Karnataka Health Minister B Sriramulu has called a meeting of top officials of his department on Tuesday following information that the man who tested postive for novel coronavirus in Telangana had travelled from the city.

The minister in a tweet said people residing in the man’s local address had been identified and were being monitored.

He said the state government had taken all precautionary measures to contain the spread of the virus.

The condition of the 24-year-old man, who tested positive for the coronavirus, was stable and he was being treated in an isolated ward at the state-run Gandhi hospital in Hyderabad, the Telangana government had said on Monday.

The man, a software engineer who works here, had been to Dubai last month on an official visit, where he is suspected to have contracted the virus.

The man reached Bengaluru on February 19/20 and later travelled to Hyderabad in a bus.

Earlier, Sriramulu had said that the government had strengthened all surveillance and control measures against the spread of the virus in Karnataka.

Till date, 468 travellers from COVID 2019-affected countries had been identified and 284 are under home isolation while one admitted in selected isolation hospital, he had said.

The Karnataka minister had also said that till date samples of symptomatic were sent for testing, out of which 240 samples were eligible for testing and 238 were reported as negative.