New Cases of Coronavirus are Detected in India

The number of coronavirus infections in Hyderabad rose to three on Wednesday with two persons testing positive in preliminary checks. An official statement from Telangana’s Public Health and Family Welfare department said. He was an employee pf a DSM IT company located at Hyderabad.

The news comes just two days after a software employee from Hyderabad. He was working in Bangalore. He was also found to be infected with the coronavirus. He was admitted to the state-run Gandhi hospital in Telangana’s capital.

The latest infection also forced a tech company to evacuate two of its campuses in the city after one of its employees tested positive. The samples of the two persons have been sent to the National Virology Laboratory in Pune for confirmation. Of the two, one has travel history to Italy. The other is a contact of the 24-year old techie who tested positive for the virus on Monday.

The two had undergone preliminary tests at Hyderabad’s state-run Gandhi hospital. The state public health and family welfare department said that the results of additional tests on the two sent to NVL, Pune are expected on Thursday.

Prior to this, apart from the infected 24-year-old software employee (admitted at Gandhi hospital), health department officials from Telangana also began screening about 50 others to test them for coronavirus (he is believed to have been in close contact with about 80 persons after he developed fever). Most of the samples have returned negative so far.

DSM is located at Raheja Mindspace tech park in the heart of Hyderabad’s IT corridor. On Wednesday, it was reported that some of the companies had shut shop for the day after learning of the case at DSM. Which has also shut its offices and has asked its employees to work from home.

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