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Tamil Nadu businessman tests positive for Covid-19 on return from China, under quarantine
Strict checks have been instated at Indian airports for international travellers from China to prevent the spread of Covid-19.
- A businessman from nearby Salem who arrived here from China has tested positive for Covid-19
- He is under surveillance of the health authorities and quarantined, they added.
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Pic Credit: File Photo Coimbatore: A businessman from nearby Salem who arrived here from China via Singapore has tested positive for Covid-19, official sources said on Thursday. The 37-year old man, who arrived in the city by a connecting flight on Wednesday, tested positive at the airport, the sources said.
"The man, a textile businessman hailing from Ilampillai near Salem, is asymptomatic and under follow-up of health authorities," they said.
He is under surveillance of the health authorities and quarantined, they added.
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The Salem businessman is the fifth person to test positive for Covid.
Earlier, two passengers, who returned from Dubai and Cambodia to Chennai on Wednesday, and a woman and her six-year-old daughter who came from China via Colombo to Madurai had tested positive for the virus.
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