New Delhi, Apr 20: A seven-year-old girl who returned to India from Beijing with her parents on April 5 has been found negative for SARS, it was officially stated today. NICD team has tested the biological samples of Nausheen, who lives with her parents in Beijing, and have found that she was not infected with SARS.
Doctors from NICD have informed the family.
The girl, who had symptoms of cough and cold, was earlier taken to All India Institute of Medical Science on April 17 after she developed fever. From there she was sent to the Infectious Disease Hospital in Kingsway Camp. The family from Gurgaon, was in Beijing and returned to the country after the SARS scare.
S P Agrawal, director general, health services, yesterday said that in all 12 cases reported with suspected symptoms of SARS, ten turned out to be negative.
The sequencing report of a New Zealand national, who arrived here on April 16, was awaited. His blood sample was found negative for SARS but urine and sputum samples turned out to be positive for the dreaded virus, he said. The 42 year old New Zealander who transited through Bangkok was admitted to the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital soon after his arrival and initial reports were found to be positive for coronavirus causing SARS.
Sequencing and matching to detect new corona SARS virus was in progress and the report is awaited from NICD this afternoon, director, NICD, Shiv Lal said. Bureau Report