In what can be termed as relief for the authorities engaged in a grim battle against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), no new patient of the disease was reported by the state health department on Wednesday. In a good news, four patients of the disease were discharged from the hospital on the day after they recovered completely from the disease. The state now has 23 active cases out of total 46 positive cases.

The additional secretary medical health and family welfare department, Yugal Kishore Pant said that reports of 214 suspected patients were received by the department on Wednesday till 6.00 pm and all of them were found negative for the disease. He said that reports of 227 samples are still awaited by the department. A total of 189 samples are in transit while are repeat samples of suspected patients.

The authorities have so far taken swab samples of 4275 suspected patients for COVID-19 test.  On Wednesday samples of 213 suspected patients were taken and sent to the lab for test.  A total of 2705 people are under institutional quarantine while 321 suspected patients are in hospital isolation in the state.  The authorities have kept 65013 people under home quarantine in different parts of the state. In Government Doon Medical College (GDMC) hospital, 12 positive patients of COVID-19 are currently admitted while seven are undergoing treatment at Mela hospital, Haridwar. Similarly three patients are admitted in government medical college, Haldwani and one in Military Hospital (MH), Dehradun. On Wednesday four patients of COVID-19 were discharged from Medical college, Haldwani hospital.

Pant added that 856 isolation beds are available in different COVID-19 treatment hospitals of the state. He said that 189 ventilators are available for COVID-19 patients and the state has 54357 Personal Protective (PPE) kits and 46865 N-95 masks.

Pant claimed that the department has so far counselled 17800 people in different quarantine centres and camps.