The Dehradun continues to be the worst affected novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) district in Uttarakhand with health department reporting one more case of the disease on Thursday. With it the number of COVID-19 patients in the provisional State capital mounted to 25. The State now has 47 cases of the disease.
Out of total cases reported so far in the state, 24 patients have so far been discharged from the hospitals after recuperating from the disease. The new patient reported on the day from Dehradun got the disease from getting in contact with the followers of Tablighi Jamat who had attended the congregation in Delhi.
He is a resident of West Bengal and was kept under institutional quarantine in Dehradun from April 14. Meanwhile, the samples of two people who had died in Government Doon Medical College (GDMC) hospital on Wednesday were found to be negative for the disease.
The additional secretary medical health and family welfare department, Yugal Kishore Pant said that reports of 215 suspected patients were received by the department on Thursday till 6.00 pm and one of them was found positive. He said that reports of 265 samples are still awaited by the department. A total of 163 samples are in transit while 156 are repeat samples of suspected patients.
The authorities have so far taken swab samples of 4473 suspected patients for COVID-19 test.
On Thursday samples of 197 suspected patients were taken and sent to the lab for test. A total of 2565 people are under institutional quarantine while 295 suspected patients are in hospital isolation in the state.
The authorities have kept 65123 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.
Pant added that out of five districts of state where COVID- 19 cases have so far been reported no case has been reported from last 29 days from Pauri district.
Similarly in Udham Singh Nagar no case has surfaced from last 20 days and in Almora, no case has so far been reported from last 18 days.
The authorities have kept Dehradun, Haridwar and Nainital districts in red zone, here 25, 7 and 9 cases respectively have been reported so far.