The number of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Uttarakhand mounted to 48 on Friday with State health department reporting one patient of the disease in Nainital district. This 40 year old patient is a resident of Haldwani and had come into contact with a Corona positive person. The department had taken his swab sample on April 9 which was found negative for the disease. He was being kept at institutional quarantine by the authorities and after completion of 14 mandatory days, his second sample was sent for COVID-19 test which was found positive on the day. After his sample was found positive, he was sent to the isolation facility of the government medical college, Haldwani.
The additional secretary medical health and family welfare department, Yugal Kishore Pant said that one more patient of the disease has recovered from the disease on Friday as second sample of his was found negative. He said that 25 patients out of 48 have recovered from the disease in the state. Pant said that reports of 361 suspected patients were received by the department on Friday till 7.00 pm and out of them one was found positive. He said that reports of 327 samples are still awaited by the department.
The authorities have so far taken swab samples of 4767 suspected patients for COVID-19 test. On Friday samples of 285 suspected patients were taken and sent to the lab for test. From Haridwar district 92 samples were collected while 82 samples were collected from Udham Singh Nagar district.
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 30 days from Pauri district. Similarly in Almora, no case has so far been reported from last 19 days. The authorities have kept Dehradun, Haridwar and Nainital districts in red zone, here 25, 7 and 10 cases respectively have been reported so far. In the state the authorities have completely sealed 11 localities for being hot spots of the disease. In Dehradun there are seven hotspots while three are in Haridwar and one in Nainital district.