Pakistani student admitted in hospital upon return from China to check for coronavirus

• The student arrived in Karachi from China on January 28 and has been admitted to monitor if he is carrying coronavirus.
• He said he had to go through multiple medical checks and investigation from local authorities to reach Shanghai from where he caught the flight to Pakistan.

A Pakistani student studying in Wuhan, China has been admitted in an isolation ward of a private hospital in Karachi for monitoring amid fears that he might be carrying the deadly coronavirus.

Arsalan Ameen, a student of University of Wuhan, arrived in Karachi on January 28. According to local media reports, Arsalan will be kept in the isolation ward of the hospital for at least 14 days for monitoring. A sample of a bodily fluid of Arsalan has been dispatched to Islamabad for tests related to the coronavirus. The student may be discharged early if the sample comes back negative.

Arsalan said he had to go through multiple medical checks and investigation from the local authorities to reach Shanghai from where he caught the flight to Pakistan.

Meanwhile, the first consignment of primers reagents donated by Japan to detect coronavirus have reached the National Institute of Health in Islamabad.