AGRA: Two local shoe exporters, who had visited Italy last month, were shifted to Delhi’s Safdarjung hospital on Tuesday along with their four family members on suspicion of contacting the deadly coronavirus According to health officials, the two exporters - who are brothers- had been kept in the isolation ward in district hospital since Monday after they had developed symptoms of the disease, including high fever and respiratory problems. Their other family members had been advised to “quarantine”’ themselves at their home and their throat swabs were taken for testing.The decision to shift them to Delhi was taken after a close relative of the exporters, who too had visited Italy with them, had tested positive for COVID-19 in Delhi.Following the detecting of these two suspected cases, Rapid Response teams of the state and the central Government reached Agra on Tuesday morning and conducted a series of meeting with district authorities and health officials for taking appropriate steps in this regard.The UP government has also called an emergency meeting of the technical committee and directed the officials to prepare and implement a containment plan for patients suspected to be suffering from the symptoms of COVID-19 .According to DM Agra Prabhu N Singh, the two exporters had gone to Europe on February 18 and had travelled to Italy and Germany. One of them had returned on Feb 28 and the other had come back on March 1. Their throat swab samples have been sent to NIV, Pune for confirmation.President of Agra Footwear Manufacturers and Exporters Chamber (AFMEC), Puran Davar, told TOI that many shoe manufacturers from the city had visited Italy recently to participate in a leather fair. He said that he has advised all of them to get themselves tested at the district hospital. The samples of all the suspected COVID-19 patients are being sent to either NIV Pune or King George Medical College, Lucknow.