Bengaluru: Bengaluru has reported its first case of Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) in an eight-month-old baby, detected at the city’s Baptist Hospital.
The state health department confirmed that it did not test the sample in its own labs but stated that it has no reason to doubt the private hospital’s findings.
“The reports have come from a private hospital, and we have no reason to question the accuracy of their tests,” a health department source said.
The world was still recovering from the devastation of COVID-19 when a new virus from China, HMPV, created a stir globally. An eight-month-old baby in a hospital in Bengaluru has been diagnosed with the HMPV virus.
