Indian Olympian Sajan Prakash is stuck in Phuket, Thailand, but safe.
The 26-year-old swimmer, who represented India in the 2016 Rio Olympics and is preparing for his second Summer Games, was training at the FIN
A training centre in Phuket, when the World Health Organisation termed the novel coronavirus as a pandemic, leading to travel restrictions and lockdown by all countries.
Sajan told ToI said that some Hungarian swimmers, who were at the Phuket academy, returned home and tested positive for COVID-19.
The other swimmers, including Sajan, stayed back but none has contracted the disease.
Phuket has been identified as a COVID-19 hotspot, but Sajan said that he was staying indoors and is safe at the training centre.
Thailand has 1350 active cases of COVID-19, while 35 deaths have been reported so far.