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New Delhi: For 55-year-old Rasheed. K, a shop owner in Keralaâs Thrissur district, the return of his daughter from China was a momentous occasion, but for reasons he would never have imagined.
The day was 24 January 2020.
Rasheed’s daughter, a fourth-year medical student in Wuhan, had just managed to leave the city that was in the throes of a mysterious virus. Two days after arriving in the country, she developed a dry cough. She was immediately admitted to the district hospital where her swab sample was collected.
By 29 January 2020, it was clear that the pandemic had come knocking on India’s doors. The 21-year-old became the first case of Covid-19 in India.