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Seven year old girl from Lithuania suspected with COVID-19 admitted to a hospital in Odisha's Cuttack

Seven year old girl from Lithuania suspected with COVID-19 admitted to a hospital in Odisha's Cuttack

| @indiablooms | 14 Mar 2020, 02:53 pm

Puri/UNI: A seven-year-old Lithuanian girl suspected of being infected with novel coronavirus was on Saturday referred to SCB Medical College and Hospital at Cuttack

Sources said one Milita Kovalska, a child from Lithuania, along with her mother had gone to a private hospital here today to get treated for cold, cough and fever which she had been suffering from last two weeks.

However, the mother of the child showed no such symptoms.

The private hospital referred her to District Head Quarter hospital which later referred her to the S C B Medical College and Hospital at Cuttack.

Dr. Kumudini Mishra attended her and admitted her to isolation ward of the DHH after recording her medical history. Later, today she was shifted to SCB medical college and hospital .

The family had arrived at Puri fifteen days ago and were staying in a beachside hotel.

The hotel where they stayed is yet to be identified.

The administration had issued repeated advisory to hotel owners, private hospitals and pathology clinics to report any person, especially foreign nationals suffering from cold, cough and fever.

Meanwhile, another report said an Odia student, studying in Italy, was also admitted in the S C B Medical College and Hospital today  with  symptoms of cold and cough.

So far, nine persons suspected  of coronavirus infection  were admitted in SCB Medical College and Hospital, and seven of them had already been discharged from the  hospital after they tested  negative.

The Odisha government had already closed all  educational institutions and Anganbadi centres across the state till March 31 as a precautionary measure.

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