A Chinese national suspected of coronavirus at Lahore airport, rushed to Services Hospital
LAHORE: A Chinese suspected of contracting Wuhan novel coronavirus (2019- nCoV) at Allama Iqbal International Airport in Lahore after arriving from Karachi on Sunday has been rushed to an isolation ward at Services Hospital for medical attention and tests.
Reportedly, the airport staff conducted Deming Yao’s medical checkup when his nose began bleeding while waiting at the airport lounge for his flight to China via Lahore. Meanwhile, he was taken to Services Hospital’s isolation ward, Pakistani media reported .
On the other hand, China imposed a lockdown Sunday on a major city far away from the epicentre of a coronavirus epidemic, as its death toll from the disease soared to 304 and the first foreign fatality was reported in the Philippines.
The events added to deepening concerns about the potential for the virus to spread, as more governments around the world closed their borders to people from China.
Since emerging out of the central Chinese city of Wuhan late last year, the coronavirus has infected nearly 14,500 people across China and reached 24 countries.
Many of the infections overseas have been of people who had travelled from Wuhan, an industrial hub of 11 million people, or surrounding areas of Hubei province.
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