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Reports of 13 SARS cases awaited

By Aarti Dhar

NEW DELHI APRIL 27. Even as the number of confirmed SARS cases in the country stood to seven, the pathological results of 13 suspected cases are awaited.

One suspected case, who was discharged from a Mumbai hospital and advised home quarantine while his blood and urine test reports were awaited, got himself admitted to the Infectious Diseases Hospital here after learning that he had tested positive for the disease by experts at the National Institute of Virology, Pune.

The Health Ministry was ascertaining the details of his travel and the possibility of his having spread the infection.

Meanwhile, two new cases were reported from Bhatinda and one each from Amritsar, Kolkata, Thiruvananthapuram and Cochin.

One person has already tested positive for SARS at Kolkata and is being treated at the Amri Apollo Hospital.

The new case had come to Kolkata via Dhaka and complained of chest congestion, though doctors at the ID Hospital there said he was afebrile and unlikely to spread the infection.

Four positive cases are already being treated at Pune's Naidu Hospital while reports of three others under home quarantine are awaited.

Reports of two cases in Mumbai, and two in Delhi are also awaited, though the Health Ministry believes they could be mere carriers.

The confirmed case from Mumbai is now being treated at ID Hospital.

On the other hand, the Centre has taken a serious note and sought details from the Karnataka Health Department following the discharge of a 17-year-old SARS suspect who was allowed to go home even without taking his blood samples for testing.

He has been advised home quarantine.

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