As many as 17,048 travellers have been screened at the airports in UP till date | PTI photo for representation

A woman doctor who came from Canada has been tested positive for the coronavirus or Covid-19, taking the number of positive cases in Uttar Pradesh to 11. The woman has been kept in an isolation ward at the King George Medical University (KGMU) in Lucknow.

Her husband has tested negative but he has been put under observation as a precautionary measure as well.

Issuing a medical bulletin on Thursday, the health department of the state government confirmed seven cases of the coronavirus in Agra, two in Ghaziabad, one each in Noida and Lucknow.

According to the medical bulletin, the cumulative number of passengers under observation as on Thursday are 761 and 132 symptomatic travellers have been identified in UP so far including four hospitalised on March 12.

Total number of samples found negative till date are 499 and results of 73 samples are still awaited.

As many as 17,048 travellers have been screened at the airports in UP till date.

The state government has set up isolation wards in every district of the state. In 1,904 villages at the Nepal border, meetings regarding the coronavirus have been held.