Three new patients of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) surfaced in Uttarakhand on Wednesday pushing up the tally of the patients affected by the dreaded disease in the state to 72. In Dehradun, a 52 year old woman who had come back from New Delhi on May 11 was found positive for the disease. The woman, a resident of Adarsh Colony in Dehradun had gone to Delhi for treatment of kidney stone before start of lockdown. Her son recently went to Delhi to bring her back. On May 11, her sample was taken at Asharodi check-post of Dehradun and she along her son was sent to home quarantine.
On Wednesday, the laboratory of Government Doon Medical College (GDMC) found the woman positive for the disease.
She and her son were shifted to All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Rishikesh by the district administration. The health department is now in contact with the authorities in Delhi for contact history of this woman. The provisional state capital now has 36 patients of the disease out of which 26 have recovered from the disease and have been discharged from the hospital.
In another case of migrants bringing the virus to the green zone of Uttarakhand, a 27 year old man who had recently returned to Ranikhet of Almora district from Gurugram in Haryana was found positive for the disease. Incidentally Almora district had only one case of COVID-19 and the second patient was reported on Wednesday after a gap of 38 days.
One person said to be associated with Tablighi Jamaat was found positive for the disease in Haldwani of Nainital district. He along with 14 other Jamaatis had returned from Amravati in Maharashtra recently and was kept in quarantine centre in Vanbhoolpura area of Nainital district.
Meanwhile on a positive note one patient in Nainital district was released from the hospital after recovering on Wednesday.
The additional secretary, state health department, Yugal Kishore Pant said reports of 409 samples were found negative for the disease on Wednesday while two were found positive. He added that reports of 338 samples are still awaited by the department. On Wednesday, a total of 301 samples were collected for COVID -19 testing. The authorities have so far taken swab samples of 10792 suspected patients for COVID-19 test. Out of the total samples taken, 0.71 percent samples have been found positive for the disease. The rate of recovery from the COVID-19 in the state is 65.71 percent. A total of 1367515 people have so far downloaded the ‘Aaroggya Setu App’ on their smart phones.
The state now has 24 active cases in the state with Udham Singh Nagar and Dehradun districts having nine cases each of the disease. Haridwar and Nainital districts have two active cases while Uttarkashi and Almora districts have one active case each.