KOLKATA: The 23-year-old British actor admitted to Medica Superspecialty Hospital after testing positive for Covid-19 upon landing in the city was doing well, hospital officials said on Tuesday. The actor of Indian origin was hospitalized on Monday night.
Doctors said the 23-year-old, who was largely asymptomatic, maintained good oxygen saturation level. But she was being kept under close observation. Even if she did not develop symptoms, the actor would stay in complete isolation till the genome sequencing of her samples came negative for the UK mutant of novel coronavirus, doctors said. “The patient is kept in a single cabin that has a negative air-pressure system. She is doing fine,” said Alok Roy, chairman, Medica Group of Hospitals.
Sources said the actor arrived in Kolkata on Sunday for the shooting of ‘Kavita & Teresa’. She was put in CNCI’s New Town facility and swab samples sent to School of Tropical Medicine. After her RT-PCR report on Monday confirmed she was Covid-positive, she was taken to the state-run ID Hospital to be admitted to the ward created for UK-strain patients and those suspected of having it. But she refused to get admitted there and after a three-hour drama, she was sent to the private hospital.
ID Hospital sources said no one else was brought to the UK-strain ward, and that the six patients already admitted there were doing fine. “All of them are in a stable condition. None has any serious disease,” said a health department source. So far, only one in the state has tested positive for the UK strain. Admitted to MCH, his condition is stable.