Hosp denies Covid-19 positive man left isolation

TNN | Apr 16, 2020, 04:43 IST

Coimbatore: The private hospital where a 61-year-old man who tested positive for Covid-19 is in isolation has clarified that he has not left the hospital as alleged in certain media reports.
The Coimbatore man had returned from New Delhi on March 23 and samples were collected from him on April 11. He tested positive on April 13 when the results came and was admitted in the isolation ward of PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Research. Forty policemen attached to Thudiyalur police station were also screened for Covid-19 since the man had visited the station after his return from Delhi. A Murali, professor of medicine and specialist, infectious diseases of PSG hospitals, issued a certificate stating that the second throat swab RTPCR was negative. This was issued on the request of the man’s son, the hospital said.
``Yet, the patient is retained in the hospital. He has not left and nor would he be allowed to go based on the negative result,’’ the hospital said. The negative result does not invalidate the earlier positive result of the test done at the ESI. Further tests were planned.TNN