Coronavirus: The entire floor of luxury hotel in Guwahati where positive US tourist stayed evacuated
Guwahati, Mar 7 (UNI) The entire second floor of Radisson Blu Hotel in Guwahati was evacuated as the US man who tested positive for Coronavirus in Bhutan had stayed in the hotel prior to his arrival in the Himalayan kingdom.
According to reports, the 76-year-old American tourist had travelled to Bhutan via Guwahati and had stayed in Radisson.
The tourist stayed in Room No. 224 in the second floor of the hotel on March 1. Further, 23 staff of the hotel who came in contact with the tourist are kept under special observation.
Earlier, the US national flew to Jorhat on February 22 in an Indigo flight and checked into MV Mahabahu for a seven-day cruise which took them to Majuli as well as Kaziranga on his way to Guwahati. Later he travelled to Paro where he was tested positive of Coronavirus.
Prime Minister of Bhutan Lotay Tshering announced on Friday morning that one positive case of COVID-19 has been confirmed in the country and the patient is a 76-year old tourist from the United States who arrived in the country on Monday. He come to Bhutan through Guwahati, India.
According to the Health Ministry of Bhutan, the patient was touring India from Feb. 21 to March 1. He started his travel from Washington D.C. on Feb. 18.
The Patient was travelling with his partner, who is aged 59, and there were 10 passengers on board at the time he arrived in Bhutan, of which eight were Indian nationals.
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