Patient in Chandigarh tested negative for coronavirus

A 28-year-old man with a travel history to China who was kept under observation at an isolation ward of the PGI here has been tested negative for coronavirus, the hospital said on Wednesday.

"His throat swab was sent to the National Institute of Virology in Pune and has tested negative for the novel coronavirus," the PGI said in a statement.

He is stable and would be discharged soon, the statement added.

The patient, belonging to Mohali in Punjab, was the lone suspected case in the PGI. He was hospitalised with high grade fever and headache on January 27.
IANS