60 health workers of Tiruvarur Medical College quarantined

Sixty staff of the Government Tiruvarur Medical College Hospital have been placed under quarantine after a 13-year-old boy from Nagapattinam tested positive for COVID-19.

Published: 21st April 2020 05:52 AM 

By Antony Fernando

Express News Service

NAGAPATTINAM: Sixty staff of the Government Tiruvarur Medical College Hospital have been placed under quarantine after a 13-year-old boy from Nagapattinam tested positive for COVID-19. He had underwent a surgery for appendicitis in the hospital recently.

The boy from Veerapogam village is a Class 9 student tested positive a week ago. He visited the hospital for appendectomy on April 11. Sixty health workers who were directly or indirectly in contact with the boy during his stay have been advised to quarantine. “There are about 20 medical staff, including 10 doctors, who treated, operated and attended the boy. There are also nurses who took care of the boy.