New Delhi - Sixteen Italian tourists who have been travelling
in India for the past two weeks have tested positive for the new
coronavirus and are being treated in isolation wards.
These cases have taken the total number of positive cases in India to
28 so far, federal Health Minister Harsh Vardhan says.
The group of around 25 Italians had arrived in India on February 21
before screening of passengers from Italy started, Vardhan said.
An Italian man was found positive for the virus along with his wife
and were being treated in a Jaipur hospital. Fourteen others were
quarantined at a military medical facility in the outskirts of Delhi.
An Indian man who was driving the tourists around had also tested
positive, Vardhan said. Additionally, three Indian students from
Wuhan who had tested positive in Kerala in February had been treated
and released. The others from Delhi, Agra and Hyderabad were being
treated in isolation wards.