Jaipur: A patient with suspected symptoms of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) has been admitted to a hospital in Jaipur.

The patient, who returned here from New York on April 15, was admitted to SMS hospital on April 21 and was immediately shifted to the isolation ward, hospital sources said.

While some tests are being conducted at the local laboratory, samples of the patient's blood and cough have been sent to Delhi, they said.

A team of doctors has been constituted to closely monitor the patient, who was referred to the hospital by his family physician after he complained of high fever, fatigue and body ache, the sources added.

PTI