Kerala: Panic grips medical community after Medical Representative visiting hospitals, doctors tests COVID positive
Thiruvananthapuram: A sense of panic gripped the medical community here, after a pharmaceutical representative visiting various hospitals and doctors in the area and meeting a number of people including healthcare professionals as a part of his job tested positive for coronavirus.
The 27-year-old medical representative belonging to a prominent pharmaceutical company and visiting a number of doctors and hospitals in the area of Thiruvananthapuram and around was later diagnosed as COVID-19 positive. Contact tracing and precautions are now being implemented with all those medical professionals including doctors and hospitals, he has come in contact with.
The issue was also mentioned by the state Tourism Minister Kadakampally Surendran in his recent briefing wherein he said that not everyone has a travel history and some of them have contacted a lot of people. This is to say that there might be a local transmission happening in the state.
"Yesterday a Zomato online delivery boy and a medical representative and his father from Poonthura, a coastal area also tested positive. All these people don't have any travel history and some of them have contacted a lot of people," he said. The minister also informed that Thiruvananthapuram corporation has tightened restrictions in the city and people should not go outside unnecessarily. "There are warning from the World Health Organisation (WHO) that the month of August is crucial," said Surendran as quoted by ANI.
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