Four coronavirus suspects discharged

Another suspected patient shifted to isolation ward

MULTAN: Four patients suspected of having coronavirus have been discharged from Nishtar Hospital after being tested negative for the disease.

They had been admitted to the isolation ward over the past four days.

However, another person was shifted to the isolation ward in Rahim Yar Khan’s Sheikh Zayed Hospital on suspicion of coronavirus.

Among the released patients, a man who had returned from South Korea was admitted in Lodhran District Headquarters Hospital, whereas a resident of Mansehra who had arrived from Taftan border with Iran and another man and his wife from Layyah were shifted to Nishtar Hospital in Multan.

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The samples of the four suspected patients were sent to the National Institute of Health, Islamabad for coronavirus testing.

After receiving the reports, the four were discharged as they had tested negative for the virus. An official of the hospital said no patient suspected of the virus is undergoing treatment.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 3^rd, 2020.