After a woman from Haridwar district undergoing treatment at AIIMS Rishikesh was found positive for COVID-19, the health department stepped up containment efforts in Nagla Imarti village in Roorkee of which the patient is a resident. The health department team reached the village and sent 28 villagers including relatives of the woman to isolation ward in the hospital.
The woman patient had been admitted to AIIMS a few days ago for treatment of a serious ailment.
The health department team had camped in the village after receiving information about the woman from the village being found positive for COVID-19. Haridwar chief medical officer Dr Saroj Naithani informed that currently 28 people including family members of the patient have been admitted to the isolation ward in Roorkee while the two relatives with the patient at AIIMS have also been isolated there. Samples of those in isolation here will be taken for testing after five days as there is a possibility that their samples might test negative now but turn out positive later.
