hospital in Kasaragod, Health Minister K K Shailaja informed the state assembly.
- Out of the 104 samples tested till Sunday, three have tested positive.
- Two earlier positive cases, also of students who came back from Wuhan, the epicentre of the virus, were reported from Thrissur and Alapuzha districts.
- India has meanwhile, evacuated over 650 people from China's Wuhan city and brought them back as the deadly coronavirus spreads across China and other countries.
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