The third novel coronavirus case has been reported in India, with another Keralite student who returned from Wuhan university on Monday testing positive for the infection.
The medical student is in an isolation ward at Kanhangad district hospital in Kasaragod, Health Minister K K Shailaja informed the state assembly.
Out of the 104 samples tested till Sunday, three have tested positive.
Two earlier positive cases, also of students who came back from Wuhan, the epicentre of the virus, were reported from Thrissur and Alapuzha districts.
India has meanwhile, evacuated over 650 people from China's Wuhan city and brought them back as the deadly coronavirus spreads across China and other countries.