MADURAI: A 30-year-old Chinese tourist opted to return to China after health officials in Ramanathapuram gave him an option to remain under isolation for monitoring for two weeks or leave India due to the massive coronavirus outbreak in China that has claimed hundreds of lives and infested thousands of others.His visit created a flutter when he arrived at in Rameswaram on Saturday morning. In the evening he was escorted by health officials to Madurai international airport, from where he flew to Chennai and is expected to fly to China at the earliest. The tourist was identified as Chengzu, 30, of Anhui in China."He flew to Kolkata in India on a tourist visa on January 28. After visiting a few places there he had come to Rameswaram on Saturday morning," Ramanathapuram district collector K Veera Raghava Rao told TOI.He checked in to MCM Towers in Rameswaram where the staff saw his passport and was irked to learn that he was a Chinese national. Fearing that he could be infected by novel coronavirus (nCoV), they alerted Rameswaram police. "Public health and revenue officials and the police immediately went to the spot. A team of doctors confirmed that he did not have symptoms of nCoV," the collector said.Chengzu was irked by the suspicious look at him and the inquiries by government officials and the police. It is learnt that the place he is from is about 480 kms from Wuhan, where the virus outbreak is alarming. Meanwhile the health officials pacified the staff, other tourists and locals saying there is no need to panic as he is not infected.Health officials faced difficulty in communicating with him as he was not fluent in English and could not understand the officials here. The officials then used an online translator application that translated their English to Chinese for him and Chinese to English for the officials to understand.Since he has already been in India for two weeks, the officials gave him an option to be under quarantine for two more weeks or return home. They said that he expressed displeasure in staying back under quarantine and disappointment in his inability to visit a few other places in Tamil Nadu. He preferred returning to China due to the unexpected turn of events.He was escorted by a team of health department personnel and a policeman in a separate vehicle from Rameswaram to Madurai airport at 2 pm, where he was screened before he was flown to Chennai at 6 pm.