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Newly-wed couple, suspected of coronavirus, quarantined at Ropar hospital

Had recently visited Dubai on honeymoon

Florists wearing facemasks as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 novel coronavirus at a Temple in New Delhi on Tuesday. Tribune photo: Manas Ranjan Bhui

Tribune News Service
Ropar, March 19

A patient with symptoms of coronavirus has been quarantined at the Ropar Civil Hospital.

The newly-married patient had visited Dubai on his honeymoon and returned on February 28.

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Though he was suffering from symptoms of coronavirus, he was self-medicating using over the counter medicines and reported at the hospital only Wednesday evening, said civil surgeon HN Sharma.

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The patient and his wife have been quarantined at the hospital and his samples sent to PGI, Chandigarh.

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