The Gurugram district administration on Tuesday sent 27 coronavirus suspected patients from Pataudi and six from Dhankot village to quarantine at the Civil Hospital after collecting their samples for testing.
However, local administration officials said that they were yet to ascertain if the patients sent to quarantine were part of the Tablighi Jamaat event held at Nizamuddin in Delhi.
In connection with the matter, two raids were conducted at Helimandi under Pataudi tahsil and Dhankot village.
According to the health officials, 27 people arrived in Pataudi recently and residents of the area fear that they were part of the Tablighi Jamaat. “These people are from Mahendergarh district in Haryana, Ghaziabad and Delhi,” said a health official.
Of these 27 people, 13 are adults and the remaining are children. They were taken to civil hospital, sector 10, where their samples were collected for Covid-19 testing.
The locals suspect that some of the family members recently participated in the Tablighi Jamaat event and are suspected coronavirus cases. The investigation is currently on to know how many persons are left in the house and the places they visited recently.
“We were informed about people in Dhankot and Pataudi. So, we had to admit them in quarantine. We have also posted pamphlets outside thier house with directions to avoid visiting or approaching that house. That house is also under quarantine until it is sanitised,” said Dr Jaswant Singh Punia, Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Gurugram.
In the case of Dhankot, six persons, who had participated in the religious event were found and admitted to the isolation ward of the Civil Hospital in Sector 10.
A total of 10 people have tested positive in Gurugram in which 6 patients have recovered so far and have been discharged and anyone of these 33 people test positive, the tally will spike.
Apart from this the state government has designated five private laboratories in Gurugram district for COVID-19 testing.